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How would you like access to three billion customers? That’s the promise of the newly announced Wholesale Applications Community formed by telcom operators including América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, KT, Mobilkom Austria Group, MTN Group, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Orascom Telecom, Softbank Mobile, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor Group, Telia Sonera, [...]
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We used voice to text, text to voice and semantic data analysis successfully on two products for Pearson Education a few years ago — AMP Reading and Quick Reads — which rocked, technically and commercially. But successful though they were, as products for middle-school kids there was professional but not personal relevance. Finally, these technologies [...]
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For more than a year the rumors have been swirling, reaching a frenzy each time Apple gathered the faithful for their semi-annual product announcements.
Finally the future has come. This morning the curtains parted, revealing Moses with the Tablets Jobs with the iPad and the crowds oooohhhed and again, the future looks good for developers, publishers, [...]
The panel discussion on Augmented Reality I moderated for Sobel Media’s executive breakfast series was eye-opening — and not just because the early hour allowed for watching the sun rise down Central Park South or Bouchon Bakery’s excellent java augmentation (though the latter surely helped).
Before we seated the panel, Esquire’s Creative Director David Curcurito led [...]
Are you seeing less of your kids these days? According to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation that was reported in The New York Times this morning in If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online, the average young American spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — [...]
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Otherwise sensible people already differ on the meaning of “reality,” so when you preface that word with “augmented” the fun really starts.
Never one to shy from what’s new and what’s next I’ve accepted an invitation from Bill Sobel to moderate a Sobel Media breakfast panel on Thursday January 21st with four New Yorker’s using AR [...]
I’ll admit to being guilty of what I’m about to trash, then I reformed. I thought then that I was ahead of my time. Now, I’m thinking maybe not. Here’s the story:
A few years ago, after one swerve to many during my then daily 2-hour commute, I stopped using my mobile phone to talk or [...]
Building online community is both central and tangential to my work — doing it well is mission critical, but when I hand off a finished product it’s usually my product manager’s or client’s responsibility to take the next step.
Still, I get questions and have many myself about what works and what doesn’t, which is why [...]
Apple Tablet Rumors Run Wild according to the Gadget Lab at Wired.com and like so many others I hope this time the rumors are true. According to Wired:
“The most detailed report comes from Financial Times, whose sources claim the product demonstration will take place Tuesday, Jan. 26 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [...]
Dr. Silvia Bunge, director of the Bunge Cognitive Control and Development Laboratory at UC Berkley, uses behavioral and brain imaging techniques to examine how we control our thoughts and actions to make them consistent with our internal goals. In a recent study reported by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman in their Newsweek blog NurtureShock, [...]
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Speaking at Warren Buckleitner’s Dust or Magic conference a few weeks ago, Caroline Hu Flexer talks about how her company Duck Duck Moose created an Apple Staff Favorite iPhone Appfrom a nursery rhyme and how a 2 year old inspired some of their best work. In their brief existence, Duck Duck Moose has developed [...]
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Guy Kawasaki’s twittering puts my occasional chirps to shame and if you follow his tweet-stream, you have to wonder how he has time to do anything else. A few weeks ago the American Express Open Forum for Small Business published an interview with Guy that tips his hand. Here are some of his secrets:
Question: How [...]
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