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: 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 Afraid of somehow losing your beloved pet dog? Not to worry – that’ll soon become a thing of the past. The tracking devices that fleet managers use for their trucks and cars are on their way to becoming embedded in household pets (or to be more precise, in their collars) as new [...]
BLOGGER: ERIC M. DANIS Should it surprise anyone that the phrase “Steve Jobs changed the world” generates 50 million search results on Google? Legions of Apple fans are mourning the sad passing of Steve Jobs, innovator extraordinaire, while commentators struggle to assess the true impact of his incredible legacy. He was certainly a major driver [...]
BLOGGER: ERIC DANIS While some analysts are praising Netflix for aggressively outbidding HBO for the rights to DreamWorks Animation movies, others are already saying that Netflix executives must be dreaming if they think the new deal is going to provide significant damage control after the company alienated its customer base so spectacularly. For one thing, [...]
BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER And you thought your mobile phone was just for monitoring your heart rate or paying for a Starbucks latte? Think again – here are five things you probably never thought you’d do with your phone (and please feel free to comment if you know about any others…): Go swimming with it. I [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK OK, using your mind to control your iPhone or your retina to switch channels on your TV set might seem a bit far-fetched, but today’s touchscreens on phones or tablets are going to become very “yesterday” in terms of how you interface with your device. According to Loo Cheng Chuan, the acting [...]
BLOGGER: ERIC M. DANIS I can’t wait until we’re all communicating via hologram technology. It’s not that I have any Star Wars or Star Trek futuristic fantasies. It’s just that when my wife calls me to ask why I forgot the milk again, I want to be able to see her face while we talk [...]
BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER It’s not just the Royal Wedding that will make 2011 a year to remember – also sharing the limelight is the rise and rise of mobile payments, with analyst group Forrester declaring 2011 as the year when Near Field Communication (NFC) will reach the hands of millions of consumers. NFC is the [...]
BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER Hats off to Amazon again for adopting yet another new innovative business model with this week’s launch of the Amazon Cloud Player and Cloud Driver software and services – and in doing so, it has managed to beat Apple and Google to the punch by being the first to launch online music [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK OK, so there isn’t actually an Oscar like that, but neither is Oscar-night coverage a “winner take all” competition between television and the Internet. This year’s Oscar coverage showed how the traditional television model can happily co-exist, and even embrace what previously had been seen as the disruptive factor of online viewing. [...]
BLOGGER: ANDY WESTON Back before mobile phones got ’smart’, operators developed multi-billion dollar businesses based on apps and content that had nothing to do with messaging, calling or social networks. The ringtone, wallpaper and java applications market was worth $3 billion back in 2006. And long before the iPhone and the App Store, over 100 [...]
BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER An interesting story that emerged from the tragedy of the Haitian earthquake at the beginning of the year is how one victim used a medical app on his iPhone to help him treat a leg injury while waiting to be rescued from the rubble of his hotel. It highlighted an ever-increasing [...]
BLOGGER: AMNON EKSTEIN I was sorry to discover that Google had decided to pull the plug on Google Wave so quickly after its release to the public. This was Google’s first real foray into social/collaboration networking prior to Google Buzz, and I think it offered one of the greatest collaboration tools available on the Web [...]
BLOGGER: MONICA ZLOTOGORSKI Take a minute to think about this: although product innovation is all about giving value to a customer, it’s not always related to how advanced the technology might be. In general, I reckon this concept could be tough to digest for many of my readers in developed markets who typically tie the concept [...]
By: Jeff Barak There was no mincing of words here. “The telco business is dead if you don’t innovate,” Loo Cheng Chuan, the head of SingTel Ideas Factory, told a group of Amdocs employees recently during the first-ever SingTel visit to the company’s offices. And looking ahead at consumer technology trends for the coming months, [...]
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