Category: Agenda Setters

Google Maps’ New Offline Mode

Location Services Competition Heats Up Google introduced some potentially market-altering features and services at its I/O developer conference yesterday in San Francisco. These include an updated version of the Android…

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A History of Consolidation

The US Cable Industry Continues to Combine Twenty years ago, there were dozens of regional cable service providers across the US. However, like the wireless industry, a need for greater…

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The Ultimate Shopping Channel

Would a Google Buy Button Change E-Commerce? It’s not thought of this way, but Amazon is a search and recommendation engine — a very successful one. Shoppers go to its…

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Remembering MapQuest

Verizon’s New Location Asset During the weekend, news emerged that Apple has purchased a California location technology start-up called Coherent Navigation. The company has developed methods of combing GPS signals…

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Walmart’s Prime Time

Retailer Challenges Amazon with Unlimited Shipping Some companies are particularly swift at realizing a second-mover advantage: allow another firm to warm the market to a new concept, then jump in…

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Making Noises

Spotify Is Becoming a Digital Media Firm Spotify has more than 60 million users around the world, including 15 million with paid subscriptions. It’s become a popular service thanks to…

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YouTube: Must-See TV

The Changing Face of Television In its acquisition of YouTube in 2006 for $1.7 billion, Google believed that it was buying more than a venue for sharing home-made videos, but…

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Bold Expansion Plans from LeTV (Who?)

Asian Hardware, Asian Content, Western Markets CCS Insight’s predictions for 2015 included the likelihood of home-grown Asian content coming West — specifically video services for immigrants in Europe and the…

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What’s Become of Android One?

Has Google’s Standard Served Its Purpose? Google unveiled the Android One programme at its Google I/O event in June 2014. Android One smartphones are based on a standard Android build…

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Computer Grains

Developing Components for Pervasive Computing Researchers at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science labs of the University of Michigan have developed what could be the smallest fully functioning computer ever….

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