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What App Do You Wish You Could Design Today? – My Safeway Shopper

January 6, 2012

Time to consider a place I shop at least once a week and ask “Why isn’t there a Safeway App for that?” That’s right there’s been no real advance in Supermarket shopping in ages. Well a some stores have tried self-checkout (I’ve seen it more in Britain). Most have some form of loyalty program. Gee [...]

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Buying Shoes – Scanning the Store – Do you feel guilty? Nope!

January 4, 2012

Do you feel a little exposed shopping and scanning the merchandise? I still do. On Monday I went shopping with my son for basketball shoes. Sports Authority was pretty well shopped over. We’d find a shoe only in the wrong color or size. Before long I had my ShopSavvy App out and was scanning potential [...]

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2012 The Year for App 2.0 – Your Current Apps are Obsolete – Thumbs Down United App

January 2, 2012

I’ve been reviewing my app usage and writing about some of the ones I use. I’ve come to the conclusion that many apps are now out of date and ready for the scrap heap. Flipboard really pushed me to reflect and consider – what makes an app obsolete? What may happen in 2012? How are [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – 360 Panorama

December 28, 2011

With each advance in smartphone tech I seek to find new and easier ways to capture what I actually see in the field. I find that running a video… often doesn’t do it later when telling a story with a visual. Equally, it can be difficult to let people see things through their own lens…. [...]

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Reading Links for December 15th

December 15, 2011

My del.icio.us links and notes. Shoot 360° panoramic video via Dot | Perhaps I’m a sucker still I bought one to try. – I liked the idea that this could potentially capture a group discussion when positioned in a central place. I doubt the quality and will have to wait for the upgrade to Looker [...]

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What the iPad means to your next iPhone purchase! Observation #1 Speed

April 5, 2010

I’m not ready to write my review (if I ever am) on the iPad. It’s intriguing, it does things very well that make it compelling and it’s still a work in progress. So I’m more likely to write a few observations about the iPad over the next little while. Observation #1 I won’t be buying [...]

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Reading Links for February 19th

February 19, 2010

Daily update on del.icio.us links with my notes. I also just tweet links @stuarthenshall A post by Todd Carothers on "The Skype Empire" and impact on landlines | Nah… strategically think broader – "In fact many of the executive leadership of Fixed Line and Mobile Operators that I met with back in 2004 saw Skype [...]

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Reading Links for February 1st

February 1, 2010

Daily update on del.icio.us links with my notes. I also just tweet links @stuarthenshall iPad: The (attempted) Windows killer by Michael Mace – if you need to read anymore… on this subject. – If they really believe all of those things, then the iPad starts to look like Apple's idea of the next logical stage [...]

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Voice Band – Innovative Rockstar Maker for the iPhone

January 22, 2010

Voice Band is a very inventive iPhone music app. It uses sampled sounds of real instruments and YOU are the band. Watch the video and it is worth listening though to the singing end. Whether you have talent or just want to mess around this app will give many people a new experience. I am [...]

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WSJ – What will replace it?

January 21, 2010

I’ve come to love reading the WSJ over the last couple of years. It’s delivered to my home daily. I’ve also read it all on the time on my iPhone on the WSJ app. I also share / tweet some links. So, I’m now told I have to pay for.. subscribe to the WSJ iPhone [...]

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Reading Links for January 4th

January 5, 2010

Daily update on just some of the posts I’ve been reading. These are del.icio.us items that I made additional notes on. Sometimes I just tweet links. Follow me @stuarthenshall AppMakr Front Page for iPhone Apps? There’s a deal for one more day. Tempted to try it out. – It is inevitable that simple apps will [...]

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My Nokia Ovi Experience and Upgrading an N95 to Ovi Compatibility

January 4, 2010

Another post I worte a few weeks ago and held off posting. I’d done it for my own understanding and as general market knowledge / intelligence. I held back on posting it as I’ve been doing some work for Nokia, I like Nokia and many of the people that work there impress me. Yet Ovi [...]

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“Power to You” – Vodafone and services – Nokia and solutions

January 3, 2010

I’m reading “The Future is Calling” in print in India Today (Yes wrote most of this some weeks ago). A quote at the top of the article caught my attention. Ten years ago, only three in hundred Indians had a phone. That number’s up to 45 now. The next step is going from plain communications [...]

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iStore coming to the iPhone – 2012? Amazon’s biggest threat?

December 7, 2009

I’m reading the NYTimes article on Apple’s app store and for anyone that reads me there’s no surprises in it. So lets think more broadly about the real implications and the strategic options. How is the app store evolution challenging Apple or what options is it creating for it? Then what might it mean for [...]

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