One of our newest members to the ng Connect Program is digitalmusic.org, the home for the digital initiatives of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), the music industry’s trade association. They have been instrumental in the development of digital music standards and practices today, and they recently evolved their Digital Think Tank working group [...]
The pace of technological change seems to occur at a more dizzying rate each year. Remaining relevant requires continuous adjustment. Enterprises stuck in a mode of “status quo” are readily being displaced by innovative, disruptive companies that creatively find new ways to do things through technology innovations and development of new value chains. The ng [...]
Connectivity has changed the way we do business. It has fundamentally improved how we get directions, how we use our phones and how we interact with companies. And yet, there are some experiences that could benefit greatly from being engaged in the connected experiences but don’t. Here’s my wish list. 1. Doctor’s Offices It’s a [...]
The 2011 NARM convention was an experience that reaffirmed ng Connect’s position and trajectory towards delivering next generation services that augment the user experience. NARM has been the trade association for the music business, providing a central platform for the discussion of industry-wide concerns and spearheading the implementation of initiatives to advance the industry. During [...]
Like many others at Alcatel-Lucent, I attended the Bell Labs Open Days on May 10 at Villarceaux, about 20 miles from Paris. I took my time going around all the demos and taking them for what they were – grainy snapshots of work in progress, hastily put together in an effort to socalize what science [...]
The concept of instant connectivity to the desired information, “anyone to anything to anywhere”, has lead an active pursuit of new wireless technologies and shaped our personal devices into a multi-communication medium, considered science fiction just a few decades ago. Our daily information is constantly streamed between our smart phones, notebooks and online services. The [...]
By 2015, International Data Corporation pundits project 45.4% of mobile phones to be Android, while Windows Operating System and iOS phones will capture 20.9% and global 15.3% of market share respectively. This diverse digital landscape means that companies will need to adapt to a variety of operating systems within the next few years to remain [...]
Love it AND hate it – we are well on our way to becoming a mobile, connected society, with a variety of mobile devices that allow us to text, Tweet or search the Web from just about anywhere. Love it – because we can easily stay safely connected with our friends, family and co-workers while [...]
Few anticipated (in particular those concerned with privacy in the network), that consumers would adopt cloud services so quickly and massively. Web-based services like email and photo sharing have been with us now for a long time (“long”, certainly as defined in technological terms). But new services unheard of by most consumers until recently, are [...]