Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category

Mobile enterprise in Latin America

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010For two months this year, I travelled through Latin America on a speaking tour with Blackberry called, The Blackberry Collaboration Forum.My topic, was how mobile communications could enable businesses to be more effective, more engaged, to work smarter and leaner. ...

Incubate 2.0

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010[caption id="attachment_5772" align="aligncenter" width="553" caption="A quote by the Austrian artist – Hundretwasser"][/caption]No matter if you are running a local incubator, building an angel network or you are in charge of an government agency for SMBs, you primary question is: How ...

Mobile money and Ian Bennett CEO and President of the Canadian Mint

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010They say life is stranger than fiction, last week Tomi Ahonen was with me in Africa, working with a world class team on the future of mobile for a client. Mobile money came up on a number of occasions, because ...

The mobile patent wars [2]

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010Where has the puck patent been for mobile?In my last blog I wrote about The Mobile Patent Wars and how it will also impact Mobile Marketing in the near future. It is an accepted view that patents will play a ...

A people will only be free when their control their own communications Mr Murdoch

Sunday, September 19th, 2010The headline is a quote from Frantz Fanon someone who was recognised as an authority on post colonial rule, Fanon's statement about people, society, communication and freedom is encapsulated in the point Will Hutton makes, link to Observer story (here), ...

The mobile patent wars

Monday, September 6th, 2010It is well recorded that one one of the reasons Apple decided to put their antenna on the outside of their iPhone was because Nokia has such a comprehensive patent portfolio on antenna's in mobile devices, it shied away from ...

GrowVC opens in India

Monday, July 19th, 2010In what could be a defining milestone in Indian entrepreneurial development domain - GrowVC, the ‘Virtual Silicon Valley’ software platform and world’s first-ever ‘Crowd-Funding’ and interaction platform for startups announced the launch of a local funding network in India, in ...

How to judge a modern society

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Life is ahem – really, really local

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Another great presentation that I discovered on how local news becomes - well, local again.So if you cannot truly give value back to your relevant community and stay relevant then you become irrelevant instead. Simples. The only thing I would ...

Requiem for Detroit or time to kick out the jams?

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010[caption id="attachment_5507" align="aligncenter" width="461" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23368962@N00/503069237"][/caption]We came across the BBC2 Documentary about Detroit recently, and today I sat down and watched it again and made some notes.There is a section in the film where we are told that at one point ...

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