Research and Design for Emerging Economies
Technology companies training their eyes on the growing mass of consumers and businesses in emerging economy regions are faced with the challenge of catering to diverse customers in unexpected environments. Bringing technology to underserved a…
Meet the speakers: Gus Desbarats
Gus spent the early part of his career as an automotive designer for some of Europe’s leading car manufacturers. Today he leads the award-winning Alloy Total Product Design company, applying a user-centred approach to the design of everything fro…
Building a new navigation experience
The concept of expanding the power of a network through peer-to-peer (P2P) interactions has been applied in numerous areas – file sharing, mesh wireless coverage and messaging to name just a few. A company called Mexens is now using this techniqu…
Is the browser the only truly mass market platform?
In response to yesterday’s article on the use of Java by application developers targeting mass market opportunities, Kevin Perkins – CEO of Greenlight Wireless – contacted me with information on his company’s Skweezer service.
Kevin believes th…
4th generation future
With 3G only just starting to tip the balance of mass adoption in developed markets, talk of the next generation of mobile networks – inevitably referred to as 4G – may seem a little premature. However, major adoption cycles like the introduction…
Java = mass market
Despite the growing challenge of optimising applications for individual Java implementations, Sun’s platform remains the clear choice for developers seeking mass market adoption. While open OS smartphone volumes are rising rapidly, Java’s overwhe…
Meet the speakers: Andy Tiller
Dr Andy Tiller leads the development of Cognima‘s seamless replication technology. The company’s SNAP platform maintains an automated link between data such as photos or contacts on a user’s handset and an online information store. This has a wi…
Meet the speakers: Julian Swallow
Julian’s history in the mobile industry dates back to early days of handheld computing, when as a founder and CEO of Purple Software, he led the development of some of the most widely used mobile computing games and applications in the 1990s.
A…