Everyone who knows consumer electronics knows that in the USA, BestBuy is considered one of the savviest of retailers around, ranking up there with WalMart. So it’s not a surprise to me that Google has taken a page out of the BestBuy playbook that basically broke the price controls, ludicrous terms and changed the personal … Read more
As device divergence grows, and the Amazon Kindle, is clearly the first market for an ecosystem to develop around on, we’ll see inventive ideas come to life. In this case, it’s a whiteboard capture and send to Kindle technology that GigaOm’s Kevin Tofel has discovered. Aimed at the education market, initially, I can see this … Read more
As device divergence grows, and the Amazon Kindle, is clearly the first market for an ecosystem to develop around on, we’ll see inventive ideas come to life. In this case, it’s a whiteboard capture and send to Kindle technology that GigaOm’s Kevin Tofel has discovered. Aimed at the education market, initially, I can see this … Read more
If you have a campaign that is based upon “more bars in more places” and have made claims about “fewest dropped calls” then you better know where your problems lie. That’s the idea behind a new iPhone app from AT&T, called “Mark the Spot.” Personally, I would have named it “DropZone” as that defines what … Read more
Call me the rogue agent. The nomad. The wanderer. But do call me connected. I’m holed up in Madrid, for all the right reasons. It’s a great walking town, and I need to walk. It’s not Paris, where I have spent far too many days and nights, so despite the allure of Le Web, and … Read more
Call me the rogue agent. The nomad. The wanderer. But do call me connected. I’m holed up in Madrid, for all the right reasons. It’s a great walking town, and I need to walk. It’s not Paris, where I have spent far too many days and nights, so despite the allure of Le Web, and … Read more
With retailers going bust, and retail space availability growing day by day, to read that Amazon is going the retail route in the UK is to say the least interesting. Sure, Apple has been successful, but the dot.com companies who tried retail, and failed, started with Gateway. But, Amazon is smart and they are looking … Read more
Our number one pick in the 2009 telecom draft, Martin Geddes, has become a free agent. He’s left BT Innovate & Design, where he was head of strategy, to pursue his dreams. Later this week Martin will launch MartinGeddes.com as he is a brand all by himself. Watch for more news as Martin brings his … Read more
Mobile Mavne Colin Gibbs at GigaOm, writes about Verizon Wireless blocking SMS messages from 4Info that are ad supported. I’m trying to sort through this in my head, but I think it comes down to Verizon gearing up to be an ad sales force of their own. You see, networks by their very nature sell … Read more
Why does my iPhone run through battery power on AT&T like a hot knife through butter but in Spain on Orange the battery life is far better. Well at least with 3G data off. My guess is that the 3G radio in the iPhone and the sparse number of AT&T towers, or under capacity, leads … Read more
