iPhone 6 Plus
The first pleasure of each iPhone is to watch the logistical system in action. I ordered the iPhone 6 Plus at four AM on September 12. It shipped from ZhengZhou, China eight days later, and then moved today to Incheon, Korea. I’ll post the subsequent moves during the week. I am looking forward to holding the […]
Apple – Another Successful Keynote
As usual, the Apple Keynote to introduce the Apple Watch and two new iPhones, was done with great marketing aplomb. Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you told them works every time. Apple has it down pat. Dan Frommer over at Quartz, believes that Apple Keynotes, made […]
Resy on Bitcoin
I don’t know what the ultimate number of mobile apps may be, but there is no end in sight to the stream of innovation. I’ll have much more to say about mHealth apps (a key topic in my new book) soon, but the app I want to comment on today is Resy. The problem Resy […]
Sequencing the Genome of An Unborn Baby
Beginning in 1990, more than 200 scientists collaborated on a $3-billion project to sequence the roughly 3 billion bases of human DNA. Between 2002 and 2008 the cost to perform the sequencing gradually declined from $100 million to $10 million. The introduction of next generation sequencing technology in 2008 led to a plummeting of the cost over the six […]
Reflections on Bitcoin – 12: A Pause
Bitcoin is taking a pause as it slips below $500. Some would say it is in trouble, but once again, I say that bitcoin is following the pattern of the web of the mid-1990s. There are fits and starts, many skeptics, incomplete architecture, and looming threats. CoinDesk, a global news source for Bitcoin happenings, presented it’s […]