Entries Tagged as 'Youth Trends'
September 15th, 2008 by Allison
Having a name like “Next Great Thing” we are often asked, “So… What is it?” Over the next few months, we’ll be blogging our “Top Mobile Trends” every Monday to help answer that question.
Now, we aren’t claiming we’ve discovered these (”Twitter! Eureka!!”). Rather, we’ll be presenting the prevailing themes we’ve seen emerging over the […]
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Tags: Apps & Widgets · Mobile · TV & Video · Top Mobile Trends · Youth Trends
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September 12th, 2008 by NGT
HANDSETS
Touchscreens getting big for Asian market [IntoMobile]
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, Japan is really getting into touchscreens. This is backed up ina new report from ABI: “Because it’s difficult to represent even a fraction of the common Asian characters on a QWERTY-style keyboard, touch screen devices on which characters can be written with a stylus […]
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Tags: Auto · Culture & Entertainment · Emerging Technology · Handsets · Mobile · Music · TV & Video
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September 11th, 2008 by Forest
Yesterday we looked at what mobile consumers in Japan want, one of which was smartphones. What Japan Thinks has some new survey results backing this up: Only 20% of respondents said they can’t see themselves using one in the future. The data also supports the notion that Japanese consumers actually dig the iPhone. Camera and […]
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Tags: Asia · Emerging Technology · Mobile · Social Networking · World Wide Web
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September 10th, 2008 by Allison
Americans are becoming increasingly fascinated by the quirky culture of Japan, especially their mobile technology. It runs so deep, that “digital” and “online” are synonymous with “mobile.” Why is this? And can we expect it in the U.S.? Our colleague Lucy King in Tokyo helped shed some light with a look at the state […]
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Tags: Asia · Mobile
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September 9th, 2008 by Sarah
We talk a lot about “curation” and its importance in our media- and technology-saturated world. So we find it suiting that museums are rising to the occasion, adding their editorial expertise to new media channels.
For awhile now, museums have been taking advantage of mobile technology-mobile audio for special exhibits, applications that provide details on […]
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Tags: Art · Culture & Entertainment · Mobile
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