Nokia in China
Nokia in China: it’s all relative | FT.com – doesn’t mention that Nokia screwed over Chinese partners by abandoning MeeGO and Symbian. Having a Nokia in China meant that you were part of the middle class when I first visited Shenzhen. There were domestic phones and competitors like Samsung and Motorola, but they didn’t really compete with Nokia in China. How times have changed in a few short years
Consumer behaviour
The Feature Phone Rises (Again?) – interesting piece by Junko Yoshida that asks what is a smartphone. My definition would be a phone that still works well as a phone is a feature phone, ‘smart phones’ aren’t particularly good at phoning anyone
TI: Customers holding off on new orders – do declining orders represent an economic slow down or very lean supply chains?
Design
design | polychromeLAB – great idea on this jacket
Clamshell! The Story of the Greatest Computing Form Factor of All Time | TIME.com
Economics
China manufacturing improving, but job worries mount | beyondbrics
David Cameron Says British Austerity Will Last Until 2020
US Drought Could Spell Another Global Food Crisis | Mother Jones
Insight: Flood risk rampant across Asia’s factory zones | Reuters
Finance
China ‘reservations’ over WTO ruling – UnionPay currently has a lock on Yuan denominated transactions
FMCG
German company buys Peet’s Coffee for nearly $1 billion, will take it private – SiliconValley.com
How to
Ideas
Wikiweb – A Delightful Wikipedia Reader – some interesting ideas in this
Innovation
The End of Chinese Manufacturing and Rebirth of U.S. Industry – Forbes -interesting but flawed analysis on future manufacturing technologies
Korea
Chinese Economist Xie Warns South Korea of Conglomerate Dependence – WSJ
Luxury
Louis Vuitton banks on bespoke in China | SCMP.com (paywall)
Media
Comprehensive timeline: Aurora Massacre : news – fascinating timeline on Reddit. What is interesting is the way the facts gradually coalesce and how far way this is from traditional storytelling
This Cease-and-Desist Letter Should Be the Model for Every Cease-and-Desist Letter – Megan Garber – The Atlantic – in tune with the brand
Mail Online makes its first profit in June 2012 – Media Week
Big Content pushes for tougher laws in New Zealand – Claims defeat in victory | TechEye
To boldly shrink where no man has gone before – Nigel Scott on online video
Suck.com: Becoming Digital – eerily prescient review of the media industry and how digital was likely to change it, despite having been written over a decade ago
Freemium has run its course — GigaOM
The Olympic Police’s War on Graffiti | VICE
Nokia Payments Cause Entertainment And Devices Division Loss – Business Insider
Levinsohn Unlikely to Stay at Yahoo, as Mayer Begins Her Talent Search – AllThingsD
Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief – NYTimes.com
McClureMusic.com | Universal Music Japan in tax trouble – it would have looked to the tax authorities as tax evasion
Online
Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup Means It’s Probably Toast | TIME.com
The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition – challenges to paid services versus freemium
Difficult days for Facebook as share price and user base fall | The Wall Blog
China’s Internet Population Rises to 537 million, up 11% Annually
“What The F*** Is iCloud?” – this is a marketing problem
Retailing
E-book Sales Doubled in 2011 – AllThingsD
BBC News – Of fake customers and virtual ‘likes’
Security
Black Hat finds holes in ARM, x86, embedded
The Secret Online Weapons Store That’ll Sell Anyone Anything – based on similar technology to the Silk Road marketplace, its like something out of an early William Gibson novel
Software
HP-sponsored Enyo framework hits cross-platform release | ZDNet – this is a legacy from the company’s Palm acquisition
What’s new in Linux 3.5 – The H – improvements in security, new developments in hardware like USB connected monitors and playing catch-up with dtrace functionality with Solaris
Microsoft Names Mark Penn as Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Special Projects – interesting move for Mark Penn and even more interesting that Microsoft is doubling-down on consumer insights
Microsoft Faces EU Antitrust Probe Over Web-Brower Choice – Bloomberg
Technology
Silicon Valley Worries About Addiction to Devices – NYTimes.com
consumerbehaviour
Research Company Claims Lenovo Now Second-Biggest Mobile Brand in China
Marc Andreessen Says Now’s the Time to Build Companies Like It’s 1999 – AllThingsD
Web of no web
Jiepang Provides New POI Data and Algorithm to Empower Chinese Applications | TechNode
Wireless
TelecomTV | News | Outlook for Lumia gets Gloomia
Nokia looks to revamp marketing strategy: FT | Reuters
nokia
Kodak Loses Patent Case Against Apple, RIM – WSJ.com
Fitch downgrades Nokia credit rating | TotalTelecom
Communities Dominate Brands: Nokia Q2 Results: Bad bad and will be even more bad
Nokia’s Bad Call on Smartphones – WSJ.com – great history of Nokia. Nokia’s research looks a bit like Xerox and its PARC arm in the 1960s and 70s (paywall)
From bad to worse and from good to great | asymco
SMS stays strong as mobile service revenues approach $1 trillion