A week or so ago I blogged about how awesome intelligent-object recognition apps for the iphone are and their potential to influence consumer behavior.  Here’s a BBC article about Bokodes.  New, more sophisticated barcodes that just might change how we interact with objects in our world in a big way.  Still no mention of using [...]

I had a feeling this was coming.  And I’m glad it’s sooner than later.  An app has been developed for the iPhone that allows it to recognize objects “based on visuals through the iPhone camera, a RFID reader or through GPS, and then fetches the data from related databases.” It’s currently being billed as a [...]

In a recent interview with The Washington Post, Microsoft chief exec. Steve Ballmer claimed, among other things, that within the next 10 years there will be “no media consumption left… that is not delivered over an IP network.  There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form.”  When I saw this [...]