by Minter Dial | Jul 29, 2010 | New Tech
Volvo Logo Sex Symbol In a bold marketing coup, related to an effort to remove itself from a “too safe” and “family car” image, Volvo launched its S60 in five cities across Europe and conducted, secretly, an experiment designed to measure the...
by Minter Dial | Jun 17, 2010 | New Tech
As the Augmented Reality technology/concept passes through more and more research centres, there are bound to be loads of exciting new applications popping up. Here is one that caught my fancy from Natan Linder at MIT Media Lab whereby they are enabling a...
by Minter Dial | May 6, 2010 | New Tech
Over the last few days, I have read a number of reports of the horrors of PowerPoint. It seemed to start with the New York Times article about the illusionary trap of Powerpoint presentations used by US Army ‘intelligence’ which stimulated a post by...
by Minter Dial | Apr 21, 2010 | New Tech
Just over a week ago, Google Docs released a new version, or should I say they added some necessary improvements? Some of the highlight new features (taken in part from Google’s only laundry list here): The ability to upload, store, and share any file in Google...
by Minter Dial | Mar 9, 2010 | New Tech
In Paris, yesterday, I attended a conference hosted by the MEDEF (the union of employers in France), where the ORSE (Observatory of Societal Responsibility in Enterprises) was promoting among other things the arrival of a new book, « Patrons...
by Minter Dial | Mar 4, 2010 | New Tech
Android smartphone Connected phones going global A wave of publications on 2009 results show that the smartphone invasion continued at a great and global pace, outstripping the wildest predictions of only a few years ago. Clearly, the people are voting with...