Why the Writing Is on the Wall at Microsoft – Forbes

Steve Ballmer has “singlehandedly steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets mobile music, handsets and tablets [and] in the process he has sacrificed the growth and profits of not only his company but ‘ecosystem’ companies such as Dell, Hewlett Packard and even Nokia.” via That’s All Folks: Why [...]

Tech Talks 4 Video- Javier Marti – An Optimistic Technological Future

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Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech

Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com Talks Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech

Mobile Metrics – Free Mobile Market Level Data | AdMob

Mobile Metrics – Free Mobile Market Level Data | AdMob As part of our commitment to providing detailed insight into different regions, this month we provide traffic, manufacturer, and device data for Latin America & the Caribbean. Traffic from the region increased 138% in the last 12 months to 109 million requests in October 2008.

Google getting into the music business (more categories to come)

Today I made a search for artist “Isaac Hayes”. The first result in Google took me to a list of albums, which in turn took me to a page where I could buy the album through three different resellers. All was done through Google corporate looking webpages, within the Google loop. I assume thus that [...]

“Mobile, Domains & The Future” book press release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New book explains all there is to know about the future of the mobile world and domain names. Why are our mobile phones so important to us? How will we access information in the Future? What is domaining? Why are domain names so valuable? Can an average person make money through the [...]

Mobile Marketing at its best: “World Worst War”

Quicktime video about the campaign http://www.dandad.org/awards08/qt.asp?entry_id=18031&f=000L&title=World’s%20Worst%20War Team and images http://www.dandad.org/awards08/entry.asp?entry_id=18031 Two things to notice here: this is the result of inter-generational marketing teams working together: real marketing dynamite. Some people think that this is typically “weird Japanese” but would not necessarily work in the West, or not to such an extent… This is not correct. [...]

Mobile predictions and hype

Bearing in mind the state of the world economy, any predictions in the mobile space going forward more than a year are laughable. You can bake a cake with three ingredients and your reliable, old oven. However, you just can’t just predict the time it will take to bake a cake with 20 ingredients -10 [...]

Print article about the book “Mobile, Domains & The Future” (long version)

With mobile phones taking a prime spot on the communications stage, some say that the future is mobile. That’s one of the messages found in futurist and consultant Javier Marti’s latest book, “Mobile, Domains & The Future.” The book is packed with information on all things mobile, from the recent history of the medium, to [...]