Broadcast News
FCC Proposal Could Change American TV Landscape American cable companies are renowned for their package deals. If a subscriber wants channel A, they should be prepared to pay for channels…
Show Me the Money
Xiaomi’s Billion-Dollar Expansion Plan Yesterday, several major financial publications reported on a billion-dollar line of credit arranged for Xiaomi. According to The Wall Street Journal, the loan will come from…
Dark Matter
With LED Bulbs, Profits and Growth Diverge When it’s time to move on, it’s time to move on: IBM left the PC business, Minolta left the camera business and Nokia…
Wearables Must Be Fashionable or Invisible to Succeed
Key Messages from Wearables Conferences in London My colleague Ben Wood and I attended two wearables events in London last week. Ben chaired the Mobile News Wearable Tech — Hope…
A Dose of Reality
Augmented Advertising Gets Real There’s no escaping Ikea’s brightly coloured catalogues — they have a way of finding you. Their hundreds of pages of practically perfect kitchens, immaculately folded towels…
Purchase History
CCS Insight Sees More Acquisitions Ahead Last Friday, Google’s Nest unit announced that it had acquired Revolv — a privately held company that made the Revolv Smart Home Solution, a…
Talk It Up: Voice UI Is in the House
As CCS Insight Predicted, Speech-Based Interfaces Go Mainstream CCS Insight has stated at several of its annual Predictions events that speech-based user interfaces (UIs) are going mainstream, and we’ve been…
Apple’s Points of Interest
Apple’s Thinking More Local Than Ever For anyone who enjoys a game of connect the dots, recent high- and low-profile signals from Apple form an interesting picture of the company’s…
Lenovo’s Grand Brand Expansion Plans
The Company Responds to the Xiaomi Challenge In the early 20th century, General Motors (GM) became an umbrella company for many brand names of automobiles. Its goal was to cut…
Biometrics Are in the Cards
Payment Cards Are Morphing into Tiny Computers It’s an amazing little development. Last Friday, MasterCard and a Norwegian-based company called Zwipe introduced an NFC-enabled credit card with a built-in fingerprint…