Total Telecom – Global mobile revenues to top $1 trillion in 2013 – Informa
I tried the Google Music service designed especially for consumers in the Chinese market. The service is impressive in terms of the size of its catalogue and ease-of-use. The music is imported into your computer as MP3 files and doesn’t have any DRM on it. I do wonder what the click through rates are on [...]
I am based out of Shenzhen from now until the end of January when I will send a couple of days in Hong Kong before returning to the UK. I will try and get across more often to Hong Kong, if I can get entry visas back into China easily. I am happy to meet [...]
The RSS reader is a key tool for the knowledge worker including public relations people. I also find it great for my personal life, keeping up with enough celebrity gossip to hold down social conversation and keeping an eye on items of interest as they crop up on eBay. Despite the fact that some high-profile [...]
28 percent of accidents involve talking, texting on cellphones – washingtonpost.com – increasingly convinced this could be solved with better product design so it would be obvious there isn’t any other way of texting and messaging in a vehicle other than hands-free. Google Loses Exec To Mobile Ad Firm Inmobi | mocoNews – Rob’s move [...]
I am a big fan of cyber-punk pioneer William Gibson. His current work in progress is called Zero History. It is being followed avidly by fans over at the ZeroHistory blog, who help the author out with research for the book. In return, they try and divine the plot based on the creative bread crumbs [...]
Notice in Cathay Pacific lounge at Heathrow, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara.
Yahoo Study Suggests Web Display Ads Ineffective With Younger People | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD – given that Yahoo!’s business relies on a substantial amount of display ads, I am not surprised that they are paying attention right now. Friendster Strikes Deal With Yahoo Southeast Asia Is Twitter Flattening? A Short Answer – [...]
Its a new decade, new paradigms and ways of reaching consumers nothing will be the same again. Now that I have your attention, I’d like to bring things down to earth. One of the smartest things Bill Gates ever said had to do with technology and future adoption. It was something to the effect of: [...]
The Coming Tornado: Cloud in the Enterprise – good overview of where business IT is going AsthmaMD Helps Asthma Sufferers, Gathers Aggregate Research Data – great example of a health-orientated mobile application Google swamped by Nexus One complaints | Pocket Gamer - poor customer services and developer relations issues dog Android platform and Nexus One CES: [...]
BBC Radio 4 had a couple of journalists in the studio discussing the Iris Robinson scandal which has captivated Northern Ireland news over the past couple of weeks. What I found particularly interesting about the story was that one of the journalists said he doubted the Robinson’s political careers would survive: not because of the [...]
Imagine if you set up your own company and you named after yourself because you signed all your work. Over time your signature became the most valuable design asset of the company. Over time you decide that you want to take some of your hard earned cash, take time out and do the stuff that [...]
Nokia’s Million-dollar Challenge to Developers – GigaOM Let’s Get Real: Why The Reporting On 3D TV Is Mostly Hype | paidContent – glad to see that a number of people think this. Keep developing the Brain as you get older – Consider different viewpoints – NY Times article – busterbuster’s posterous Do cheap rentals hurt [...]
GreatBritain NASA picture, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Newspapers in the UK ran this picture taken by NASA which shows how much snow the UK was covered in. It eloquently brought home the scale of the weather with no part of England, Scotland or Wales remaining untouched.
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