
Fine Print
We have all seen pharmaceutical commercials with all kinds of nauseating side effects listed. I think technology ads need some similar caveats. Here are some examples 1. AT&T The first vignette in the commercial should say “Apple says the iPhone Siri will support Italian in 2012. The young man is shown using the Telecom Italia […]

Cloud apps, big data and the wisdom of swarms
It was only after my wife acquired an iPhone 4S this week that I fully understood the importance of big data for SaaS vendors. Did you need to train Siri to recognise your voice, I wondered? What I found from a brief Internet search was a revelation. I’m old enough to remember the PC-based voice […]

Evolution of the User Interface
I’ve used Siri for 3ish weeks now and this morning, as I was "talking to" my iPhone, I was thinking about the way we interact with computing devices and how much that has changed in only a few years. I…