Mobile, Media & Technology Publishing
Technology is miraculous and wonderful when it performs well. If your computer, smartphone, HD TV or even a toaster fails, however, you feel like throwing the darn things out a second story window or stomping on them. This is particularly true of Web-connected devices, especially when low-cost components fail, making them unusable. As a online [...]
Digital media consumption is growing like uncontrolled weeds. Some love it. Others have a love/hate relationship with the constant urge to “go online.” Facebook, Twitter, emails, blogs, news and entertainment websites demand mind share. We time-shift to handle the load. We create lives of bits, bytes and electronic screens. Digital media mesmerizes our minds, scatters our [...]
Tom Conrad Discusses Pandora Internet Radio In May, 2009, Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora Internet Radio appeared on MobileBeyond in a “behind the scenes” audio interview. Recently, Pandora went public on the New York Stock Exchange and now has an valuation of $4 billion dollars. Over the years–first with personal computers, later mobile phones, Pandora [...]
We take a lot of things for granted? Like mobile website design. If you awakened one morning, turned on your smartphone and none of your apps worked, what would you do? Would you stare at a blank dark screen and only make phone calls? Or would you hit the browser button taking you [...]
There’s a lot of discussion these days about mobile devices–phones, iPads, Kindles, netbooks. I suppose a car or truck is a mobile device too. Although it weighs several thousand pounds, put gas in it, start it up and it moves. It’s mobile. But a fridge is not a mobile device, unless you’ve installed wheels under [...]
Today, while web surfing, I discovered a company called Peek that markets a mobile email device–also called Peek–offering email and text messaging for around $20 per month ($80 for the device). No phone, just email and texting. As I “peeked” around the company’s forum to see if anyone missed having a mobile device [...]
Cybercrime in Silicon Valley and worldwide is growing. A while back in the south part of Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley), someone (s) severed fiber optic cables owned by AT&T, causing a disruption in telephone, Internet, ATM and other critical components of the our communications infrastructure. Thousands of businesses, government agencies and individuals were affected: [...]
