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Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications.
"Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
Expertise I've been testing and reviewing computer and gaming hardware for over 20 years, covering every console launch since the Dreamcast and every MacBook...ever. Credentials
- Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings
Today's New York Post--not our usual first stop for high-tech trend news--reports that women are surpassing men as consumers of technology in several key categories. The article cites a report from MarketResearch.com that says "women actually outpace men in personal computer, DVD, and video game ownership." Women shell out some $55 billion a year on technology.
While most tech types think this somehow means more pink gadgets in our future, looking past the cliché shows us a trend toward "design-conscious computers and other high-tech gadgets."
According to the report, 64 percent of women in the United States own a personal computer, as opposed to only 63 percent of men, and the percentage of Internet users who are women is expected to hit 53 percent by 2008. Guys don't have to worry about being left behind, as we still lead in areas such as television purchases, and I don't see pink plasma TVs ever catching on. (Kidding!)
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