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Mobility

Day Two #WWDC – Bluetooth and Passbook vs NFC?

June 12, 2012

Tweet Leaving the Bluetooth session today I was talking to a couple of Airline guys. The discussion started by focusing on Bluetooth 4.0 and wondering re the comparisons with NFC. Obviously, their interest was around ticketing and we quickly added the new Passbook feature into the  conversation. So when I came to write up a [...]

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Day One Notes from Apple #WWDC – It’s got me thinking.

June 11, 2012

Tweet I’m sitting down at the end of the day reflecting on what I heard or thought about today at the Apple WWDC or World Wide Developer Conference. It’s my gig for the rest of the week! Lucky me as tickets are hard to come by. After this morning’s keynote I wasn’t sure if I [...]

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What is CPNI? Did you get the AT&T email? Could you opt-out? #privacy #PRfail

May 21, 2012

Tweet What is CPNI? Who writes the AT&T garbage AND UNDECIPHERABLE e-mails that end up TELLING me about my account and then when I read very carefully are broken when I try to do something about it? Like opt-out? According to AT&T CPNI is important information about the privacy of my customer information. You read [...]

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Video Conferencing and the Dinosaurs?

May 16, 2012

Tweet   Andy Abramson pointed me to his post and another on the state of the video conferencing Industry this morning. What’s wrong with the Video Conferencing  Industry? and his post “Taking Aim and Telling the Truth”. Fact is, I all but ignore the Video Conferencing Industry now. What I don’t do is ignore video and [...]

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Does Apple now OWN the surfing experience? 45% share vs 38% for Windows? | interesting data #iphone #android #windows

April 2, 2012

Tweet Here’s a PC/Mobile data set below to make you really think about the web world order.  David’s not specific on the companies in his sample  although knowing him it’s likely to be very accurate  data point for the English speaking world. See his chart below, and his framing. What’s really important here is how [...]

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Dear Apple, Why I want a Bluetooth mic enabled for video on my iPhone 4s.

January 6, 2012

Tweet Dear Apple, I’m really impressed with the latest iPhone 4S video camera. It’s close to passing my on the move motorcycle torture test. Yet fails at the most basic level. In video mode it won’t let my bluetooth headset act as the mic and so all opportunity for live narration is lost and so [...]

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

January 6, 2012

Tweet 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. [...]

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

January 2, 2012

Tweet 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 [...]

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Air Dictate: Using Siri on your Mac

December 30, 2011

Tweet I’m creating this post using air dictate a new application which allows you to use Siri on your Mac. Let’s just say it works fine. Many years ago when I first started working I used a Dictaphone . Now I just feel rusty. What amazes me is this app seems to work more effectively [...]

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Apple #iPhone – Please let us upload Photo’s / Videos via iOS Safari

December 29, 2011

Tweet Time to complain about Apple’s highly restrictive iOS Safari policy. Here’s my example – you be the judge. I am visiting a website on my mobile. It has a form that asks for a photo. However the choose photo file button is shaded out. Why? Because iOS Safari doesn’t allow you to upload files [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – Dot and The Looker – 360 Degree Video

December 28, 2011

Tweet Now this is one experimental product I’m hoping to make use of… rather than just having it sitting here. Here’s the problem. You are running a small group interview. Typically the camera or cameras are set up facing in one direction. Usually to capture most of the group, and typically not the moderator. However, [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – Document Scan – Flipchart Capture

December 28, 2011

Tweet Another in this Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools series… making your SmartPhone your best friend in the field… and how to do the job a little better. You have probably used your smart phone to take pictures of the odd flip chart or to capture and remember a document type. Yet later when you look at [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools: Coach’s Eye

December 28, 2011

Tweet Another in a series…. identifying useful mobile tools we can use on the job that help us share better later. Most of us have used our mobile video function at some time. Yet when it comes to editing, telling a story around it or representing it in a way that keys in on a [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – Audio Note

December 28, 2011

Tweet I’ve decided to publish a short series on mobile tools that can be adapted effectively for the ethnographers craft. Today let’s think about recording the discussion/observations. Typically I use a note book. I write in it and make the odd drawing or sketch. While that’s all happening a digital recorder is usually capturing anything [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – 360 Panorama

December 28, 2011

Tweet 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 [...]

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