Cellnovo raises $48m to bring Apple-like experience to diabetes management
It seems that Walt Mossberg’s wish for a diabetes product and service that doesn’t suck – in fact more like his beloved iPhone – is coming true. UK based Cellnovo has just announced a hefty $48m Series B for their diabetes management solution – pump, handset and online service. Heck, even the packaging looks like it’s [...]
The Google Phone – a slippery sucker
I left Nokia last week after six fun-filled years to pursue new challenges, and am currently exploring a range of these – will post updates when there’s more to report. However, one of the advantages is that I can now (with a clear conscience) use non-Nokia phones. Now for a mobile guy, the choice of [...]
To get value out of the real-time web, thinks stock tips rather than Starbucks
The Real-Time Web is fairly frothy right now, with numerous startups either feeding the Twitter beast or extending the status update idea, witness the Facebook redesign, FriendFeed or the buzzy event-focused HotPotato. This is going to be an ever bigger story that needs to be better understood – Gartner points out that most firms lack a real [...]
AdMob reaps the benefits of simplicity
I don’t know Omar, but I’ve known employee number 2 at Admob Russell Buckley (one half of the MobHappy gang) - for a number of years. Wonderful result for him and the team, and a lesson for me. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking up fancy-schmancy new mobile advertising paradigms, most of which are gathering [...]
Mary Meeker finally gives mobile the thumbs up
Morgan Stanley Internet guru Mary Meeker presented her much-anticipated annual Internet trends talk at the Web2.0 Summit yesterday. This is the first time (she’s been at this about a decade) that she’s finally seen this to be the year of the mobile Internet, and spends most of the slides on that. Couldn’t agree more, in [...]
The birth of mainstream 3D screens that don’t suck
There must have been a bunch of garage-dwelling coders being roused today with a poke in the ribs and an urgent “Dude wake up, you gotta see this!”. As they groggily clear away the pizza boxes and gather round their PC screen, I imagine there’s a collective intake of breath and murmured profanities as they [...]
The new Picasa – Big brother with a friendly face
One of my favorite (and somewhat underrated) services from Google is their photo management sofatware Picasa. They bought this from IdeaLab in 2004, but unlike numerous other Big Co acquisitions, it’s kept improving. It has a very smooth PC photo management client that is good at handling large numbers of pictures (though navigation is sometimes a [...]
Magic pills and the $290bn missing medicine opportunity
The WSJ reports on some fascinating new wireless apps that both improve patient care and lower costs. An industry report talks about annual savings from remote monitoring at “$10.1 billion for U.S. sufferers of congestive heart failure, $6.1 billion for diabetes and $4.9 billion for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.” Partly based on this promise, there [...]
Mobile payments just got a whole lot easier
People often wonder why Europe and North America lag behind Asia when it coms to mobile payments. Japan’s experience with Sony’s Felica system is a case in point – ubiquity of phones and vendors allowing RFID-based contactless payments for all manner of things. Without going into too much hair-pulling detail, the answer for the West’s woes [...]
Slightly surreal email marketing
Had to do a double take on this email i just received: “Dear Mr Johnston, Apologies for the intrusion. According to our records we don’t have permission to contact you by email. If you’re happy with this arrangement, you need not do anything. To encourage you to reconsider, please take a look at Your Preferences [...]
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- 2007/03 – Corporate Wikis Go Viral (Business Week) Two European companies show how the collaborative practice spreads from early adopters of wikis at work to become mainstream business tools
- 2007/03 – Recommended Reading (Wall Street Journal) Mr. Johnston is one of the brightest minds in the business of connecting people. His insights spring from working on Nokia strategy from London. The site focuses largely on the direction of the new economy and lets readers profit from the insights of some
- 2008/04 – Mobility and location (The Economist) – reg reqd MICHAEL HALBHERR was driving from Berlin to Budapest the other day when he passed what looked like an empty field. The fact that his mobile phone stayed quiet annoyed him. Here he was, speeding by the site of Napoleon’s great victory at Austerlitz, and no
- 2008/11 – Innovation in America: A Gathering Storm (The Economist) Confronted by Asia’s technological rise and the financial crisis, corporate America is losing its self-confidence. It should not
- 2009/06 – MBA Tales: Searching for Work in a Recession (Business Week) For the Class of 2009, landing a job may seem next to impossible, but for the Class of 2002, flexibility and persistence paid big dividends
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