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This year marks a decade of the smartphone ecosystem as we know it. While the original iPhone debuted in 2007, it was the introduction of the App Store with the iPhone 3G in 2008 that kicked off the era of…
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Still Place for optimism?
Yesterday we attended our fourth Place Conference, held in NYC a little further uptown than our first Place back in 2014. Back then the conference had a strong focus on all the latest mobile location and proximity technologies that were…
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Purpose, commitment and accountability
Today is the sixth anniversary of reelyActive‘s incorporation, and to mark this occasion we reached out to all our current and past team members and collaborators, inviting them to record themselves reciting a passage from the Copenhagen Letter. The result…
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Micro-transactions with macro-implications
At McRock Capital’s annual IIoT Symposium, which took place this week, a panel of experts was asked: Does the ideal architecture for Smart Cities look more like the Internet or more like an operating system (ex: AOL)? Panelists Kurtis McBride…
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Beyond People-as-a-Product?
Often these days I find myself wondering if, when Sergey and Larry were pitching Google in ’98-’99, their investor deck included a prescient slide about AdWords? While PageRank is well known as their disruptive technical innovation, AdWords, which alone likely…
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The IoT finally runs away from home
Last week, in her Stacey on IoT newsletter, the one and only tech journalist who has shared our passion and optimism for the IoT since the earliest days of the hype wave of 2012 finally changed her tune, declaring that…
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RFID Journal Live 2018
Five years ago, reelyActive attended its first RFID Journal Live conference. Back then, we had pioneered simple, accessible cloud-connected active RFID. It’s easy to forget that in 2013 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) had not yet established itself as the de…
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Are Care Bears the forebears of an implantaBLE beacon future?
It’s the nightmare scenario of our time: it’s late, you’re alone, far from public transit and need to request an Uber but your mobile phone is dead. “Oh I know, I’ll use my belly badge beacon” – Cheer Bear Wait,…
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Digital avatars in meatspace, and the absence thereof
Your mobile phone prompts you with an alert. You excuse yourself from your physical context to enter the digital realm. Is it a relief to escape to cyberspace or rather a nuisance to leave “meatspace”? If you were born in…