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20070906 Thursday September 06, 2007

[ Technology ] iPhone and the Midas Touch

Some say that the problem with the iPhone was its high introductory price or its play in a dangerous and crowded market infused with break-neck innovation. Others may have conjectured that its UI choice (the HMI of a touchscreen) relied on a dumbing down of that most sensitive of all senses—the touch. (To be fair, the screen actions remain superb.) The iPod, in its original models, remembered this sensitivity.

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20070212 Monday February 12, 2007

[ Telecommunications ] 3GSM

Financial Times reports directly from The 3GSM World Congress: www.ft.com/3gsm.

The 60,000 visitors and 1,300 exhibitors include not only those from the telecommunications sector but large entertainment companies. Operators continue to look for ways to recoup billions spent for the 3G spectrum auctions earlier this decade. For example, Vodafone has very recently announced partnerships with MySpace, Ebay and YouTube. Others have partnered with Google, Skype, Yahoo and Ebay with the hope of recreating some of the PC experience on the mobile handset.

My own view is that mobiles are best used as equipment to help turn our human-built environment into an intelligent scaffolding in support of many daily tasks such as navigation, transportation, etc. However, mass usage in such a way requires mass infrastructure and mass deployment of public services, more likely in Europe, Asia or even Latin America and Africa than in the U.S. where such public services are only found in some localities. Hence, the focus on entertainment when it comes to serving the U.S. market--a more likely venue which still under-exploits the possibilities a mobile, network-connected device offers.

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