This morning I was flying from Milan to Rome and, as always, I was looking at which mobile phones people were using and at what they were doing with their mobiles.
I always do this kind of exercise while I found myself in a crowdy place. You will always learn something.
I was in an airport ad [...]

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Sorry about the joke.
Voce is the italian translations for voice so the title of this post would translate to “Listen to my Voice”
Voce is a company funded by Faith, Inc. that is taking advantage of the problems that most of high spender mobile customer are facing with current wireless carrier.
They identified a niche market: high [...]

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I have been working with the guys at beeweb for a very long time and I have always found them to be very clever in mobile product design and development.
I know most of the guys at beeweeb and working with the has always been real fun.
I understand that they have released the Mobile Web Toolkit [...]

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It seems that in the near future NTT-Neomeit, a subsidiary of NTT will launch a service that will allow customers to remote control devices in their houses via their mobile phone.
From what I can read from Pink Tentacle here are the main features of the system:

Customers will control remote devices using a web interface on [...]

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The 10th annual list of the most innovative companies in the world, made by Wired.com is, as usual, full of remarkable thoughts. You can argument on it, but most of the nominees are appropriate and I suggest you to visit each web site (especially for the less famous) and find what make them so smart.
It’s [...]

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Some weeks ago I read an interesting article titled “Mobile music download too complex” on Digit Online.
In the article were reported some statements:

Buying music on a mobile phone is expensive, complicated and slow.
Simplifying the process is the key.
On average, users must click 20 times in a process that takes around two minutes to buy a [...]

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Let’s have a look at the dictionary:
rev-o-lu-tion:

The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another.
A sudden or momentous change in a situation

rev-o-lu-tion-ary: 

of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change.
radically new or innovative; outside or beyond established procedure, principles, etc.

If you work in innovation, [...]

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In the next few months we will a lot of new mobile phones coming to the market with integrated GPS functionality.
At the same time you can observe a lot of new applications like smart2go and AmazeGPS lining up with TomTom Navigator, Route66 and similar.
These are all great applications. They have pretty much the same functionality [...]

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I have been reading about Sonopia in the last few days.
The product, and the concept behind the product, is really very innovative in the operator marketplace.
In the short: with Sonopia you can create a virtual mobile phone network.
You can create you own Sonopia that will allow you to

Earn revenue with no up-front commitment. Basically when [...]

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In late 1940’s the brilliant soviet inventor Genrich Altshuller had the idea that it’s possible to develop a scheme in order to free innovation process from the inevitability to progress by attempts. Analyzing thousands of patents, Altshuller noticed that, at the right level of abstraction, the inventive principles that sustain the most innovative ideas were [...]

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And what about the brand new concept called N99 from Nokia? Looking at the pictures, (courtesy of Newsmobile) and get a look at the patent registration  (22nd march 2007), it seems that the Japanese “Robot transformer” it’s going to be applied to mobile phones too… 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Why do I blog this?
Alessandro’s analysis was so good that I [...]

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If I look at what a mobile phone is today it’s very difficult to say that is only a phone.
It is a phone when you are making a call. It’s a camera when you are taking pictures. It’s a camcorder when you are shooting a video. It is a television set when you are looking [...]

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Since we have moved our blog to Mediatemple we have been using Google Analytics to monitor usage statistics.
Personally I have always found the tool way too much complex for my needs.
In the last few days I shopped around and finally decided to go with Clicky.
I signed up for the free service and after a few [...]

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The old tales that we read when we were young, or that someone told us, were full of suggestions for innovative thoughts. Think at Little Red Riding Hood story, a well known one that, after the initial fear (it lasted for me for about five years) leaves the auditor with a plenty of curiosity. Some [...]

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