Tag: tech

  • Elop and his delusions

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    Elop says that “consumers are increasingly discerning about the capabilities and new experiences that attract their attention and that they are less interested in counting cores and pixel density, and more interested in experiences that are truly innovative. He also noted that unbranded Android and forked Android players are continuing to emerge from China and…

  • Nokia’s Lumia problem

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    When Stephen Elop, CEO at Nokia, wrote the burning platform letter, it appeared that he might be shaking things up, and shaking is what he did. In February 2011, Nokia announced that it will be abandoning Symbian and Meego OS for Microsoft’s Windows Phone. At that time, Elop said that during to transition period, from…

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    parislemon: joncrowley: alexcarantza: Decision tree for using a QR code I feel like the QR code is the litmus test for whether your ‘digital experts’ are actually digital experts.  (Although, I have seen some data that suggests that they work in a few specific situations.) Pretty perfect. Yep.

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    This is my SwiftKey keyboard heatmap. Apparently, the only keys I hit correctly are the ones on the extreme ends. These kind of data provided by SwiftKey is so cool. It tells me how many words it corrected and how many words it predicted. Well I am 30% more efficient in typing thanks to SwiftKey.…

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    “One in four American teenagers accesses the internet primarily through mobile; about three quarters of those teens own cell phones, and half of that group uses smartphones.” – Pew Research center via Gigaom This number has to be higher in India. My teenage brother only accesses Internet from his smartphone and uses desktop to watch…