Big video game makers, like their cousins in books and music, have scrambled in recent years to adapt to the digital technologies buffeting their business.
The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant — maker of the PlayStation game console, Bravia TV and Cyber-shot digital cameras — was buffeted by the sharp global economic downturn last year and still expects a net loss for the financial year that ends March 31.
Sharkey said that with the industry buffeted by digital piracy and the recorded music businesses hit by declining CD sales, it had become clear that the various trade bodies had more in common than divided them.
Ms. Palin isn't the first modern candidate to find herself buffeted in a digital storm of emotion.
The changes buffeting marketers in the digital era are not incremental they are fundamental.
This was an ill-conceived idea in its own time, and today a left-right compromise looks like nothing but a ruse to salvage a political class buffeted by Grillo's digital populism and widespread public contempt.
Ten years ago, journalists, long the salarymen of the publishing economy, began gorging on big contracts and options from digital start-ups like shrimp at a free buffet.
But most borrow their print forerunners' reliance on readers grazing through a buy-it-all buffet when the consumer increasingly expects to "playlist" digital bites, sampling individual stories, songs, tv episodes or streaming movies.
'You didn't have this or that on the buffet menu!' " On the day of the game, the digital thermometer outside Manatee High School showed ninety-five degrees.
One of the world's largest suppliers of film prints, Technicolor has been buffeted by the slackening demand for film as more movies are shot digitally and a majority of theaters convert to digital projectors.
