Category: Trends

  • Stream (and buy) music while you do the grocery shopping

    If you do your grocery shopping in Tesco, you may already know that you can stay connected in the depths of the typical supermarket where no network signal usually reaches, thanks to Tesco’s own wifi network in most stores. Now,…

  • Twitter: Where off the record is on the record

    There can be few people who wouldn’t agree that Twitter use by people is very much part of the mainstream these days. Even if you don’t use Twitter yourself – meaning, you don’t have a Twitter handle nor do you…

  • Facebook could be a standard feature in credit scoring

    German news magazine Der Spiegel reports that Germany’s largest credit agency plans to mine Facebook and other social networking sites in search of information that could help the agency determine what effect online relationships may have on people’s abilities to…

  • Inside the connected car

    Very interesting assessment of in-car technology with some quotable predictions from Intel, eg: By next year the car will be the third most-connected place in which people spend time. By 2016, how connected a car is will be a critical…

  • CEO reputation paramount in the see-thru world

    What role does the reputation of a company’s chief executive play in the reputation of his or her company and, thus, the likely business success or failure of that company? It’s a crucial question that draws some fascinating answers in…