GigaOm: Virtual supermarkets? Consumer-designed products? The distinction between physical and digital is becoming a thing of the past, as digital-physical innovation becomes the key to enterprise success.
Category: Tech Hardware
GigaOm – Large phone and cable companies added nearly half-a-million broadband subscribers during the third quarter of 2013. The U.S. seems to be on its way to 100 million subscribers, and Comcast seems to be the big winner of the broadband sweepstakes.
via The U.S. now has over 83 million broadband subscribers — Tech News and Analysis.
Wired: In these ads, Apple represents youth, innovation, and, yes, extreme coolness. And its inherent hipness is typically pitted against the old, the uncool, the pathetic, and the downright evil. First, the enemy was IBM, but as Big Blue lost its mojo in the world of desktop computing, Apple shifted its attention to that evil empire in the Pacific Northwest: Microsoft. In a way, these ads chart the changing landscape in the tech world over last thirty years — though we certainly see everything through Apple-colored glasses.
Burkhard Bilger via The New Yorker: The Google car is an old-fashioned sort of science fiction: this year’s model of last century’s make. It belongs to the gleaming, chrome-plated age of jet packs and rocket ships, transporter beams and cities beneath the sea, of a predicted future still well beyond our technology.
via Burkhard Bilger: Inside Google’s Driverless Car : The New Yorker.
From TechCrunch – With the emergence of connected devices, the entire home is being reinvented as a data product, opening great opportunities to entrepreneurs. A whole new generation of startups is rushing in. Nest, with its beautifully-designed home products, has become the poster child for this phenomenon, but many others are producing exciting new connected devices and platforms, at an outstanding pace.
via The Battle For The Connected Home Is Heating Up | TechCrunch.
From MIT Technology Review – A refreshed version of the Up smartphone software continues to support third-party apps including IFTTT (If This, Then That), which lets you use the Web to automate responses to certain triggers.
via A Smart Wristband Adds You to the Internet of Things | MIT Technology Review.
According to 9-5 Mac – Verizon Wireless, once the gold standard for LTE, has admitted that it is struggling to keep up with demand in the big cities – with some users being dropped down to slower 3G speeds.
via Verizon no longer the gold standard for mobile data? | 9to5Mac.
From GigaOm – The majority of products to this point haven’t successfully married the hardware and the software in such a way that there is anything that actually makes life better, easier, smarter for the consumer. We have a lot of products that can add value, but there is a heavy onus on the user to continually plug in, check in, and get the most out of the experience. We’re feeding the big data machine, but we’re not solving any problems. That’s where the opportunity lies.
via Wearable tech: It’s not a device, it’s a system — Tech News and Analysis.
From Jessica Lessin: One of the most important questions about the future of computing is this: wrist or face?
via By 4 to 1, Early Adopters Pick Wearable Watches Over Glasses – jessica lessin.
Despite billions in revenue each quarter and owning the dominant desktop platform in the world, people still find it easy to criticize Microsoft.
via 9 Things Microsoft Does Better Than Apple – Business Insider.
Workplace Learning in the Digital Age 