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I’ve been in Italy for two weeks now and my notebook hasn’t seen a network cable since for Internet connectivity. While I’ve been desperate when it came to finding an Internet connection during this year’s 3GSMWorldCongress in Barcelona due to the prohibitive pricing of Spanish operators for 3G Internet access, Italy is the true leader […]

The first time I have heard of innovative ideas of how to use mobile phones for advertising and marketing via Bluetooth was probably from Rudy here on m-trends. Last year, he reported how one of the political parties in Spain used Bluetooth to send ring tones, images and videos to the phones of supporters during […]

The 3G world these days is getting more and more in the hyper speed frenzy with operators announcing 3.5G HSDPA rollouts. With speed claims of 3.6 or even 7.2 MBit/s, they suggest that they are at the same level with DSL and cable providers. Reality, however, looks quite different as these speeds can only be […]

Like Rudy, it took me a couple of days to recover from 3GSM and gather my thoughts. Pictures still fly by whenever I close my eyes about what I’ve seen and what I’ve done the last week. But that’s for another post. Apart of the adventures, this years 3GSM congress was the perfect opportunity to […]

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 […]

Just back in October I’ve been writing about how Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO’s) in Germany have revolutionized the mobile telephony landscape in Germany. Due to their fierce competition, prices have been tumbling like never before. At the time, I was hoping that MVNOs would sooner or later also start to do something about mobile […]

In an ideal world access to the Internet would be ubiquitous and instantaneous. We’ve come quite far in the past couple of years and Internet applications on mobile phones usually work quite well as long as the network connection is stable. This is usually the case at home, in a hotel room, at work, while […]

I must be one of those ‘kinetic elitists’ described by Yasmine in an earlier post. I don’t like the word elitist a lot and I also haven’t received a lot of airport privileges yet. A desk, a chair and a power socket would already suffice while waiting for a plane. In the past two weeks […]

In his earlier post Rudy commented on Winksite and Shotcode working together for a better mobile user experience. Winksite now includes Shotcode and QR-Codes on it’s web pages which lists blogs and other web sites that use their service to create a mobile friendly version of their content.
Users browsing Winksite on their PC to search […]

I keep re-reading Yasmin’s blog entry on the „sensuous gear“, aka the iPhone announced last week. A one of its kind post, worthy of an editorial. Just as Rudy in his post I have to admire how Steve presents or rather evangelizes to his ‚followers’. Maybe Nokia should think about inviting more ‚followers’ to their […]