Tag Archives: insight

Heated pavements in Helsinki

I know I am late to this, but how amazing and obvious is this?

Like everything, obvious when it slaps you round the face.

Here I am, speaking at an industry event in Helsinki.

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The Future of Mobile is not Smartphones

At the MRMW event last week (Market Research in the Mobile World) Lumi Mobile revealed their results of over 3,000 interviews with people around the World. Read more »

Robot Market Research

2 interesting pieces in the news this week.

Does this mean Robots are going to find their way into mainstream market research?

And … does it mean we will dispense with the inconsistency, expense and time associated with interviewing humans?

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A Mobile Future?

Are humans simply the phones way of reproducing itself?

 

Is Kurzweil becoming more accurate by the day?

 

Who will be our John Connor?

 

Meantime, let’s embrace mobile as the way forward for all of us.

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Peak SMS moments during the Olympics

Sysbase have completed an interesting analysis of SMS traffic during the Olympics games.

 

The infographic is here – any surprises?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking East – 15 years on for Hong Kong

Is all happy in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong’s biggest protest for nearly a decade packed the former British colony’s streets Sunday in a defiant reception for its new leader and a show of popular anger after 15 years of Chinese rule.

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Looking East – Consumer Confidence

The Towers

As the Grand Prix passes through Malaysia, let’s look at Consumer Confidence.

After the economy shrunk by 1.7% in 2009, GDP growth bounced back in 2010 at 7.2%. Read more »

Looking East – Vietnam

10 years ago these were all bicycles.As news reaches us that Panasonic is cutting jobs in Newport to switch production to Vietnam we thought it would be useful to remind us all of how Vietnam is transforming into a truly amazing business destination.

Currently growing at an annual rate in excess of 7% it is one of the fastest growing economies in the World, with PWC predicting it to be the fastest growing emerging economy by 2025, with GDP of 70% of the UK. Read more »

Heard the one about the Ram and the Deer on Valentine’s Day?

Star-crossed lovers Changmao the ram and Chunzi the deer will be “married” during a Valentine’s Day wedding ceremony at a zoo in Yunnan, China.

Theirs was a forbidden love. Unnatural, some said.

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Looking East – Shanghai

Ever wanted to travel over 40mph in an Elevator?

That’s what you can do in 2014 in Shanghai!

The fastest elevators in The World have been unveiled by Mitsubishi for the Shanghai Tower. By contrast, at the World’s current tallest skyscraper, Burj Kahlifa’s elevators only reach 26mph.

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