Friday, March 24, 2017
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Last week, NY Times published an article - 'It’s Possible to Hack a Phone With Sound Waves, Researchers Show' - that since gained a lot of
attention and a lot of echoes in other media outlets. It’s not just about smartphones, as the title might suggest; but any system incorporating
a particular class of sensors (an accelerometer, in this case) allows under certain conditions a knowledgeable person to influence, control
or disable the device that incorporates it.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Just imagine it for a second: your business (whatever it may be) is working. Along comes an email claiming that there a simple way to boost your business
by 71% with minimal costs. Spam or stroke of genius? Surprisingly, it turns out there is at least one case where the claim is true!
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
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Mobile devices are often presented as a miniaturized desktop or laptop computers. The next step of the evolution. Why? Because a mobile phone or
tablet - in addition to everything your desktop of laptop has - is also packed with sensors provide a lot of inputs a clever developer can use
to create new services or products.
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Thursday, July 7, 2016
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Apps are proliferating at an amazing rate: according to this Statista graph there were around two million apps registered on Google Play in February 2016 and around 1.5
million apps on Apple Store. Which made the next bit of data even more interesting: the percentage of apps used only once after their installation from 2011 to 2015
seems to hover around 25%.
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
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Robots have a mixed record in the the human psyche. They can affectionate and cute (e.g. Wall-e) or evil bastards (e.g. Matrix Sentinels). They can also be small, mindless but quite capable pieces of vampire-like software; only instead of blood they suck out money.
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Thursday, December 10, 2015
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If you were to learn that mobile payments have experienced a 300% rise in just one year, how would that affect your business strategy?
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
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Is the wallet a thing of the past? Would you want it to be? Leaving aside conspiracy theories, wouldn’t it be much better if people did not have to carry it in their pants, jacket, or purse? Come to think of it: wouldn’t it be better for businesses as well?
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
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I doubt there is anyone out there willingly stepping on banana peels; it is a well-known risk and (unless you are a stuntman doing your job) there are absolutely no rewards. Turns out, this is how a lot of small businesses - according to a new survey by Clutch - feel about investing in mobile apps. Follow the link and you can find some pretty interesting results.
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Thursday, July 2, 2015
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Read the title again, please. Do you get the difference? The word "digital" is being put to a lot of work, especially in the recent years; often it even seems to be
getting worn out, thinned, inflationary from so much use.
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Thursday, June 4, 2015
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In case you are wondering about the image above: it shows a Google ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects group; their motto says it all: 'we like
epic shit') team member testing the Jacquard conductive yarn woven into textile fabric.
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Thursday, May 7, 2015
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Obviously the (online) world did not end on April 21st 2015. Mobigeddon turned out to be a singularly quiet apocalyptic event. Many commentators could be excused, perhaps, feeling left behind after using fairly strong language about it; we on the other hand looked on such theatrics with an interest just on par with the film’s metacritic score of 12 induces. None.
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Anxiety seems to be on the rise in the big wide Online. The focus of this anxiety is the seemingly innocuous date - 21st of April. The reason behind the anxiety is
Google's announcement from February 26th, stating rather tersely"... we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal".
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