Competition is whats missing from the USA

Next time someone says that incumbent providers is a good thing....show them this article.

- http://www.cedmagazine.com/news/2012/11/time-warner-boots-up-wi-fi-hotspots-starter-internet-tier-in-kc?

Competition is whats missing in the USA telco market today. (wish Google or Fios would come to brooklyn heights to shake up TimeWarner).

Kraft pays NeoMedia

NeoMedia Licenses Mobile Barcode Patents to Kraft Foods Group, Inc.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121127005993/en/NeoMedia-Licenses-Mobile-Barcode-Patents-Kraft-Foods?

Suckers….. there is a fool born every minute. Lol Renee Zahery you’re a fool.


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Retail App Geofencing

In store geo fencing - http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/187153/beyond-showrooming-in-store-mobile-users-want-i.html


My thoughts are do you really want a "walmart" app running in the background so that when you happen to walk into a store the geofence fires up this weeks special.

As Eddie murphy would say in Coming To America "clap clap WIPERS!!"

USA TV advertising only delivers $12 a month per user?

Can this be for real?

USA TV advertising only delivers $12 a month per user?
(slide 12)
http://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-roi-slideshow-2012-9#these-are-the-biggest-advertisers-see-the-link-below-if-you-want-more-detail-on-the-30-biggest-advertisers-and-their-campaign-strategies-19

If this is accurate charge me $12 a month more per month please and go completely ad free.....it would be the best $12 i spend a month.

Thoughts?

Patent trolls

and this is how a lot of patents should be dealt with
- http://jacquesmattheij.com/my-brush-with-a-patent-troll

City Lens

At  its Windows Phone 8 event in New York City, Nokia not only showed off its flagship Lumia 920, it also showed off some of Nokia’s unique Windows Phone apps and features, including its new PureView Camera and Nokia City Lens technologies.
Nokia’s City Lens is an augmented reality (AR) application that allows users to find things to do — and get more information about a location — simply by pointing their phone’s camera at a location.
http://mashable.com/2012/09/05/nokia-city-lens/

Great.....now all we need is for 200m people to buy the Nokia Lumina to make this work.

Unless there is some common platform where all location information is API'd together (eg wikipedia, foursquare,facebook) Augmented Reality will only work when there is critical mass on a single platform.

Cloudification of the battery

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/65720-overclocked-nexus-7-tablet-hits-20-ghz

Overclocked Nexus 7 tablet hits 2.0 GHz

The talented devs over at XDA have managed to overclock a quad-core Google Nexus 7 tablet to a screaming 2.0 GHz using a specially coded "Elite Kernel."

Powered by Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 processor, the tablet was overclocked to a sweet 1.7 GHz earlier this month, easily passing 7000 in Quadrant benchmarks. 



lol and it probably ran for 20 mins unless plugged into the mains.......if you want to test something plugged into the mains then i suggest you use a PC.........

Cloudification is the answer here people, turn the tablet into a "remote viewer" for processes happening on another device.

When we have the first "mobile phone/tablet" that comes with a monthly "Cloud processor fee" you know we are on the right track.