Tim Green, Author at MEF

Money 2020: has Alipay already invented the mobile money future?

At Mobile 2020 this week, Tim Green chaired a MEF panel on a future of personalised shopping experiences. Then, he went to another talk and realised someone had already built it... When I first began writing about mobile 10 years ago, the only thing the phone threatened to cannibalise was…

Tim GreenApril 7, 2016

Interviews

Spotlight on: The Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia is on a mission to spread knowledge across the world. It actively wants partnerships. But only if there’s no money involved. Tim Green talked to Wikimedia’s Smriti Gupta about the organisation’s unique proposition… If anything illustrates the minor miracle of Wikipedia, it’s the remarkable story of Ram Prasad Joshi.

Tim GreenApril 6, 2016

Music Opinions

The miraculous future is here, and it’s just annoying

We love tomorrow's technology because today's technology is so awful. So let's only have future tech. Tim Green pauses from screaming at his wi-fi router to offer these thoughts... You probably read the reports that the Oculus Rift shipped this week. By and large, the reviewers adored it.

Tim GreenMarch 31, 2016

Music Opinions Regulation

Remember the (mobile) things we used to worry about?

Did you ever fret about Bluejacking? Or worry that your new phone had too few megapixels? Tim Green reflects on the time we wasted when mobile was young... If getting older teaches you anything, it’s that nothing lasts forever.

Tim GreenMarch 24, 2016

Opinions

Elvis cushions and the end of retail

What wouldn't you buy from your phone? Not much, says Tim Green whose discovery of an Elvis cushion in a junk shop led him to consider the future of shopping. Last weekend was Mother’s Day in the UK. To mark this occasion my lovely wife and I took a bracing…

Tim GreenMarch 17, 2016

m-commerce Mobile Payments Opinions

Converting the world to mobile payments – one latte at a time

It's already insanely easy to pay for coffee. And that's nowhere near good enough for the Valley. Tim Green marvels at the tech industry's obsession with this non-problem... Remember when coffee was a sort of pale grey colour, and was usually mixed with chicory? I do. I grew up in…

Tim GreenMarch 10, 2016

Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round up: March 8th

Have you heard about the six figure breakthrough at MWC? Do you know who's winning the smartphone war in the US? And which app just became India's most downloaded ever? You’ll find the answers to these and many more mobile data related questions in this week’s MEF market stats round…

Tim GreenMarch 8, 2016

Monthly Mobile Stats

Monthly market round-up: essential mobile stats

Every week, MEF Minute publishes highlights of all the latest industry reports. It's all here: apps, VR, wearables, data, payments and more. Here's a consolidated round up of all the key data from the month by sector. Handy for your powerpoint deck...

Tim GreenMarch 7, 2016

Opinions

All of MWC 2016 shrunk into 15 takeaways

VR is great to use but tough to sell. No one cares about watches. You can shove the new wearable idea in your ear. Phones have a problem – they're too awesome. Tim Green went to MWC16 and he's boiled down four days of noise into 15 easily digestible nuggets...

Tim GreenFebruary 25, 2016

Internet of Things Opinions

An accident waiting to happen? Thoughts on the ethics of driverless cars

Your autonomous car needs to avoid an accident. Does it swerve left towards two children or right towards 10 adults? Or does it keep going and risk killing you? Tim Green mulls over the moral quandaries of our driverless future...

Tim GreenFebruary 18, 2016

Money 2020: has Alipay already invented the mobile money future?

Spotlight on: The Wikimedia Foundation

The miraculous future is here, and it’s just annoying

Remember the (mobile) things we used to worry about?

Elvis cushions and the end of retail

Converting the world to mobile payments – one latte at a time

Mobile market stats round up: March 8th

Monthly market round-up: essential mobile stats

All of MWC 2016 shrunk into 15 takeaways

An accident waiting to happen? Thoughts on the ethics of driverless cars

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