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MyStrands just got its Social Player signed by Symbian yesterday for general release. It is a music player for mobile devices (Symbian Series 60, 3rd edition) with two main characteristics: it is a music discovery tool and a strong community builder. Watch the video demo here below and try it yourself, it’s great!

The player […]

Spotted at Jason Delport’s Mobile Observations:
At the end of last week there was a lot of talk in the blogosphere about the YouTube Mobile site going live and I was looking forward to putting it through it’s paces. I tried it in Firefox (without UA spoofing) and got a blocked message and so I tried […]

Spanish national newspaper El Periódico reports it’s starting a new campaign using Mobile Image Recognition technology developed by Catalan startup Daem Interactive.
A picture taken with a camera phone of a photo appearing in the newspaper will allow the user to access exclusive mobile contents including advertising using MMS. The new system, called “Cázalo” will be […]

Great Carnival of the Mobilists bug fixing this week by David Beers:
“Thanks for downloading this maintenance release of the Carnival of the Mobilists. This update fixes a bug in Carnival version 63.0 (…)”

Original take, lots of good stuff on mobile web 2.0, lbs, the internet of things and 3GSM of course. For some of […]

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 […]

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…
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 […]

THE MOBILISATION OF THE WEB
One of the things I realized during the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards is the increasing globalization of innovation. Innovation is happening everywhere and a lot of start-up companies are working in the mobile web area; while still in its very early stage, the mobilisation of the web is happening and it’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]