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Hard to believe, but Steve Jobs resigned from Apple almost exactly a year ago and died just a little over a month later. Happily for the company he founded, Apple has continued to prosper. Warnings that Apple would collapse without his leadership have been off the mark - at least so far. Apple reached another milestone this week when its valuation reached $621.64 billion making it the most-valuable company ever, at least measured in 2012 dollars. While there's some dispute about whether Apple actually broke Microsoft's 1999 record (factoring in for inflation, Apple still appears to have some way to go), this infographic, from Statista, shows just how dominant Apple is today.

"Les derniers iPhone et iPod ont un nouveau port qui nécessite un adaptateur pour les connecter à tous vos accessoires. Vendu 29 dollars par Apple, bien sûr..."

What do you think of when you hear the word "tablet"?  For most it would be Apple or more specifically the iPad.  When the iPad was released in 2010 it quickly gained popularity amongst the masses.  Since then the market share held by Apple's iPad has been increasing steadily.

"Roku founder Anthony Wood runs a startup that, along with companies like Apple and Microsoft, sells hardware that's bringing Web video to home television screens. It's no wonder his nine-year-old daughter prefers to watch her favorite Disney shows on Netflix at her whim, rather than surf Disney's own 24-hour cable channel. This is one example of how traditional TV service providers are losing their hold on America's eyeballs. Internet-connected TVs are becoming the norm on store shelves, and today represent 12 percent of those in people's homes, according to a recent survey by NPD Group. These TVs, and devices like Roku's, make it easier for viewers to cut the cord on their expensive cable bills, and instead simply watch content provided by companies including Netflix, Hulu, Apple, Amazon, and Google on their big home screens."

In 2001, when the World Economic Forum first published  The Global Information and Technology Report (GITR),  the dot-com bubble had just burst; there were fewer than  20 million mobile phone users in all of Africa; and Apple  Inc.'s product line was confined to Macintosh computers.  That Report presented an optimistic view of the future,  highlighting the transformational potential of information  and communication technologies (ICT) in advancing the  progress of global society and business. In the decade  that followed, Booz & Company has witnessed firsthand  the realization of that potential in its work with clients and  communities worldwide and through its long-standing  involvement with the GITR. Today there are more than  500 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa, and  Apple is the world's largest company in market capitalization, producing iPhones, iPods, and iPads along with  Mac computers. Despite the strides the sector has made  since the technology bust in 2001, however, we believe  we are only just beginning to feel the impact of digitization-the mass adoption by consumers, businesses, and  governments of smart and connected ICT. Success in the digitization world-where competitors from Shenzhen to Schengen can emerge seemingly  overnight-requires policymakers and business leaders  to go back to the drawing board to identify and build  "right-to-win" capabilities in their spheres of influence.  Digitization is more than a matter of access. Our recent  research shows that digitization multiplies the impact of  connectivity, creating substantial incremental value in  terms not only of job creation and economic growth, but  also of societal well-being and government transparency.  Today, more than 70 percent of the world's citizens live in  societies that have just begun their digitization journeys.  As the individuals and enterprises in these societies  continue to progress in developing their own digitiza

La strada e il mobile, l'arte e l'inatteso. Il progetto di Hub09 è un incontro inedito con la Street Art, arte dirompente e evanescente che grazie alla tecnologia può diventare viva, regalare fruizioni nuove e contenuti che vanno oltre… Urban Augmented Reality permette di inquadrare con il proprio smartphone l'opera di uno street artist e di vederla prendere vita in modo inaspettato. Potete scaricare l'applicazione gratuitamente su Apple Store: http://itunes.apple.com/app/hub09-social-tribe/id507118995?mt=8 o Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=hub09&c=apps

Avec Passbook, Apple propose d'embarquer dans une seule application cartes de fidélité, billets de spectacles ou de transport. Un moyen de proposer ensuite le paiement via l'application. Un procédé qui fera ses preuves ?

Apple, Facebook et Google décident seuls et en fonction de leurs seuls critères ce qui est publiable et ce qui ne l'est pas, invoquant le plus souvent le motif de "nudité" ou de "pornographie", et l'appliquant, par exemple, à la fermeture du compte d'un internbaute ayant osé choisir "l'origine du monde" de Courbet comme photo de profil. Les mêmes refusent aux internautes la possibilité de s'inscrire sous un pseudonyme mais, par le jeu d'un régime d'exception, "tolèrent" que Salman Rushdie reste inscrit sous son nom de plume après avoir dans un premier temps fermé son compte. La formidable chambre d'écho que Facebook ou Twitter constituèrent à l'occasion du soulèvement des peuples du "printemps arabe" ne doit pas faire oublier la systématisation de politiques qui, pour ces mêmes sites, vont du filtrage à la censure technique, amenant un collectif de chercheurs de l'université d'Harvard à parler de l'entrée, depuis les années 2010, dans une "4ème phase de contrôle du cyberespace".

"On l'avait presque oublié, on l'avait cru perdu, dépassé par l'étoile filante Apple, ringardisé par les nouveaux arrivants Facebook, LinkedIn ou même Groupon. Pourtant, à l'ouverture, le 31 août prochain, de l'IFA, grand-messe annuelle de l'électronique grand public à Berlin, Google risque de gentiment se rappeler à notre souvenir et montrer aux observateurs de quel bois il se chauffe."

David Sacks of Yammer wonders if Silicon Valley - meaning the venture-backed bastion of innovation and wealth creation in the Bay Area - has started to lose it's mojo. His argument - more of a handwave really - is that a/ the economics don't work in a system with such large incumbents (like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, etc.), b/ partly because todays agile, ramen-fueld startups don't have the cash to effectively compete against the incumbents, and c/ the number of ideas that can be juiced into existence given that context are few.

La société Apple commercialise à travers ses boutiques (physique et en ligne) des accessoires compatibles avec ses terminaux iOS. Ces objets connectés (App-Enabled Accessories) regroupent les différents périphériques controlables par des applications mobiles pour le suivi de la santé et de la condition physique, le contrôle domotique.

Once upon a time, Microsoft dominated the tech industry; indeed, it was the wealthiest corporation in the world. But since 2000, as Apple, Google, and Facebook whizzed by, it has fallen flat in every arena it entered: e-books, music, search, social networking, etc., etc. Talking to former and current Microsoft executives, Kurt Eichenwald finds the fingers pointing at C.E.O. Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates's successor, as the man who led them astray.

"It has been close to a year since the Nest "learning" thermostat was introduced to the public, bringing us one step closer to that elusive home of the future. Founded by the former senior VP of Apple's iPod division, Tony Fadell, along with his partner Matt Rogers, Nest Labs set out to create what is essentially the iPod of the thermostat world. The round, user-friendly device was initially met with excellent reviews, but were these based in reality or were they the result of some Apple-like hype?"

We're at the early stages of a massive wave of innovation in the payment industry. It's like when Apple launched the iOS platform for mobile developers. The platform in this case is the payment network. Software developers will add new capabilities to cards by programming the payment network to link online applications to specific payment events. Consumers will be able to effectively "drag and drop" apps to their smart cards in the same way that they add apps to their smart phones today.

"Digital maps on smartphones are brilliantly useful tools, but what sort of information do they gather about us - and how do they shape the way we look at the world?"

Extracts from Mobile Innovation Economics

However, when you stand back from all the announcements made by Google today and increase the periphery, you start to notice that this is a company that is fighting a lot of battles on many fronts. In some places it is winning, but most places it is trench warfare.