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This week Alberto Tognazzi launched the Movil Film Fest in Spain. Inspired by Bruno Smadja’s Mobile Film Festival in France, on his turn inspired by the Nokia Shorts already introduced by Nokia during the Raindance Film Festival in 2003.
I think this is a great initiative for Spain, especially with its great appetite for film […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Here some impressions from the excellent Under The Radar: Mobility Conference from November 16 in Mountain View, CA. Debbie Landa and her team are doing an incredible good job creating this type of events bringing together various types of quality (!) value chain players in mobility. Just seeing the number of VC’s around per […]

Just back from the Under The Radar: Mobility conference (more on this later here) and a short San Francisco trip where I met some of my - fun as always - mobility friends and pals. It was good to catch up and update on US and European mobile markets with Peter Vesterbacka, Oliver Starr from […]