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Smartphones as sensor platforms for health tracking

Earlier in the year I wrote a couple of posts about the future of healthcare from a consumer products perspective. One of my points was that data gathered from smart phones and specialist wireless health devices will enable a new generation of products, and I named a couple that I have been using. [...]

3D TV and vendor push

It is common in the tech industry for a new technology to be hyped up by industry insiders who hope it will transform their business. The mobile industry’s attempt to push “WAP” to the mainstream back in 2000 is perhaps the example that stands out most clearly in my mind, and I think the [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-05

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29 http://goo.gl/fb/0xaYS # Some emails are more equal than others http://goo.gl/fb/xCM6a # NewTeeVee Review – Flash on Android 'shockingly bad' – this is bad news for the Android community http://bit.ly/cCBbIG # Movie and TV streaming services – Amazon and Apple gearing up to take the market http://goo.gl/fb/dHPfT # Touch [...]

The power and limitations of HTML5

Back in July I wrote about Google’s HTML5 initiatives on mobile – including their YouTube HTML5 mobile site and their Google Maps HTML5 mobile site. This week they have been showing off what HTML5 can do on the desk top – at least when running in Chrome. Check out this custom interactive video [...]

Touch screen UIs to kill the browser?

I got up this morning to find the world going crazy about the new Twitter iPad application – see this glowing Engadget review and the Techcrunch titled Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website – the title gives a hint of where I’m going with this post. (Apologies for the fact this [...]

Movie and TV streaming services – Amazon and Apple gearing up to take the market

Last week I asked whether the TV and movie industry is ahead of the music industry in the race to build profitable streaming services. Today there is more news that suggests it is:

Bloomberg reports that Apple is Said to plan Netflix service on new TV product – that would be a c$10 per [...]