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My first thought to start this years’ 3GSM wrapup was to check what I wrote last year: “It took me a couple of days to be able to digest the whole event with it’s many cocktails and parties surrounding. The best part for me were the many wonderfull people I met behind the companies, projects […]

Excellent interview from Régine Debatty with Cati Vaucelle at we make money not art. Asking Cati whether she’s a researcher, artist, designer, or something inbetween… Cati answers:
I am a knowledge shopper. I studied philosophy and fine arts, applied computer science, psychology, and computational linguistics starting in Paris with a B.S. in mathematics and economics. (…)

Some […]

The 3GSM World Congress gives you a good overview of where the actual market is today - still a lot like last year - it looked at first sight… Some interesting movement could definately be ’seen’ in the mobile image recognition space.
Image recognition should not be confused with barcode scanning and QR-code technology though they […]

Just recovering from 3GSM this weekend and slowly starting to sort my emails, impressions and ideas (I voluntarily did not connect to the internet this week), will write a wrap-up soon here. Many people asked if I’d won the Carnival of the Mobilists “Host of the Year” award… Yes, I did! (Russell announced it here). […]

I asked: “Blade Runner?” [Ridley Scott, Blade Runner, 1982 (the Director’s cut!)]
_ “Sci-fi” section!
_ “Sci-fi? Really?”… [I think: “Weird!”]
Because I feel awkward to borrow the movie [it is a must have after all… but I am a nomad so I don’t like carrying things] I say:
_ “I have seen it five times [true!]; I am […]

Just a short anouncement on The Global Peer Award winners, I will come back in detail on the event later on. Catalan friend Josep Ganyet has a great series of pictures of the event here. Martin, occassional blogger at m-trends.org has some images here.  Comvu promised to put the webcast backup of the event here […]

New technologies have blurred the boundaries-protections of POP’s, People, Objects and Places. When in second life, avatars, still post-human behind their disguise… as computers have become people’s prosthetics, do mix the real to the virtual: avatars, even if half animal are made of known referents (they are not fantastic extra-terrestrial creatures; centaurs are still half […]

Russell Buckley finally posted his long awaited Carnival of the Mobilists Post of the Year nominations. He has been extremely busy lately counting the ads coming in at AdMob, undoubtly one of ‘the’ mobile succes stories from last year. Next to that Russell says it was a really, really hard post to write: “I’ve been […]

People are consuming music on their mobile phones in an increasing way. The way most people do this now is through their operator, downloading realtunes straight to their phones. Innovative companies like Futurlink have a different idea how people will do this in the (very) near future, using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and soon NFC, I wrote […]

This year will be the sixth time I set out to got to the 3GSMWorldCongress for a week packed with excitement and new wireless impressions and thoughts. Since Web 2.0 grew up and I started blogging, my 3GSM experience has changed dramatically. Before, I mainly went to the congress to listen to presentations and to […]