Ajit Jaokar has published a post on Mobile Cloud Computing, in which he asks some questions about mobile computing. I found his questions very interesting, so here are my answers (I kept them short, but I will try to develop some things later): a) Is ‘mobile cloud computing’ a distinct domain in itself? Or is […]
Category Archives: User-centric
Magstripe: 1. Chip: -1
Being from the smart card industry, I usually don’t spend much time looking at things that work better by swiping cards than by using a good old smart card. Then, a few minutes ago, I looked at the promotional video for the Square payment service. Well, it’s definitely worth watching. The basic idea is to […]
Data Liberation
I just read a nice interview of the founder of the Data Liberation Front, an initiative that at least not everything is evil at Google. The interview is quite nice, as it goes through the motivations behind the creation of the site. However, throughout the interview, the focus seems to be more on the promotion […]
Trust in VRM
I recently read the market RIOT Manifesto, which gives background about an interesting initiative to get back transaction data into the hands of individuals (us). This is really interesting, as there are many things that one can do about such transaction data. I would love to have access to my supermarket bills in an Excel […]
On-demand printing and more …
I just read that Google Books has a deal with a company for on-demand printing of old books. This is interesting in itself, and I am sure that I will be very happy to print a few books that I really would like to have in my library. But the thing that really attracted me […]
Can their users’ trust save operators?
Telecom operators (mobile and Internet, forget about fixed line) are being attacked on all sides. Where Nokia used to be their worst threat, they now have Apple, with their business model that makes them pay while keeping a complete control over their users and their applications. Where they used to provde all basic services to […]