I was enjoying my morning coffee during a day off and using the free wi-fi at Starbucks when I came across this piece ‘Apple needs an attitude adjustment‘ (July 8, 2010) over at MarketWatch. The sentiment of the headline wasn’t the issue, what I was more concerned about was the lack of analysis and coherent [...]
DARPA BAA on homomorphic encryption – PDF document with major implications, it would allow privacy and protection of information in cloud services – a computation could be performed over data that remains in encrypted form throughout the entire computation MeeGo – will keep checking in here to see how Intel and Nokia’s mobile Linux continues [...]
When a consumer goes in and picks up a Linux smartbook; assumes that the notebook format means that it is a Windows laptop, finds out that it won’t run their Windows software programme and returns it to the retailer. There isn’t anything wrong with the device, but with the consumer expectations, this is the type [...]
Epocrates – reference content across web and mobile platforms Breaking: Facebook To Enter Into Partnership With Friendster Buyer MOL Global Marketing, Cathay to offer live TV and mobile services | Market-interactive.com – hopefully it will be more successful than the aborted Boeing service UK ISPs Take Digital Economy Act to High Court | TorrentFreak – [...]
No grand strategy or theories, just a couple of stories for you. Within the Nokia eco-system the US-based Symbian Guru blog was a good rallying point for the community. So when its contributors signaled the end of the blog and wrote an open letter to readers explaining why they where quitting the brand for the [...]
Amazon Opens U.K. Grocery Site – Barrons.com – Amazon vs Tesco: it is on! Japan Looks to Emerging Market Poor – WSJ.com 6 Key Lessons From NewsHour’s Coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill | PBS – really great guidelines for companies as well as the media Emily Brill Investigates Jonathan Zittrain, star Harvard Law Prof [...]
I like shopping for trainers. There is nothing quite like a set of kicks in a nice colour-way (preferably that no one else has). You go and grab a sales assistant, they go and check in the back or radio a colleague to do it. Then they inform you if they have the appropriate size [...]
I was outside UI Centric‘s London offices on Berwick Street in Soho. I found it ironic that they had a weatherproof perspex box full of paper brochures advertising their online and multimedia interface design services to passers by.
State economist: China going through ‘slight slowdown’ – China Economic Review Intellectual Property Colloquium – Copyright Termination – interesting US-orientated discussion on copyright termination Yahoo! to launch blog that will create news out of search results | The Wall Blog – just like the Telegraph have been doing for a fair while, or Digg, or [...]
Interesting use of photography by Aljazeera, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Aljazeera placed this advertisement in The Independent to promote its English service. Minimalist headline and a carefully chosen picture made this a powerful attention-grabbing ad.
Due to increased shpping costs: the cost of containers, fuel, insurance, improved worker’s conditions in China and increasing costs for lines of credit some are wondering whether manufacturing jobs will be located closer to the market for a number of products. This move back to local manufacturing has a name: nearsourcing according the New York [...]
… but couldn’t be bothered. You can see where my thinking was going with this diagram scanned from my Moleskin.
Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki says ‘the fightback starts now’, champions both Symbian and MeeGo – All About MeeGo – interesting feedback on Symbian and MeeGO IBM Tells Employees ‘Switch to Firefox’ Blogger Stats – looks very reminiscent of the real-time analytics that Feedburner used to have prior to the Google takeover Hell, yes: 64% of gamers [...]
In the early and mid-1980s before I got my hands on proper DJ’ing equipment or even understood properly that it was something that I wanted to do, I had already thought about ‘set’ programming. I used to take recordings from different sources such as pirate radio, tape recordings of reedits by London DJ Foggy and [...]
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