No Time to Jump to Conclusions
Might LG Join Samsung in the Adult Watch–Phone Market? The wrist-phone design is nothing particularly new. Several small, adventurous device makers have brought watch–phones to market in the past decade….
New Research, New Opportunities
Nick McQuire Joins CCS Insight to Lead New Enterprise Research Service For some time I’ve thought the enterprise market offers some of the most exciting opportunities in our industry today….
A Social Revolution or Flavour of the Month?
Will Ello Mean Facebook’s Goodbye? Ello earned its stripes this weekend by experiencing an outage as a result of a distributed denial-of-service attack that deemed the so-called “anti-Facebook” social network…
Wearable Technology UX 2014
Problems and Solutions for Wearable Tech On Tuesday 23 September I attended Wearable Technology UX 2014 in London, an event organised by Smithers Apex. It featured presentations from a number…
Bend Date
When Will the Real Bendables Arrive? Three years ago, Nokia demonstrated the Nokia Kinetic device, a phone the user could flex back and forth for input. Bending motion could be…
Catering to Cord Cutters
Service Substitution Means Opportunity Transfer Call it the Netflix shift, or the bucket effect: more and more American households see their telecommunications services as redundant. Wireless is replacing rather than…
Samsung to Exit Euro Laptop Market
PC Industry Consolidation Will Continue Samsung will end its sales of laptops and Chromebooks in Europe, according to PC Advisor magazine. The news comes as a surprise given Samsung’s tenacious…
A “News-Stand in Your Pocket”
Readly Is like Netflix for Magazines and Papers Not all content was born to be free. Major magazine and newspaper publishers have experimented with various digital subscription models over the…
Cortana: Microsoft’s Halo Effect
Virtual Assistants Become a Cross-Device UI Personal digital assistants are becoming a key competitive feature for smart device manufacturers — market players are supporting voice user interfaces (UIs) in the…
Here Come the Moodables
Emotions Become Part of Contextual Computing The age of “mood-put” is coming. The use of electroencephalography (EEG) sensors to detect brainwave activity for human–computer interaction is reaching mainstream, sensors on…