As the lines between console and mobile continue to blur, Apple's eyes remain fixated on conquering the living room experience. Its introduction of AirPlay Mirroring could be a key blow to console makers like Sony and Microsoft who are still trying to gain traction on the mobile frontier. The plethora of content on Apple's App Store combined with portable devices could be the reason why Apple will be the first to deliver a seamless gaming experience. More after the jump.

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Social media is impacting all kinds of industries, even ones that have little or nothing to do with social networking. According to a recent study, the automotive industry is the latest to feel the impacts of new media.


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The education industry is engaging in an interesting debate between those who champion social media as a tool for students to take learning to a new level and those who attempt to keep it out of the classroom altogether. The Detractors Many feel there's no place for Facebook and Twitter in the classroom and the [...]

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Because social media is such an organic form of promotion, its uses are as expansive as the imaginations of those using it. Another key element of social media as a marketing tool is that very often it’s the users themselves who create the content – lending it a community aspect that no other form of [...]

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Steve Jobs resigned last week. This is likely not news to you. But what is interesting is it likely will cripple the consumer electronics industry. Spending quite a bit of time on the speaking circuit, I constantly hear from leaders that they're afraid to use the web for business reasons because they don't want the [...]

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An already dramatic month of technology industry news has moved into the historical category with the announcement of Steve Job's retirement. No doubt the speculation about what this means for Apple and for the computer industry will carry on for days, if not weeks and months. From the point of view of a mobile technology enthusiast, I can't help but wonder what it means for the products that mean the most to me.


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10 years ago the restaurant industry was simple. Once every couple of months a food critic would come along and you would cook your best food and await the review in the newspaper with baited breath. Then restaurant review sites came along and changed all that. Anybody could leave a review but they were mostly biased and for the most part the system didn’t work that well. Now things have changed completely.It’s all down to mobiles, apps and social media and restaurants are faced with a new wave [...]

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I'm not always right (I doubt anyone can in the world of tech if they are trying to predict the future) but here's an example of when I got something really wrong (this was an example from my writing back in 2007). I thought more human-oriented approaches, like Mahalo, would get better results than algorithmic [...]

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GigaOm reports on a statement from an analyst that estimates the mobile technology industry will see about $1.3 trillion in revenue this year. That is, they say, about 2% of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP).Wow! Mobile is now 2% of global GDPHere's another perspective on that estimate. If mobile technology's GDP were for a country, it would have the 13 largest GDP in the world in between Spain and Australia (IMF rankings) or Spain and Mexico (World Bank rankings).List of count [...]

Read More: If the Mobile Tech Industry Was a Country, Its GDP Would be #13 in the World