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In This Issue     Feature: Digital Media Business Models     Upgrades    Euro Debt   Quotes of the Week   Ethermail   SNS Takeout Window   The Decline of the Euro Members Seeking Opportunities   In Other House News…   New Members’ Welcome How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where’s Mark?

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Sign up now for the Future in Review (FiRe) 2010 Conference, May 11-14, at Terranea, Palos Verdes:

 

www.tapsns.com/fire/registration.php

 

This year’s theme: “Emerging Platforms: How to Benefit.”

 

Meet NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, subject of our Centerpiece Conversation, where he will explain how his GPU chips are replacing Intel’s CPUs at every level of computing;

 

AND SNS Member Paul Jacobs, CEO of QUALCOMM, for our Day 2 Centerpiece Conversation on smartbooks, Snapdragon chips, and the future of wireless.

 

Other themes we’ll be addressing:

 

Netbooks: Since we invented them, FiRe is a great place to learn about how the fastest-growing form factor in computing will expand over the next three years.

 

Cloud Computing: Last year, FiRe was the launch pad for the Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group, fixing until-then unknown “broken” aspects in Cloud design. Come to FiRe to learn how to “fix the Cloud.”

 

You also might want to:

 

Talk to Steve Jobs’ personal advisor, in person.

 

Learn more about Sweden’s Sustainable Cities, catch up on how you can be part of the Australian Miracle, and find out about Japan’s plans for fuel cells.

 

See QUALCOMM’s smartbooks and Snapdragon chips.

 

Hear what’s next for Google’s Android platform and applications.

 

Approach Fixing Healthcare by re-connecting patient to doctor.

 

And, of course, catch our now world-famous CTO Design Challenge, with Larry Smarr and David Brin.

 

Many thanks to our geneous FiRe 2010 sponsors:

 

 

 

   “The best technology conference in the world.”

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» Digital Media Business Models

 

There are a lot of headlines out there this week that sound like this: “Will the iPad save print media?”

 

I have many friends in the media world, and the last few years have been nothing short of harrowing, as the old media organs lose revenues, dump good reporters by the thousands, and end up selling or folding. There is no question that we are watching a huge transition in the world of media, and of its business models.

 

What happens now? Do the media just go away? Will the world be ruled by bloggers without fact checkers, writing uneducated opinion pieces from their shabby bedroom flats in Queens and L.A.?

 

No.