Nieuws uit een veranderende wereld deel II

We need to monitor the news day to day. And every day we are confronted with the many changes in our world. Every month I make a selection of interesting news which proofs the fast changing society, technology and communication. My only goal to do this is to make a short and selective overview of changes of which I think are inspiring. I think it are all small or big evidences of the pace of change. When we are not aware of the change and have a vision and plan for it we loose the battle with our competitors. Here is another selection of interesting facts of the last months. Sorry guys, the links 'read more' are in dutch.

- Bad customer exeriences are massively shared between consumers.(April 2007). 89% says to share bad experiences with companies with others. Read more
- Shops wll dissappaer in town because of internetshopping. (April 2007). Many shops like travel agencies will fisappear because of the arise of internetshopping. Read more
- Sms reminds you to take you medicine. (April 2007).Insurance company Zilveren Kruis Achmea started this week sending reminder to patients to take their pills. Read more
- Sites for comparison are popular for buying products. (April 2007). Sites for comparison prices become more and more popular. Read more
- Guideline for interaction with robots in South Korea. (March 2007). South Korea is making rules how to deal with robots. Read more
- Nokia WIMAX phone in 2008 on the market (April 2007). Nokia will launch it's first WIMAX phone proberbly in 2008. Read more
- Nokia and Visa go global with mobile payments. (March 2007). Nokia and Visa work together in launched a global system for mobile payments. Read more
- Software as hosted services becomes normal (March 2007). In 2020 software will only become available as a online service. Read more
- KPN adds hotspots to telephonecells. (April 2007). Read more
- Narrowcasting: there are already almost 25.000 screen in The Netherlands (April 2007). Read more
- Webnews holds longer the attention of the reader then newspapers. (March 2007). Read more
- Hello Google, i am looking for a pizzarestaurant. (April 2007). Google started with voice activated search. Read more
- Sun Microsystems announces reoganization via weblog CEO (March 2007). Read more
- Skype half a miljard gedownloaded. (March 2007). Skype has already 171 million registered users. Read more
- Most realistic virtualreality-surrounding is ready (April 2007). Read more
- Camerahelmet Britisch police a huge succes (February 2007). Read more
- More digitalisation in Dutch households (February 2007). Read more
- Two 14 year old girls make it GlaxoSmithKline difficult (March 2007). Read more.

Need I say more…no future but a selection of the news of today. We cannot deny it …the world will be totally different in 2020 and we have to prepare for it today.

What is your most actual interesting newsfact which proves our changing world.

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