December 18th, 2009, 2:45
The Swedish media house Bonnier has developed an eReader concept for magazines that has received considerable media attention (shown in the video demo below):
It seems that they actually got it right, but I can already hear the criticism from the Net camp: don’t try to replicate a dying format, single purpose gadgets will limit the infinite [...]
December 17th, 2009, 12:24
Eventually the mouse and keyboard will be replaced as our primary way of interfacing with the digital world by something else. Voice input, and pen/finger based touch screens are the most well-known candidates but there are several other more advanced technologies being developed.
One example is I-Tech’s Virtual Keyboard (introduced in 2005) with a red laser [...]
December 13th, 2009, 11:29
Google has the Midas touch and never fails – right? What if they made a Google Phone (gPhone?) and disrupted the global phone market? They already have a smartphone OS and aggressive plans for the market.
Rumors about a Google Phone have been floating around for some time but gained momentum yesterday with tweets claiming that [...]
August 24th, 2009, 0:16
Satio smartphone with camera
All mobile phone vendors hope to repeat the success of Apple with a new Jesus phone. Sony Ericsson’s candidate is Satio (previous working name Idou) and they are positioning the integrated 12 megapixel camera as the “killer app” that will lift Satio above the other smartphone competitors when it hits the shelves [...]
August 5th, 2009, 22:51
Despite decades of talk about being “in tune with customers” and huge budgets for market research I wonder how well the major corporations in the tech sector really understand their customers.
During the last two years, the leading vendors of PC and Mac have decided that users only want glossy screens. They have obviously missed that [...]
July 19th, 2009, 16:53
The research center Mobile Life at Stockholm University had an open house in March 2009 (this is a translation of my Swedish blog post from March 7th) with keynotes, mingles and demos of their prototypes for new mobile services. The center has been operational for two years and is one of 15 centers of excellence [...]
June 19th, 2009, 11:11
The Wordpress plug-in for multi-language blogs I have been waiting for (WPML) is now reasonably stable and I can launch the blog in English. Sidebars, tagline and widgets are not yet adaptable for dual language versions but that will hopefully be fixed soon. To begin with, I will translate most of my Swedish posts and [...]