Google Maps 6.0 helps users navigate indoor locations like IKEA and airports. While this sounds good, Nicole fears it will also breed dumber humans who bump into each other a lot, or something.
So there's a silver lining to every cloud, DreamChaser. So long as they're surfing while safely seated and not driving or walking among others, we can relax a little.
One good thing though. According to Pew Research last Friday . . . More than 80 percent of Generation YouTube are surfing the Web when they should be out looking for work or cleaning their rooms. If not for this the aisles might resemble a human demolition derby.
Oh yeah, I feel like I have that experience daily. People zero in on those screens and are completely oblivious to the rest of their surroundings. That's why I hesitate to give people more of a reason to look down.
It's freaking crazy. I was at Sun Fresh just yesterday to get milk and had to move out of the way of some person staring at the cell phone while walking down the aisle who would have barreled right into me if I hadn't yielded. I felt like saying something but I didn't.
Chris -- terrifying! But only bound to get worse as more and more brilliant developers come up with ideas for mobile driving/parking apps and other fun ways to use your smartphone while you're behind the wheel.
Nicole be thankful that you are only being walked into by people looking down. I drive throughout NJ and on the highway, at a traffic light, in a parking lot, people have their fricken heads down...ALWAYS.
@yettaj Macy's sounds far less terrifying on the iPad than in real life! I say go for it.
The good news, since you miss New York (and who wouldn't?), is that you'll get a glimpse of Rockefeller Center in our upcoming musical holiday video for 2011.
Nicole and Kim have heard the news that Google's new mobile OS, "Jelly Bean," has a voice assistant that's poised to defeat their precious Siri. It's time for another test!
Apple's newest commercial features actress Zooey Deschanel having her requests for weather, soup, and music easily fulfilled by Siri. Nicole and Kim are putting those same questions to the test.
At the IBM Pulse conference, executives urged attendees to stop being guided by hype and start thinking about the cloud and other enterprise "toys" in terms of their own business outcomes.
Google is reportedly working on a pair of Android glasses that will use a low-resolution built-in camera to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings, and friends who might be nearby. Interested?
Location-based services could be combined with ad malware to facilitate targeting of demographic groups such as young females, creating a safety and privacy risk.
A Verizon/Google tablet deal not only shows that tablets are now driving the hardware/software bus, they're also capable of building new alliances between old foes.
Telcos are falling over themselves to launch app stores – but are the app developers listening? Most telcos will need to do a lot more to engage their attention.
Tom wants a Google 'unlocked handset' for the holidays because he thinks they could just break the telco monopoly on handset distribution and thus empower the Internet as the driver of mobile broadband now and forever.
Ushering in a new era of cognitive computing systems, IBM announced today the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, a technology breakthrough that allows brands to crunch big data in record time to transform the way they engage clients in key functions such as customer service, marketing, and sales.
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