24 January 2012 - We all know the story. Waste Management outfitted its trucks with ”non-Apple” tablets, loaded with software for route and pickup instructions that it had rewritten to work with tablets. The company was testing whether it could save money and improve performance with off-the-shelf consumer tablets rather than having to use industry-specific, ruggedized devices to replace [...]
17 January 2012 - When Apple introduced the iPad a couple of years ago, one of the product’s promises was that it could change the classroom experience. It looks to do that on Thursday. Having trolled the digital media bloggers plus conversations we had at CES2012 in Las Vegas last week, Apple is reportedly working with some of [...]
21 December 2011 – Google’s video publishing powerhouse YouTube recently unveiled a major upgrade to its video analytics predecessor YouTube Insight. The new system, YouTube Analytics, features a much-improved dashboard that’s easy to navigate and understand. Beyond aesthetics, YouTube Analytics also includes a cache of new tools that allows you to have a [...]
1 September 2011 – No sooner do I touch down in Paris after 4+ glorious weeks at home in Greece but the DOJ decides to challenge the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. I have been involved in the merger on two levels: providing attorneys (through two of my companies Project Counsel and The Posse List) for the massive document reviews involved in the [...]
29 July 2011 — I am off for my 4-week summer holiday, heading home to Naxos for sailing-sun-sand. Each summer I take a large chunk of time and “disengage”, from late July through early September, fleeing my work-base in Brussels and heading home to Greece. It is my time, where I read a bit, write [...]
18 July 2011 – Apple has netted a victory in its legal dispute with HTC as a U.S. International Trade Commission judge ruled the Taiwanese cellphone maker infringed two patents that Apple had cited in a March 2010 complaint to the agency. The patents relate to multimedia processing technology and data detection [...]
12 July 2011 — Online marketplace eBay is likely to have to increase measures to stop the sale of counterfeits, following today’s judgment from the Court of Justice of the EU. The Court’s ruling on questions referred from the UK High Court in a case between L’Oréal and eBay has just been released and it makes grim [...]
3 July 2011 - Last week we were invited to attend the OECD’s High-Level Meeting on the Internet Economy, held in Paris. It came on the heels of the Digital Assembly in Brussels last month and the e-G8 Summit in May, the latter being the first “e-Summit” at such a [...]
29 May 2011 – You could not have asked for a better “buzz prelude” to last week’s BookExpo America (BEA) in New York: the Amazon/Kindle news, the bid for Barnes & Noble and the Waterstone’s purchase were all rocking the industry, points I touched upon earlier in the week (click here). But there was also a revelation: technological [...]
28 May 2011 — Courtsey of one of our telecom clients, we had a ring-side seat to the e>G8 Forum on the Internet last week. And the setting was perfect: the Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries) which is an enormous public garden located between the Louvre Museum and the Place de la Concorde in the [...]
