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An Innovation Weblog

Please, run what I want!

As mobile phone technology evolves over time we see that a lot of high end phones are similar to personal computers in terms of functionality and applications. You can run a media player, look at your office documents, send and receive e-mail messages with attachments.
Open Operating Systems allow the user to choose additional applications to [...]

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Set my mobile phone free

In the last few days a lot of new users that bought the brand new Nokia N95 found that some of the functionalities were disable in the operator flavored version of the Symbian 3rd Edition Operating System.
The Internet Telephone application is missing for O2 and T-Mobile customers.
That is not new to the market. Just to [...]

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The Wired 40

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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Easter Eggs

Everybody knows (I suppose) the famous Easter Eggs, pieces of software that, especially in the 90’s, some witty developers placed well hidden into Office Suite best components.
W95 office programs were full of them, and most of us started to understand why W95 crashed so often and why it needs too much memory to run. Easter [...]

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Prompt madness

Every time I met friends not involved in telecommunications or mobile phones I always get the same basic comment.
Why don’t you make things simpler on existing applications before thinking to new applications to be installed on the mobile phone?
This a crystal clear statement, and they are absolutely true when they say that.
Today I would like [...]

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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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It’s hard to define a “good” business card. It’s a matter of words, terms, they need to be right placed and right spelled in order to puzzle people about your role and personality…or not? Which is the mission of a business card? It’s hard to define a “good” business card, we said. Join us and [...]

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Why I do like Sonopia

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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TRIZ

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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