Holiday 2015; drones; reflections on wireless in 2015 – The Signal #8 Friends – Happy holidays to you and yours. Welcome to the last edition of The Signal in 2015, in which we reflect on the year that was. Here’s 2015 in a nutshell: we were standing at the UPS counter, when the UPS […]
Category Archives: gadgetry
Of vertical integration, supply chain and muscle
Listening to Jamiroquai the other day reminded me of living in Japan in the 1990s. Jamiroquai was a Sony artist, used to promote Sony mini-discs, which recorded in Sony’s atrac music format. At the time I didn’t consciously think of this as a form of vertical integration or ecosystems, which, of course, it was. In […]
New Article in Nikkei Tech On: Zombie Media and iPhone’s App
Phil Keys contributed an article (Japanese-language) on Zombie Media and iPhone’s Apps for Tech-On by Nikkei Business Publications. (Tech-On subscription required)
KDDI Invests in Fuhu
Yesterday KDDI announced a $5M investment in Fuhu, maker of the Nabi2 tablet and the FoozKids suite of applications. Relevant coverage: – TechCrunch – FierceMobileContent – RCR Wireless