How many megabytes occupies the last movie you downloaded? What about the last email you sent? While most people know how many minutes they spend on phone calls, most of us don’t have any idea or notion on how many megabytes are needed to send a particular email, download photos, browse the Internet or update your profile on Facebook. And precisely that is the basis of metered broadband models, or Internet access traffic based on volume rather than flat fee rates. continue reading »
Probably one of the most farsighted and most well renowned logos in the mobile industry was “Connecting people” from Nokia, the finish handset manufacturer. The slogan, created by Ove Strandberg, established the vision of the mobile industry during the last decade: connect 6 Billion people via wireless technology. Clearly, the wireless industry has done an incredible job on fulfilling this shared vision. Currently, more than 4 Billion users around the world communicate via a mobile device and in the next 3 years another 1 Billion people will join them. Besides, wireless broadband is growing exponentially and via 2014 most of internet connections will be performed via wireless network.
But the question today is what is going to be the next decade motto for this industry?
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The Center for Marketing Research from Massachusetts Dartmouth University just released a new research about Social media adoption from Inc. 500; a list of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies compiled annually by Inc. Magazine. The new study compares adoption of social media over three years (2007, 2008 and 2009) by the Inc. 500.
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It looks like everyone wants to have an Application store: you see Apple celebrating three billion downloads milestone, RIM and Google launching their own apps store to support BlackBerry and Android phones respectively and even operators like China Mobile, Vodafone and Telefonica exploring this avenue.
But have you thought on automobile applications store?
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According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gener Munster, Apple could sell up to 36 Million Iphones globally in 2010. This implies a 40% increase from 2009, where Apple sold 25 million Iphones.
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It looks like Apple has been working very hard in environmental improvements during the last months. And this is reflected in Green peace’s greener consumer electronic ranking, where Apple is the most eco-friendly and greenest device manufacturer in the world.
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It seems our social graph can influence are life in a much deeper way than we think. As social networks like Face book, Twitter and Myspace start reaching a massive audience researchers are discovering how powerful the influence that our digital connections can have over our lives.
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One factor that made possible the great development of Google as a hub for innovation is their recruitment methodology used when hiring employees. That methodology has been able to built Google’s most important asset: Human capital.
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After a series of speculations about Google’s launching their own mobile, the company announced today in Mountain View, California, their new mobile phone called Nexus One, which is described as a fast moving, bright and connected.
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Here’s my list of what I think influenced or impacted the drive of science in the last ten years. Most of these discoveries will change our life completely in the next decade in ways we couldn’t imagine ten years ago.
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