Author: Jenn Marston

Survey: Share your thoughts on Microsoft’s Xbox One
This Tuesday, Microsoft announced the Xbox One, which the company is calling an “all in one home entertainment system.” Through voice and gesture commands, users will be able to stream music, watch live TV, play games, and access apps. Is this the future of the living room or mere hype? We ask you, GigaOM readers, to weigh in with your thoughts.

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May 22, 2013
Survey: Tell us your thoughts on the fate of Fisker
Electric vehicle startup Fisker Automotive appears to be inching closer and closer to bankruptcy, having failed to pay back around $200 million in government loans. Given the debacle, we invite GigaOM readers to weigh in with their thoughts on Fisker, electric vehicles, and how the bankruptcy could affect government spending on cleantech.

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April 25, 2013
Podcast: Why mobile is vital to the future of retail
In the latest GigaOM Research podcast, analysts Phil Hendrix and Doug Stephens discuss retail’s future in a mobile-first world: what’s broken, and how mobility, apps, and data can lead the way to change.

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Host: Adam Lesser
Speakers: Dr. Phil Hendrix and Doug Stephens
- Showrooming as a problem for retailers
- Amazon’s impact: distribution versus the retail experience
- Consumer survey on online and bricks-and-mortar shopping
- Big data and the retail experience
- Promising mobile apps and platforms for mobile shopping
- Internet Sales Tax
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Director Jay Duplass on low-fi movies through high-tech

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April 22, 2013
Podcast: The pros and cons of using Hadoop
Being able to properly analyze all available data is crucial to companies’ successes today. In the latest GigaOM Research podcast, Jo Maitland and Joseph Turian discuss the positives and negatives of using Hadoop to make this possible.

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Host: Jo Maitland
Speaker: Joseph Turian
- Find out the latest buzz on Hadoop, in particular all the noise around SQL on Hadoop and why this is an important trend.
- Learn what companies think about when they consider implementing Hadoop in the context of existing systems like Enterprise Data Warehouses.
- Do we think the writing is on the wall for purpose-built, expensive data analytics boxes like Oracle Exadata?
- Is Hadoop yet another silo for IT operations to manage and what are the solutions to this?
- Is analytics on streaming data something we will all be doing at some point?
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RoadMap re-run, our talk with Instagram’s Kevin Systrom

iTunes 11, When Things Connect, Sun Volt

What Aspiring New Media Stars Should Know About Agents and Managers

Holiday Gadget Gift Guide

War Tweets, Google TV and Nexus 4

Director Jay Duplass on low-fi movies through high-tech

Election Dissection, Ditching DSL and Dumping the iPad

Sandy’s Social, Infrastructure Impact and Forstall

Windows 8 Surfaces, and disruption eruption

iPad Mini, iMac gets skinny

Boxee Cloud DVR, Apple Rumors and Chromebook

Commutist interview: Joy of X author Steven Strogatz

Commutist podcast: Patent trolls, Costco ban and Passbook’s home run

Commutist, meet Nerdist, and interview with Chris Hardwick

T-Metro, Broadband Caps, Remembering Steve Jobs

Apple’s iO-Mess, Dirty Data Centers and Tesla

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Paul Tough: How Children Succeed and what you can learn from them

The iPhone 5 Event

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April 16, 2013
Podcast: Why the world needs wearable computing
From smart watches to devices that monitor health, wearables are hot items on the market today. In the latest GigaOM Research podcast, Michael Wolf and Jody Ranck discuss wearable’s place in the fitness and medical industries, challengers to growth, and the role of data.

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SHOW NOTES
Host: Adam Lesser
Speakers: Michael Wolf and Jody Ranck
- The market for wearables in connected health: Medical versus Fitness
- Potential for wearables in health care and research
- Smart watch potential
- Could the smartphone get disrupted as the key input/communications interface?
- Kinect, hearing aids, and the possibility of wearables that provide social context
- Regulatory challenges, privacy and the need for reliable research data for wearables in health care
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Director Jay Duplass on low-fi movies through high-tech

Election Dissection, Ditching DSL and Dumping the iPad

Sandy’s Social, Infrastructure Impact and Forstall

Windows 8 Surfaces, and disruption eruption

iPad Mini, iMac gets skinny

Boxee Cloud DVR, Apple Rumors and Chromebook

Commutist interview: Joy of X author Steven Strogatz

Commutist podcast: Patent trolls, Costco ban and Passbook’s home run

Commutist, meet Nerdist, and interview with Chris Hardwick

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April 8, 2013
Podcast: Why the digital age needs an effective content licensing strategy
Historically publishers have lacked focus on licensing and syndicating digital content. The latest GigaOM Research podcast features Connected Consumer curator Paul Sweeting, who discusses how social media could play a role in improving digital content licensing, key tools in this space, and the impact on publishers and journalists.

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SHOW NOTES
Host: Adam Lesser
Speaker: Paul Sweeting
- Why content licensing hasn’t historically played a bigger role
- Could social media nurture a business model around licensing
- Key tools/startups in the licensing/syndication space
- The legal context
- What needs to happen going forward to create a syndication business
- Impact on publishers and journalists
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RoadMap re-run, our talk with Instagram’s Kevin Systrom

iTunes 11, When Things Connect, Sun Volt

What Aspiring New Media Stars Should Know About Agents and Managers

Holiday Gadget Gift Guide

War Tweets, Google TV and Nexus 4

Director Jay Duplass on low-fi movies through high-tech

Election Dissection, Ditching DSL and Dumping the iPad

Sandy’s Social, Infrastructure Impact and Forstall

Windows 8 Surfaces, and disruption eruption

iPad Mini, iMac gets skinny

Boxee Cloud DVR, Apple Rumors and Chromebook

Commutist interview: Joy of X author Steven Strogatz

Commutist podcast: Patent trolls, Costco ban and Passbook’s home run

Commutist, meet Nerdist, and interview with Chris Hardwick

T-Metro, Broadband Caps, Remembering Steve Jobs

Apple’s iO-Mess, Dirty Data Centers and Tesla

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Paul Tough: How Children Succeed and what you can learn from them

The iPhone 5 Event

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April 1, 2013
Survey: Tell us your thoughts on the future of the smart watch
Wearable computing continues its trek towards the mainstream. Smart watches, in particular, are generating many a headline these days. Apple and Samsung are battling for dominance, Google is rumored to be making one, and the Pebble watch is already a hot item on the market. With that in mind, we invite GigaOM readers to fill out the questions below and share their thoughts on whether they would buy a watch, which features they want, and who will ultimately rule this space.

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March 26, 2013
Podcast: How enterprises can build successful BYOD programs
Implementing a formal BYOD strategy is key for many companies today. But finding one that can be managed in a secure and organized fashion is a challenge for many. In the latest GigaOM Research podcast, curator Cormac Foster and analyst Aileen Arcilla discuss challenges and steps for successful, cost-effective BYOD programs in enterprises.

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Host: David Linthicum
Speakers: Cormac Foster and Aileen Arcilla
- What is BYOD?
- What is the value of BYOD when leveraged within enterprises?
- What are some of the technologies that enterprises can leverage to manage a BYOD workforce?
- What should enterprise do to get ahead of the use of BYOD technologies?
- What about security and privacy?
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RoadMap re-run, our talk with Instagram’s Kevin Systrom

iTunes 11, When Things Connect, Sun Volt

What Aspiring New Media Stars Should Know About Agents and Managers

Holiday Gadget Gift Guide

War Tweets, Google TV and Nexus 4

Director Jay Duplass on low-fi movies through high-tech

Election Dissection, Ditching DSL and Dumping the iPad

Sandy’s Social, Infrastructure Impact and Forstall

Windows 8 Surfaces, and disruption eruption

iPad Mini, iMac gets skinny

Boxee Cloud DVR, Apple Rumors and Chromebook

Commutist interview: Joy of X author Steven Strogatz

Commutist podcast: Patent trolls, Costco ban and Passbook’s home run

Commutist, meet Nerdist, and interview with Chris Hardwick

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The iPhone 5 Event

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March 25, 2013
How SDN is disrupting the networking landscape
Software-defined networking (SDN) is the buzzword in companies of all sizes today. This GigaOM Research podcast addresses key questions about SDN: its use cases, its impact on traditional networking leaders, and promising startups to watch in this space.

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SHOW NOTES
Host: Adam Lesser
Speakers: Isabelle Guis and Lee Doyle
- What is software defined networking (SDN)?
- The value of SDN in the data center
- Use cases of SDN and potential
- State of the SDN market/Investment sentiment
- Impact on Cisco and incumbent networking leaders
- Considerations for companies implementing SDN
- Promising SDN startups
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Instgram’s Twit-storm, Netflix nabs Disney, GMail’s Pretty iPad App

RoadMap re-run, our talk with Instagram’s Kevin Systrom

iTunes 11, When Things Connect, Sun Volt

What Aspiring New Media Stars Should Know About Agents and Managers

Holiday Gadget Gift Guide

War Tweets, Google TV and Nexus 4

Director Jay Duplass on low-fi movies through high-tech

Election Dissection, Ditching DSL and Dumping the iPad

Sandy’s Social, Infrastructure Impact and Forstall

Windows 8 Surfaces, and disruption eruption

iPad Mini, iMac gets skinny

Boxee Cloud DVR, Apple Rumors and Chromebook

Commutist interview: Joy of X author Steven Strogatz

Commutist podcast: Patent trolls, Costco ban and Passbook’s home run

Commutist, meet Nerdist, and interview with Chris Hardwick

T-Metro, Broadband Caps, Remembering Steve Jobs

Apple’s iO-Mess, Dirty Data Centers and Tesla

News from the Mobilize Conference

Paul Tough: How Children Succeed and what you can learn from them

The iPhone 5 Event

Come on, Kindle, Light My 4G Fire

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March 11, 2013
Podcast: Why we need the LED industry
Though it’s grown tremendously in the recent past, the light-emitting diode (LED) industry continues to face challenges on its road to greater adoption. For this GigaOM Research podcast, we sit down with Ucilia Wang and Katie Fehrenbacher to discuss the state of the market, challenges it faces, areas for more growth, and which companies the world needs to watch.

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SHOW NOTES
Host: Adam Lesser
Speakers: Ucilia Wang and Katie Fehrenbacher
- LEDs versus compact-fluorescent lamps (CFLs)
- LEDs as semiconductors and networked lighting
- The state of the LED market
- LED-as-a-service business models
- LED startups to watch
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Instgram’s Twit-storm, Netflix nabs Disney, GMail’s Pretty iPad App

RoadMap re-run, our talk with Instagram’s Kevin Systrom

iTunes 11, When Things Connect, Sun Volt

What Aspiring New Media Stars Should Know About Agents and Managers

Holiday Gadget Gift Guide

War Tweets, Google TV and Nexus 4

Director Jay Duplass on low-fi movies through high-tech

Election Dissection, Ditching DSL and Dumping the iPad

Sandy’s Social, Infrastructure Impact and Forstall

Windows 8 Surfaces, and disruption eruption

iPad Mini, iMac gets skinny

Boxee Cloud DVR, Apple Rumors and Chromebook

Commutist interview: Joy of X author Steven Strogatz

Commutist podcast: Patent trolls, Costco ban and Passbook’s home run

Commutist, meet Nerdist, and interview with Chris Hardwick

T-Metro, Broadband Caps, Remembering Steve Jobs

Apple’s iO-Mess, Dirty Data Centers and Tesla

News from the Mobilize Conference

Paul Tough: How Children Succeed and what you can learn from them

The iPhone 5 Event

Come on, Kindle, Light My 4G Fire

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March 4, 2013
What every enterprise should know about social-business tools
Social-business tools are everyone in today’s enterprise, integrated into not just employee communication tools but also integrated into HR departments, finance departments, and other areas of day-to-day business. In the latest GigaOM Research podcast we hear from collaboration experts Stowe Boyd and David Coleman on the latest tools disrupting the enterprise and how to best integrate social tools into your business.

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Host: Adam Lesser
Speakers: Stowe Boyd and David Coleman
- Social business software: The integrated approach
- Social business software: Small and simple
- LinkedIn gets pushed into social
- How do you measure the value of social tools in the enterprise?
- Disruption in the collaborative tools world
- A “no fire” corporate policy: Could it change the business world?
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Instgram’s Twit-storm, Netflix nabs Disney, GMail’s Pretty iPad App

RoadMap re-run, our talk with Instagram’s Kevin Systrom

iTunes 11, When Things Connect, Sun Volt

What Aspiring New Media Stars Should Know About Agents and Managers

Holiday Gadget Gift Guide

War Tweets, Google TV and Nexus 4

Director Jay Duplass on low-fi movies through high-tech

Election Dissection, Ditching DSL and Dumping the iPad

Sandy’s Social, Infrastructure Impact and Forstall

Windows 8 Surfaces, and disruption eruption

iPad Mini, iMac gets skinny

Boxee Cloud DVR, Apple Rumors and Chromebook

Commutist interview: Joy of X author Steven Strogatz

Commutist podcast: Patent trolls, Costco ban and Passbook’s home run

Commutist, meet Nerdist, and interview with Chris Hardwick

T-Metro, Broadband Caps, Remembering Steve Jobs

Apple’s iO-Mess, Dirty Data Centers and Tesla

News from the Mobilize Conference

Paul Tough: How Children Succeed and what you can learn from them

The iPhone 5 Event

Come on, Kindle, Light My 4G Fire

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February 19, 2013