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Happy New Year to all my readers! 2007 starts with a link to another post I wrote for Read/WriteWeb. After the incredible repsonse and feedback on the “Understanding Mobile 2.0” post I wrote early in December, here’s another one in the series of mobile disruptive technologies.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my first […]

Having ‘mobile’ and ‘trends’ in my header asks for a yearly overview of mobile and wireless trends insights for the coming year. You can check here which trends I wrote about last year.
In a poll Richard Mac Manus held amongst Read/Write Web readers last week, on The Biggest Web Trend of 2007, the Mobile Web […]

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 […]

I wrote an article on Connecting cultures through music for edition #16 of the Vodafone Receiver magazine. The main topic was ‘A Night Out’, interesting challenge and braintwister to write. This issue is covered with some excellent articles by authors like Charlie Schick, Mark Curtis, Lee Humphreys, Tim Cole, Karenza Moore, Frank Lantz, and Antony […]

As predicted and in a - everything sooner then expected - mood, Maloney last week disclosed for the first time details of the next–generation Intel® Centrino® mobile technology–based platform, as well as a single chip Wi–Fi/WiMAX radio and an Intel–branded mobile WiMAX PCMCIA card. He also provided details about the next generation dual–core mobile processor […]

You might have wondered where I left my mobile and wireless predictions for this year… well, actually I made a rough list a couple of weeks ago but couldn’t find the time yet to post them properly (shame on me). To be honest I’m probably not really the magician you might look for who can […]

Read Charlie Shick’s hopes and fears on the future of mobile. I hope he’s right on point 1 and 2 but I fear he’s right about the rest, though 4 remains more something of a doubt to me of where this business will evolve…
Will we move to the light - increasing public domain content and […]

Check out the inaugural Roundtable podcast with Graham Brown (CEO of Wireless World Forum), Vesa-Maati Paananen - the inventor of the ringtone (no kidding!), founder of Add2Phone, now CEO Aidacon, and myself, discussing mobile music. You can download the podcast here on Itunes under Wireless World Forum (Podcast).

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(about the Fixed Mobile Internet Convergence really taken off )
I started reading Linksys just released a - you don’t have to sit in front of your computer to talk to your friends anymore - cordless handset supporting Skype. (thanks to John & Karel)
I noticed that Nokia Mobility Conference 2005 to be held in Barcelona on […]

Following the - iTunes for your Mobile Phone - craze from the last weeks/months/year, I found back a post on the W2Forum I wrote in December 2004 on - podcasting on a mobile phone.
I was not the one who invented the term but I remember Google then had something like 38 entries with the term […]