Here at eComm, the last demo of the conference is one of the most impressive. Voxygen’s “next generation Caller ID” revolutionizes customer service by linking actions on a web site to a click to call button. The example they showed included a customer who browsed a camera shopping website, filled in a form for a … Continue reading
Call me a cynic but I see an anti-trust case in Googles future. With their latest announcement of a FREE turn-by-turn GPS application for Android it is my belief that any doubt remaining in Brussels or Washington before last week it is now gone. People accused Microsoft of being anti competitive and in respect to … Continue reading
Xerox has developed an ink which can be used to print circuits onto plastics, films, and textiles. Although circuits printed on flexible materials aren’t new, Xerox’s method may be cheap and easy enough to open the doors to many new possibilities for flexible electronics. I can help wonder if they can print RFID tags with … Continue reading
WOW. Talk about a game changer. I am in two minds about this. I mean who is going to pay for GPS navigation now that it is free. What will it do to innovation in the space. Not sure. there must be some pretty tense meetings going on at places like Telenav and TomTom. Hopefully … Continue reading
Google already provides the free Google Maps service (with Street View, pictured above), but could they be planning to step up to full on turn-by-turn navigation? Forbes thinks so: Google, which generally gives its software away for free and recoups its investment through advertising, would likely sell ads within the navigation application rather than charge … Continue reading
A great article from Silicon Insiders, Henry Blodget, on his iPhone experience. Well worth a read. The Truth About The iPhone, Week 13.
A report from Gawker about recent comments by The New York Times executive editor Bill Keller regarding Apple’s tablet project has been gaining a significant amount of attention today. While Apple’s tablet has been rumored for several years and evidence has continued to mount that a release is likely in the relatively near future, public … Continue reading
Now that I have two mobile phones and no landline, Google Voice is part of my daily life. The service helps me manage my calls, regardless of which number people use to reach me. On my iPhone 3GS, I simply use the mobile Google Voice site to manage devices or listen to voicemails — pressing … Continue reading
Today at the IBM Information on Demand event, IBM will demo a new app that will bring the Internet of Things to the iPhone. The as yet unreleased iPhone app is called Breadcrumbs and it will give consumers access to information about grocery food items. The app will be able to scan barcodes and deliver … Continue reading
Film/video editing, once the domain of experts with Moviolas and Scotch tape — or a TV control room full of syncronized VCR’s — has gotten more compact, and more accessible over the last decade or so: Avid workstations begat Final Cut Pro on Macs for the industry heavyweights, which begat iMovie for the weekend Michael … Continue reading
