买得起，用得起的彩色商务输出

理光为中国市场用户全面降低彩色办公门槛 近日,理光公司向中国办公市场推出MPC2030/2530/2050/2550"绿色精灵"系列A3彩色数码复合机,这些面向中国市场的新产品,使低成本用户从黑白向彩色办公转变得更加轻松.     

一次扫描 多源打印——HP数字彩色复印机产品上市

HP日前进入了数字彩色复印机市场,推出了三款台式喷墨复印机产品。这些新产品分别是HP Color Copier 100系列、Color Copier 210和Color Copier 210LX。虽然这些新产品的名称不同,但据HP公司的官员称,这些新产品都是数字化的产品。这就意味着用户在使用它们时,只需扫描一次图象,就能够进行多源打印。用户也能够将     

改头换面的9600GSO

中端市场历来是显卡厂商的主力战场,也是新产品更迭最迅速的市场。依靠良好的性能表现,GeForce 9600GT已经得到了不少用户的青睐,英伟达在不久前又推出了GeForce 9600GSO来进一步细分中端市场。     

Platform 2008年用户大会

2008年10月14日,Platform 2008年用户大会在京举行。Platform公司此间宣布将向市场推出多款新产品,包括LSF7.x系列、系统管理软件     

一种新兴的网络系统——向宇对等网系统

本栏目以国内外出现的有代表性的新产品为对象，介绍这些产品的特性、特点及功能，为用户选择适合自身的产品提供依据。从创刊开始我们将紧跟市场发展，发现新的、适合用户的产品并跟踪这些产品的完善与发展，同时我们也真诚地希望广大读者为我们更好地追踪新产品提供更多的稿件或线索。     

戴尔推出新一代Latitude笔记本电脑实现卓越移动办公体验 电池寿命、连接性、性能、能效四大特性全面提升

近日,戴尔公司宣布,面向国内市场推出新一代Latitude商用笔记本电脑——Latitude D630、D830和D531。新产品依据用户需求,在电池寿命、性能表现和连接性等方面实现了全面提升,从而为用户带来更加完美的移动办     

存储突破点:Internet

EMC公司正采取步骤以巩固自己在存储市场的地位,IBM公司及Sun公司建立了存储联盟并推出新产品以对抗EMC公司。这3家公司推出的新产品及新战略使那些决定存储自己关键数据的用户有了新的选择,特别是在Internet及NT环境下。     

戴尔推出新一代Latitude笔记本电脑实现卓越移动办公体验

近日,戴尔公司宣布,面向国内市场推出新一代Latitude商用笔记本电脑--Latitude D630、D830和D531.新产品依据用户需求,在电池寿命、性能表现和连接性等方面实现了全面提升,从而为用户带来更加完美的移动办公体验.     

买得起,用得起的彩色商务输出 理光为中国市场用户全面降低彩色办公门槛

近日,理光公司向中国办公市场推出MPC2030/2530/2050/2550"绿色精灵"系列A3彩色数码复合机,这些面向中国市场的新产品,使低成本用户从黑白向彩色办公转变得更加轻松。同时,该系列新产品带来了理光全新的彩色办公理念-Touch Color/智彩无界。凭借整机购买超低成本、超强的节能环保特性、出色的彩色输出控制、两种容量的彩粉的灵活选择和超长寿命的彩鼓,这个系列的新品彩机让中国用户真正买得起,也用得起,彩色商务输出从此轻松实现。     

产品·市场·信息

<正> 国际传感器市场将再现高潮 传感器已成为国际市场的热门产品,并将再次出现销售高潮。 美国传感器制造协会最近的调查显示,1992年全球传感器市场规模约达210亿美元,预计2000年可达410亿美元。目前,各类传感器的用户几乎遍及所有的工业部门。传感器的热销归因于技术上的不断成熟,如:1986年以来,发达国家环境保护部门消     

Innovators and Imitators in Novelty‐intensive Markets: A Research Agenda

The phenomenon of demand for novelty is defined and explored as a unique and under‐examined aspect of certain markets. Demand for novelty is the portion of demand not explained by practical utility or marketing effects – it is the demand for the new and unique. We explore markets characterized by high demand for novelty and how they differ from typical markets. Primarily, this involves the central role of novelty in the product or service value proposition as well as rapid growth rates and product or service obsolescence. Within this context, we consider the dynamics of innovating and imitating and suggest several ways that first mover competition is unique in markets with high demand for novelty. From the perspective of the knowledge‐based theory of the firm, we consider the implications of organizational learning and knowledge and decision making as they relate to new product development routines, improvisation, and top management team decision making. We conclude by considering several avenues for future empirical research.     

Consumer interpretations of digital ownership in the book market

Technological advances in electronic markets, particularly product digitization, have transformed customer-product interactions. For example, altered ownership perceptions in the digital domain affect product acquisition, usage and disposition. This study’s goal is to explore how consumers conceptualize ownership of digital possessions in order to help marketers develop tailored positioning and commercialization strategies. Comparing physical books and e-books, we contribute to the literature on electronic markets, which neglects a consumer-focused perspective on digital possessions. Using focus groups with U.S. consumers, we identify six themes surrounding perceptions of psychological digital ownership, which mainly portray a constricted sense of ownership, limiting usage experience, and value perceptions. However, we also find that ease of disposition favors e-book usage. Typical assumptions about younger consumers’ preference for digital products were not supported. Based on our findings, we offer two managerial approaches: (1) enhancing the digital product experience or (2) emancipating digital products from their physical correlates.     

Consumer search in electronic markets: an experimental analysis of travel services

Electronic markets are frequently touted to be highly efficient. The prevailing hypothesis is that very low information search costs will enable buyers to expand their product information search and comparison beyond what is feasible in conventional markets. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relative efficiency of product search in current travel service markets. We report the results of our analysis based on an experimental setting with 92 subjects. Our conclusions tend to disagree with previous predictions about the efficiency of electronic markets. The electronic markets observed were found to be at best as efficient as their conventional counterparts. Our results suggest that poor availability of product information and a lack of systems integration severely limit the efficiency of consumer search in present electronic markets.     

Modeling of Covid-19 trade measures on essential products: a multiproduct,multicountry spatial price equilibrium framework

In this paper, we develop a unified variational inequality framework in the context of spatial price network equilibrium problems that handles multiple products with multiple demand and supply markets in multiple countries as well as multiple transportation routes. The model incorporates a plethora of distinct trade measures, which is particularly important in the pandemic, as PPEs and other essential products are in high demand, but short in supply globally. In the model, product flows as well as prices at the supply markets and the demand markets in different countries are variables that allows us to seamlessly introduce various trade measures, including tariffs, quotas, as well as price floors and ceilings. Qualitative properties are analyzed. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the impacts of the trade measures on equilibrium product path and link flows, and on prices, and demand and supply quantities. Given the relevance of the trade measures in the world today and discussions concerning the impacts, the framework constructed in this paper is especially timely.     

Standardization and modularization driven by minimizing overall process effort

Faster product development is a major goal for companies in competitive markets. Product platform architectures support planning for addressing diverse markets and fulfilling future market desires. Applying standardization or modularization on product platform components leverages current product design effort across future products. This work introduces a method—SMDP (standardization and modularization driven by process effort)—for focusing engineering effort when applying standardization or modularization on product platform components. SMDP calculates the total design effort from current to future generations of the platform following standardization or modularization of components. By comparing the total design cost of different simulations, we can direct the design team to standardization or modularization opportunities. The contribution of this work is in using an estimation of design effort as the basis for decision in contrast to commonly used static measures of components' interactions. Such a computational approach allows conducting sensitivity studies that address the subjective nature of various estimations needed for exercising SMDP. SMDP is illustrated in a product platform design of an external-drum plate-setter for the digital prepress printing market.     

信息不对称条件下寡头集团转移定价决策分析

研究信息不对称条件下存在中间产品外部市场的寡头集团转移定价决策问题.在不完全竞争中间产品外部市场条件下,当集团之间信息不对称时,对中间产品内外部实行单一定价,转移价格将大于中间产品的边际成本;对中间产品内外部实行差别定价时,转移价格则等于中间产品的边际成本.通过对两种策略的比较可知,寡头集团实行差别定价还是单一定价,取决于中间产品外部市场和最终产品市场的需求价格弹性.     

The impact of consumer preferences on the accuracy of collaborative filtering recommender systems

Despite the omnipresent use of recommender systems in electronic markets, previous research has not analyzed how consumer preferences affect the accuracy of recommender systems. Markets, however, are characterized by a certain structure of consumers’ preferences. Consequently, it is not known in which markets recommender systems perform well. In this paper, we introduce a microeconomic model that allows a systematical analysis of different structures of consumers’ preferences. We develop a model-specific metric to measure the recommendation accuracy. We employ our model in a simulation to evaluate the impact of the structure of the consumers’ preferences on the accuracy of a popular collaborative filtering algorithm. Our study shows that recommendation accuracy is significantly affected by the similarity and number of consumer types and the distribution of consumers. The investigation reveals that in certain markets even random product recommendations outperform the collaborative filtering algorithm.     

Price suppression stimulation in a local market

In the paper, we study possible organization of a free multi-agent multi-commodity local market that stimulates price suppression. Market participants (agents) produce different commodities and services sold both in the local and external markets. Agents are interdependent: produce of one agents is a product of industrial consumption of other agents. Agents independently make decisions about shares of a product sent to external and internal markets and about prices that they fix in the local market. Prices of sale and purchase in the external market are fixed and do not depend on actions of the agents of the local market. Commodities of industrial consumption required for the agents cam be bought both in the local or external markets. We study a mechanism of price suppression based on the priority of access to resources granted to more compliant agents. It is shown that at sufficiently soft conditions of “valid competition,” all agents of the local market can obtain an increase in profitability concerning the strategy of purchase and sale in the external market only. Small and low-profitable enterprises obtain the highest relative gains in profitability.     

The imagination market

Information markets are typically used as prediction tools, aggregating opinions about the likelihood of future events, or as preference indicators, identifying participants’ product preferences. However, the basic information market concept is more widely applicable. In our experiment, we utilized information markets within the domains of idea generation and group decisioning. Participants were allowed to propose ideas regarding potential technology research areas; these ideas were represented as securities on a virtual financial market. Participants were able to trade shares of technology ideas over the course of 3 weeks, resulting in the market identifying the “best” idea as the highest priced security. Our findings suggest that information markets for idea generation result in more ideas and more participants than traditional idea generation techniques; however, using markets to rank ideas may be no better than other methods of idea ranking. Additional benefits include providing immediate feedback, allowing visibility of all ideas to all contributors, and being a fun mechanism for consensus building.     

Variability assessment in software product families

Software variability management is a key factor in the success of software systems and software product families. An important aspect of software variability management is the evolution of variability in response to changing markets, business needs, and advances in technology. To be able to determine whether, when, and how variability should evolve, we have developed the COVAMOF software variability assessment method (COSVAM). The contribution of COSVAM is that it is a novel, and industry-strength assessment process that addresses the issues that are associated to the current variability assessment practice. In this paper, we present the successful validation of COSVAM in an industrial software product family.