Category: innovation | 革新 | 독창성 | 改変
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Twitter troubles
You can read elsewhere about Twitter troubles, I have linked to some of the best analyses I found out there at the bottom of this article. If you don’t have time to go through the the analyses around Twitter troubles, here’s the ‘CliffsNotes’ version: Management turnover. Three different heads of engineering in 18 months, five…
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PrivaTegrity: the flawed model of distributed keys
Dave Chaum’s PrivaTegrity – an idea to to try and balance between state actors demand for internet sovereignty and the defacto end of citizen privacy. Whilst also addressing the need to deal with emotive causes such as terrorism, paedophile rings and organised crime got a lot of attention from Wired magazine. Backdoors are considered problematic…
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The smartphone market and Huawei
It is hard for anyone reading the media to believe that Huawei’s rise in the smartphone market was anything short of miraculous. In reality the roots of this rise go back at least six years. Back in 2010, Huawei was already shipping 3,000,000 smartphones. However since that time, the year-on-year percentage growth in consumer devices…
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The internet of heavier things
I started to think about the internet of heavier things after I spent a bit of time with my Dad. We talked about work, engineering stuff in general and technology in general. My Dad has a pragmatic approach to technology, it’s ok so long as it fills three distinct criteria: It’s useful It’s efficient in…
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Trustworthy x86 laptops + more things
Trustworthy x86 laptops? There is a way, says system-level security ace | The Register – ARM isn’t solution either. Trustworthy x86 laptops is a relative concept. With physical access to the hardware trustworthy could soon become untrustworthy Zuk sells in Vietnam | Shanghai Daily – part of the brand strategy might be masking the Chinese involvement given…
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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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2016 just where is it all going?
I started to think about 2016 just where is it all going?And Uber immediately sprang to mind. It is obvious that Uber’s CEO had never watched The Princess Bride, a cultural touch stone for both generation x and generation y, otherwise they would have known the maxim: Never get involved in a land war in…
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2015 crystal ball gazing, how did I do?
I did some predictions in January this year, how did I do in my 2015 crystal ball gazing? Sony Corp. cleans house with the management teams of its US businesses. One of Sony’s start-up bets (the e-ink watch, smart locks etc) comes good. Sony will still be supported by its Japanese financial services business. Not…
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San Bernardino + more news
San Bernardino Shooters’ Phones Had ‘Built-In Encryption,’ Just Like Every Phone | Motherboard – all of this smacks of the WMD report in Iraq. The FBI are trying to use the tragedy of San Bernardino to get mass-access. This would be unwise. It sets a precedent and even a technology framework for other countries to demand…