The survey found there is no widespread loyalty among consumers about operating systems.
Google and Apple better watch out. According to a new study by Accenture, two-thirds of smartphone and tablet owners don’t have strong brand loyalty to any one particular operating system.
Continue reading… “Most smartphone and tablet users don’t care if they run iOS, Android, or Windows”
Here is one more 2012 year-in review report from Nielsen, which examined how Americans have been consuming content over the course of the past year. Of the 289 million U.S. TV owners, the report found that 119 million own four or more television sets, making TV still the device to beat when it comes to watching and recording programs, among other things.
Continue reading… “TV still king in media consumption: Nielsen”
Consumers are becoming “digital omnivores.”
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas begins this week and the state of digital consumption is looking good. Consumers are adopting all sorts of smart, web-connected consumer technology and becoming “digital omnivores.”
Facebook voicemail
Facebook announces a spiffy new feature available in Canada. Through Facebook Messages, you can send voicemail to your Facebook friends.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: The first time I watched Star Trek and heard Captain Kirk utter the phrase – “Set your phasers to stun!” – it occurred to me that these future weapons featured a number of different settings.
Google CEO Larry Page
This past fall, when Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, the giant advertising agency, visited Google, CEO Larry Page sent a car to pick him up at the Rosewood Hotel about 20 miles away. The car Page sent was no ordinary car. Thanks to a slew of high-tech tools, including radars, sensors, and a laser scanner that takes more than 1.5 million measurements every second, the Lexus SUV drove itself. For about 20 minutes, while navigating I-280 and the area’s busy State Route 85, the car cruised on autopilot, making quick course corrections, slowing down here when traffic loomed ahead, speeding up there to get out of the blind spot of a neighboring vehicle. “It was pretty incredible,” says Sorrell.
Continue reading… “Google’s Larry Page shares his vision of the future”
2012 was a bad year to have other people say you want your bosses job
A lot has changed in 2012. More than you probably realize. Here is a list of thirteen things that you might have used or done in 2011 that you probably didn’t have to use or do in 2012.
Continue reading… “Top 13 things that went obsolete In 2012”
The Android-based Ouya console brings the indie-game concept to hardware and it raised over $8 million on Kickstarter.
2012 was the year of Kickstarter … at least for games.
After developer Double Fine (The Cave, Psychonauts) broke the crowdfunding concept wide open with its hugely successful campaign that raised over $3.45 million to produce a classic-style point-and-click adventure game (tentatively titled Double Fine Adventure), everyone wanted in on the concept. That led to the games category exploding on the site.
Continue reading… “Kickstarter raised $79 million for games in 2012”
Nicknamed “Blade Runner,” South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius competed in the Olympic Games in 2012.
Just how futuristic did things become in 2012? at the Olympic Games we watched a cyborg compete. We marveled at the news that NASA was actually working on a faster-than-light warp drive. 2012 also featured the planet’s first superstorm, the development of an artificial retina — and primates who had their intelligence enhanced with a chip. Here are 16 predictions that came true in 2012.
As 3D printing expands its influence into mainstream culture, plenty of amazing things are happening. There are a lot of 3D printing companies expanding and getting more funding, but enterprising designers are finding more and more ways to use the fledgling printing technology. While some of these uses are a bit troubling (like piracy of copyrighted material and firearms), others show that, with enough ingenuity, 3D printing can change lives. Let’s take a look at some of the industry’s bigger stories from this year.
Continue reading… “2012 was a year of expansion for 3D printing”
In 2012, total cumulative global Wi-Fi-enabled device shipments reached five billion, according to ABI Research. And the pace of innovation isn’t slowing, with new Wi-Fi protocols rolling out in 2013 and close to 20 billion WiFi-enabled devices predicted to be in the market by 2017.
Continue reading… “Global Wi-Fi shipments reached 5 billion in 2012, will quadruple by 2017”
The black boxes will be able to record all sorts of information about a vehicle.
The National Transportation Safety Agency is proposing that all new automobiles sold in the US after September of 2014 will be required to be equipped with event data recorders. The recorders are somewhat like the black boxes that are found inside aircraft.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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