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At Macworld San Francisco 2007, a couple of hours ago, Steve Jobs unveiled (finally!) the iPhone. You can watch the full keynote here and how the phone works here.
After more than 2 years of speculations everywhere, the iPhone became probably the most ever hyped device before it’s launch. Note that exactly one year ago was […]

I had the pleasure to test some of the Nokia Nseries phones: the N80i (Internet Edition), the N73, the N91 and the N93. This post as a resume of my experiences the last weeks using the phones on various occasions, trying out different functionalities on all of them.

Nokia announced in 2005 a new sub-brand called […]

For anyone kicking of 2007 working in content, digital distribution and digital rights management, do take an hour to watch this conference of Lawrence Lessig on “The Differences between Culture and Code” from the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin last week. Absolutely recommendable if you want to understand what current technology evolution does with […]

Year end goes together with the usual Top 100 of the year (or all times). You can check my most played music of 2006 and a lot more here at MyStrands.com. You can do all this also on your cell going to m.mystrands.com. And check what’s happening around on New Years’ Eve on your […]

The Nokia Music Mixer has been launched last week, it’s available as part of the XpressMusic campaign that accompanies the launch of the Nokia 5300 phone. I’m particularly interested in the music mixer. Nokia once again sets the tone for youngsters enjoying the remix culture.
Anyone can remix tracks to their taste by adding new sound […]

Mobile Monday Barcelona has created a speaker presentation download section. Sharing information is key to share experiences on a global level, it brings different players in the mobile value chain closer to each other and it stimulates more mobile business all together. If you don’t agree with this, please hit the back button in your […]

Excellent Q&A with Steve Jobs in Newsweek: ‘Good for the Soul‘ on the cultural impact of the iPod the last years… Questioned if he’s worried since the anouncement of the iPod competitior, Microsoft’s Zune “…designed around the principles of sharing, discovery and community,…” Steve answered:
In a word, no. I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet […]

I included some scenario’s of collective mobile lifestyle trends in my vodafone receiver #16 contribution: Connecting cultures through music.
Here’s another (older) one that still seems to continue to grow beyond borders: Mobile Clubbing, check the website for details for next gatherings in your city.
The rules are simple:

Though I’m not a frequent clubber anymore, I like […]

Carnival Of The Mobilists number 48 is up and running hosted by Technokitten (aka Helen Keegan). Great edition, lots of stuff on mobile2.0 , the new hype or reality? Well, you can start reading this weeks’ Carnival for new insights on the subject, nicely resumed for you by Helen. Check her 12 business models in […]

Richard MacManus, one of my favourite daily reads on Next Generation Web Technology on his popular blog Read/Write Web wrote a post today on a corporate blogging project he’s co-running with The Rights Marketing Company. Called Micro Media Corp, it’s a corporate blogging and podcasting program that aims to give business people insights into the […]