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I have never been a great fan of Windows Mobile on mobile phones. Probably it is because I started  using Windows Mobile on embedded systems a long time ago in my previous jobs and at the time it was not so impressive.
If we look at Windows Mobile phones on the market today we see that [...]

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HSPA Data Cards

I had a quick chat with a friend who lives in the United States regarding the future of HSPA Data Cards. By chance I also listened to a commercial this morning while I was driving to the office. The commercial was one from FujitsuSiemens and they were talking about a laptop with an embedded HSPA [...]

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I have been a great fan of Second Life for a very long time. A few months ago I almost quitted since it was starting to become boring and quite repetitive.
Vollee Inc., a company with offices in the United States and Israel has anounced a Second Life viewer for Symbian enabled mobile phones. This is [...]

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I came through a short, but interesting, post from Simon Judge over at Mobile Phone Development.
Simon makes a very good point. When you have a brilliant idea for a mobile service you may find yourself engaging so many partners asking for slices of the pie that makes the whole service not appealing for each of [...]

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When I look at how people use their mobile phone I always end up with the very same conclusion.
We tend to look at things with our eyes and not really with the eyes of your customers. Having a quick look at who is sitting near to me I find a bunch of tech savvy, marketing [...]

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The Unboxing Phenomenon

While I go through my list of RSS subscriptions I always find ‘unboxing’ posts and I always find those posts very strange to me.
Is it a form of geek porn, a ritual of an unknown pagan religion or what?
Could someone who read this from the United States what do they find so cool in unboxing [...]

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Sell Your Product

I have recently attended an event where an Italian venture capitalist was presenting his company.
The main goal of the venue was to explain the main principles of the venture capitalist business.
I was expecting something exciting in the presentation itself. I understand the finance may not be the funniest argument in the Universe but whatever the [...]

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… It is what customers want to do that matters.
This simple yet provocative sentence has been said by Rakesh Mahajen, Global Director of Mobility at BT Global Services, during a keynote speech in Barcelona.
I have to say that this has been my exact thinking in the last year and it comes no surprise to me.
Actually [...]

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Last night I met with an old friend that is taking a vacation from his job in California. We did not meet from a long time and we found ourselves talking about a number of different things.
I have been told that he is really aware of what I am doing by following my wenlogs and [...]

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Merry Christmas!

As every year I started receiving in my e-mail inbox the usual season’s greetings.
Day after day the number of these electronic messages increases.
Just a couple of considerations:

I do not really like to receive these kind of messages from people I do not know.
The same applies to people I do not talk to from years. I [...]

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As you know from my previous post, last week I was sitting with more than twenty brilliant people talking about mobile internet and the future of mobile devices, between other things.
I met a lot of people with clever ideas and initiatives for the future.
After spending more that three years in Innovation and some months in [...]

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I have been a customer of Energy Speaker Systems for the last ten years and I have always been very happy about their products. I find that they really offer superior quality for the price tag.
Three months ago the wall mount of my Energy Encore Sys C-1 broke letting the speaker fall on the sofa. [...]

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Let The Customer Choose

When you buy a new mobile phone you will typically spend the very next few days trying to understand how it works, what application you may use and install that set of third party applications that you think you may need  while you are hitting the road.
If I look at my mobile phone right now [...]

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As I have written a few days ago I have left the Innovation Team to lead the Product Development team in H3G Italy.That’s an exciting move since I have under my direct responsibility the User Interface team and the Industrial Design Team.
In the last few days I was trying to figure out how we could [...]

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