communication devices: technology and industry developments
Today, a public service advertisement presents a laptop/netbook as the icon for “be informed.” Next year, the retail price of today’s high-end smartphones is likely to drop under $100. Then the icon for “be informed” should become an image of a smartphone.
In July, 2010, 64% of U.S. households still had a VCR. A computer that’s five years old can’t effectively run an up-to-date virus scanning program. A mobile phone that’s five years old can’t connect to many mobile phone networks. I would guess that almost all the VCR’s in households today are more than five years … Continue reading slow decline of the VCR / video cassette
Despite the standard, stern command to attendees to turn off their mobile phones and wireless devices at a concert, lecture, religious service, etc., some persons always forget. Remembering to do tedious tasks should be unnecessary. Smart phones could supply an automatic courtesy setting. Smart phones could have a courtesy mode that would shut the phone … Continue reading location-based mobile phone management
In her interesting new book, From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand: the Uneven Path of Telecommunications Reform in China, Irene S. Wu describes competition among bureaucracies, consumer demand, and technological innovations as drivers of telecommunications reform in China. An interesting case study is Little Smart, a low-cost, limited-mobility wireless service that rapidly gained popularity, but … Continue reading shutting down Little Smart
My Blog, I fear that thou wilt find but few Who fitly shalt conceive thy reasoning, Of such hard matter dost thou entertain; Whence, if by misadventure, chance should bring Thee to base company (as chance may do), Quite unaware of what thou dost contain, I prithee, comfort thy sweet self again, My last delight! … Continue reading poethic bog-justifying