by Jeffrey Mann | June 29, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Ah Minitel.I always had a soft spot for this strange, pre-HTTP online service. It was kind of like the Internet, except for most of the things that make the Internet so compelling. And now it is finally going away. To be honest, I didn’t realize it was still around so its continued existence was the [...]
Category: consumerization devices europe technology Tags: France, Minitel
by Jeffrey Mann | February 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
Good systems have good user interfaces. They anticipate what we want to do, learn our preferences and foibles; protect us from mistakes. As devices get better at anticipating what we do, they gradually become a part of our personalities, as we get more and more accustomed to how they learn about us and come to [...]
Category: Applications devices predictions Tags: design, travel, user interface
by Jeffrey Mann | February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
This was going to be a rant about one of my pet peeves: Why does every electronic device have to have its own power cord and data cable? I am not a great gadget person, but I have accumulated a fair share of doo-hickeys: mobile phones, PDAs, iPods, work computers, GPS navigators, personal computers, cameras, [...]
Category: devices RIM Tags: blackberry, cables, chargers, GSMA, mobile, Nokia
