Strolling around Mobile World Congress back in February, yes I’m very late posting, I stopped by the Visa booth to see what they had going on in the way of NFC (Near Field Communication). I was offered a private briefing with with Bill Gajda the head of mobile banking for Visa, I jumped at the [...]
Hours before I was flying home from Israel recently Dvir Reznik had just flown back to Israel from Amsterdam I believe and I was anxious to meet up with him. He is the head of marketing at Onavo, it’s one of the most likely companies I see succeeding in the next 12 months. Onavo is solving a [...]
I’ve been writing about Truphone since 2007 and I suspect using it even longer. I was called the biggest Truphone fan by Ewan MacLeod back in 2007 or 2008. I wish I could remember when they launched but boy oh boy was it amazing back then. Fast forward 5 years (I’m guessing) and you know [...]
As I fly home from a long week of meetings, parties and the over abundance of mobile phones I think I’ve seen the future. I imagine this is the same all over the world and in many industries and that it will trickle down into the general population. Every year I see a trend and [...]
A friend of mine is doing a project and asked if she could post about it here and I said yes so here it is, enjoy and welcome Julie as my first guest poster. The Great and Wonderful Mobile Conference in Barcelona was in some ways a make believe world of gadgets and devices that [...]
I had a great chat with Di-Ann Eisnor of Waze back at Mobile World Congress over a month ago then we got to hang at CTIA and I’m just now getting around to putting up my content from the trip. I really like what Waze is doing and if you haven’t checked them out be [...]
Here’s a video I took at MWC showing the new Skype client working Symbian. It was a huge scoop when I took this video.
Spending time in the Nokia suite at MWC in Barcelona I got to chatting with the maps guys and I learned something interesting thanks to Rita alerting me to the data usage issue. Ovi Maps can be used out in the field entirely without a data connection. Yes you read that right, no data necessary [...]