Month: December 2015
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Yiminjian
Yiminjian One of the most popular articles on the South China Morning Post website this year was about the phenomenon of yiminjian or ‘immigration jail’. Canada has been a popular destination for wealthy Chinese to set up their homes. The scions of the Huawei business had a couple of mansions in Vancouver. They were following…
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Demographics of social + more
Demographics Of Social Media By Gender – Business Insider – interesting opportunities for smart mass targeting by using the demographics of social outlined in the article. More content related to the demographics of social here. Samsung Addresses a Growing Mobile Health Market with Industry’s First Smart Bio-Processor – Samsung Blog – am sure Apple already has…
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Chip implanted everywhere + more
Marc Andreessen: ‘In 20 years, every physical item will have a chip implanted in it’ – Telegraph – but is it needed? I could see this idea of a chip implanted as being touted as a sign of biblical end times. Also how cheap can chips go and solutions like QRcodes and barcodes work fine to…
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Things that made my day this week
Dragon Ball characters appear in Ford anime ad specifically made for English-speakers 【Video】 – unfortunately it is unavailable in the UK, there must be some kind of geography-related images rights licensing issue with Dragon Ball. That’s a shame as it looks like a beautiful bit of work for Ford Great idiosyncratic video that talks about…
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Priv fails + more things
BlackBerry sold under 50,000 Priv units, Play Store data suggests | AndroidAuthority – its probably over this number as many BlackBerry Priv devices wouldn’t be allowed to download apps from the Play Store for enterprise security reasons, but it isn’t a blockbuster either. More on wireless related subjects here. Home Broadband 2015 | Pew Research Center –…
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My 10 most popular (trafficked) blog posts of 2015
These are the ten most trafficked posts of 2015, in reverse order: Throwback gadget: Nokia N900 – I tried Nokia’s first Maemo-based phone. It was amazing how useless it was as one forgets how linked the modern smartphone is to web services. Despite these problems one could see the now lost potential of the phone.…
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Kinect + more news
Kinect Rare and the rise and fall of Kinect • Eurogamer.net – or how Microsoft fumbled the future with Kinect. Kinect is a motion-sensing piece of hardware, allowing users to interact with Xbox games. It is able to monitor the movements of up to four people at the same time. More related technology stories here.…
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People that have made my year
2015 has been a year of constant change. Here are the people that have made my year. From winning the global Huawei smartphone business, launching New Balance Football and making margarine more digital. There were also low points like going through the pain of working on Huawei yet again. Also Racepoint Global’s financial position meant that…
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SailfishOS lives + more
SailfishOS Lives To Fight Android Another Day As Jolla Secures Series C Funding | TechCrunch – good news from Jolla and SailfishOS. I hope that they manage to move from strength-to-strength. I love the experience of SailfishOS, it shows the opportunity that was lost with Nokia’s pivot to Windows Phone under Stephen Elop. If you haven’t…