It was more than a little odd to not be at MWC this year. The event and its predecessors had been a regular stop for me for several years running, and I missed the chance to connect with friends, readers and contacts. In any case, I did have a few thoughts on things I saw [...]
Archive | February, 2009
Mark Cuban Agrees
I’ve been writing for a long time now about how the mobile is going to do to the PC, what the PC did to the mainframe. Mainframes certainly aren’t extinct, but they’re a niche market today. The scenario I see is that the mobile will become our primary digital device and that when we need [...]
MoMo Global Peer Awards 2009
I’m just back from Mobile World Congress and will try and jot some impressions down later, from my observations. But one of the highlights (as always) was the Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards, part of which I was lucky enough to judge again this year, for the third time running. The idea is that each [...]
Things That Made Me Go “Cool Beans” This Week
The title isn’t very Google friendly, but you can’t have everything. But here indeed are a few things of interest this week. – I’ve been using a neat little application called Xobni recently, which is a free app that helps you manage email so much easier. It works as an extension to Outlook and really [...]
Facebook In Talks With Nokia
The WSJ is reporting that Facebook and Nokia are in talks about how to embed the social network into Nokia devices, mentioning the possibility of integrating Facebook contacts and activity with the device’s phonebook. That’s not quite the complete Facebook as Mobile UI idea, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction, and one [...]
One More MWC Event: Swedish Beers
If you’re in Barcelona for MWC next week, I will definitely envy you getting the chance to hit up my perennial favorite event, Swedish Beers on Wednesday at 6:30pm. If you’re in London and in mobile, you already know about Swedish Beers (and if you don’t, find out quick); the Barcelona installment is always a [...]
WIP Jam Session at MWC, Mobile Peer Awards, Mobile Sunday
While I, sadly, won’t be in Barcelona for MWC this year, exciting events are carrying on nonetheless A great event for developers is the WIP Jam Session, going down on Thursday, Feb. 19: WIP Jam Session at MWC Thursday, February 19, 2009, Hall 2, FIRA Join WIP for our popular Day for Developers at Mobile [...]
New Media Age
The UK’s leading digital media magazine, New Media Age, has kindly written a profile of me this week, if you’re interested. Thanks to the Alex Farber, the journalist par excellence, who wrote the piece. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
It’s Big. It’s Very, Very Big! Did I Say It Was Big?
Our pal, Tomi Ahonen, has posted a fairly long piece about the sheer humongously massive bigness that is the mobile industry, that’s a must read over at Communities Dominate Brands. Tomi starts off by putting into perspective exactly what 4 billion mobile phones means in comparison to other media and consumer goods: Newspapers? the total [...]
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