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Google IO: who is Google trying to disrupt?
Google IO this week played out like a science fair trying to be an Apple keynote. It was interesting for me to watch to try and discern how this will affect commercial rivals. Google IO and Java The most obvious casualty of Google IO announcements is not Apple or Microsoft but the Java language that…
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UC Web + other news
UC Web Alibaba buys up UC Web in ‘biggest merger in the history of China’s Internet’ | VentureBeat – or really expensive deal to get on the chrome. UC Web made a web browser that was popular in China and South East Asia. UC Web has created a joint venture with Alibaba that will help…
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Shadow banking + more news
Shadow banking Expect wild 2014 with China crackdown on shadow banking – I am not so convinced given the vested interests in shadow banking. Shadow banking ‘wealth management products’ are sold by state banks like ICBC. Local government is funded by land sales to real estate developers, who are funded by shadow banking. The article…
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Immersive as well as interactive experiences
This post may take a while to get into, so please bear with me, but I want to take two examples that showcase where I was going on immersive experiences. User experience problems barring the way for immersive experiences I gave my parents my first iPad in September last year so that we could stay…
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PRISM & more news
PRISM European PRISM anger gains momentum with fresh cloud warnings and data threats — Tech News and Analysis – interesting addendum at the end about the challenge of health2.0 services due to data privacy trust issues. What we’ll see post PRISM disclosures is a wider skepticism of cloud services. PRISM also builds into the wider…
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Mercedes Benz G63 + more
Mercedes Benz G63 AMG Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6×6 « Gear Patrol – I can’t work out if the Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6×6 is amazing or stupid. It is based on the G Wagen which is a proper off-road vehicle. The 6×6 platform used was developed for the military like Germany’s KSK special forces unit.…
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Brands in China – be true to yourself
I was reading a post the other day (and forgot to bookmark it – my OCD having been taken out by the man flu) about how a substantial minority of respondents thought that US-originated international brands in China like Coca-Cola were local Chinese brands. Coca-Cola originally entered the Chinese market in 1928 and then re-entered…
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Blyk + more news
Blyk Communities Dominate Brands: Average Blyk campaign 100K messages, average segment only 8K youth – digging into Blyk stats – so much in this. Blyk took a model that had been popular in Africa and India – funding data, messaging and voice services with advertising and took it to the next level: a mobile carrier…
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James Earl Jones + more news
James Earl Jones James Earl Jones has one of the most distinctive voices in the entertainment industry as you can hear in this Sesame Street clip. You might recognise from his appearance in Conan the Barbarian film, but James Earl Jones has a surprising variety in his career across film, television and stage performance. James…