Saturday, July 31, 2004
Posted by Roberto
12:12 AM
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MOBILE-PHONE MARKET UPDATE
Q2 2004:
Worldwide handset sales rose 2.5 percent over the first quarter and were up 36.7 percent year-to-year to 163.7 million units.
The Top 5 by Market Share:
1. Nokia | 27.7 percent
2. Motorola | 14.7 percent
3. Samsung | 13.9 percent
4. Siemens
5. LG
6. Sony Ericsson | 6.4 percent
The Winners: LG, Samsung and Motorola
LG enjoyed market-leading year-to-year growth of 87 percent and sequential growth of 13.6 percent.
Samsung posted 76 percent year-to-year growth worldwide and 1.3 percent increase in market share to 13.9 percent.
The new product line helped Motorola achieve a 52.4 percent year-on-year increase in shipments.
The Losers:
Nokia and Siemens. Both of these companies have manufactured mobile phones with confusing keyboard layouts (Nokia 3200, 3650, 7210, 7600 or Siemens SX1, MC60).
I like the Nokia 7610, a good phone, 1 Megapixel camera (1152x864 pixels), and a usable keypad :) The phone is capable of playing MP3 files but it lacks of stereo support!
Ready to Move Up:
Sony Ericsson's sales grew 55 percent year-on-year and 18.2 percent sequentially.
I believe that the Sony Ericsson K700i is one of the best ultra-compact digital camera phones on the European market today.
If you enjoy the clamshell form, you might like the Sharp GX30 (1 megapixel camera, mp3 player) or the Motorola V600.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Posted by Roberto
11:03 PM
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THE HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS
This is director Zhang Yimou's riposte to all those critics who did not like Hero.
In contrast to the austere aesthetics of Hero, The House Of Flying Daggers is all baroque elegance, sketched in tiny details like the inevitable colour schemes.
At its height, the Tang Dynasty was one of the most enlightened empires in Chinese history. But in 859AD, the Dynasty is in decline. The Emperor is incompetent and the government is corrupt. Unrest is spreading throughout the land, and many rebel armies are forming in protest. The largest, and most prestigious, is an underground alliance called the 'House of Flying Daggers'. The House of Flying Daggers operates mysteriously, stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Thus, they earned the support and admiration of the people and expanded quickly. Based in Feng Tian County, close to the Imperial Capital, the House of Flying Daggers has long been a thorn in the side of their hated rivals, the local deputies.
The House of Flying Daggers
Monday, July 26, 2004
Posted by Roberto
6:04 PM
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VIZSTER:
VISUALIZING ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS
Vizster is an interactive visualization tool for online social networks, allowing exploration of the community structure of social networking services such as friendster.com, tribe.net, and orkut.
Vizster provides an interactive sociogram for exploring the links between network members. It currently limits itself to ego-centric social networks, or network views centered on a single individual and her direct linkages
Vizster
orkut
tribe.net
friendster
Friday, July 23, 2004
Posted by Roberto
4:24 PM
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THE 100 BEST GLOBAL BRANDS
BY DOLLAR VALUE
BusinessWeek has teamed up with Interbrand to publish a ranking of the 100 best global brands by dollar value.
Cutting-edge technology companies are four of the top five biggest gainers in brand value, while long-established brands such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Disney and Ford actually lost brand value.
Apple (No. 43) is the biggest mover with a 24% gain in brand value. Other big gainers include Yahoo!, No. 61 (up 17%); Amazon, No. 66 (up 22%); Samsung, No. 21 (up 16%); and HSBC, No. 33 (up 15%).
Mercedes was edged out of the top ten by Toyota which is on track to overtake Ford in worldwide sales. Audi is a new entrant at No. 81.
1. COCA-COLA | | 67.4 Billions | | -4% | | U.S.
2. MICROSOFT | | 61.4 Billions | | -6% | | U.S.
3. IBM | | 53.8 Billions | | +4% | | U.S.
4. GE | | 44.1 Billions | | +4% | | U.S.
5. INTEL | | 33.5 Billions | | +8% | | U.S.
6. DISNEY | | 27.1 Billions | | -3% | | U.S.
7. MCDONALD'S | | 25 Billions | | +1% | | U.S.
8. NOKIA | | 24 Billions | | -18% | | Finland
Interbrand Press Release
Friday, July 16, 2004
Posted by Roberto
11:15 AM
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CYBERKINETICS:
TURNING THOUGHT INTO ACTION
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given Cyberkinetics Inc. the green light to begin human tests (clinical trial) of its "brain-machine interface" device.
The device, a four-millimeter-square array of 100 tiny electrodes will be implanted in the brains of up to five quadriplegic people and connected by wires to a nearby computer, promises to let the patients control the computer (and associated communication tools and other aids) using only their brain signals.
Cyberkinetics BrainGate(TM)
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Posted by Roberto
3:06 PM
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INTELLIGENT VIDEO TATTOOS FOR MEMORY MINING
AND DISPLAY OF EMOTIONAL INFORMATION
Greg Daigle and Steve Campbell (Minnesota - USA) have developed an interesting augmented reality concept where a wireless personal area network server receives data from your PDA or from your body sensors and displays information on your skin.
Beverly Tang phlog
The first core77 challenge
Project Description
Changeable Tattoos US Patent
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Posted by Roberto
11:18 AM
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A NEW FORM OF HYPERCOMMUNICATION:
VIDEO CLOTHES
Researchers at France Telecom have recently developed operational prototypes of flexible color screens integrated into clothing. To give you a better idea, before you mistake this with e-ink or Philips products, I recommend you watch the following video made by France Telecom (Windows Media 9 Format).
Emeric Mourot, R&D project manager:
"Clothes are becoming a key interface for giving graphic expression and form to your moods. It's a very personal symbolism, an emotion or state of mind that you can now display publicly and very simply through eye-catching animated graphics and short texts."
Roberto:
If one day, we will combine the France Telecom textile video with a "bluetooth mood ring" we could display the emotions we are experiencing on our clothes all the time. Who would have the guts to wear the mood ring and a connected video shirt at work ;-) ?
Wearing your cellphone display on your sleeve - by cellular-news.com
Story available on info gargoyle, Cyborg News Blog
Friday, July 02, 2004
Posted by Roberto
12:22 PM
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2004-2014: THINK | DISCUSS | NETWORK | PLAN
7 days of Cross Intelligence | 11 - 17 July 2004
The CCID Future University for Innovation Leaders takes place in Frankfurt, Germany. It is located at the Johann Wolfgang Göethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Westend Campus and is powered by 2000 international guests from all over the world.
Open City: Welcome to Digital Life | Wednesday, 14 July 2004
First the fiction. A twenty-four hour stay in dream city 2014. The urban user, firmly embedded in a completely networked media environment. New usage experience, new product experience, new media experience and brand reality are the buzzwords. Consumers in 2014 are the players, the involved users. How do they behave? How do they entertain themselves? Is advertising now only for the poor? Who can they trust? What do they want to know about the brands surrounding them? How do they select their politicians? How do they cultivate their circle of friends?
Building the Future City | Friday, 16. July 2004
Fiction follows reality. Comprehension is superseded by realisation. Houses, hotels, public spaces, vehicles and fashion in 2014. Intelligent products firmly embedded in virtual environments and services. Human needs translated into material things. Living spaces that are both public and private. What makes a city into a future city? How do people remain the central focus? Concepts, criticism and feedback are needed. The intended result is not any kind of compromise, but instead a synergy of networked brains.
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