Posted in news, tagged internet, mobile, mobile data, mobile vikings, mvno, operator on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The word is out. City Live is changing the Belgian telecoms landscape by starting up a new mobile operator with a hear for internet.
Mobile Vikings was supposed to be launched in silence today. With an invite based system, we are aiming for a controlled growth path to let the world get used to our model. Instead, Frederik Tibau from Datanews spotted what we were doing, with a host of other coverage on the internet in it’s slipstream.
Posted in presentations, tagged city live, glowe, magic, mobile, presentation on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday, my colleague Koen and I gave a presentation about the future of mobile and the choices City Live makes. We called it ‘the magic of mobile’. Our public? Students communication and multimedia design or the web decision makers of tomorrow. Take a look:
The presentation was part of a set of experimental media classes, [...]
Posted in community, mobile products, tagged alcoholtest, developers community, glowe, hasselt, mobile, mobile application, student take-off, students on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The City Live developers community Glowe presented a mobile ‘alcoholtest application‘at the Student Take-Off in Hasselt yesterday. And it was a succes. Students checked their ’status’ and estimated alcohol percentage via the mobile phone and loved it.
Posted in presentations, tagged mobile, mobile monday, mobile monday amsterdam, rudy dewaele, value on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Belgian Rudy Dewaele, founder of Mobile Monday Barcelona and Mobile Monday Madrid gave an interesting presentation at Mobile Monday Amsterdam last week: 15 tips to create value for mobile. The 23 minute film and the presentation itself via this blog post at the Mobile Monday website.
Posted in blog, news, opinion, tagged business model, europe, glowe, mobile, operators, sms, twitter on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The success of Twitter is really amazing. Since its launch in July 2006, the micro-blogging site built up a community of more than 1 million users that send 3 million messages each day. But will this success continue now that Twitter announced that free SMS updates are history?
Posted in blog, tagged data entry, dynamic personalisation, elliot drucker, experience, glowe, gui, mobile, mobile data user experience, mui, multi-platform, usability, user interface, wirelessweek on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes it’s good to dig up old news and see what we can learn from past experiences. With all the enthusiasm that is emerging around mobile Android, iPhone or Symbian applications I revisited an old article on mobile data user experience.
The original article was written two years ago by Elliot Drucker, a regular author of Wireless [...]
Posted in mobile products, tagged de standaard, de tijd, flanders, flemish, gazet van antwerpen, gva, hbvl, het belang van limburg, innovative newspapers, mobile, mobile internet, mobile services, mobile websites, newspapers on August 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’d like to take a look at the newspapers in Flanders. What kind of mobile internet services do they offer? Since the launch of the iPhone in Belgium a few weeks ago, mobile internet has become a hot topic. It has ‘a face’ since then, and more and more people want to try it out.
De Standaard [...]
