Tomi Ahonen is in rare form this month with a deliciously disruptive post dripping with sarcasm. The post, which walks us through the recent Apple developer conference (WWDC), hones in on the iCloud announcement and it really means for Apple (and us). Nan’s take: “By pushing the content to the cloud, Apple not only strengthens its ecosystem usability experience, but creates future monetization schemes for storage and, probably ultimately, future data mining of what content people have and who they know and what context are they in.&#. Well done! MORE >>

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post. Apple Television Trend Spots Trend Spotting Behavior Trend Targets & Groups Trends Review applications consumer behavior gaming influencers prediction videoWe have just released 2011 Tech Predictions Report featuring the predictions of ReadWriteWeb, GigaOm, Forrester, IBM and other leading experts. The New Next: 2011 Tech Influencers Predictions by TrendsSpotting. View more presentations from TrendsSpotting. Enjoy, The TrendsSpotting team. MORE >>

Now, lets take Apple as an example. Apple, the most innovative country in the world ( Booz and Company, 2010 , BCG innovation survey 2010 ) ranks low as 70th in the world in R&D spending. Apple spent $758 million on R&D during Q1 2012, only 1.6% Apple’s startup mentality (even with 60,000+ employees), their unique empowering culture where every employee is involved in the act of innovation, and their ability to focus only at few chosen grounds at a time, helps them spend less and get much more in return •. from overall sales of $46.3 MORE >>

First, mahalo to Apple for giving us such a stunning home page in honor of Steve’s passing from this world. When any of us are that clear about our true essence, there are no discrepancies even though one man’s dedication to his true nature surely upset many others’ apple carts! Dozens of companies and hundreds of products have tried to copy what Steve produced at Apple. None of them can begin to touch the genius of genuine Apple products. Ahh, the delicious irony of it all. Our business would not have been possible without Apple computers. MORE >>

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post. Tags: Apple Trend Spots Trend Spotting Behavior Trend Targets & Groups Uncategorized applications mobile mobile web prediction social media youth A recent comScore report (September 2010) found that 58.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (up 15% from the preceding three month period). The large majority of mobile subscribers (67%) used text messaging on their mobile device. Subscribers who used downloaded applications comprised 33.1 increase). MORE >>