{"id":1848,"date":"2004-02-21T01:42:49","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T08:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/02\/moving-on-down\/"},"modified":"2004-02-21T01:42:49","modified_gmt":"2004-02-21T08:42:49","slug":"moving-on-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/21\/moving-on-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving on down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tSony Corp’s reorganizing, first making major layoffs:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In October, for example, Sony Corp. said it would cut 20,000 jobs over the next three years, including 7,000 in Japan. The company’s goal is to trim $3 billion annually from its operating cost and elevate its profit margin from 4 percent today to 10 percent by 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and then moving corporate headquarters to San Diego. These are smart moves indicative of the major upheaval in consumer electronics that’s coming with the advent of digital TV. San Diego’s a center of wireless network expertise, so that ought to tell the astute analyst something about what’s afoot.<\/p>\n

They’re not acting in isolation: Samsung is opening a major new research lab in San Jose for wireless network research aimed at the CE market, and computer manufacturers HP and Gateway are getting their feet wet in consumer electronics. I think this is a sign that the “convergence” talk is real.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony Corp’s reorganizing, first making major layoffs: In October, for example, Sony Corp. said it would cut 20,000 jobs over the next three years, including 7,000 in Japan. The company’s goal is to trim $3 billion annually from its operating cost and elevate its profit margin from 4 percent today to 10 percent by 2006. … Continue reading “Moving on down”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-tO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}