Next: Switzerland

iPad done deal. Back to Europe.

Flight : San Francisco - Zurich. Heading to Davos meeting.
Not sure about the train from Zurich :")

Need to reflect more about DLD conference in Munich. There was a lot of mumbo jumbo talk. Boring.

Next Event: World Economic Forum
Days: 27 - 31 January 2010.

January. Travel closed.

Apple Event For iPad

Apple iPad Remakes Digital Books And Magazines - Music Albums Too

General rehersal for January 27th ;))

Apple iPad is here ( now is 27th , 10.20 AM Pacific Time ).
iPad creates innovative experience.

- new Apple tablet computer design form
- Books, textbooks, ebooks, digital books, video books production for iPad
- new way of releasing and marketing music albums
- digital books with video, audio, podcasting, web reference, social media, real time web, augmented reality
- revolution in education
- solution : paying for digital content
- Apple and publishers partnerships
- movies studios and Apple - partnership
- vook innovation has it all:

WHAT IS A VOOK?

A vook is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.

You can read your book, watch videos that enhance the story and connect with authors and your friends through social media all on one screen, without switching between platforms.

Vooks are available in two formats: As a web-based application you can read on your computer and a mobile application for reading on the go. With the web-based application you don't have to download programs or install software. Just open your favorite browser and start reading and watching in an exciting new way. You can also download and install the mobile applications through the Apple iTunes store and sync them with your Apple mobile device.

- ''ocean of knowledge''
- media mashups
- high definition movies
- electronic publishing revolution
- future of publishing


Maybe I am wrong. Time will tell. If Apple doesn't do it then who will ?

Oh, I bought some iPad domain names today ;))

See you on 27th this Month.

Munich: DLD Conference 2010.

Off to Munich.

...starting January 24th - 26th.

Here's a short video.
More in one simple picture.

DLD (Digital - Life - Design) is a three-day experience gathering 800 entrepreneurs, investors, philantropists, scientists, artists and creative minds from all over the world. With global diversity in attendees and an interdisciplinary perspective of digital, media, design, art, science, brands, consumers and society, the conference is known as the European forum for the "creative class".

January 2010.

Travel itinerary:

31.12.2009. - 03.01.2010. Vienna - waiting New Year
04.01.2010. - 10.01.2010. Flight to Las Vegas - CES 2010 conference

CES 2010 keynotes

First week of 2010. is dedicated to CES 2010 conference. Flight to Las Vegas and see video from significant keynotes.Paul Otellini - INTEL, Steve Ballmer- MICROSOFT.

Mobile Sites Getting Worse

New findings from Yankee Group offer further evidence that "mobile Internet" remains an oxymoron. Of the 27 large mobile sites the firm evaluated, the average score was 52 out of 100 -- a failing grade and actually two points lower than last year's average.

Sites were judged on criteria including how well they adapt to different devices and networks as well as design and usability.

The report highlights a handful of mobile that actually earned passing grades across three categories: news, sports and search. Both Yahoo News and Google News earned top honors with scores of 73 by not overwhelming users with information and tailoring content to the screens of specific devices.

MLB.com was tops in sports with a score of 71, and also spotlighted for its device detection and ability to tailor content to fit mobile screens. Rivals.com (58) and ESPN.com (57) ranked second and third.

In search, Google edged out Yahoo (81 to 76) with a clean user interface, device detection and location-awareness capability. Google's search score is the highest Yankee has awarded to any mobile site so far and counts as a gold star in this group.

The analysis also looked at the sites of mobile carriers. Sprint was the best of a bad lot, winning the category with a whopping score of 53. Verizon Wireless was runner up with a 34 and T-Mobile and AT&T each came away with a 12 for basically having useless sites. Well done.

Yankee points out the carriers have separate mobile sites reserved for subscribers. "By not having a mobile Web presence, carriers are saying they don't want to serve mobile users unless they can sign up for service first," states the report.

On the consumer side, the report found 31% of phone owners are now accessing the mobile once a month, with news, search and weather the most popular categories. Given the quality of mobile sites, nearly one-third looks like a high proportion.

Chat Panel About Startup Financing

MiFi and 3G router for on-the-go

Wi-Fi Everywhere And In Your Pocket

Interesting device is on the market ( or will be ) in the US and the UK. Verizon Wireless launched ( Sprint too ) Mifi 2200 card for personal and mobile hotspots, and 3 UK is doing the same in the UK.
The need certanly exist. You can connect up to 5 devices to your personal mobile broadband network.
This brings another good point in the connectivity puzzle. As Reuter's editor explains in a short video:



Related news and blog articles:
The Telegraph about MiFi journalism

EWeek about MiFi

Working from the pub with MiFi

QR code in the sand

Via Picturephoning

Free , really free

Watch out, it's a bit hyped right now :)

Extremely good review of Chris Anderson's new book called ''Free''.
Chris might be pinpointing some extreme trends in the digital marketplace. I just downloaded free audio version, although there's a book at Amazon.

Apple and RIM are profit cows

5 % market makes total of 58 % operating profits

Wall Street Journal: Smart indeed

The two accounted for only 3% of all cellphones sold in the world last year but 35% of operating profits, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff. The disparity will become even starker this year when, he estimates, the two will take 5% of the market in unit terms but 58% of total operating profits.

One Palm Pre, 2K photos

Thomas Lopez (@tmomaslomez) has been busy with his Pre. Last night he tweeted "My fav photo from our trip to SF http://post.ly/1Gav nearly 2k more taken with my Pre."

Check his photo gallery and you'll find he's been busy -- and has been producing some high quality as well as huge quantity.

Palm Pre in Europe

New message via Facebook

Palm Pre will arrive in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain on local Telefónica networks in those countries. Scheduled to be available in time for the holidays, Pre will be offered in the UK, Ireland and Germany on Telefónica's O2 network, and in Spain on Telefónica's Movistar network. You can read more about the announcement here.

Customers who would like to register to receive additional information about Palm Pre and be notified when it's available can register at:

* UK and Ireland: http://www.palm.com/uk-pre-notify
* Germany: http://www.palm.com/de-pre-notify
* Spain: http://www.palm.com/es-pre-notify

Jon Zilber

Smartbooks Revue, Voila !

Latest from the final frontier

Samsung / LG readies Smartbook ?

Qualcomm is hoping to boost the processing speed of more mobile devices after it announced it will be bringing a smartphone and smartbook based on its superfast Snapdragon chip.

For those that don't know / don't care about the smartbook category, it's a device that bridges the shrinking gap between a smartphone and a netbook, so basically high performance in a smaller package. (And yes, we hate the name too).

Compal's Snapdragon-powered smartbook

As if it wasn't clear already, smartbooks are one of the big trends (if not the biggest) to emerge out of this year's Computex, be they Snapdragon or Tegra-powered. Just as interesting as the devices themselves, however, is the fact that a number of manufacturers are looking at using Android as an OS for 'em, including big players like ASUS, and now Compal. While's ASUS' Snapdragon-based offering was impressive enough, Compal looks to have slightly outdone it by adding a customized interface at start-up, which is apparently just a taste of further "optimizations" to come

Nokia and Intel in a partnership that will define smartbook market ?
The companies will work on a new class of devices for the emerging smartbook or MID space


4 companies leading the mobile revolution. Qualcomm is one of them

QCOM is bridging the gap between smartphones and notebooks by creating a device called a smartbook. Smartbooks are mini-laptops that are similar to netbooks, but differ such that they operate on mobile phone chips (thus QCOM chips) as opposed to PC microchips, such as Intel’s (INTC) Atom microprocessors. This device will have “the portability and intuitive feel of a smartphone combined with the versatility and capability of a notebook.” Smartbooks will come in various forms “from larger, sub-notebook designs to compact, touch-screen tablets.”

New smartbook offerings coming this year on the wings of Intel / Nokia deal

"We would expect new netbook/smartbook offerings in coming months from other traditional handset vendors such as Motorola, Samsung, and LG. Intel announced a MID deal with Korean handset maker LG at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February of this year, with the launch of the first Intel MID by LG expected in 2010. In addition, we expect traditional PC players such as Acer, Asus, Dell, and HP to come forward with smartbook/smartphone like devices using applications processors from Intel, Qualcomm, and Nvidia in the next few months."

Nokia order Snapdragon smartbook

As for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset, that caused no small amount of fuss back at Computex for its role in the new ARM-based smartbook niche. A rival to Intel-based netbooks, smartbooks promise all-day battery life together with full wireless connectivity and HD media playback with HDMI connectivity.

After unhappy netbook users, there's place for happy smartbook users

The Linux segment is far from dead -- it's just getting started. But that's technically a "smartbook"..

Apple Smartbook In The Pipeline Or Is It iPhone 4G ?

Wireless patent

According to some reports about new Apple granted patents, there's got to be something at Apple about unknown wireless electronic device:

The twist however, is that the patent is about a hybrid antenna consisting of one antenna for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth and the other for 3G data communications. When combined within the framework of a subnotebook that could run software such as an internet browser, voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) telephone call applications, email applications and media playback applications, we are then presented with the classic definition of what a smartbook is.

Chat With Automatic Translation In 45 Languages

Google tech solved century-long problem. Tower of Babel doesn't exist anymore.



I like magic-like web services. BabelWith.me is certanly one of those. Just imagine having one of those pocket devices with something similar ( software ) just audio-based. Truly global !

BabelWith.Me is a new service which creates disposable chat rooms where you can have quick conversations. However, unlike many other disposable chatroom creators, it not only creates a disposable chatroom but also lets you chat with people knowing language other than yours by automagically translating your conversations into over 45 languages as per your selection.

Smartbooks are coming

Franken products showcased at Computex fair

Very well written and informative article about recent Computex fair in Taiwan.
So much new products are coming on the table. Many of them are so called Franken products and the trend is divergence.
Some points to highlight:

A small laptop with an Intel chip is normally called a netbook. But a netbook with a cellphone chip is called a smartbook, according to some companies

But based on what’s coming soon to a store near you, it seems that “divergence” may be the more apt moniker. There is now a quasi-laptop for just about every need and want.

Roger L. Kay, one of the most prominent analysts of the PC industry, described the new generation of machines as “Franken-products,” a reference to the monster cobbled together from various parts.

Globetrotter mind

On the go

My recent ( last few months) VR tours around the World. Recent destination were:

Toronto, Canada
Munich, Bavaria
New York, NYC
Philadelphia, PA
Birmingham, Alabama
Singapore, Asia

There's a lot of tweets about my impressions and thoughts when I was traveling and discovering these cities.

Palm Pre - Day 1