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Ronald Gruia (@rgruia)
- Twitter Bio:
- Principal Telecom Analyst at Frost & Sullivan covering topics such as: NGN migration, IMS, 4G/LTE, Telco 2.0, VoIP, messaging, RCS, SN. Opinions are my own.
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- Toronto
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- http://gruia.blogware.com
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Time is money, and apps don’t last forever. You’re never going to get back the hours you spent Oinking that hip record shop in Williamsburg or Stamping the bars with the best absinthe martinis. The weeks you’ve spent carefully crafting that ‘Slow Jams’ playlist on Spotify binds you to it, and discourages you from switching to Rdio or Rhapsody at the bat of an eyelash. If Apple acquired Foursquare to supplement its lackluster Maps app, it could, in an instant, render void your hundreds or thousands of check-ins.Free apps are dangerous, yet free is the dominant business model most mobile apps are taking these days. The roadmap is simple: grow as
According to numerous sources, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has instituted a HR plan today to require Yahoo employees who work remotely to relocate to company facilities. The move will apparently impact several hundred employees, who must either comply without exception or presumably quit. It impacts workers such as customer service reps, who perhaps work from home or an office in another city where Yahoo does not have one. Many such staffers who wrote me today are angry, because they felt they were initially hired with the assumption that they could work more flexibly. Not so, as it turns out. A Yahoo spokesperson said the company does not comment
By Aaron Souppouris @AaronIsSocial on October 15, 2012 10:36 am 157Comments A pair of photos claiming to depict a device named the Sony Nexus X have been posted by XperiaBlog. There are no details on the smartphone — apart from the images — but it looks similar to the company's Xperia ion and Xperia T. Curiously, the device has "Google" inscribed on its back rather than the "With Google" logo found on LG's rumored Nexus 4. There is, of course, a big chance the images could be fake: there are some issues with icon alignment on the screen, as well as
By Aaron Souppouris @AaronIsSocial on October 1, 2012 08:43 am 5Comments Sharp is starting "full-scale" production of a new 5-inch 1080p display for smartphones that has an incredible pixel density of 443ppi. The company announced today that manufacturing started late last month, and it will ramp up production through October. The new display will apparently feature "a new pixel design," which has yet to be detailed, and will be 1.3 times denser than Sharp's own industry-leading 4.3-inch 720p display.A few companies have demoed 5-inch displays in
By Tom Warren @tomwarren on November 28, 2012 09:33 am 144Comments Microsoft is busy preparing its next-generation Windows client, shortly after shipping Windows 8 in October. The Verge has learned from several sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans that the company is planning to standardize on an approach, codenamed Blue, across Windows and Windows Phone in an effort to provide more regular updates to consumers.Originally unveiled by ZDNet, the update on the Windows side, due in mid-2013, will include UI changes and alterations to the entire platform
INNOVATION TALK: FOR THE PAST 15 years, it has been nearly impossible to think about innovation without also thinking about disruption. In business management theory, they are two sides of the same coin, with every innovation creating both opportunity and risk; opportunity for the innovator, risk for the incumbent.
How to be on the right side of that equation, and avoid seeing your business model disrupted beyond repair, is an obsession for managers in a whole range of businesses. The innovation/disruption dichotomy became conventional business wisdom in 1997, when Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen
The Big Story: Nokia's Q2 results: $1B operating loss, 4M Lumia handsets sold
During Verizon's conference call discussing its Q2 2012 financial performance, CFO Fran Shammo let some information slip out about the next iPhone launch. When asked what might have held customers back from upgrading their devices in Q2, Shammo said that "of course there's always that, uh, rumor mill out there
People downloaded over 30 billion apps in 2012, yet the average smartphone owner only uses about 15 of them every week. Even worse, a study by Localytics estimated that 22 percent of apps are only opened once.While the answer to that question is certainly complicated, a number of common mistakes companies are repeatedly made in the app on-boarding process. We’ll be discussing user experience and more at VentureBeat’s upcoming Mobile Summit.When you demand that users go through a sign-up process or hand over their social credentials before you’ve offered them any clear benefit, you risk losing them right off the bat.Consider two apps: Pheed and
Wearable connected devices are having a moment — largely anticipatory — as excitement builds about the potential for sensor-packed mobile kit that you strap to your person and use to augment/record activity from your daily life. Yesterday Google announced the first hackathons for its Project Glass smart specs to get developers thinking about building apps for a new type of mobile device, while a smorgasbord of wearable fitness tracking gizmos such as smart watches and bracelets continue to crop up and attract attention (and sometimes a lot of cash) on crowdfunding sites.Rumours of big name tech companies getting into wearables also continue to
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