I saw my first real telepresence robot today. I’ve only read about them and seen videos, and then I was sitting in a session this afternoon at La Fira, where one of the presenters, Erik Kruse from Ericsson (who blogs frequently on this site), introduced the audience to the VGo model.
Rather than waiting for special events, I prefer taking photos of my everyday life – on my way to daycare, eating breakfast or getting groceries. I take most of the pictures with my phone, and then I e-mail them to my Posterous account. By keeping it simple and uploading everyday moments I get an image [...]
I just heard another person talking about the iPot (note to editor, that’s not a typo) here at La Fira. So I had to look it up.
By: Olle Ahnve
29 February, 2012
Applications , People , Society , Technology
50 billion connections,
Connectivity,
consumer devices,
Consumers,
innovation,
mobile broadband,
Smartphones
I’ve been a gamer since my brother brought home one of the first cartridge games to play on his VIC 20 in the early 80s. Having kids transformed me into more of a casual console sports gamer, but pre-fatherhood, I could spend days, evenings and nights playing Battlefield 2, mostly working on my helicopter riding skills.
Back [...]
If, to paraphrase Google’s Eric Schmidt, the internet is a collective consciousness, wouldn’t it be amazing to have 5 billion more people connected to this digital community? Why deny ourselves the benefit of bringing the majority of the planet’s people into the information age?
Next time you meet a web or app developer, give him some respect. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, wants you to know that they are doing more than just writing code.
There was a bit of buzz about near field communications (NFC) in the media leading up to Mobile World Congress. The focus this year has been on the big credit card companies, but there is also a huge NFC market in the developing world where many people have little or no banking service at all.
By: David Callahan
28 February, 2012
Applications , People , Society , Technology
50 billion connections,
Cloud Computing,
Consumers,
ICT,
mobile broadband,
MWC,
Networked Society
Doctors typically are careful about what they say over the phone to their patients – they generally like to see you face-to-face to talk about your health. So when they say something like, “You need to come in right away,” you may be well into something that started while you weren’t paying attention. One of [...]
Hi everybody. My name is Olle Ahnve and I work with social and digital media at Ericsson marketing communications. During MWC I will be posting from Hall 6 here in Barcelona. I will post both here on the blog and also on the @ericsson Twitter account (Not following yet? Go check it out!). Let me [...]
Traffic congestion in major cities is taken as a given – one of the necessary evils of modern life. But in less than 50 years, congestion could rise to the level of what one American auto executive calls “a human rights issue.”
