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I remember, over ten years ago, in Seoul talking to Samsung marketing and learning that one of the reason to generate so many new smartphones models in short period of time was the willingness of the South Korean market to get “the newest” (Samsung has delivered over 1200 types of …

As 2019 wraps up I took a look at what went wrong with technologies this year. Unfortunately there is plenty, and you can Google for tech failures 2019 and spend some time browsing several of them. I am not surprised at all. We have had, in 2019 as in the …

Rumours started to circulate earlier in 2019 on the interest of Apple to move to microLED technology for its devices displays. First the rumours were betting on a new Apple Watch dropping OLED screen in favour of microLED. More recent rumours are shifting the application to new Mac models to …

I bought my Airpods just 2 weeks ago and of course now there is a new, and better, model. That’s life in this never ending tech evolution. You have probably read about them. What stimulated this post it’s not the Airpods per sé but a new sensor that has been …

3. Industry platforms II A separate post to discuss a quite different sort of platform, the car platform. It has been used by the car manufacturing industry for over 50 years now as a way to decrease the cost of production. The idea is to have a common base: floor …

There are platforms and then there are platforms In the opening post of this series I considered the “big nine” mostly from the point of view of their capability to offer storage, processing and access (this latter mediated by Internet). These nine platforms are quite different from one another, as …

One of the topic addressed in the Digital Transformation Course developed by EIT Digital and IEEE Future Direction in its Digital Reality Initiative is that of Platforms. In these last few weeks I have been discussing platforms with a number of key people in several industries and now I take …

Clearly there is much more than voice based interaction.  So let’s explore other technologies and their implication first by looking at voice (and typing that we have already considered) alternative technologies and then taking the plunge into multimodal interactions (that is our natural way of interacting as human being!). Let’s …

Just two years ago I was at a conference discussing the value of wearable as medical devices. The general mood among practitioners was that their accuracy was too low and too dependent on the way they were used to take the data generated into any consideration. The situation, however, seems …

All smartphones look alike and it is difficult to get excited on their design (unless you are selling them …). So when a foldable phone, actually two of them, hits the market I can understand the big headlines. Along with them, pretty sure you saw them, you are starting to …