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Looking forward to coming technologies is always fun. : ) Now Nokia, along with researchers at the University of Cambridge in England, has created an animated video describing a vision for bendable and highly intelligent mobile devices. This slick devices is called Morph and represents the capabilities of Nanotechnology. Enjoy!
A new Google search application for Nokia phones makes getting to the search box and receiving results much faster, Google said Thursday on its blog. The app shortcut is embedded on the phone’s idle homescreen, so you can search without launching a browser.
(via moconews)
Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He is part of the team (with Luis Silva Dias, João Roque, Andrea Vallenti and João Roque) that produced the flags campaign which has been circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail.
Icaro gave us a small statement about the campaign, translated by Isabell Erdmann:
The magazine Revista Grande Reportagem is a Hard Journalism magazine, on the same line as the Times. The idea was to bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world of today. Read more… See more…
Long time no post, which is related to my start on the new job.
However, I have just fixed my Gmail problem on my BlackBerry (BB). It is not a major thing, also probably a “rookie-to-bb” issue, but very useful to know as it affects the Gmail and Gmaps applications. I downloaded the apps via mobile.google.com and all went smoothly. When I filled in the username and password, however, the message “Network Error: java.lang.Runtime Exception: Unexpected server response: 401 Unauthorized.” appeared.
To fix this problem you have to go to Options > Advanced Options > TCP: set APN to orangeinternet, (leave username and password
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That is all… My BB journey has just started but I hope I will not have many issues with it : )
The first time in the long history, the luxury brand Louis Vuitton launches a TV ad. From tomorrow on you will see the spot in television and cinema. It seems that the audience reach was not enough… or due to the vast amount of duplicates around the globe they trying to add more emotions to the brand, which can be perfectly done via television. In my opinion, however, they better have left it because the spot has not touched me at all. The spot just does not correspond with the brand… no emotions, poor soundtrack, too lame… I would not notice it in TV. The quality of the pictures is good though.
Who thinks Switzerland is too small for its own Music Awards is wrong: On 27. February 2008 the first Swiss Music Awards are going to elect the best Swiss artists on the Kaufleuten stage in Zurich. However, the Swiss Awards emerged not without any reason are just because it is fancy to have Music Awards. In my opinion, since a while there lies some kind of strengthened “Swiss-feeling” in the air. This may come from our national football team which do not play too bad at the World Championship in Germany last year or because of the forthcoming European Championship in Switzerland. : ) But most of all it emerged from the risen quantity of quality music material of Swiss artists as it can be seen from the Swiss charts where our Swiss rockstars are placed more and more in the top ten. ‘Nuff said – Vote!
This is the world’s most expensive beer! The beer has been brewed by the Danish brewery Jacobsen Brewhouse and is named Vintage Nr. 1. It comes corked and wax-sealed in a slender, misty green bottle, just like a bottle of vintage champagne. To sip this delicious beer one has to table not less than 2008 DKK (393 USD, 434 CHF) per bottle!
Vintage Nr.1 is the only contemporary beer produced in JC Jacobsen’s original 1847 cellar today, the unique brew possesses a complex mix of flavours. Further, the beer has 10.5 per cent alcohol by volume and by ageing six month in Swedish and French oak the beer has smoky caramel and vanilla aroma. Vintage Nr.1 is limited in edition and as a consequence only 600 bottles has been produced.
Alex from Neatorama recently posted an interesting article about the evolution of tech companies’ logos. To create a corporate design and most of all the logo of the company is exceedingly difficult which I experienced by myself when we formed our start-up company Join4Music.com. A logo has to express the core message in an easy way, has to be clean and functional, has to show the key benefit (which also comes with the name), has to be timeless i.e. not following a current trend and so on. As you can see; to create a logo includes a bunch of criteria to fulfil. Here is the development of the IBM logo:
More logo evolutions: the evolution of tech companies’ logos
Pretty cool! … unfortunately I am no longer in London : (
The idle 3G spectrum in UK has been the subject of idle speculation for some time, and mobile TV trials have been promised, and now Orange and T-Mobile UK will jointly pilot a new mobile TV service in West London using NextWave’s TDtv solution. The pilot, scheduled for the second half of 2008, is supposed to show how mobile operators share widely-available unpaired 3G spectrum and a TDtv broadcast network. A similar trial has been done in Bristol in UK before, with four operators (Orange, Vodafone, Telefonica and 3).
During the six month trial, users will receive 24 high-resolution TV channels along with 10 digital radio stations.
With many businesses bemoaning the loss of their usual Sunday trading, this pub hoped to make the best of a bad day.
How cool is this?! A 5,800-square-foot villa called Skyline residence which overlooks Hollywood and downtown LA. Clean lines, exposed concrete, glass walls, no distracting walls which results in lot of space. Of course they also integrated a guest house, a pool and the mentioned open air home theatre. This marvelous building was designed by the team of Balzberg Architects.
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Okay, the New York Giants won against the New England Patriots… but who cares? I love advertisements and therefore the ads at the Super Bowl are more important for me. Just great! Enjoy! Some of my favourites:
Bud Light: The Language of Love
E*TADE: Baby Trading
More:
What is Love, Pepsi MAX
Stone Circle, Cars.com
Carrier Pigeons, FedEx
Breathe Fire, Bud Light
Unexpected Obstacles, Bridgestone
Ability to Fly, Bud Light
Napoleon, Garmin
Interview, Tide to Go
Piranha, Audi
Super Bowl, Victoria’s Secret
This headline in the Economic Times really caught my eyes. The 7th biggest country in the world generates 40% of Vodafone‘s mobile usage volume! If we take into consideration that Vodafone serves 30 countries worldwide this figure is even more impressive. Let’s take a closer view: For Q4 Vodafone globally recorded 115.7 billion minutes of usage, out of which India accounted for 43.3 billion minutes.
Especially for Q4 India was virtually responsible for Vodafone’s minutes increase of 10.9 billion minutes. Consider this: Globally, for the Vodafone group, the mobile voice usage volume rose by 10.9 billion minutes during the quarter-ended December 2007. India has contributed 86% of this increase. Put simply, cellular usage volumes increased by 9.4 billion minutes in its Indian entity alone. Not surprisingly, India is now ahead of Germany as their largest customer base and at the same time the highest potential for expansion.
This comic is a real classic and I can remember that it even was on a slide at the university when we had customer relationship management. This clearly is exaggerated, but to catch the customer’s need is not as easy as many people think it is… but essential. (click to enlarge it)
Andreas Hunziker
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