MOCOM2020

Monty Metzger is an Entrepreneur, Blogger and Trend-Scout. He is initiator and head of the MOCOM2020 project. He studied Business Administration in Germany and Switzerland and specialiced early on electronic Marketing. Since Monty founded his first company in 1998 he realised inspiring projects like BMW’s Web TV in 2001 or BMW’s first Mobile Marketing activities in 2002. He attended the “Innovation Academy” at the Harvard Business School and is blogging at monty.de He found the german office of the global Trend Research and Trend Consultancy “CScout” and expanded the company in China. Since 2008 he is focusing on the growth of “Ahead of Time“, an innovation agency focusing on Emerging Media, such as Social Media and Mobile Media.

The goal of our open research project Mocom 2020 is to create and share a vision of the future of mobile media and communication for the next decade. Since the start of the website Mocom2020.com we have published many profound and insightful articles from international experts and advisors.
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Mobile Voice-Over IP (VoIP) is an opportunity for StartUps like Truphone to compete with the global Mobile Network Operators. Mobile VoIP offers consumers a way for low-cost global calls.
“Until now, the only way to avoid the massive cost of mobile roaming is to carry multiple phones and multiple SIM cards, one for each [...]

VISA showed some real life examples of Mobile Payments, Money Transfer and Payment-Related Services at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009.
The real life examples to demonstrate how its innovations in mobile payment technologies can enhance consumers’ daily lives, providing speed, convenience, security and choice.
Mary Carol Harris, Head of Innovation at VISA, explained several examples how [...]

At MWC’09 I met an fascinating company called intivation that builds solar-powered cell phones. The uniqueness of this technology is the energy efficiency. The company only uses one solar-cell without the need of connecting several small cells to a solar grid.
The are targeting the 1,6 billion people on the planet that do not have [...]

NTT Docomo showed a mobile projector phone at the Mobile World Congress.
The small projector is integrated in an mobile phone. The device claims to have 40 to 60 minutes of battery life, allowing users to use it for sales pitches, presentations, and office meetings.
The projector uses LED technology to provide up to 10,000 hours [...]

“Palm products have always been about simplifying lives and delivering great user experiences,” said Ed Colligan, Palm president and chief executive officer. “webOS and Pre bring game-changing simplicity to an increasingly mobile world by dissolving the barriers that surround your information. It’s technology that seems like it’s thinking ahead to bring you what you care [...]

I talked with Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret about the key trends of the mobile telecommunication industry. Walt mentions the dynamics in Software-Innovation and the development of low-cost devices with attractive software features for the average consumers. A lot of devices are developing software applications, user-interfaces and hardware devices similar to the iPhone, says Katherine.

Walt and Katherine agreed that INQ has picked up both trends to create the first Social Mobile, aka “the facebook phone”. [...]

Imagine you come home and just put your mobile devices on the table or cupboard to charge them. Through a wireless charging technology this could be soon reality.
The system has a transmitting power of 30 MHz and a small receiver antenna build in the mobile phone.
The eZone technology shown at the Qualcomm booth at MWC’09 [...]

At the Innovation Area at MWC’09 I met an innovative security tech company from Spain called Bioaccez Control. They are showing a streaming video cam with an integrated SIM Card. You can call the security cam from your phone and log into the video stream. You can watch the live video stream directly on [...]

At the MWC’09 I have met Mark Selby, VP industry Collaborations, and Benjamin Lampe, Manager Communication Devices, at NOKIA. We have discussed the Pro’s and Con’s of the new “Bad Boy” N97 and the E75.
I liked the NOKIA Messaging Client where you can manage several email accounts, blog and use social networking services.

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