The first episode of The Simpsons — “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” — originally aired 22 years ago today.
Via I'm Remembering!“Google’s Android Update Alliance is already dead,” reports Jamie Lendino for PCMag.com.
…that anyone would have believed in this pipedream in the first place.
Maybe it’s a bit unfair of Lendino to call the Alliance “dead” — but it’s hard to figure out what else he should say. He talked to Motorola, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon — not a single one would address the pledge announced at Google I/O. Meanwhile, AT&T, HTC, and LG apparently won’t comment about anything at all.
According to Andy Rubin at I/O, the details of the Alliance were more or less a formality being sorted out. “Over the next few weeks, we’ll figure it out.”
That was seven months ago. There’s apparently been zero progress. Remarkably, maybe less than zero.
Google has really perfected “over-promise, under-deliver” with this one.
Kenya Has Mobile Health App Fever - Technology ReviewMobile health platforms are fast emerging in Kenya, where one startup’s newly launched mobile health platform is attracting nearly 1,000 downloads daily, and the dominant telecom, Safaricom, has forged a partnership that will give its 18 million subscribers access to doctors.Will Africa be the leading continent when it comes to use new and mobile technology in health care? Will that let them to leapfrog the whole problem of gigantic health care systems which we in the west now see suffocating from demographic pressure, and increasing and toxicating complexification, both internally and externally.
a picture tells a thousand words
It looks like the music industry have been able to manage the technology transition pretty well so far.
Despite all the whining…
In the coming decade we will see how the music industry manages the transformation to a prosumtion economy as well. So far mainly the distribution channel has been severely disrupted…




