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Bill Gajda Of Visa Talking About NFC

By ⋅ September 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Truphone Now Supports BlackBerry

By ⋅ March 29, 2011 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

Waze VP of Biz Dev Samuel Keret

By ⋅ March 15, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Samuel Keret the VP of Biz Dev at Waze (one of my personal favorite companies in the mobile space) gives us a few minutes.  Thank you to Ewan MacLeod of Mobile Industry Review for letting me film during his interview. Waze has been doing some amazing things for a while now and from the inside [...]

MWC ’11 The Device To Have Had

By ⋅ February 25, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

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 [...]

I interview Waze at MWC

By ⋅ April 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Interview with Rafi Ton about vufone, CEO of NewACT

By ⋅ March 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I recently returned from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where I interviewed Rafi Ton the CEO NewACT.  I met  Rafi because my good friend Harel Shattenstein of TalkingMobile.com set up the interview.  We decided to sit outside in the absolutely gorgeous weather and discuss NewACTs mobile application called vufone, the most interesting new app I [...]

NeuStar adds presence into your handsets contact list

By ⋅ March 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

My good friend Cian over at GoMo News wrote about NeuStar during Mobile World Congress and I’m just reading about it now.  I’m really excited because of what they are doing.  NeuStar is incorporating presence into the Telecom Italia (TIM) service.  In your handsets phone book they will show you how your contact wants to [...]

Interviews from Mobile World Congress ’09 in Barcelona Spain

By ⋅ February 27, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

What a wild time I had last week.  I spent the week in Barcelona, Spain attending Mobile World Congress.  I met hundreds of people and gave out and received hundreds of business cards. I also interviewed a handful of really interesting people.  I hope to write up all my interviews but in the mean time [...]

Do you need a sim for MWC? I suggest Yoigo prepaid!

By ⋅ February 11, 2009 ⋅ 11 comments

Being my second trip to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress I have a bit of advice.  If you or your company needs access to 3G or needs to make phone calls/sms, I suggest Yoigo.  I got my Yoigo sim last year at a store called OpenCor.  It is just a few hundred yards/meters from the [...]

GoMo News is hosting a blender and TopMobile20 is handing out the awards at it

By ⋅ February 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

GoMo News is again hosting one of their famous Blenders.  This one will take place Wednesday February 18 at BelChica in Barcelona, during Mobile World Congress. TopMobile20 will be holding the awards ceremony at the beginning of the GoMo party, so please make sure to stop by early and RSVP here.

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