Influx

Microsoft has put together a fascinating video that imagines our new mobile future. It’s a future where we connect to intelligent touch screens of all sizes. It suggests a world where data flows seamlessly and where there’s enough intelligence and power built into these devices help us...

With a world increasingly moving towards mobile gaming, there are interesting opportunities to create more personalized and relevant experiences using data about gamers and their behavior. This suggests a world of individualized gaming experience and advertising that aren’t constrained by...

HTC is trying hard to find the right route forward in the complex and challenging world of mobile phones. This is an industry that has the power to make or kill brands in what seems like a flash; just look at Apple, Nokia and Motorola as examples. HTC is been one of the lucky ones- it has managed...

Nick Bilton writes in today’s NYT about the increase in the number of sensors in mobile phones and their potential applications. Here’s what they will be able to do. 1. Elevation sensors could determine exactly where you are in a building to help people “find” you more...

This quote from Bloomberg's Business Week on Groupon's new service highlights the point of why the distillation of the purest human emotions combined with the delivery of services to meet them, is what will make the successful brands of the future. "Groupon Now, and shows off two simple buttons...

The mobile ad platform has been with us for years and given the ubiquity of phones, it seems logical that they agencies and their clients should be using the channel to connect with the audience. It just too important to ignore and too obvious to be defined as innovative.However, for big...

The missing link in the coming mobile revolution is the payments piece. Various people and players have been struggling for years to come up with a solution that works across handsets, networks and operating systems. Then there's the issue of security and making sure that everything works as...

The beauty of mobile is that it unshackles people from their desks and lets them roam the real world and still have real-time access to their interactive world. This is going to be an area where we will see artists and brands try to mine. This is not about just simply running ads on mobile devices,...

The new album by Arcade Fire, The Suburbs, contains a track "We Used to Wait" which laments the bygone era, that the writer never experienced, of writing and waiting for letters. It's a statement that communication and culture has accelerated to the point that it's hard, even for someone in their...

There was a time when independent movies and music occupied a niche, it was the world that wasn't part of the mainstream and it was where you went to look to find the cool stuff. Sometime around the mid-90s all that changed and independent became mass. The same thing is happening in the world...

Bank 2.0 is a new book on the future of banking by Brett King, it takes a look at the technological and societal trends that are forcing a massive change in the way we bank, which has obvious implications for the giant institutions that support consumer banking.King suggests that the branch...

It's been a long time since the very mention of Apple to clients generated the response of "niche player". The company has become an 800lb gorilla and is crushing other corporate monoliths that step in its way. The biggest casualties over the past 10 years have been Sony and more recently, Nokia;...

Most of us have seen how something like Mint can be useful tool to better understand our spending habits when we compare it with others or Nike+ also us to compare our training performance with others. We are obviously going to see more of the benefits of collective data over time and especially...

The problems associated with a saturated media landscape is something I have talked about for years on this blog. As media expands especially in the digital space, this problem has the potential to get out of control. Media owners are hungry to expand into the mobile ad space, but appear to be...

Nokia demonstrates how it's leveraging insights gleaned from the developing world into products. The mobile phone is made to work a lot hard in developing countries; it becomes the mobile office and primary computer for many of its users. In response, Nokia is launching Life Tools; software...