Logitech’s Bluetooth pen
Logitech are about to bring out their io2 pen for Bluetooth: This summer, Logitech will launch a Bluetooth-enabled version of the io2 Digital Pen, designed to address the current data entry...
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Southeast Asia’s Third Mobile Tier
The mobile revolution is moving from second tier countries in Southeast Asia to the third and final tier. Whereas previously Indonesia and the Philippines were seeing the biggest growth in mobile...
View ArticleDeconstructing Carrier IQ’s Press Release
I couldn’t find this press release on their website, and it’s a couple of weeks old, but I thought it worth deconstructing anyway. My comments in quotes. The rest is from the release. I don’t pretend...
View ArticleAsha to Ashes: Microsoft’s Emerging Markets Conundrum
A piece I wrote with Devi in Delhi, and the help of a couple of other colleagues. Asha to Ashes: Microsoft’s emerging market conundrum By Jeremy Wagstaff and Devidutta Tripathy SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI |...
View ArticleThe Rising Noise of Silence
This is a commentary piece for a semi-regular slot on the BBC’s World Service. It’s not content that appears on Reuters, nor does it reflect the views of my employer. I’m here to report a new scourge...
View ArticleMeshing and Stacking Away from Disaster
I’m often haunted by the folk in Wall-E, the movie where humans have abandoned Earth to trash, a small waste-collecting robot and a cockroach. That’s not the bit that scares me: it’s the space-bound...
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A Tale of Three Asias
Source: GfK data I’ve just been playing around with some smartphone data from GfK, which collects its data by point-of-sale (POS) tracking in 90+ markets and estimates values based on unsubsidized...
View Article5G’s Achilles Heel: Heat
5G promises a lot. a mobile internet of things, new immersive VR and AR experiences, lower latency, washboard stomachs. But something the industry isn’t addressing is that the devices themselves heat...
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A New Form Factor for the Phone?
photo @arubin via twitter The smartphone hasn’t changed much, at least in terms of proportions, since the first iPhone (the iPhone belatedly adopted the 16:9 aspect ratio most other phones had long...
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beware the theatre of digital first
Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (an naxi, Flickr, public domain) I’m a big fan of digital challengers to old technopolies — I’ve moved everything I can from big telco to MVNOs, big bank to neobank, cable TV...
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