We’ll be hosting the connected devices industry in Calistoga next month. The event, Connected Devices Summit – “The Connected User Experience” will be held at the Calistoga Ranch (May 16-18). We are truly excited about this event. Based on the number of RSVPs received from a broad set of companies representing the connected devices ecosystem, [...]
Purchasing a notebook or netbook on Dell.com just got easier with the company’s Mobile Activation Center, which provides a Web-based portal to activate the device’s broadband plan and data card. Powered by Synchronoss, Dell’s Mobile Activation Center is designed to make purchasing connected devices effortless, or idiot-proof according to Engadget. Dell has championed the direct-to-consumer [...]
Just got back to the office after spending a few action-packed days in Las Vegas attending CTIA. The energy and enthusiasm at this year’s event with respect to connected devices could have easily powered all the hotels and casinos in the desert for several years. Here are a few observations:
January 21, 2010 – 6:02 PM
Paying homage to Mary Meeker (i.e.: Morgan Stanley), The Wachowski Brothers (i.e.: the Matrix) and Om Malik (i.e.: Giga OM), we designed the attached poster which captures the essence of this space. We hope you enjoy it and in case you figure out who “Neo” is, let us know. We have some clues. Click here [...]
January 11, 2010 – 9:33 AM
CES 2010 – Las Vegas, NV
A day does not go by at CES without a new connected device being launched and the analyst community having a feast on its feature/ functionality comparison vis-à-vis other benchmarks (i.e.: Kindle vs. Nook vs. Que; Acer Aspire vs. Asus Eee; iPhone vs. Nexus One).
Like many others, in the recent Nexus One case, Mossberg and Pogue dived into a feature-by-feature comparison and drilled down on minutia such as the capacity of user accessible memory of these new connected devices (yawn – who cares?) . It is surprising that few if any journalists/analysts (Frommer excluded) have highlighted the enormous and disruptive shift that the value chain buy flow is experiencing and the implications it will have in the broader ecosystem.
What is Changing?
