Category Archives: Smartphone

BMW supporting Apple’s iOS4

July 14th, 2010

Yesterday BMW announced it will support Apple’s iOS 4 in their BMW and Mini product lines. By integrating iPod Out in iOS4 users of iPhones 3G/3GS/4 & iPod Touch 2nd/3rd generations to output and display Apple’s iPod interface on the vehicle’s dashboard display and controlled by the vehicle’s controls. To no surprise BMW’s controller is called [...]

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Tagged apple, BMW, culture, Innovation, interface, ios, ipod, mobile, music, tipping point, trends

Apple design in 30 years

March 3rd, 2010

I have been very fortunate to have worked at Apple as a System Engineer during the introduction of some of the products in this visualization. Apple has really moved into the arena of design + technology as their recent products have proved…since so many companies both in and out of the computer business have stolen [...]

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Tagged apple, apple design, business, Design, design technology, fan boy, system engineer, Technology, visual, visualization

Google’s AWESOME offer to K12 Schools

October 24th, 2009

Act Now – Deploy later. Google’s offer ends July 2010 Google has been helping K12 Schools and Colleges save money by giving free access to their powerful tools in an enterprise setting. Google began offering Gmail and have continued to add more tools to their suite specifically tuned for schools. Known as Google Apps for Education [...]

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Tagged anti virus protection, college, computing solution, docs, Education, educational cooperatives, firstclass, Google, google apps, information, k12, k12 school districts, message security, northwestern university, precious money, publishing web, school district, school technology, storage integration, storage space, Technology, technology budgets, university case study, video storage, virus solution

My latest read – Groundswell

October 11th, 2009

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. This book is a great primer for social media. If your new to social media this book is for you. However if you have been working with blogs and wikis for more than five years this book is a bit too elementary but a great quick [...]

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Tagged blogs, buzz, collaborative team, great primer, groundswell, insights, Network, networked society, person to person, relationships, social, social networks, society, technologies, Technology, wikis

How to build a magazine cover

August 13th, 2009

Imaging what graphic designers do to fashion models.

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Tagged cover, Design, fashion, fashion models, imaging, magazine, photography, Technology

China’s internet growth tops US

July 21st, 2009

To no surprise globalization is bringing the world closer together and thereby making commerce “smaller” and faster as global financial markets increase the efficiency of established information systems. Recent growth of internet penetration has changed dramatically. Today China has more internet users than America has citizens. Consider this form IF you can image everyone you know [...]

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Tagged america, china, citizens, efficiency, global markets, Globalization, information, information systems, internet growth, internet penetration, internet users, population, youtube

My latest read – Free: The future of a radical price

July 18th, 2009

I just finished Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson. Enjoyed his book The Long Tail (review here) and learning about this radical idea in his 2008 Wired article, but I was skeptical. This book invites you to learn about “radical” sales techniques that have been around for some time but have [...]

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Tagged amazon, audiobook, chris anderson, culture, download, Education, gillette razor blades, Google, increased sales, innovative marketing, internet economy, monty python, quality clips, radical ideas, Reading, sales volume, scribd, sidebars, subscription rate, TED, trends, university education, wall street journal, worldwide subscription, youtube

My latest read – The Future of the Internet

July 7th, 2009

Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University wrote The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. This book is very interesting for all the wrong reasons. Zittrain documents that existing, closed, controlled systems are damaging the internet an [...]

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Tagged amazon, connecting to the internet, content, copyright, drm, ebook, future of the internet, future technologies, generativity, GM, iphone, itunes, jonathan zittrain, kindle, knowledge, Network, OLPC, one laptop per child, onstar, Reading, security, Smartphone, Technology, TED, tivo

My latest read: Who Controls the Internet?

June 1st, 2009

Think the internet is still the wild west? Think again. In a new update of Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World law professors Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu share how the long arm of foreign governments still can stretch the illusion that the internet (and thereby globalization) are shrinking the world. On the [...]

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Tagged borderless world, china, cisco, content, dns, ebay, european union, filtering, Globalization, government control, hacker, icann, k12, knowledge, law professors, law schools, legal standpoint, microsoft, policy, Reading, rules of the internet, school district, Technology, tom friedman

Grandma’s iPhone

April 17th, 2009

Did my 95 year old Grandmother think about this when I showed her my iPhone? Could she have imagined such a device as a child? Wonder what my little son will write about the future… Tags: smartphone, IPv6, network, advanced technologies, trends

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