Friends Generated Content. What's next?

Yesterday I talked about how User Generated Content will fit in the mobile ecosystem. Today I would like to go a little bit further with some considerations. It’s perfectly true that you may be much more interested in content generated by your friends than in content generated by unknown people. I also said that the […]

Friends generated content

For several reasons I will not be attending the 3GSM World Congress this year. From the reports that I am reading from the Internet there is great focus on Media and Internet companies. Yahoo, Disney, MTV have their own booth at 3GSM and all the recent press releases talk about these companies and their initiatives […]

Technology is there

Yesterday night I had a dinner out with a friend. He was a former research fellow at Olivetti in the shining days of that company. Obviously we ended up talking about innovation in mobile phones and I shared some of my personal views on the subject. All these wonderful web 2.0 applications that are coming […]

Why you call it "a phone"?

It is definite that one of the most innovative ideas of the past century was the mobile phone. Going smaller, going brighter, going smarter, this object became an inimitable friend in our every day life. Dedicated to few business men in the beginning, he becomes a tool for everyone, and this made his fortune. His […]

Shall we write about iPhone ? Well, yes!

I think that 90% of the posts I’ve read today are iPhone related. Yesterday I was following the Steve Jobs keynote and while I was listening at him my first reaction was “I want one of those. Now!”. This was emotional. When the speech ended and emotions started to fade I came up with some […]

Consumer behaviour

After the new baby is born, I find myself very busy. Since the mother is not willing to leave the baby alone at all, it’s my task to get all the stuff that is needed for the newborn. I have been hanging around in different malls and shops in the last few days and I […]

iPhone speculations

Lot’s of rumors on the Internet about an iPhone from Apple. Well, that’s going to be a really innovative products if the rumor will be proven to be true. What can we expect from such a phone ? Great design. Enhanced usability. Integration with iTunes music store and, possibly, super distribution of purchased song to […]

The definition of Smartphone

During my daily scan for news I have found this interesting piece from Yahoo News. There are two statements I would like to comment on: Unlike regular cellphones, smartphones have a PC-like operating system and download and run computer programs. Most include advanced data features such as e-mail, instant messaging and word processing. Some, such […]

The perfect mobile e-mail application

If you are not a road warrior corporate user with one of those fancy BlackBerry (Web Site) device, and still want to be able to access you several e-mail accounts there are several options you can look at: Gmail Java Client This is one of the latest addition the mobile java e-mail clients. You can […]

What I want from a Music Phone

Michael Gartenberg, a JupiterResearch VP & Research Director, has recently published a very interesting post titled “How to make a music phone good enough to use”. This is an interesting subject to explore. The main points raised in the post are: Real headphone jack. Workable UI. Seamless sync with WMP or iTunes. At least 8 […]

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