Category Archives: Technology

Smart TV’s

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Murray Hill

If you don’t have one of these new ones does that mean your older TV is reasonably intelligent? By those standards I’m sure we all have at least one in our homes that is completely stupid!

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What difference does it make if the builders and designers of a new tech product were male or female? The writer of the article I was reading thought it was important enough to mention it. I wonder if the designers … Continue reading →

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Your operating system

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Murray Hill

Something I read in today’s Monday Morning Memo from the Wizard of Ads, Roy Williams, made me think and wonder. Isn’t that why we read? Borrowing a couple of popular and well understood tech terms, “operating system” and “applications”, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Human Behaviour, Personal Branding, Technology | Tagged applications, apps, behaviours, functionality, operating systems, performance, technology, usefulness, value | Leave a comment

Croud searching

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Murray Hill

We have a new term to use! We are familiar with crowd sourcing where people come together online to proved information and also we know about crowd funding where people choose to invest in the ideas of others. Now we … Continue reading →

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Mobile Technology

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Murray Hill

No, I’m not talking about smart phone technology. I’m talking about new cars. There is a lot of noise (new geek term) lately about cars that can drive themselves, parallel park themselves and more. The latest story is about wi-fi … Continue reading →

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Failed display

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Murray Hill

In the high tech world of The Consumer Electronics Show you would think it would be fairly easy to set up a simple promotion display? Apparently not.

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Some core points of Apple’s fourth quarter earnings

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Murray Hill

Five years ago, the iPhone and iPad did not exist. Today they represent 72% of Apple’s earnings. This is not longer just a computer company. It has been re-imagined into a tech company, or a mobile company or a….I don’t … Continue reading →

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Mobile Branding

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Murray Hill

There are two clear leaders in mobile operating systems. Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. I think that the winner in the race to build equity in their brand with sales of mobile phones is Apple. Google’s model is to provide … Continue reading →

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Appy New Year!!!!

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Murray Hill

250,000,000 apps were downloaded from Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market just on Christmas day. Yes, that’s 1/4 billion apps on one day! That’s a lot of angry birds.