Until recently I have never read Bloomberg. Now that I have it digitally delivered by Zinio on to my iPad, I would rate it up there with the Economist digital edition!
I read a fascinating article in the weekend discussing the US Postal Service. It was interesting to compare them with NZ Post. The US Postal Service is facing the same declines in letter volumes that we have in NZ, without having the benefits of NZ Posts diversification into Couriers, IT, and Banking. What was really interesting was what the European postal services are doing to offer value and change business models. Here’s an extract from the article:
"Many used their extra cash to create digital mail products that allow customers to send and receive letters from their computers. Itella, the Finnish postal service, keeps a digital archive of its users’ mail for seven years and helps them pay bills online securely. Swiss Post lets customers choose if they want their mail delivered at home in hard copy or scanned and sent to their preferred Internet-connected device. Customers can also tell Swiss Post if they would rather not receive items such as junk mail. Sweden’s Posten has an app that lets customers turn digital photos on their mobile phones into postcards. It is unveiling a service that will allow cell-phone users to send letters without stamps. Posten will text them a numerical code that they can jot down on envelopes in place of a stamp for a yet-to-be-determined charge."
This shows what can be done with a bit of thinking, and how important the rollout of high performance broadband is – see our new article regarding Crown Fibre Holdings.
The app that I have been waiting for!
"Idea Flight is a new tool to share ideas, presentations, documents, designs, and whatever esle you can think of easily from one iPad to many. It enables one person, whom we call the Pilot, to control the screens of multiple iPads, whom we call the Passengers. It's a great way to direct the experience of your audience in a whole new way. All you need is the app and a wireless connection to command the iPads and attention to your audience. Check out his video to see how it works.
Idea Flight is ideal for board meetings, internal team presentations, indeed this app should be great any time you need to guide iPad-equipped audiences through a presentation.