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[LooseWire Blog] Swiss to Cheese: Apple Transforms Another Industry

February 9, 2020

Dear Subscriber, hope 2020 has been good to you so far, and you're staying safe and well. This week I wrote about some new Apple Watch numbers and how, once...

[LooseWire Blog] Swiss to Cheese: Apple Transforms Another Industry

February 9, 2020

Dear Subscriber, hope 2020 has been good to you so far, and you're staying safe and well. This week I wrote about some new Apple Watch numbers and how, once...

ICYMI: Apple, Again, Creates a Market Out of Nothing. And It’s Massive

January 6, 2020

Dear Subscriber, hope you had a good new year’s break and are warm/dry/inferno-free, depending on where you happen to be. This week I wrote about AirPods and...

ICYMI: Apple, Again, Creates a Market Out of Nothing. And It’s Massive

January 6, 2020

Dear Subscriber, hope you had a good new year’s break and are warm/dry/inferno-free, depending on where you happen to be. This week I wrote about AirPods and...

[LooseWire Blog] The Future of Work Rethought + A Battery-less Future?

December 22, 2019

Dear Subscriber, hope you're well. This week I wrote about The Future of Work and explored about A Battery-less Future. The pieces are below. As ever,...

[LooseWire Blog] The Future of Work Rethought + A Battery-less Future?

December 22, 2019

Dear Subscriber, hope you're well. This week I wrote about The Future of Work and explored about A Battery-less Future. The pieces are below. As ever,...

[loose wire] Volocopters, Content and 5G health spats

October 28, 2019

Dear *|FNAME|*, hope you're well. This week I ask Is 5G Bad for You, take another jaundiced look at the subscription model economy, and pick my way through...

[loose wire] hot phones, no holes, odd shapes and odd numbers

October 11, 2019

Dear Subscriber, my apologies for the silence over the past few months. I'm now back to writing regularly, and will try to share via this newsletter on a...

[loose wire] Microsoft, never sexy, grows up

October 2, 2018

Dear Subscriber, here's my latest offering, an opinion(ated) piece on some of Microsoft's latest moves. It's quietly reshaping itself, something I figured...

[loose wire] the future of jobs is in Asia's smaller cities

September 13, 2018

Dear Subscriber, some more fodder for thinking, this time something I wrote for Cisco, who have just launched a report on Technology and the future of ASEAN...

[loose wire] Speech recognition, blockchain in the media etc

August 9, 2018

Dear Subscriber, here's another piece I wrote for my client, the excellent Media Development Investment Fund, and their resource for media-business related...

[loose wire] Beyond the S Curve

July 13, 2018

Dear Subscriber, here’s my first offering to one of my new clients, the Media Development Investment Fund’s Knowledge Bridge for whom I’ll be commissioned to...

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February 1, 2018

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[loose wire] As energy markets evolve, blockchain powers up

December 23, 2017

Dear Subscriber, here's the last piece of this year, another one on blockchain, this time about its role in reshaping the energy market. Thanks to all who...

[reuters] going soft on robots

June 19, 2017

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, here's a piece on soft...

[reuters] two to make you cry

May 16, 2017

Dear Subscriber, a couple of quick sidebars I wrote on the WannaCry worm, which you're probably sick of reading about. First is a pieceI co-authored on the...

[reuters] filtering out the violence

April 28, 2017

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, here's a piece on how AI...

[reuters] smart condo conundrum

March 13, 2017

Dear Subscriber, here's a piece I wrote on a Singapore company that offers another vision of smart homes -- and beyond. If you've ever felt dumb talking to...

[reuters] How bad was the Cloudflare bug?

February 25, 2017

Dear Subscriber, a few of you asked if we had done anything on the so-called 'cloudbleed' bug so here it is. It's not my usual kind of piece, so please don't...

[reuters] who owns your device?

February 10, 2017

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, here's a piece exploring how...

[reuters] Drone vs Counterdrone Wars

January 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber, hope you had a good break. Here's my first contribution of the year, looking at the anti-drone industry. Best wishes for 2017. Please do...

[reuters] Manufacturers wrestle with the Botnet of Things

November 8, 2016

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, your mind is probably on...

[reuters] Startups try to lighten up cattle class

October 26, 2016

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, here's a piece I wrote on...

[reuters] The explosive limits of battery tech

October 14, 2016

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, apologies for the delay, but...

[reuters] ship shake - startups ahoy

September 29, 2016

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, here's a piece on innovation...

[reuters] Apple jack ax ushers in a voice-driven world

September 8, 2016

Dear Subscriber, here's my offering on the iPhone launch. Thanks to all who contributed to the story. (This is a limited and infrequent list for contacts,...

[reuters] Tell LoRa I Love Her

August 4, 2016

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, here's a piece on the future...

[reuters] nose jobs

June 23, 2016

Dear Subscriber, here's a piece on the future of smell technology, which took a while to make its way out of my nostrils. Still, it had the whiff of a...

[reuters] Early day blues for Apple Pay

June 2, 2016

Dear Subscriber, a piece I wrote with two colleagues on Apple's efforts to break the mobile payments logjam (and catch up with China and Africa). In the long...

[reuters] SWIFT, Lazarus and banks

May 27, 2016

Dear Subscriber, I've spared you the drip-drip of the Bangladesh Bank heist and its repercussions, but here's one just to keep you in the picture. We're very...

[reuters] is hi-res audio for the mainstream?

April 25, 2016

Dear Subscriber, this one is a couple of weeks late, so it's just for your files. Thoughts, story ideas, etc as ever welcome. This is a mailing list for...

[reuters]  when mobster met hacker

March 31, 2016

Dear Subscriber, a piece I wrote with a colleague trying to put the Bangladesh heist in some context. Thoughts, story ideas, salutations as ever welcome....

[reuters query] hi-res audio

March 1, 2016

Hi, Subscriber, hope you're well. This is a message to the limited list of folk who might be in a position to help on stories. Please ignore if it's not your...

[reuters] burma hackers and baidu holes

February 25, 2016

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, a couple of short hits, both...

[reuters] Hack-a-bye baby

December 6, 2015

Dear Subscriber, here's another offering, this time a look at the broader implications of the Vtech hack. Thoughts, story ideas, on this, on anything else,...

[reuters query] connected toys

December 2, 2015

Dear Subscriber, another request for help on a story, if it's within your bailiwick. I'm exploring the rise of connected toys -- children's devices that have...

reuters query: semiconductors

November 19, 2015

Hi, Subscriber, this is one of those limited circulation requests; we're on the lookout for some quick commentary on the semiconductor industry...

[reuters] From pixels to pixies

September 30, 2015

Subscriber, here's another offering of mine, following up on my earlier piece about 3D Touch, this one explores the world of mid air haptics via ultrasound...

[reuters request] ride sharing expertise

September 17, 2015

Hi, Subscriber, another infrequent request, I'm looking for expertise on Asia/emerging markets in the ride sharing/transportation space. I'd like to explore...

[reuters] Apple promises a world beyond cold glass

September 9, 2015

Dear Subscriber, an early contribution to the wall to wall coverage of Apple. This one tries to look more closely at the pressure sensing technology that...

[reuters request] haptics and the future of force touch

September 4, 2015

Dear Subscriber, this is a blast to my trusted contacts hoping you can help on a story I'm doing about haptics and the future of responsive touch ahead of...

[reuters] deep panda in action

June 21, 2015

Dear Subscriber, here's a story I wrote trying to illustrate what an attack by Deep Panda, one of the prime suspects behind the OPM hack, looks like, based...

[reuters] mobile data in danger

June 17, 2015

​Dear Subscriber, a quick hit on a report that draws attention to the problem of mobile data insecurity. Thoughts, ideas, as ever welcome (as are tweets.)...

[reuters] Connected cows, cars and crockelry

June 9, 2015

Dear Subscriber, hi. Nothing startlingly new here but you might get something out of it. This was a piece we wrote trying to explore the longer term future...

[reuters query] avago

May 29, 2015

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Hi, Subscriber, a quick request to the list,...

[reuters] Flights of Hacking Fancy

May 27, 2015

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, a little late sending (and...

[reuters] The unsung power of boffinwear

May 5, 2015

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" Dear Subscriber, another piece, a sort of...

[reuters] From wearables to disappearables, via hearables

May 2, 2015

​Dear Subscriber, a little late, but in case you didn't catch this piece I wrote last week about the future of wearables. Expect a second piece soon. Thanks,...

[reuters query] hackathons and suits

April 1, 2015

Dear Subscriber, this is another request to the mailing list. Please feel free to ignore if it's not your bailliwick! I'm looking for examples within the...

query: mobile banking security

March 18, 2015

Dear Subscriber, I'd be interested in anything on mobile banking app security -- how secure are apps, are things getting better, any interesting insights,...