Is Apple Lost? A. Michael Noll December 29, 2016 © 2016 AMN Has Apple been too successful – and overly arrogant in believing only it knows what is best for its customers? Will Apple become the next Yahoo, slowly sinking into oblivion? Has innovation for Apple become...
“You may have heard that an engineer is a person who knows a great deal about very little, and who goes along learning more and more about less and less until finally he knows practically everything about nothing. A salesman, on the other hand, is a person who knows...
Aleks Yankelevich and Mitch Shapiro toast (with new Quello mugs!) the completion of their two reports, both of which were central to a major Quello Center project on Wireless Innovation in Last Mile Access (WILMA). Aleks led the report on regulatory issues surrounding...
Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, in a letter to FCC Chairman Wheeler, Republicans urged the FCC to avoid “controversial items” during the presidential transition. Shortly thereafter, the Commission largely scrubbed its Nov. 17 agenda resulting in...
The Quello Center is off and running in creating a digital archive of James H. Quello’s papers. Our archive team includes myself, having never created such an archive, plus Anne Marie Salter at the Center, Valeta Winsloff from Media and Information who supports our...
As a member of their advisory board, I would also like to invite scholarly and original submissions that broadly relate to the 2017 conference theme on "Social Media for Social Good or Evil." The organizers welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses...
The Information and Media PhD program at Michigan State University seeks outstanding students who wish to join a unique interdisciplinary program of study at the intersection of the social sciences and technical systems. The faculty develop and apply research about...
Christine L. Borgman’s Quello Lecture on 'Motivations for Sharing and Reusing Data: Complexities and Contradictions in the Use of a Digital Data Archive' presented for the Quello Center, Michigan State University, on October 5, 2016. The talk draws on her research...
by A. Michael Noll October 23, 2016 © 2016 AMN One can only wonder in amazement over the Hollywood fever that seems to afflict communications business in the United States. The proposed acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T shows that the disease is still flourishing....
Johannes Bauer on Meaningful Play 2016 Thanks to Brian, Casey and Carrie (the three co-chairs of Meaningful Play 2016) as well as all other faculty and students (among them Valeta, Will, Andrew, Luke, Jeremy, Ricardo, Robby, Wei, Constantinos, and many others) who...