BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK We all remember the BYOB (bring your own bottle) parties we attended as cash-strapped students and perhaps somewhat foggily remember the hazardous effects that drinking cheap alcohol had on our studies the next day. Well, today’s trend of BYOD (bring your own device) might not damage our health, but it’s certainly giving [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK Even as Nokia’s Stephen Elop and HTC’s Peter Chou got into a bragging rights argument over whose is bigger than whose (megapixels on a camera, with the new 41 megabit Nokia PureView 808 smartphone winning out), both men agreed that size doesn’t really count. “It’s not about megapixels,” said Elop, the Nokia [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK While there are huge differences between developed and emerging markets, the complaints of CEOs from leading service providers in emerging markets are uncannily similar to those of their colleagues in the developed world. On the second day of Mobile World Congress 2012 here in Barcelona, the heads of Telefónica Latin America, VimpelCom and [...]
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: ANDY WESTON “I wonder where you are and I wonder what you do…” Of course, Lionel Richie wasn’t referring to user anonymity, but there is an ever-growing focus on the importance of uncovering user identity. The recent riots that rolled across the UK this month have again highlighted why it’s so valuable to be [...]
BLOGGER: ERWANN THOMASSAIN Score one point (but only one) for my service provider! A rep proactively called me today to offer me a new deal for something that I actually need: namely data roaming. Based in South-East Asia, I travel overseas a lot and I usually take great care to avoid data roaming charges (and possible [...]
BLOGGER: RAFI KRETCHMER At last count, my family had seven data-hungry devices connected to my service provider’s network. Yet I have four data plans. To me, it would make perfect sense to have one, understandable family data plan, which would even enable me to save some money. But it’s not that easy; service providers aren’t [...]
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