Week 4 EOC: A New iPhone App?

Say if you forgot to print out your paper today for class.  Pull out your I Phone hit a printer app connect to a Wi-Fi printer and send your work from phone to printer. This could be something that everyone could use for business and school.  How about a wireless printer app? Print out documents or pic from your iPhone right to your printer with one touch.  You could also be able to print from anywhere like a fax machine straight from your Phone app. In doing research to find out if this was an actual app, I found that there is a wireless printer app available for The Brothers printers and also Canon printers.
http://www.brother-usa.com/downloads/iphone-ipod-printer.aspx#.UQm06sXA98E

Week 3 EOC: My Demographics

I was their when 12 inch records was just on the way out and cassette tapes were taking their place way before Cd's and mp 3 came along. I was their when MTV and HIP-HOP burst on to TV. When the Atria was the video counsel to play then came the Nintendo. Collecting cards baseball, basketball, football was still the thing to do. The generation that has grown up in the shadow of the Baby Boomers is accustomed to relying on themselves. The ones that wanted to be different stand out and be the best at what you did. The era we the generation x went threw and seen coming up was like something we will never see again. The tipping point i like to call, some may say the generation x era and some even call it the hip-hop generation. From the way we did things like in music,entertainment,sports to fashion. For the people that was borne in the 60's to the early 80's are to me the generation that really took the world in a new place. A era that will never come back as hard as the Millennial's try know of days. To remake or should I say Retro, the life of those years diffidently the 80's in to the early 90's. The group that would represent the era that fits myself would be none other then generation x.

Week 3 EOC: Making Money for Good

"I was inspired to start Tompkins Point Apparel after working for a year as the CFO of a farmer-owned Fair Trade and Organic cotton trading company based in Hyderabad, India. My experience working for these farmers taught me an incredible amount about farming, life in rural India, and about Fair Trade."
http://www.fairtradeusa.org/get-involved/blog/featured-partner-tompkins-point-apparel

After learning the life and story of a framer Scott Leeder had met when he was working with the Fair Trade Group. He had discovered that this person name Komram Badu framer from a small village that local traders had bet him out of his hard work. They sold Mr. Badu cotton seeds and fertilizer at market rate and financed these purchases with a 60-percent loan. At the end of the season when the local traders return to purchase Mr Badu cotton they would by it back at below-market price. With this story in mind of Scott. He decided to create a Fair Trade and Organic clothing line to support farmers like Mr. Badu.


"As a 1980s child, last I checked, the polo shirt really has not changed that much. But the business model shifts from the methods by which apparel manufacturers traditionally source materials, make their clothes, and treats their workers."
http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/07/tompkins-poin-is-first-fair-trade-certified-clothing-designer-in-usa/

Scott Leeder the founder of Tompkins Point Clothing did not live a life as a farm but raised in New Jersey. He work on Wall Street for several years. On a visit to Hyderabad, India he took up a offer to work as a chief financial officer of a organic cotton trading company their. Knowing the conditions in which the cotton farmers work and most of the of the India's population still resides in the rural areas and lives off that land. Scott Leeder wanted to create a company that would make a difference. Knowing that most farmers till about 4 acres of land and gets about one US dollar a day Leeder decided that Tompkins Point Clothing would in return help the labor issues.           

"Tompkins Point was created to help those that produce our clothing.We were excited to be recognized as the first brand in America to receive fair trade certification for apparel, and now we're thrilled to go a step further and help make sure that the children of the factory workers that make our clothing go where all kids should - to school."
http://www.tompkinspoint.com

Becoming the pioneer in developing of Fair Trade Certified apparel in the United States Tompkins Point supports the farmers and factory workers that produce there garments and in return also makes sure there kids get an education. a 25% of the profit that is made goes in to the education of the kid their in Hyderabad, India. Tompkins Point also pay a 5% premium directly to factory workers and a 5%-10% premium directly to cotton farmers. The premiums a set up a a framing ans factory worker committees, for social or business development purposes.  


"We founded our company because of our desire to help poor, small-scale farmers. As a result, we work hard to ensure that farmers are treated with dignity and that they receive a variety of economic benefits for doing business with us." 

Week 2 EOC: Boston Consulting Group - Video Games

“The US-based Atari operations seek to separate from the structural financial encumbrances of their French parent holding company, Atari SA ... and secure independent capital for future growth, primarily in the areas of digital and mobile games."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/video-game-news/9816068/Atari-files-for-bankruptcy-in-the-US.html

Atari SA, the gaming company that was founded in 1972 and produce some of the earliest game consoles is looking to sell off it's logo and it's rights to some of their classic games, like Pong, Asteroids and Centipede. The US-based Atari operations wants to separate so they can secure capital growth in areas of digital and mobile games.

"I spent over 15 years working in the technology sector before coming into the video games industry, and I can say unequivocally that working in entertainment and games has been the most satisfying."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswomanfiles/2013/01/18/women-and-video-gamings-dirty-little-secrets/

Women today are playing a lot more games and the gaming industry wants to hire more women but their aren't enough to hire. Sexism has a lot to do with keeping women out of the game studios. To have your creative industry in gaming to stay on the cutting edge and innovate side my be the new impact.

"numerous developers have noted that making money off Android, the dominant platform in China, has not been easy."
http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/8/3850032/chinas-video-game-industry-brought-in-9-7-billion-last-year

 In China the gaming industry online game market represented more then 90 percent of their revenue in  2012. The mobile gaming came in behind fowling the game consoles. Though the PC and online gaming are in the for front the mobile gaming is trailing.

BCG analysis of the video game market. 

Game consoles: Xbox, PlayStation and Wii.
Xbox is still a cash cow with PlayStation is in between Cow and Dog and the Wii is in the Dog share.
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Handheld games: Wii U, Nintendo DS, PSP
all hand held games are heading in the Dog share.

Mobile Gaming: iPhone, Android
mobile gaming are up and coming Stars.
         

Week 1 EOC: My Voice

Soshel Clothing is a statement to universally inspire people from our youth to the elderly that we are indeed a ‘social people’.  The original premise was to create an everyday casual style of clothing catered for work or play. 

Soshel Clothing is more than just a shirt; it is a way of life.  The ‘Ant’, being the logo for Soshel Clothing, represents us as people living and working together within our communities.  We participate daily at the places we shop for our necessities such as food stores.  Those who have established these companies are examples of a “Mr. or Ms. Soshel” since they are providing places for us to purchase goods needed to live our social ways of life. 

Soshel

Coming Together,Working Together, Succeed Together.