The Consumerization of the Automobile Supply Chain
Last week I saw an interesting post on Venture Beat about Acer Launching an Electric All-Terrain Vehicle. This struck a chord because Taiwan-based Acer is a manufacturer of PCs and other […]
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The Hard and the Soft – Part 1
Yesterday the big news was Google acquiring Nest Labs, maker of the Nest Thermostat. There are a lot of interpretations of this move. I tend to be a bit more […]
Android ART – obscure, important and not really about modern art
There must be a metric that defines the ratio of how important something is compared to how obscure it is. If this ratio is not named yet, I am claiming […]
Operating Systems with Chinese characteristics – revisited
HTC is reportedly working on a new operating system (OS), one that is specifically tailored to a Chinese audience. This is a smart strategic move for them, software is they […]
Driver-less cars: a $600 billion opportunity
I have been thinking a lot about transportation recently. This is not really my field, but I’ve been travelling a lot, so it’s on my mind. I’ll spare you a […]
Android numbers in context
Google opened their I/O Developer Conference today. In the keynote they called out a bunch of statistics at their I/O Developer Conference today – “900 million activations to date”, “1 […]
Facebook acquires Parse
Like clockwork, every six months the blogs decide that Facebook is about to launch a “Facebook phone”, to compete with Apple or Google or somebody. Then the wider tech press […]
D/D #2: Dr. Google and Mr. Android
Last week important news came out of Android. Andy Rubin who had founded the company and later ran it after the acquisition by Google announced that he was moving on […]
