Tim O'Reilly has an interesting post titled Why Using ShopSavvy Might Not Be So Savvy in which he states that using applications like ShopSavvy and RedLaser to do price-checking while in a store is ultimately unsustainable as widespread adoption of this habit will eventually lead to brick-and-mortar stores going out of business.

I got alerted to the article by a friend since my own iPhone app, 'avit, is mentioned in the comments by Michael R. Bernstein: (more...)

I'm honored and humbled every time I look through the list of stellar speakers we have confirmed to present at the Singularity web conference. As such, I want to take a moment every week to highlight a new speaker, starting this week with Tim O'Reilly.

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