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.
the futurist’s dilemma
Kevin Kelly has a great note on the futurist’s dilemma: Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. Either way, a futurist can’t win. He is either dismissed or wrong. Except if he hits that razor’s edge between the two realms, right on the cusp between plausibility and fantasy, where it […]
Why Can’t I see Hotel Inventory?
Last month – while in NYC for the CleanSlate executive forum – I stayed at the Westin New York. I arrived in NYC at 1AM and knowing in advance that I’d be arriving late called the Westin to check-in earlier that day. I’ve been “walked” enough times to know that when I’m going to be arriving late at the hotel I should call in advance. Like […]
Curation and Discovery
I’ve written about curation and discovery in the past (here and here). a new site/app, Trover, is all about curation and discovery and a good example of this trend.
If Price is Meaningful, then OLED not a Mainstay TV Technology until 2014.
LG plans to sell a 55-inch OLED TV in 2012, but Paul Peng (Executive VP at AUO) suggests low yields (and therefore price) will make hinder OLED as a TV technology until 2014.
Lack of Paid TV Subscription Doesn’t Suggest Online Video is Sufficient…yet
Leichtman Research Group published a recent study showing eight percent of households who subscribe to broadband don’t subscribe to paid television services. But within this eight percent of broadband-only homes, only five percent said they do not subscribe to a multichannel video service because they get all of the video they want on the Internet or in other ways. Two percent of […]
The Future of NetFlix and How They are Working to Enrich Their Streaming Service
Earlier this month NetFlix increased the price of their subscription offerings (read more here and here). And then earlier this week, NetFlix reported Q2 earnings. You can read the Letter to Shareholders here. NetFlix closed the quarter with nearly 24.69 million subscribers – a 65 percent jump from the year-ago period. Netflix expects to finish the third […]
How Impactful is Verizon for RadioShack and RadioShack for Verizon
By now you’ve read the news that RadioShack (RSH) will stop carrying T-Mobile devices on September 14th and start carrying Verizon devices on September 15th. If you missed it you can read more here: (Reuters, TechCrunch, Engadget). How impactful might this be for both Verizon and RadioShack? Let’s start first with RadioShack. Despite poor results, the stock […]
A Comparison of PSTN and IP Traffic From 1997 to 2015
A Comparison of PSTN and IP Traffic From 1997 to 2015. Slides start on page #4. [slideshare id=8515037&doc=acomparisonofpstnandiptrafficfrom1997to2015-110705135902-phpapp02&type=d]
Context and Curation are King
For far too long there has been an argument about what wins the day – software or hardware. As the argument goes, hardware is commoditized and software becomes king. I argue that context is king and in the end curation win the day. Throughout the history of tech, the companies that have been able to create “something” from “nothing […]
