If we accept that Gmail has become the de facto future of personal email and is starting to ensnare large numbers of business users (by virtue of being free or near-free, even for domain users), then anything that steps up its game in terms of providing better context for email is a welcome addition. Rapportive [...]
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Tech without growth? It’s not only possible, it’s what we should do
Mother Jones recently had an immensely interesting piece about the impossibility of assuming that the earth can support endless economic growth. To date, economists at both ends of the political spectrum have implicitly assumed that ‘growth is good’ and inevitable. Economic growth has been viewed as the natural state, much in the same way that [...]
Comparing the tech giants
Apart from finding yourself wondering, “why these four specifically?,” this is a handy comparison put together by the New York Times back in January. It’s a sort of “completeness check” comparing each of the four contenders’ line-ups in fields as diverse as gaming hardware, browsers and online music stores. What it leaves out is an [...]
What makes a smartphone successful?
It’s been more than a month since I last blogged here. I took some well-deserved time off during December. Since last time, I’ve bought an Apple iPhone (more hipster stuff) and Google launched its Nexus One phone. Coincidentally, both happened on the same day but there was no intentional relationship between these events (unless Google [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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