Month: April 2015
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48 hours with the Apple Watch
My experiment with the Apple Watch is part of a larger project. I decided to experiment with wearables a while ago. My first experiment was with the Casio G-Shock+ series of watches that takes the well-loved brand and drops some rudimentary notification function, BlueTooth LE capability and a companion iPhone app together as a workable…
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Joyous Music School
The Joyous Music School string quartet have been playing together for four years, they started when the lead cellist was four years old and they are awesome After the Joyous Music School its time to move on to another set of musical genius’ Frankie Knuckles’ loss continues to be felt. Underworld and the Junior Boys…
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Android device fragmentation + more
Android Sales: Guess how many Android devices are available for sale | BGR – 18,000 different types of Android devices which is an insane amount of device fragmentation. Imagine the pain in Android device testing needed and that isn’t even getting into different app stores and non-Google Android devices – a la Russia and China. More…
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Chaebol + more news
Chaebol Anger and Envy in the Chaebol Republic | Foreign Policy – there will come a point when it it will undermine the iron grip that chaebol groups have on Korean society. The irony was chaebol power was based on a compact between President Park and prominent business families as a way to jump start the…
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Blade Runner & other things
Watching Blade Runner after it had been re-released into the cinema. I have watched Blade Runner numerous times on TV, VHS, LaserDisc, DVD and Blu Ray but there is something magical about watching it on the big screen The cinema and Blu Ray versions of Blade Runner have a level of clarity and detail that…
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The Amazon Dash button post
At the beginning of this month Amazon launched an addition to their Dash ordering hardware with the Amazon Dash button. There was a lot of incredulity amongst the media heightened by the unfortunate timing which overlapped with April’s Fool Day. Why the incredulity? I would break the cynicism down into two broad buckets: The Amazon…
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Smartphone crown in China + more
Apple takes smartphone crown in China – CNET – the smartphone crown is based on over a quarter of urban smartphones sold; Apple’s smartphone crown profit share rather than market share approach. More related content here. A New Wave of Chinese Smartphones Set to Emerge in 2015 – TechNode – the key thing here is likely to…
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Smart home: is all we want is a better burglar alarm?
The Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) put together some PR-able research on what consumers think about the smart home. Methodology First of all the methodology: online survey of over 4,000 US, UK and German consumers. The sample size is better than many, however I don’t know if the sample was self-selecting or what kind of biases…
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Cheaper luxury goods + more things
Cheaper luxury goods could be on the way in Asia, say analysts | SCMP – cheaper luxury goods is due to a mix of market forces in the likes of China and cracking newer luxury markets, according to the article. There is also the upward competition from premium streetwear products that is forcing cheaper luxury goods…