Wireless broadband unlikely to push 3G aside
August 19, 2005
Agreed.
This article articulates some of the home truths I’m seeing across the board with wireless broadband deployments. Most of the arguments against this line of reasoning are emotional and/or religious in nature.
WiMAX & 3G technologies are complimentary, not competitive. The key to their mutual success is a seemless, easy to use customer roaming experience.
Personal Laser Tripwire – what every budding spy buddy needs!
August 19, 2005
Gadgetry Blog has just found my Father’s day gift!!
ThinkGeek has these fun gadgets so you can setup your very own personal protection system. The devices use infrared beams, not actual lasers to setup the perimeter defence. When all the units are connected, a nice voice will announce “System Armed.” Break one beam, though, and an alarm will sound, alerting everyone to the security breach.
Now I just need to work out how to get the dog to charge in to the rescue when she hears the alarm go off…….
…. according to a report being released by Australia’s National Acoustic labs today, that regular users of iPods and personal MP3 players face permanent hearing loss!
The report claims that 25% of users are already experiencing hearing problems.
Of course the report doesn’t state the bleeding obvious that the users of such devices are down right rude and obnoxious in public places.
I believe Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection will prevail and these people will become extinct as they will eventually become vehicle bull bar adornments.
Sooty’s big day out!
August 16, 2005
3G/WCDMA subscribers @ 30.79 Million
August 16, 2005
According to the Global mobile Suppliers Association www.GSAcom.com there are now 31 Million WCDMA 3G subscribers worldwide, up 13.9 Miliion from end of 2004.
82 carriers operating in 37 countries with 186 types of devices burning the little subscribers ears off.
Once the US and China WCDMA networks start firing on all cylinders this will look insignificant….
The Australian new media market is quaking.
August 15, 2005
Great article in HollywoodReporter.com about what is happening in the Australian new media markets.
The reporter starts with….
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the Australian media landscape is in flux as never before. So great are the shifts taking place in technology, business and regulation that one commentator refers to the situation as "motion blur," meaning that the minute an observer believes he or she has a fix on it, it changes again.
..and finishes with…
As O’Reilly’s zenlike summation of the Australian new-media industry reveals, the old Hollywood aphorism that "no one knows anything" can easily be applied to the entertainment sector Down Under. "The only real conclusion is that we know a great deal about what we don’t know," he says.
So, it is obvious from this that the key players are keeping their cards tightly against their chests.
Nice comments by Mark who "gets it" at least 🙂
As co-creator of Virtual Reality Modeling Language, the Internet’s first 3-D interface, U.S. native Mark Pesce is more than a little hip to the brave new digital environment. He lectures on new media at the Australian Film Television and Radio School and believes that "DVB-H is the new frontier.""It’s not about a box in the living room but the box in your hand that’s receiving a signal," Pesce says. "I think there’s going to be an enormous market there for channels which are special-interest: business, sports (and other) things that will deal with micro-markets."
Then there are others who don’t…..
But while Seven believes that mobile telephony could prove effective in delivering news and sports to a wider audience, the network is more cynical about it doing so for dramas."Do people want to watch ‘Desperate Housewives’ and ‘Lost’ on widescreen TV or a mobile telephone? We suspect that people prefer to watch television on a television," Francis says. "Will our content migrate beyond television and into new forms of communication? That has always been the case and will continue to be the case."
The winners of this looming battle will be those that setup strategic partnerships and keep focus on their core competencies. Those that decide to go after this market alone by owning & branding everything themselves, will fail.
To have a mobile or not have a mobile….
August 15, 2005
Next time you are sitting there with your caramel latte and 3G device pulling down news and e-mail at the speed of light. Remember this…
"77% of the world’s population live within coverage of a mobile phone network of which 25% of the world’s population own a mobile phone"
From MobileWeblog who has an article about companies who want to change that.
We have a bit of a ways to go people, so go buy a prepaid device and give it away 
I believe that the Institute of the Future is my Holy Grail of convergence evolution. Their publications on topics such as "Technologies of Cooperation" and "Infrastructure for the New Geography", show that I’m defintely in the wrong line of work!
From their site…..
The Institute for the Future focuses on emerging trends and discontinuities that will transform the global marketplace. Our research focuses on:
- Consumers
- Technology
- Health and health care
- Workplace
- Global business trends
Our research generates the foresight needed to create insights about the future business environment that lead to action. The results are customized winning strategies and successful new businesses.
I can’t believe these guys get to research things like cool new technologies and interesting society trends, then get paid for it too.
One of their publications on "Rapid Decision Making for Complex Issues" is a fantastic adjunct to their "technologies of cooperation" publication and describe many real world examples of how they are forming new business & social models.
Their document starts with……
"A new capacity for rapid, ad hoc, and distributed decision making is emerging from the intersection of technologies of cooperation and new knowledge about the nature of cooperation and cooperative strategies. This report investigates the challenges, strategies, technologies, and best practices that will shape this new capacity."
The diagram that follows this statement is intriguing as it is an enriching summary of their findings of decision making challenges we face everyday. They break this diagram into four zones,
- Distributed Control
- Trust
- Sense Cycles
- Info Stocks & Flows
The document is 40 pages long is highly recommended…. as is all their other bruhaha for that matter….but, of course, reading time and page lengths vary dramatilcally & brain implosion could occur so pace yourselves!
Espresso Pr0n!?!??!
August 11, 2005
I’m one of the first to say I’m a coffee lover but……. well this is taking coffee making to a new level!
(er, don’t worry the link is completely work safe 🙂 )
I’ve attached a sample of this Blogger’s fetish of coffee as an art form.
The Fourth Estate Domain – (Sydney) Wednesday 17th August
August 10, 2005
The Fourth Estate Domain is on again at the CBD Hotel in Sydney next Wednesday. They are interviewing Alan Bowman of Microsoft who looks after the Microsoft Home and Entertainment Division for China & Asia.
Might hear some goss on the upcoming XBOX360 and Microsoft’s plans for making your home smart.
See you there!
Universal Convergence 