Reproduction of Henry David Thoreau and his cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, MA The past month or so, I’ve have been hearing a curious groundswell of an idea: that our Anywhere vision of ubiquitous connectivity is a bad idea and harmful to our society. The chorus started in an article by Willi...

I didn’t expect to come out laughing. It also probably wasn’t quite what the presenters intended. But here on day 2 of the Mobile World Congress, the CEOs of some of the biggest companies in the world had us in stitches as we emerged blinking into the mid-morning Barcelona sunlight. Cesar Aliert...

I went to an interesting mobile event this week called "Mobile Persuasion" all about mobile user experience and design.  It was hosted by City University and Human Factors International.  "Persusasion, Emotion, and Trust are the design rage, but how are they applied to mob...

Viral distribution has been key to growing online web services as it provides a very low user-acquisition cost.  Without viral distribution PC-based online services like facebook would never have been able to grow to the level that they have without huge investment in marketing.�...

Wie ich kürzlich schon schrieb, gehe ich davon aus, dass das Thema Mobile Internet im kommenden Jahr einen grossen Durchbruch erleben wird. Bereits jetzt werden mit iPhone-Applikationen teilweise erstaunliche Umsätze erzielt. Auch - oder gerade - mit Kuriositäten: The most popular of 50+ (!) fart...

Every year I enjoy writing a post with my predictions for the next year.  It's a nice way to empty the old thoughts from my brains so there's room for new ones.  Plus I leave a trail of blog posts so I can see how my thoughts change from year to year. In retrospect I've realized that each year ten...

S-a potrivit de minune propunerea lui Viorel de a testa un modem 3G de la Zapp, cel din reclama ce ruleaza zilele acestea pe TV, cu nevoia mea de a gasi o noua conexiune la Internet pe o perioada scurta de timp. Ar trebui sa ajung la RDS pentru un contract (CATV + Internet), insa nu gasesc timp si i...

As a product manager for our data products, one of the most common questions I get is the country granularity that we have in our ConnectedView forecasts. (ConnectedView is the name Yankee Group gives to our detailed forecasts of end user markets, which spans fixed and mobile in consumer and enterpr...

L’opérateur mobile japonais KDDI a annoncé avoir atteint 500 000 inscrits à son programme "Smart Sports Run&Walk ". Lancé à la fin janvier 2008, ce service a pour but d’accompagner les utilisateurs de mobile sportifs en gérant les données d’entraînement collectées quotidiennement, tel...

Whether you’re traveling, at the doctor’s office or in a waiting room, it sometimes is a little less unsettling to know that you have a reliable source of communication and entertainment. The Archos 7 Internet Media Tablet Player allows you to use the Internet, TV and much more. You can ...