Category: tech related
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Sony and Crosscall Mobile phone advertising
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Sony Xperia Z5 compact is for women who blog about fashion and the Sony Xperia M5 is for baristas who dream of owning a sports car but can’t quite pay for it yet. These adverts will never hook me in to wanting their products. I’m the type of person who lives…
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Netflix provides a better opportunity for documentary content distribution than Discovery
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the 1990s when satellite distribution of television content was in it’s infancy we got a satellite dish and I would watch the Discovery Channel from the start of the broadcast day to when the programmes were played for the second time that day. By watching so many documentaries I learned a…
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Fribourg was liberated by Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva Ingress resistance fighters
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis weekend teams of Resistance Ingress agents from Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva met in Fribourg to neutralise and capture all Enlightened portals. Some teams were on foot to liberate portals from the centre of the city. I was with the bike team and we took care of liberating all of the…
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Comment on “The BBC is under threat because its success challenges market ideology”
Reading Time: 3 minutesImagine for a moment that television did what other industries did. Imagine for a minute that every program you watched was so good you wanted to pay money for it. If people want to pay money to watch it then your content is valid and worthwhile. Commercial peak time television is rubbish…
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The Fitbit Charge HR
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Fitbit Charge HR is one of the better heart rate and step counting solutions out at the moment. It allows you to keep track of your steps and heart rate twenty four hours a day for a little less than a week between charges. It is a wrist worn activity tracker…
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TomTom Go and the diminishing cost of live traffic data when driving
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday with Tomtom Go you pay 20CHF per year for the maps and traffic information. When I first bought the TomTom Europe apps for iOS and Android they cost about 170CHF an operating system. If my memory serves me well traffic information would cost an additional 100 CHF per year. As a…
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Amersports and Sports tracker
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday Amer Sports announced that it has bought Sports tracker. Sports Tracker is an application that I have been using since I had the Nokia N95 8GB. I used it on symbian, iOS and Android devices over the years. What I love about this app is the way it displays information about…
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Video piracy in the 21st century
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I was watching a Magnum PI episode where Higgins had a film camera pointed at the television screen to record a game of snooker broadcast from “half way around the world” by satellite.  Today I noticed this article speaking of the way in which twitter’s Periscope app and Meerkat…
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Ingress Operation Apache, Covering Geneva in Blue.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOperation Apache Ingress is a selfless game when you play as a team. The driver gets no AP. Other operators get a few AP for breaking portals. Three individuals gets hundreds of thousands of Mind Units (MU). Rather than feel a sense of achievement I feel fatigue. The first reason is to…
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Social conversations and the social media
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you read “How to Win Friends and Influence People” you see how important it is to take notice of other people, to be positive and to be interested in what they are doing. That can be a challenge for everyone. We all have different priorities so putting other people first is…