https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/public/ recent bookmarks from jerryking 2021-06-27T13:17:33+00:00 https://www.getorchard.com/ jerrykingmobile_phones refurbished Toronto iPhone https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:09f5eb3dfda1/ 2020-08-07T19:41:06+00:00 https://www.ft.com/content/55f64cfe-125e-4529-b16e-ad77f8cd8710 jerryking>capital-efficient<<” to push out dozens of hyper-casual games and “see what sticks”.........“The cost of building games is dropping and therefore people can put out games really quickly and cheaply,” said Paul Murphy, a partner at venture firm Northzone and the founder of mobile game developer Dots. But he added: “Because you can get something out there for little to no effort, in hyper-casual there is a lot of crap, and a lot of clones, and a lot of clones of crap.” ......Another games company founder lamented that the industry’s creativity had been reduced to an “Excel exercise” by the trend........A typical user’s average play session on a hyper-casual game lasts just two and a half minutes a day, according to a joint report on the market by Adjust and Unity, two providers of tools for app makers, compared to nearly 20 minutes per session per user per day for other kinds of games. That means the average income from each user is also small, at a median of just $0.13, Adjust and Unity found. .........However, hyper-casual publishers do not spend extra money targeting particular audiences — after all, who knows to whom games Flappy Dunk, Voodoo’s odd mash-up of Flappy Bird and basketball, might appeal? .......That leaves Voodoo, Rollic and their rivals racing to build a network large enough to be self-sustaining, using ads in their own games to drive downloads of new titles. The more games in the network, the more data publishers can gather on what players want, to inform the next wave of apps..........some in the games industry are sceptical that any hyper-casual publisher can build a sustainable business longer term. “It’s not a business in itself,” said the head of one leading mobile games developer, despite being a significant advertiser within hyper-casual games for his own titles. “New companies pop up all the time, it changes very fast.”.......even if hyper-casual does prove to be a fad....there are lessons for the rest of the industry in moving faster and using data to test new titles, accelerating an end to the practice of spending years developing a single game. ]]> mobile_applications mobile_phones bite-sized data_driven fads gaming trends videogames capital_efficiency https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8312b653038c/ 2019-10-29T14:50:03+00:00 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-this-scam-criminals-can-clean-out-your-financial-accounts-with-just-your-phone-number-2019-10-29 jerrykingcriminality cyber_security fraud hackers mobile_phones scams https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2949d0d0bf63/ 2019-09-13T22:16:37+00:00 https://www.fastcasual.com/articles/3-reasons-why-restaurants-need-mobile-cloud-technology/ jerryking cloud_computing mobile_applications mobile_phones restaurants virtual_restaurants https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:add7be3a5261/ 2019-04-20T11:00:06+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/smarter-living/wirecutter/declutter-speed-up-phone.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Smarter%20Living jerryking decluttering howto iPhone mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c4e176cbac20/ 2019-04-14T10:02:48+00:00 https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-and-qualcomms-billion-dollar-staredown-11555128003?mod=cxrecs_join#comments_sector jerryking 5G Apple CEOs conflict_resolution Intel licensing litigation mobile_phones patents Qualcomm royalties semiconductors smartphones Steve_Mollenkopf Tim_Cook disputes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bb2cf4bb4825/ 2019-02-28T00:54:35+00:00 https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-5g-will-change-so-much-more-than-your-phone-11551236760?mod=hp_listc_pos1 jerryking 5G autonomous_vehicles Hollywood immersive Industrial_Internet latency manufacturers mobile_phones precision smartphones sportscasting surveillance telemedicine videogames virtual_reality IoT https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a40f9c392816/ 2019-01-15T15:44:05+00:00 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-big-hangup-why-the-future-is-not-just-your-phone-11547269202?cx_testId=0&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s jerryking 5G Apple anniversaries connected_devices iPhone mobile_applications mobile_phones product_pipelines smartphones Steve_Jobs voice_interfaces wearables future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0a015f279df7/ 2018-12-11T14:27:45+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage jerryking location_based_services mobile_applications mobile_phones privacy tracking surveillance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b552197c3e27/ 2018-04-19T12:47:17+00:00 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/careers/leadership/article-how-mobile-innovation-has-helped-to-spur-a-new-age-of-entrepreneurship/ jerrykingRichard_Branson mobile_phones smartphones innovation entrepreneurship https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:55e68c864ac3/ 2017-08-22T13:38:59+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/business/dealbook/phone-hack-bitcoin-virtual-currency.html jerryking identity_theft cyber_security virtual_currencies digital_currencies mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:13720a18799f/ 2017-03-20T21:23:09+00:00 https://www.wsj.com/articles/free-up-iphone-space-with-these-hidden-tricks-1490027857?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=poptarget&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s jerryking iPhone digital_storage mobile_applications hidden tips iOS mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f6f7e2ffc3bc/ 2017-02-19T18:17:37+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/know-your-digital-privacy-rights-concern-raised-over-searches-at-us-border-crossings/article34085100/?reqid=1605f3d1-2250-4a03-a71e-97ca1dbebcb3 jerryking privacy mobile_phones civil_liberties travel https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6c5d2ceb5d32/ 2017-02-15T18:58:30+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/business/border-enforcement-airport-phones.html?src=me&_r=0 jerryking travel mobile_phones privacy civil_liberties https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3f424d53da3e/ 2017-02-08T19:47:32+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/4c9a13ec5285204c158b jerryking geofencing location_based_services native_advertising advertising mobile_phones mobile smartphones tablet_computing beacons the_right_people https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:50be319dc359/ 2017-02-08T15:13:13+00:00 https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21615869-technology-radically-changing-advertising-business-profound-consequences jerryking Facebook Twitter Pinterest books Conversant Kraft personalization trends mobile_phones smartphones social_media real-time auctions Ogilvy_&_Mather behavioural_targeting pushback effectiveness haystacks privacy native_advertising ad-tech programmatic advertising online_advertising Omnicom David_Ogilvy precision_targeting users’_viewing_histories https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b4442fd5e608/ 2017-02-07T05:25:31+00:00 https://www.wsj.com/articles/mobile-ad-targeting-is-improving-according-to-nielsen-1479826801 jerryking>ad campaigns<< could ever achieve a 100% on-target percentage, because of >>consumer behaviors<< such as >>misrepresenting<< their age or gender, or sharing digital devices with family and friends.]]> mobile_phones smartphones advertising targeting Nielsen consumer_behavior misrepresentation demographic_information LBMA advertising_campaigns https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6848e2b094fd/ 2016-11-24T19:53:31+00:00 http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-key-to-making-a-mobile-site-customers-want-1479697201 jerryking mobile_phones mobile UX websites design https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:44c77e1e702c/ 2016-11-15T13:04:54+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/china-phones-software-security.html jerryking cyber_security China mobile_phones back_doors https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:de45692143d5/ 2016-10-12T04:07:08+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/business/international/samsung-galaxy-note7-terminated.html?ref=business&_r=0 jerryking Samsung product_recalls mobile_phones batteries complexity brands reputation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:143cff50372e/ 2016-08-03T16:51:52+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/technology/china-mobile-tech-innovation-silicon-valley.html?ref=business&_r=0 jerryking Silicon_Valley China mobile_phones mobile WeChat Facebook Kik Stratechery Tencent chat conversational_commerce Kitchener-Waterloo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c82da8f8375d/ 2016-07-08T17:18:30+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/periscope-facebook-live-bring-deaths-of-black-men-at-hands-of-police-to-our-screens/article30806170/ jerryking Periscope Facebook African-Americans mobile_phones Simon_Houpt police_shootings police_brutality livestreaming black_men police_killings https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9c6a3b7580d6/ 2016-03-14T03:15:15+00:00 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/when-your-app-is-in-the-cloud/ jerryking sports cloud_computing mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2f05b56e01c6/ 2016-01-26T01:40:22+00:00 http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-apps-to-run-a-startup-from-your-phone-1453690989 jerryking small_business productivity mobile_applications best_of mobile_phones start_ups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:408dcec85103/ 2016-01-13T21:33:31+00:00 http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/waiting-beacons-mobile-fills-gap/298796/ jerryking brands mobile_phones location_based_services retailers beacons sensors https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d71982b39c4a/ 2015-08-11T12:28:40+00:00 http://www.wsj.com/articles/web-retailers-now-with-stores-teach-new-tricks-1439285580 jerryking retailers apparel e-commerce bricks-and-mortar mobile_applications mobile_phones experiential_marketing inventories clicks-to-bricks Macy's https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8dab82331417/ 2015-03-15T04:09:06+00:00 http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/09/the-most-important-transportation-innovation-of-this-decade-is-the-smartphone/379525/ jerryking smartphones mobile_phones transit cities transportation innovation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6d3729638286/ 2015-03-15T04:05:39+00:00 http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/09/smartphones-and-the-uncertain-future-of-spatial-thinking/379796/ jerryking mapping cartography smartphones future navigation wayfinding mobile_applications mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:aaca2c33efa4/ 2015-02-12T18:02:41+00:00 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303519404579353200953287192 jerryking social_data interpretation Twitter Facebook social_physics Communicating_&_Connecting informed_consent location_based_services data massive_data_sets contextual LBMA interactivity traffic_analysis mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:159778bb554c/ 2015-01-31T14:26:09+00:00 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/da7d15a2-a73f-11e4-8a71-00144feab7de.html#axzz3QNKdPze4 jerryking>World Economic Forum<< was a projection that automation would end up replacing some 45% of jobs in the US in the next 20 years. And the consensus was that it would be the middle tier of jobs that would disappear. The future of employment — at least according to Davos — is a world bifurcated between >>>low-skilled<<, >>low-paid<< service jobs (say, dog walkers and cleaners) and >>highly skilled<< elite roles (i.e. = computer programmers, designers and all the other jobs that Davos luminaries do). Everything else is potentially vulnerable....What is still critically unclear is how all this investment in infrastructure and training is going to be paid for. Philanthropy? Taxes? It is also unclear how mass access to the internet will recreate those disappearing mid-tier jobs. Given that, it is perhaps no surprise that when I asked a group of Davos grandees for a show of hands on whether >>income inequality<< would get worse [i.e. = "widening the gap"] in the coming years, almost everybody in the room voted “yes” — without hesitation. That is deeply sobering. ]]> Gillian_Tett WEF_Davos innovation unemployment mobile_phones Erik_Brynjolfsson automation Andrew_McAfee middle_class job_destruction job_displacement downward_mobility hollowing_out MIT highly-skilled income_inequality low-paid low-skilled widening_the_gap https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5dce24a4e408/ 2014-10-17T20:23:34+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/rob-insight/nokia-a-lesson-for-backers-of-canadas-nanny-state/article21131394/#dashboard/follows/ jerryking>innovation<<. Detroit dominated automobile manufacturing for many decades before its own complacency and the innovativeness of European and Asian producers came into play. In a similar vein, >>Nokia<< allowed itself to believe in its own >>infallibility<<, and >>Finland<< meekly followed suit. But the forces of change are now so powerful and lightning fast that sometimes a single product release from a competitor can signal the death knell of a previously healthy company or industry....Canada is rife with industries with their heads stuck in the sand, almost invariably because they believe they can shelter behind a friendly >>bureaucrat<< with a rulebook.[i.e. = "government protected"] Examples abound in fields as diverse as telecoms, >>dairy<<, airlines, broadcasting, taxis and transport. Could there have been a bigger farce than the CRTC’s attempt to manhandle online content provider >>Netflix<>disrupters<<.]]> Nokia Finland mobile_phones disruption Netflix Uber CRTC complacency accelerated_lifecycles protectionism nanny_state customer_focus change_agents Finnish demand-driven lessons_learned automotive_industry downfall warning_signs customer-driven infallibility overconfidence hubris staying_hungry concentration_risk Brian_Lee_Crowley bureaucrats change_signals dairy innovation invincibility rapid_change government-protected coddling_overprotection https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:feece67433cd/ 2014-09-18T11:53:54+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/articles/iphone-6-review-apples-cure-for-android-envy-1410915695?tesla=y&mg=reno64-wsj jerryking Apple mobile_phones howto Android https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:25559a277af3/ 2014-08-25T00:52:18+00:00 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/android-phones-hit-by-ransomware/?_php=true&_type=blogs&hpw&rref=technology&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0 jerryking cyber_security malware mobile_phones Android computer_viruses https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c10b6a7ccf43/ 2014-08-18T12:10:45+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/innovators-at-work/marketing-firm-moves-with-the-times/article19318982/#dashboard/follows/ jerryking marketing mobile mobile_phones tablet_computing brands https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b2f36446fe36/ 2014-03-27T15:13:01+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304679404579459712875182986?mod=trending_now_5 jerryking howto mobile_phones ergonomics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2b0ac1609c21/ 2014-03-25T20:00:01+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304256404579453731910023274?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird&mg=reno64-wsj jerryking HTC Android mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:31ce3fbf17dd/ 2014-02-03T16:05:01+00:00 https://secure.globeadvisor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/gam/20140131/ROBMAG_FEB2014_P12_13_ jerryking wi-fi Bluetooth mobile_phones location location_based_services tracking Mexia Turnstyle customer_loyalty shopping_experience privacy analytics confidentiality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6c4d3e6ad2dc/ 2014-01-22T03:13:59+00:00 http://www.starbusinessclub.ca/technology/turnstyles-customer-tracking-raises-privacy-concerns/ jerryking Turnstyle tracking mobile_phones smartphones privacy location_based_services digital_footprints retailers foot_traffic https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8afa0f94b9d7/ 2014-01-16T00:53:14+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303453004579290632128929194?mod=trending_now_1 jerryking>location data<<. Verizon Wireless last year began crunching its own location information from customers to help retailers see which neighborhoods shoppers arrived from or limited information about their habits, such as restaurants they drive past. Apple Inc. recently released its iBeacon technology, which can be integrated into sensors to read customer's smartphone signals in brick-and-mortar stores. But Turnstyle is among the few that have begun using the technology more broadly to follow people where they live, work and shop. The company's dense network of sensors can track any phone that has Wi-Fi turned on, enabling the company to build profiles of consumers lifestyles. Turnstyle's weekly reports to clients use aggregate numbers and don't include people's names. But the company does collect the names, ages, genders, and social media profiles of some people who log in with Facebook to a free Wi-Fi service that Turnstyle runs at local restaurants and coffee shops, including Happy Child. It uses that information, along with the wider foot traffic data, to come up dozens lifestyle categories, including yoga-goers, people who like theater, and hipsters. A business that knows which sports team is most favored by its clients could offer special promotions on game days, says Turnstyle's 27-year-old founder Chris Gilpin. Czehoski, a local restaurant, hired an '80s-music DJ for Friday nights after learning from Turnstyle that more than 60% of the restaurant's Wi-Fi-enabled customers were over 30......But as the industry grows in prominence, location trackers are bound to ignite privacy concerns. A company could, for example, track people's visits to specialist doctors or hospitals and sell that data to marketers. "Locations have meanings," says Eloise Gratton, a privacy lawyer. Marketers can infer that a person has a certain disease from their Internet searches. A geolocation company can actually see the person visiting the doctor, "making the inference that the individual has this disease probably even more accurate," she says. Mr. Glipin says his data doesn't include doctors visits or sensitive health information, nor does he sell his profile data to marketers. He is considering offering more detailed profiles based on the logged-in information, an endeavor that would be legal in Canada as long as consumers provided consent. "We know there is more value to be extracted from this data," Mr. Gilpin says. "But we're wanting to move cautiously and turn on the tap slowly—in a way that doesn't offend customers." In the U.S., companies don't have to get a consent before collecting and sharing most personal information, including their location. A bill, proposed by Minnesota Senator Al Franken, would require consent before collecting location data. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission settled its first location privacy case in December, against an app developer that misled consumers into believing their location data wouldn't be sold to marketers. Some customers have concerns. Aj Tin, a university student and customer at R-squared Café, was surprised to learn that by logging into the Wi-Fi at the coffee shop, he was enabling Turnstyle to track his movements and offer other local businesses an aggregated profile of his activities. The disclosure form tells consumers they will be tracked, but not how aggregated personal information will be distributed. "Privacy is cheap," Mr. Tin said. Even as they covet the data, stores and businesses recognize it is a touchy subject. "It would probably be better not to use this tracking system at all if we had to let people know about it," says Glenna Weddle, the owner of Rac Boutique, a women's clothing store that is a Turnstyle client. "It's not invasive. It might raise alarms for no reason." >>Viasense<< Inc., another Toronto startup, is building detailed dossiers of people's lifestyles by merging >>location data<< with those from other sources, including marketing firms. The company follows between 3 million and 6 million devices each day in a 400-kilometer radius surrounding Toronto. It buys bulk phone-signal data from Canada's national cellphone carriers. Viasense's algorithms then break those users into lifestyle categories based on their daily travels, which it says it can track down to the square meter. For example, by monitoring how many times a consumer visits a golf course in a month, Viasense can classify her as a casual, intermediate or heavy golfer. People whose cellphones move at a certain clip across city parks between 5:30 and 8:30 every morning are flagged by the algorithm as "early morning joggers." The company identifies "youth" by looking at phone signals coming from schools during school hours and nightclubs, and home locations by targeting the places phones spend each night. Viasense, which says its clients are grocery chains, a large concert venue and a billboard company, then overlays that data with census and marketing lists the company buys from >>data brokers<< to deduce demographic information, like whether the cellphone's owner is in a high-income bracket. Viasense doesn't gather personal information or know any of its users' names, but CEO Mossab Basir says it is simple to figure this out. A person who has enabled location services on an app in which they upload information publicly, such as Twitter, is broadcasting their location and their identity—or at least their handle—at the same time. "People are probably unaware of how much they are making available," says Mr. Basir. "That's why it's a very delicate subject for us. It's kind of Big Brotheresque." A username is considered >>personal information<< [i.e. = "PII"], which under Canadian law can't be collected without the consent of the user. In most of the U.S., consent wouldn't be required. Right now, the only way to opt-out of >>geolocation<< is to either switch off the Wi-Fi on a cellphone, or make a request through a website of one the data companies like Turnstyle that has an opt-out option. As these companies operate mostly behind the scenes, the nascent industry is keeping a close watch on Google Inc. and Apple. With their Android and iOS mobile operating systems, respectively, Google and Apple know the location of every customer's Wi-Fi-enabled phone—far more >>location data<< than any startup could access. The Silicon Valley giants aren't allowing access to such data by outsiders. Both Google and Apple declined to comment. Places where people didn't think they were being watched are now repositories for collecting information, says Ryan Calo assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law. "Companies are increasingly able to connect between our online and offline lives," he says. ]]> location_based_services mobile_applications mobile_phones smartphones customer_profiling privacy location data Viasense Toronto geolocation digital_footprints Turnstyle retailers foot_traffic metadata location_data commuting_patterns Wi-Fi geofencing data_brokers PII https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:41395b8d56b7/ 2014-01-13T03:02:42+00:00 http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/yp-a-mobile-ad-firm-buys-a-rival-sense-networks/?smid=tw-share jerryking mobile_phones advertising mergers_&_acquisitions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:413733046b70/ 2014-01-11T13:05:11+00:00 http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/09/28/the-economics-of-surveillance/ jerryking>data analysis<< has become more enticing. The price for businesses to store and use a gigabyte of information for a year dropped from $18.95 in 2005 to $1.68 in 2012, and it’s expected to drop to just 66 cents in 2015, says market research firm IDC....The average price of a cellphone has increased 17% over the past 10 years – but processing capability has increased by 13,000% in that same time, ABI says. This allows phones to do things such as shoot video, get email and locate the user on a map, but it also means the devices store a lot of information about people that can be collected and tracked. “Nowadays cellphones are sensors,” said says Col. Lisa Shay, a professor of electrical engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who studies tracking technology. “You’re now carrying a personal sensor with you at all times.” ]]> surveillance massive_data_sets privacy data sensors digital_storage economics West_Point tracking cellphones data_analysis mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3dc1e7d5c22c/ 2014-01-11T13:02:09+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390443995604578004723603576296 jerryking>mixed-and-matched<<, and stored in vast databases.....License-plate databases contain revealing information about people's locations. Police can generally obtain it without a judge's approval. By comparison, prosecutors typically get a court order to install GPS trackers on people's cars or to track people's location via cellphone. License-plate databases don't contain names and addresses of vehicle owners, although that information is available from separate state Department of Motor Vehicle databases. Data about a typical American is collected in more than 20 different ways during everyday activities, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. ]]> tracking surveillance privacy massive_data_sets GPS location_based_services mobile_phones location_data mix-and-match https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:eff7fd788ba0/ 2014-01-05T19:31:33+00:00 http://blog.strauss-group.com/innovation-entrepreneurs/5-mobile-technologies-that-will-change-the-food-industry-forever/ jerrykingfood mobile_applications mobile_phones trends https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e386d6e1277d/ 2013-12-06T21:21:15+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DfW8V45h4kZy6z_3zJRI5MqIXeGjS6grywXOCkxFlS4/edit jerrykingQR_codes scanning Rabobank fresh_produce traceability sensors predictive_analytics decision_making HarvestMark mobile_phones mobile_applications consumer_goods consumer_research consumer_behavior https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:562bea351920/ 2013-11-07T05:31:24+00:00 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/c7e5e492-40ec-11e3-ae19-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2jvsEFIJH jerryking>"The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair" by Michael Deibert << In 1969, it still just about made sense to talk of “Africa”.[i.e. = as a "homogeneous" whole] True, the continent was impossibly diverse, but most African countries above the white-run southern tip shared some basic experiences: recently decolonised, largely agrarian, poor and heading for dictatorship. For that generation, the fall of >>colonialism<< provided a real continent-wide bond. However, since about 2000 the experiences of African countries have >>diverged<< so starkly that it makes almost no sense to speak of “Africa” any more. The very idea of “Africa” came from outside Africa, starting with Herodotus. The most influential African pan-Africanist, Kwame Nkrumah, was inspired by black American and Caribbean thinkers such as W E B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. “Africa” stuck as a tag, because the continent rarely gets enough global attention to be discussed in more subtle terms. Typically the whole continent is labelled with a single phrase, supplied by Anglophone outsiders: Harold MacMillan’s “wind of change” in 1960, Bob Geldof’s “Do they know it’s Christmas?” in 1984, and The Economist’s “Hopeless Continent” in 2000. The global >>ruling class<< increasingly derives its conversation from The Economist and, in December 2011, the magazine’s cover proclaimed: “Africa Rising”. … Dambisa Moyo, the Zambian economist, told me: “Francophone Africa versus Anglophone Africa versus Lusophone Africa – these are very different places.” Moyo says she uses the phrase “Africa” less and less: “I’ve moved away from that. I think it’s >>folly<< to put these countries in the same basket [i.e. = "categorization"] .” Nigeria’s economy, she notes, resembles other big oil exporters like Mexico and Indonesia more than it does Ghana or Zambia. Indeed, African countries have been going off in different directions since about 2000, says Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, political scientist of Africa at Oxford university. Despite certain shared drivers – Chinese investment [i.e = "FDI"], cheap >>mobile phones<<, the end of the >>cold war<< – these countries have diverged sharply.[i.e. = "dissimilarities"] Africa now has fast-growing democracies like Ghana and Botswana; repressive mini-Chinas like Rwanda and Ethiopia; corrupt oil states like Angola and Gabon; failed states like Chad and Somalia; and north Africa post-Arab spring. Not much connects these experiences. . . One-liners about “Africa” shroud this **diverse** reality. Morten Jerven, economist at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, told a recent Oxford Analytica conference that instead of asking, “Is Africa rising?” we should be asking things like, “Is Lusaka rising?” Some capital cities are booming, but anybody who goes around saying “Africa is rising” should be forced to read Michael Deibert’s new book, The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair. True, the word “Africa” still expresses an emotional reality. Since the 1940s, many Africans have come to feel African. It’s one of the identities they have, beside a local and national and perhaps global identity. “African” can be a positive identity. Often, though, it is simply used to mean a victim, a member of the lowest economic category. If that’s the identity [i.e. = as a "lowest common denominator"], then nobody wants to be African…ditch weak-minded [i.e. = "tender-mindedness"] >>generalizations<< such as constantly using a single Ethiopian shoe company, SoleRebels, to stand for Africa’s supposed manufacturing rise…. Some geopolitical phrases obscure reality rather than reveal it. Like “the Islamic world” or “the international community”, “Africa” doesn’t exist. ]]> Africa Simon_Kuper national_identity China China_rising Dambisa_Moyo generalizations fallacies_follies Kwame_Nkrumah Marcus_Garvey W.E.B._Du_Bois diversity DRC nuanced self-identification Anglophone_Africa Francophone_Africa one-size-fits-all overly_monolithic reductionism homogeneous dissimilarities tender-mindedness pan-African ruling_classes books categorization colonialism Cold_War divergence FDI lowest_common_denominator mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f06e58c18ba4/ 2013-08-17T23:08:47+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/marketing/marketing-matters-the-small-problem-with-mobile-ads/article12894825/?page=all jerryking mobile_phones mobile_advertising problems Susan_Krashinsky https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b71c31d17660/ 2013-08-12T10:35:41+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/business/media/nbc-buying-web-service-to-stream-phone-video.html?smid=tw-share jerryking streaming mobile_phones smartphones web_video NBC start_ups Stringwire early-stage https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:74c5fc07d12f/ 2013-07-21T11:02:04+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/marketing/mobile-makes-a-consumer-known-to-retailers/article13311472/ jerryking Indigo retailers mobile_phones mobile_applications bricks-and-mortar customer_loyalty market_research online_advertising Starbucks smartphones Susan_Krashinsky seismic_shifts consumer_behavior personal_shoppers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:103db4c9daf4/ 2013-06-10T20:53:51+00:00 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9869fd34-c7ac-11e2-be27-00144feab7de.html#axzz2VqgJzIDV jerryking Israel start_ups security_&_intelligence mobile_phones Israeli NSO threats cyber_security cyber_warfare encryption smartphones surreptitious surveillance tools traceability tracking listening_devices spyware intelligence-gathering cyberespionage https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:09802425ac46/ 2013-04-12T20:35:20+00:00 https://miiscan.com/ jerrykingmobile_phones mobile_applications scanning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3e3523b5fdea/ 2013-04-11T02:31:43+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323550604578412664150862712.html?mod=WSJ_PersonalTechnology_LEADTop jerryking Facebook Walter_Mossberg smartphones mobile_phones Android https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fe340c234474/ 2013-03-29T15:55:25+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323466204578382733261211950.html?KEYWORDS=evelyn+m+rusli jerryking mobile_phones text_messages messaging https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1ffecfa8ce9a/ 2013-02-09T14:41:02+00:00 http://hbr.org/2013/01/how-people-really-use-mobile/ar/1 jerryking mobile mobile_phones howto HBR visualization infographics vision https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:144ffa9da8f6/ 2013-02-04T19:12:24+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l-Gc94wWVLDSbvRdMzv-_BL4LExEGAUJHynhFkRGbbI/edit jerryking wireless mobile_phones Africa trailblazers HBS women entrepreneur Tanzania Thomas_Petzinger https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5f6f54f67f4c/ 2013-01-10T18:51:40+00:00 http://www.economist.com/news/21566362-africas-cities-take-centre-stage-huddled-masses jerryking>mobile phones<< will win praise in Silicon Valley in 2013, but software can do only so much. Look down the list of growing cities and a host of little-known places like Huambo, Mbuji-Mayi and Mbeya will be expected to serve populations the size of Milan’s—with little >>infrastructure<<. Within a decade >>Lagos<< will have 16m people The standard view of cities as generators of wealth, diversity and ideas will be challenged in Africa. The exclusion of the poor will be magnified by a lack of >>public space<< and by rising living costs. To become >>liveable<<, cities will have to improve **public transport**. Many are trying, but safety will be a challenge: murder, and **violent carjackings** and robberies, will rise in many cities in 2013, sometimes with police involvement....What is certain is that African cities will be the most >>informal economies<< in the world in 2013. Some 70% of workers will live on their wits, relying on day labour [i.e. = "precarious"/"restlessness"/"joblessness" urban youth] to make enough to eat, pay rent and send their children to school. That will make cities dynamic and mobile, but also combustible. ]]> cities Africa Cairo Johannesburg informal_economy Cape_Town Lagos population_growth population_trends urban livability mobile_phones public_transit urban_life urban_metabolism cost_of_living smartphones public_spaces Bottom_of_the_Pyramid infrastructure violent_crime young_people job_creation precarious https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6bd429986ddc/ 2013-01-08T02:41:31+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443324404577594873646163262.html jerryking>hand-held<< devices that are bringing us so much, anywhere we take them, we are beginning to be overwhelmed. Even though I had a near-miss while traveling, I get the feeling that we are becoming overly obsessed with making sure every setting on every device is adjusted to the ideal setting, no matter where we are. As people spend more time >>fine-tuning<< their settings and fidgeting with their apps, at some point the value of the time wasted during a year threatens to offset improvements in our mobile productivity. ]]> travel roaming synchronization Apple hand-held fine-tuning mobile_applications mobile_phones productivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3f12941b6c4f/ 2012-11-28T06:53:44+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324469304578145160952800162.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsFifth jerryking DIY mobile_applications mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:388a2882de94/ 2012-11-01T20:44:22+00:00 http://www.torontolife.com/features/upwardly-mobile/# jerryking mobile_phones Canada wireless Anthony_Lacavera https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:056b9d9c6b64/ 2012-10-31T20:11:40+00:00 http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21565007-geography-matters-much-ever-despite-digital-revolution-says-patrick-lane jerryking geography mapping massive_data_sets mobile_phones mobile https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1a7c46fd0c37/ 2012-10-23T13:52:10+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/technology/in-mobile-world-tech-giants-struggle-to-get-up-to-speed.html?ref=technology&pagewanted=all jerryking mobile mobile_phones location_based_services disruption competitive_landscape large_companies Intel Microsoft Google Marc_Andreessen reinvention physical_world information_gaps special_sauce cyberphysical mass_adoption mobile-first buying/purchasing_intentions money-making traffic_analysis Claire_Cain_Miller https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e788546d3c58/ 2012-09-19T01:48:28+00:00 http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/how-to-avoid-a-smartphones-bite/?src=dayp jerryking roaming mobile_phones travel smartphones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0e61390afbf2/ 2012-09-05T11:35:05+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444772804577621950655761214.html?KEYWORDS=Spencer+Ante jerryking mobile_phones mobile_applications U.S._military Spencer_Ante https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d28d21000804/ 2012-08-27T15:34:10+00:00 http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/08/mobile-phones jerryking>social welfare<<”. That is the economic interpretation of patent law at work. If, as it seems, Apple has had to resort to the courts to stifle competition and limit consumer choice, then it is a sad day for American innovation. That the company can do so with such impunity is an even sadder reflection of how dysfunctional the patent system in the United States has become. The only reason why governments grant patents (and the monopoly rights they entail) is to promote innovation—in the hope of generating jobs and additional sources of revenue. Patents seek to do this by requiring the inventor to make prompt and full disclosure of the idea, so others may seek a licence to use it, or find ways to work around it. In exchange, the inventor is granted the right to exclude competitors for 20 years or so. The **cost to society** of allowing a monopoly to flourish has long been assumed to be outweighed by the benefits that accrue from encouraging individuals to spend their own resources inventing useful things that did not exist before. In short, patents have been seen as a >>necessary evil<< for fostering innovation. That assumption is now being challenged. Indeed, a debate has been raging in the United States over whether patents—especially those granted for protecting >>software<< ideas and >>business processes<<—help or hinder innovation.]]> patents patent_law Apple Samsung mobile_phones smartphones litigation Richard_A._Posner innovation uChicago social_welfare necessary_evils societal_costs business_processes software https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fcf76e8c20bb/ 2012-08-24T08:32:54+00:00 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8QqaQt_ecJlWGVwWXhGamU1SDQ/edit jerryking mobile_phones wireless McKinsey strategy market_segmentation customer_churn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e2b926a7fd70/ 2012-06-26T13:14:04+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wtliFEMnq-71KkTd48Zv04FmZpH4f8pjhD0RY1Y85gI/edit jerryking farming agriculture mobile_phones smartphones tablets surveys https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1148fe0e5ba8/ 2012-06-22T03:15:53+00:00 http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/4527.html jerryking HBR HBS Africa mobile_phones telecommunications entrepreneur developing_countries https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d49005323976/ 2012-06-20T13:08:18+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/d/15qYP5KExohkk0ypNaiUYLJ10FMwyqPnh4CmAPYqZ-QE/edit jerrykingmobile_phones agriculture farming text_messages cloud_computing rural https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:364bb0918ad4/ 2012-06-03T15:20:24+00:00 http://www.e-agriculture.org/sites/default/files/uploads/media/eAg_Sourcebook_1_Dec2011.pdf jerryking>online forums<<. These forums stem from the launch of the World Bank's ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook and the >>growing demand<< [i.e. ="rising demand"] for knowledge on how to use ICT to improve agricultural productivity and raise smallholder incomes. The first forum in this series focused on how ICT can improve agricultural marketing in developing countries. It took place 5-16 December 2011, and Sourcebook module 9 set the stage for the discussion. Forum participants looked into the most promising trends and challenges in ICT use (particularly mobile phones) for short- and long-term market information, agri-inputs, logistics and transport. This summary document captures that discussion.]]> World_Bank marketing agriculture mobile_phones 3rdWorld developing_countries rising_demand smallholders online_discussion_forums growing_demand https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b21a7eb55f67/ 2012-05-22T12:14:18+00:00 http://www.economist.com/node/21555586 jerryking banking disruption massive_data_sets Google Paypal Square smartphones data_mining immigrants migrants remittances judgment mobile_phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1173ad901112/ 2012-05-17T15:38:28+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/beating-the-roaming-charges-blues/article2432337/ jerryking roaming mobile_phones crossborder https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ea10ee3ac86c/