Monthly Archives: July 2010

Understanding the Digital Natives

July 25, 2010 – 8:30 pm

TweetThey see life as a game. They enjoy nothing more than outsmarting the system. They don’t trust politicians, medias, nor brands. They see corporations as inefficient and plagued by an outmoded hierarchy. Even if they harbor little hope of doing better than their parents, they don’t see themselves as unhappy. They belong to a group [...]

Edited by Frédéric Filloux | Posted in Uncategorized, social networks | Comments (25)

iPhone 4 Antennas: The Fun Side

July 25, 2010 – 8:30 pm

TweetWe’ll leave serious industry matters aside this week. (If you must, you can wade into Apple’s Q3 numbers here, or luxuriate in the impending ouster of Nokia CEO OPK and consider the list of possible replacements.) Instead, we’ll look into the fun side of Apple’s antenna, or antennas (not antennae, a solecism from last week. [...]

Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée | Posted in design, hardware | Comments (17)

Zero tolerance for latency

July 18, 2010 – 6:47 pm

TweetThe big battle of the coming years will be a battle for time. For media related software or for web design, the fight will be for customers’ or readers’ attention, the challenge will be to prevent them from fleeing elsewhere and to give them more in less time. More than ever, we are in the [...]

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Antennagate: If you can’t fix it, feature it!

July 18, 2010 – 6:46 pm

Tweet…and don’t diss your customer, or the media! Rewind the clock to June 7th 2010. Steve’s on stage at the WWDC in San Francisco. He’s introducing the iPhone 4 and proudly shows off the new external antenna design. Antennae actually, there are two of them wrapped around the side. Steve touts the very Apple-like combination [...]

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Too many journalists ?

July 11, 2010 – 9:37 am

TweetAn unpleasant question: Do we have an excess of daily press journalists? And, if so, how does the surfeit vary from country to country? Two years ago, Earl Wilkinson, the managing director of the International Newsmedia Marketing Association (INMA), produced a chart showing how the growth in the number of journalists employed by US dailies [...]

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Free Spy Novel

July 11, 2010 – 9:37 am

TweetA spy thriller from the DOJ…for free! Instead of spending your hard-earned dollars loading your Kindle or iPad with fictional potboilers, head over to Scribd and download the Department of Justice Complaint vs. Russian spies (June 2010). Why submit yourself to the tedium of ponderous DOJ prose? Aren’t such legal documents boring, repetitive, written in [...]

Edited by Frédéric Filloux | Posted in mobile internet | Comments (13)

The poison of arrogance

July 4, 2010 – 7:07 pm

TweetArrogance is the most toxic waste-product of technology companies. Past examples abound: IBM, AT&T, Microsoft… All their hauteur got them were expensive antitrust actions and customer backlash. Last week, we got yet another example of the insufferable behavior still prevailing in the high-tech world — with the to-be-expected response from regulators and markets. Navx is [...]

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Drop that -phone!

July 4, 2010 – 7:02 pm

TweetI’ll explain the ‘’-’’ in a moment. Today’s piece is about the power of words to shape thought, to distort, to mislead. More specifically, I contend “smartphone” is the wrong word for the new genre of mobile devices. I’m not completely naïve, however. In the end, I’ll agree there is little chance we’ll settle on [...]

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