Tag Archives: Customer Experience

FierceWireless Virtual Summit on Embedded Wireless

This week, our own Omar Tellez participated in a virtual summit on embedded wireless hosted by FierceWireless.  His presentation, “Achieving Successful Partnerships in Connected Devices Ecosystem,” can be viewed below:    

Takeaways From the 2010 Connected Devices Summit – The Connected User Experience

We were truly honored to be joined by over 50 participants representing a broad slice of the connected devices ecosystem (Accel Partners, Asus, Best Buy Mobile, Brightpoint, Cricket, CTIA, DELL, NTT DoCoMo, HP, Lenovo, Level 3, Motorola, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony, Sprint, Time Warner Cable, and US Cellular) in Calistoga, CA to address the key [...]

The Connected Devices Summit – Putting a Framework in Place for the Industry to Succeed

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, [...]

Illustrating the Connected Devices Dynamics

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 [...]

A Disruptive Change in the Value Chain; Looking at the Forest Not the Trees

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?