MOCOM2020

“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.

What do you [...]

Robert Pereira de Azambuja, Industrial Engineer & Key Account Manager at Giesecke & Devrient, talks about the latest technology developments for Near Field Communication (NFC)
Mobile Wallet:
Giesecke & Devrient has developed NFC-enabled SIM cards to realize secure mobile payment. “Imagine going out for the night and only taking your mobile phone with you” said Robert Pereira [...]

The concept of an Open Mobile Internet (OMI) means different things to different people depending on their viewpoint and specialty; however the end result is still the same. The aim of the various Open Mobile Internet initiatives is to open up the restricted mobile industry value chain to create a ‘fixed-Internet’ style ecosystem to replace [...]

China’s Ministry MIIT granted three different 3G cellphone licenses on January 7, 2009:
* a TD-SCDMA license to China Mobile (457 million GSM subscribers)
* a wCDMA license to China Unicom (133 million GSM subscribers)
* a CDMA2000 license to China Telecom (43 million CDMA subscribers acquired in 2008 from China Unicom, 216 million fixnet phone subscribers, [...]

In this decade the mega-trend “Cloud Computing” will lead to a new era of the internet. Consumers will save their information, documents and content (fotos, videos, etc.) online, share it with others or publish it on the web. There are already many examples today to understand this major change of usability and consumer behaviour.
Besides mobile [...]

During a Conversation with Charlie Schick, Chief-Editor NOKIA Conversation, he explains what will be different when we reach 4 billion mobile subscribers and that we might reach this milestone in 2010 already.
Furthermore I asked him: “Google is dominating the web right now, who will be dominating the mobile web in the future?” He thinks that [...]