Category: Interviews
Monday interview: Ex Bang & Olufsen chief Anders Knutsen on why 3D mobile audio is the future
It’s fair to say Anders Knutsen’s time as CEO and president of hi-fi firm Bang & Olufsen was a success. The figures speak for themselves – record-breaking profits and a soaring share price – but under his leadership B&O…
Friday interview: 3's Graham Baxter on how HSDPA will speed up your music and video life
Earlier this week, 3 invited a bunch of journalists to one of its London stores to see its new HSDPA mobile broadband service in action. The focus was to show how much faster music and video downloads, and video streaming…
Monday interview: RawFlow on why Peer-to-Peer technologies will revolutionise webcasting as we know it
Peer-to-Peer technology isn't just about cheerfully downloading the new Justin Timberlake album from some bloke in Greenland. Really. In fact, P2P could be the gateway to watching legal, full-screen webcasts from big broadcasters and media companies. At least this is…
Friday interview: John Newman of Roxio explains DVD-on-Demand
To me, 'DVD on Demand' means that if I ask nicely, the man in my local Blockbuster will take my £3.50 and give me a copy of King Kong for a couple of days. But to Sonic Solutions, it means…
Monday interview: OMG's Julian Morris on motion capture advances, camera tracking and, er, road signs
Andy Serkis might not have got his Oscar for playing Gollum, but there's no doubt that motion capture technology has well and truly arrived in Hollywood. And in games too, for that matter – nowadays no self-respecting football game…
Friday interview: ex-Egg man Tom Ilube on how garlik will fend off the personal-data vampires
Personal information can be a touchy subject. Who's holding data on you, and what do they know? What are they using it for? Should you do something about it, and if so what? These are increasingly common questions, but…
Wednesday interview: Robert Perkins of LUUP on the future of mobile payments
Paying for stuff with your mobile? Yeah yeah. Heard that one before. Every three or four years there’s a lot of noise about the idea, only for it to fizzle out quietly when the technology isn’t ready. Except in…
Monday interview: Channel 4's Steven Forde on their innovative Lost Experience
For many fans of Lost, the guessing games don't stop when the TV show's credits roll. Forget your bog-standard 'Cast Bio' websites: Lost has an innovative online game called The Lost Experience where players have to follow clues, crack…
Wednesday interview: Graham Whitehead part 2: why Aibo's descendants will run our world (in a benign way)
Having quizzed BT Exact futurologist Graham Whitehead earlier this week about BT's new IP-based network and intelligent agents, the logical next discussion topic was robots. At least, it seemed that way at the time. Rather than spinning a yarn…
Monday interview: BT futurologist Graham Whitehead on why intelligent agents will roam in your connected home
The connected home used to be a pipe-dream for the consumer tech industry. If it wasn't internet-connected fridges / microwaves / nostril-trimmers, it was big firms like Panasonic, Microsoft or Orange showcasing their visions of future homes where every…
