Are Consumers have an Allegiance to their Mobile OS
I’ve been asked on numerous occassions if consumers have an allegiance to their mobile OS. For example, do/will consumers buy a tablet based on the OS of their mobile phone. Given the strong tablet market share controlled by Apple’s iPad the answer has been mixed – iPad owners with an iPhone look like they have an allegiance, while iPad owners […]
The Measured Life
Sensorization of Consumer Tech is a tech trend I’ve been talking about for awhile. Clearly personal health tech will be heavily influenced by this trend. Here’s an article on some of the developments. If you aren’t aware of the movement towards the Quantified Self, check the link.
Target’s Black Friday Plan?
Reported here, some (all???) Target stores “plan to only let 30 people in the store at a time.” While this will surely reduce the chaos in the store, I can only imagine what it will cause outside the store.
Removal of restrictions can decrease music piracy
here’s the study.
An early view of CES
Early this month I spoke at CEA’s CEO Summit. I outlined a few trends to expect at the 2012 CES. Here is a recap of what I said. More to follow….
the next mainstream phone sensor
One of the next sensors to become mainsteam on the phone will be a photoplethysmographic sensor.
Read This Before Our Next Meeting
Al Pittampalli’s Read This Before Our Next Meeting is a great, quick read on rethinking the productivity around meetings. I found myself highlighting a significant amount of the book in Kindle. Here are just a few of my highlights: Read This Before Our Next Meeting by Al Pittampalli You have 60 highlighted passages but we can […]
Universal (content) Search
Universal search – the ability to search for content across sources – is one of the holy grails of consumer content management. Over the last 5-6 years search has improved significantly and become more ubiquitous. Google Desktop is a great search tool across locally stored files. I’ve written in the past about Xobni and the ability to search and organize across […]
Are CAPTCHAs Getting More Difficult?
CAPTCHAs are a challenge-response test used to help decipher human responses from that of a computer in order to prevent automated software from performing actions which degrade the quality of service. Recently I’ve noticed that CAPTCHAs are getting increasingly difficult. Is this a sign of tech evolving faster than the human mind?
Apple’s Next Launch
By now you’ve all seen the rumors of Apple’s October 4th media event. Historically Apple’s newest gizmos would be available 3-4 weeks after the media launch. However, the iPad2 began shipping about two weeks after the media launch and it was my belief that Apple is shortening the window between announcement and availability. Today, AppleInsider is reporting Apple is denying […]
