BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK Are you fed up of friends spoiling your favorite TV show by letting you know how the series ends before you’ve managed to see the final episode? Well, help might be at hand if a solution currently in the Amdocs incubation lab actually makes it to market. Under a scenario demonstrated at [...]
BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER Be honest – who hasn’t had one of those “Did I lock the door?” moments when you can’t quite remember whether or not you actually turned off the heater/left all the lights on/locked the door properly behind you? I admit that it’s happened to me more than once. But the scope [...]
BLOGGER: TSAHI LEVENT-LEVI Once upon a time, we used to talk on the phone. (Remember those days?) Then we all started texting each other. And then, in the relative blink of an eye, everything changed. According to “Comics about Technology”, when it comes to communicating with each other, we now have 10 levels of intimacy, nicely [...]
BLOGGER: SHAI SHAMIR While Amdocs Voices has blogged before about the threat multiple service operators and cable companies have been facing from over-the-top-players like Google TV and Apple TV, here’s something new… It seems like there’s a new player in town, and surprisingly enough, it’s IKEA. I’ll explain. When we bought our new 52” flat screen [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK If you’re looking for confirmation that the world has gone mobile, then Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram should help point you in the right direction. Given that Instagram isn’t yet turning a profit, Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop $1 billion on buying the company isn’t based on seeking an immediate return [...]
BLOGGER: SHAI SHAMIR 30 million downloads. 15 million people use it each day. It’s kicked Angry Birds right off their Number 1 perch. And it’s made its developer OMGPOP very, very rich indeed – according to TechCrunch’s Josh Constine, rich to the tune of the $200 million (give or take a few) that Zynga has [...]
BLOGGER: ERIC M. DANIS Suddenly the huge “I Love Mom” tattoo on my bicep* feels so passé… ABC News and other news outlets are reporting that Nokia has filed a U.S. patent application for a magnetic, vibrating tattoo that would wirelessly connect to a mobile device and alert users of phone calls, texts and battery status. [...]
BLOGGER: ERIC M. DANIS What can you do in four minutes? Well, if you are Madonna or Justin Timberlake, you can apparently save the entire world. Another way to kill four minutes is to work out, or you could decide to burn through your entire data plan. Wait, what? Maybe you’ve heard the news that [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK Perhaps the starkest example of the digital divide cropped up at this week’s SXSW (South by Southwest) technology conference in Austin, Texas, where a marketing agency hired members of the local homeless population to walk around carrying mobile Wi-Fi devices, offering conferencegoers Internet access in exchange for donations. Yes, you read it [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK If you’re an American pay-TV provider, what do you want first: the good news or the bad? The good news is that nine out of 10 American households have a TV subscription with operators like Comcast, AT&T, Dish or DirectTV, and that they get plenty of use out of it. In fact, [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK Feeling stressed out? Keep imagining that your phone is vibrating when no message has actually arrived? If Dr. Richard Balding of the University of Worcester in the UK is to be believed, it could be because of your smartphone. While smartphones issued or subsidized by employers are meant to help workers manage [...]
BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER It’s not just athletes who will be under pressure at the Olympics – spare a thought for your service provider. There’s enough capacity demand on their networks for video content right now as it is – for example, YouTube now exceeds 200 million views a day on mobile – without adding even [...]
BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER Think basic human rights and what probably spring to mind are the “usual” civil, economic, social and political rights, including the right to vote, to free speech, to be safe, to health, privacy and an adequate standard of living. Luckily for me, these all applied to me at the time I was born, [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK I wouldn’t recommend throwing away your passports just yet, but it’s certainly worth scanning them and storing them on your iPad. A Canadian, heading for the US border last month to drop off some Christmas presents for his friend’s children, realized he had forgotten his passport. Rather than make the two-hour journey [...]
BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER As 2011 draws to a close, which trends should we keep an eye on in 2012? Here are just a few: Mobile Augmented Reality –we’ve been hearing about it for a while now, but will 2012 finally be its year? Augmented reality puts a virtual view on top of your real world, and according [...]
BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER If you ever needed an example that 2011 is the year of mobile commerce, look no further than the two shoppers who recently bought a £70,000 Ferrari and a new home via eBay subsidiary PayPal’s mobile app on Cyber Monday, the peak day for online Christmas shopping in the US. And while [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK Hopefully, this won’t be a situation that you’ll have personally experienced, but a friend of mine was outraged at a US airline recently (I won’t name and shame it here) for exceptionally poor service. She had a long trip planned with several stopovers and the airline managed to unapologetically mess up every [...]
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