Archive
Year: 2019
Qualcomm Writes 5G’s Next Chapter With New Chips, Previews Key CES Theme
Like the “chicken-and-egg” metaphor, many are wondering when 5G will start to take off. Carriers such as T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T have added support to their respective networks but there are few phones currently 5G-enabled. And for those who can take advantage of the new speed, there are caveats—it’s anything but a perfect system […]
Introducing Filed
I’m a news junkie—I admit it—and spend countless hours at work, on my commute to and from, and even during my personal time scouring the internet looking for what’s going on in the world. Whether it’s tech-related, business, political, world, sports, or entertainment, I yearn to consume that knowledge. And I’m obsessed with sharing the […]
Facebook’s VR (Dys)topia
As I watched Facebook unveil the latest developments in virtual reality at last month’s Oculus Connect developer conference, there were two things going through my mind. First, there’s excitement in hearing about the latest game titles that’ll be available with Oculus VR, but it’s the second that has me the most concerned: the VR incarnation […]
Zendesk’s New Developer Platform Lets Brands Incorporate Customer Chat Support Into Apps
“If you don’t reach them on channels where they communicate, you’ll lose them,” Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane told me in an interview three years ago. It was at that time when the company head detailed how the customer service and support landscape was changing. “You have to embrace all the platforms, but you have to […]
Square Banks on Developer Platform to Woo Larger Sellers in March Upmarket
“The journey is one of peaks and valleys,” Carl Perry remarked, describing in a cautiously optimistic tone the progress made with the developer program he manages at Square. For more than six years, the commerce company has gradually opened more of itself up to third-party developers in a bid to bring its experience to more […]
HiHello Tackles the Professional Networking Problem: What to Do With All Those Business Cards?
Recently, I’ve begun doing a bit of KonMari’ing in my home, and eventually it led me to several boxes unnecessarily taking up space. In them were hundreds of business cards that had accrued over the years. Parsing through them, filtering out outdated cards, and trying to remember where I met people, I wished for a […]
Facebook Touts Privacy Future, But Critics Question Sincerity
“Today we are going to talk about building a privacy-focused social platform,” said Mark Zuckerberg as he began his keynote address at this year’s F8 developer conference. Facebook’s soon-to-be 35-year old chief executive took the stage to introduce the world to what he hoped his creation could become, one that pressured its users to be […]
Mark Zuckerberg To Make Case To Developers That Privacy Is A Good Thing
On a May morning, Mark Zuckerberg, weeks after an intense grilling by members of Congress, made what would be his first public address, telling a room full of developers: We have real challenges to address, but we have to keep [our optimism for the future] as well. And what I’ve learned this year is that […]
‘Lifescale:’ The Movement Aimed at Freeing Us From Digital Distractions and Reigniting Our Creativity
Sitting down to write this article, I’m immediately distracted by an explosive opinion piece that has crossed my desk, requiring me to tweet excerpts to my followers. I’m also uneasy about the music coming from my Sonos speaker, so I’m on my phone searching for the right genre so I can concentrate. And as soon […]
As AI Dominates More of Our Lives, How Design Can Mitigate Unethical Behavior
Last April, former President Barack Obama released a video warning us not to believe everything we see and hear on the internet, at least many thought it was from the ex-president. In actuality, it was produced by actor and director Jordan Peele using artificial intelligence (AI) and highlighted deepfakes. There are many examples of how […]