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For the third season in a row, Portabla Media is sponsor for Hayley Lauder of Glasgow City. Glasgow City FC is by far the most successful team in the Scottish Women’s Premier League. The club has won the title for the last ten seasons. And in the 2014-2015 season they reached the quarterfinals in theRead moreThird successive season as sponsor for Hayley Lauder of Glasgow City
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Even an artificial fireplace can make you feel warm, as proven at our office (shared with Under and Kollegorna). Although buzzwords like Artificial Intelligence and Big Data are used in too many contexts, we strongly believe that both will be of great use and real benefit in theRead moreMerry Christmas and a Happy New Year
The future of health care will not consist of more hands, but those who work in health care will be assisted by more and smarter tools. And the patient must be part of the solution, not just be seen as a problem. What comes to your mind when someone talks about digital health? Many ofRead moreThe future of health care must be digital – and the patient must be included
If science fiction is the prototyping tool for technology, can romantic comedies be a source of inspiration for relations between products and customers? Angel Anderson of NailSnaps advocates the use of #romcomUX. Angel Anderson is the CEO and co-founder of NailSnaps, a service where users upload their patterns and images and turn them into nailRead moreStart casting your product with characters from rom-coms
The digital world moves into the physical store. And the lesson of the trade fair Retail’s Big Show is that it is not enough to have digital gadgets in your store – you need to provide an integrated experience. Every year, those who work in and around what’s called trade meets at the Retail’s BigRead moreIt is when the emotion occurs that you get the conversion
The report E-barometer 2015 shows that Swedish trade is increasingly getting digital. At the same time e-commerce gives birth to hybrids of online and offline. Still there’s a long way to go until we see a seamless omni channel experience. Today the report E-barometern 2015 (In Swedish, pdf), highlighting Swedish e-commerce in 2015, was released. The report is basedRead moreThe E-barometer shows how Swedes shop online (and what we think about it)
Portabla Media is proud to sponsor Scottish national and Glasgow City forward Hayley Lauder. Today, we keep our fingers crossed as Hayley’s team is facing Chelsea in the UEFA Women’s Champions League. Portabla Media is player sponsor for Hayley Lauder, who’s both playing for top club Glasgow City and the Scotland national team. Glasgow CityRead morePlayer sponsorship in benefit of Glasgow City star Hayley Lauder
What happens when you find a measurement tool that you really like – and the manufacturer runs out of business? Philipp Kalwies couldn’t let go of sleep tracker Zeo. Now he makes a copy that is released as open source. At the Quantified Self Europe 2015 conference in Amsterdam, German entrepreneur Philipp Kalwies talked aboutRead moreGood tool with too small market can get a second chance – a hardware hack saves Zeo
Many chronically ill and dementia patients are cared for by relatives. A US project is studying how much time and energy it actually takes to care for a sick relative. And the result can be painful for health policy. In The Bay Area Rajiv Mehta runs a project called Atlas of Caregiving. Rajiv has forRead moreTracking for caregiving – help families who care for their loved ones with QS
So you’ve got yourself an activity tracker, just to try it out. It shows you numbers and stacks, but what can you learn – over time? Ernesto Ramirez has tips and tricks for using Fitbit in any way possible. Ernesto Ramirez is one of the people behind the Quantified Self movement and he is aRead moreBeyond just using Fitbit – here’s how to get more out of the activity tracker
