Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkens just released her “Top Mobile Internet Trends”. Overall interesting read. What immediately struck me were slides 4 and 5 showing the exceptional take-off for the iPad and the Apple App-Store. The interesting part is that…
iNFC
The new iPad will have cameras (front- and/or rear-facing), higher resolution (or not), it will be using carbon-fiber or still a unibody and it will support NFC or Near-Field-Communication. So the rumors go. And NFC is also rumored to be part…
Social customer acquisition
Just following up on the owning the customer / softSIM post and adding the social network flavor of facebook, linkedin, xing and the cool technology of “bumping” information between phones (www.bu.mp) What if you could just switch operators by “bumping” 2 phones. So…
The value of the process
Just yesterday I came across this great presentation by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels at Ted 2009. [media id=3 width=320 height=240] . Besides the gorgeous architecture and the interesting ideas captured within, what especially struck me were his remarks about their design process…
State of the RIM address
Just want to point you to this really great analysis of today’s Research-in-Motion / Blackberry business facing the iPhone and Android competition. Michael Mace does an excellent job in putting the business essentials together and not only looking at design…
Smart Grids – Differentiated Electricity
In the mobile industry policy control and differentiating bandwidth and service is one of the key topics at the moment. Not only to correlated usage and price, but also to allow communication operators to establish new business models. In parallel…
#momoMUC: some thoughts on yesterday’s Mobile Monday Munich
We had a very hot mobile monday yesterday with a perfect line-up of speakers and presentations as it turned out afterwards. Here are my personal thoughts and takes on this. Thomas Aidan Curran, CTO Software, Deutsche Telekom opened with a view…
It’s the Why that counts !
By accident I ran across this short book review of Erik Wesner’s “Success made simple” by John Moore over at Brand Autopsy. What struck me was the first paragraph of the summary about the success of the Amish people driven by…
Twitter: Serving of the Day
From his blog Seth Godin lead me to Lula’s Apothecary serving vegan ice cream in New York City. It’s not about their ice cream or business model, but they also publish their daily servings on Twitter. Every restaurant, bar, bakery…
Success in the Marshmallow Challenge
Here is another interesting talk from TED. Tom Wujec analyses the Marshmallow Challenge (www.marshmallowchallenge.com) and what it takes to succeed. [media id=2 ] . My three take-aways for successful innovation: prototyping and early feedback incentives do not improve the result,…