Month: January 2017
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Louis Vuitton, Supreme: streetwear & luxury brands
The recent collaboration between New York’s Supreme and Louis Vuitton seems like a natural fit. The reality is that luxury and streetwear have been dancing around each other for a good while. Snide started it all Snide was slang in the 1980s for fake or counterfeit. Hip Hop and the Caribbean-influenced Buffalo movement in the…
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Living with the Casio G-Shock GWF-D1000 Frogman
A focus on the design tweaks in the new Casio GWF-D1000 Frogman watch in comparison to previous Frogman models and some gripes that become obvious once you live with the watch for a bit. Looking to buy a GWF-D1000? Have a read of this first.
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Galaxy Note 7 + more news
Galaxy Note 7 Samsung finally explained what caused the Galaxy Note 7 explosions | Quartz – it sounds like a deeper process issue in design and supply chain management. The impact of the Galaxy Note 7 explosions was huge for Samsung’s reputation. Consumer behaviour It’s Generation X, not millennials, who are obsessed with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat,…
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Instant pot + more news
Instant pot Not Just A Crock: The Viral Word-Of-Mouth Success Of Instant Pot : The Salt : NPR – The instant pot of the title is what was called a slow cooker back when my parents bought one in the mid-1980s. It was a ceramic dish with a lid in a metal holder with a heating…
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Shareware: Throwback gadget
Shareware -back before the internet became ubiquitous, software was distributed by bulletin boards. It was expensive to dial into a board, so magazines uses to have storage media pre-loaded with applications on the front of them. For much of the late 1990s and early 2000s my parents used to use MacFormat magazine CDs and floppy…
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Under Armour + more news
Under Armour I love sleep so Under Armour’s new performance pyjamas are ideal for me. Under Armour has managed to position itself as an innovator in a similar way to Nike. Under Armour was also smart to tap into sleep which is a consumer anxiety in our always on world. Under Armour is doing to…
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Micro influencers
Micro influencers – much of the social marketing today for consumer brand is done through what is called influencer marketing. For a number of these influencers who have a large social following, working with brand has become very lucrative. But one of the hottest tickets at the moment within communications agencies are ‘micro-influencers’; Edelman Digital…
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China cloud market + other news
China cloud market Amazon, Microsoft Face Tough New Limits on China Cloud Market — The Information – why aren’t companies lobbying the US (and other governments) to hammer China on the WTO?. It is interesting that the China cloud market is being treated like a strategic industry. The question is what is the Chinese government’s end…
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Sound from screen + other news
Sound from screen Sony’s New OLED TV Emits Sound From Screen – Nikkei Technology Online – back in the 1970s and 1980s, Sony and Technics (Panasonic) experimented with flat audio speaker drivers. You can see the ancestor of the thinking behind sound from screen, by looking at the Technics SB-10 and Sony’s APM8. Sony’s accurate…