Making Things Happen

After London, it’s now news that also Nokia’s New York and Chicago flagship stores are being shut down, tossing out millions of investments aimed to showcase the latest gadget from the Finnish manufacturer.
I have to say that this news came with no surprise for me, as I still remember this bare shop in the middle [...]

At LeWeb ‘09 FON founder Martin Varsavsky announced Peek, a GPRS email gadget that, like Amazon’s Kindle, comes with (almost) free data connection all over Europe through the new MVNO Spotnik.
The price point is set at 99€, then for around 13€ per month you’ll get unlimited data to send and receive your emails.
This could be [...]

Back in the “old days” when I was a happy iPhone user, I remember how hard it was to type long messages on that tiny touchscreen keyboard, especially as I was coming from a BlackBerry Curve 8300.
Swype is a new technology that promise to bring ease back to touchscreen writing, by understanding what are you [...]

New Verizon’s ads to promote their great coverage and fight back AT&T and the iPhone are really fun.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NKnDRPFKU
The video (sorry for the crappy quality) makes fun of having a latest generation smartphone and having to wait to download a game or stream a movie, situations that AT&T users face pretty much every day, even in [...]

Only a few apps on the App Store share the same attention to details and thoughtful design process that Apple itself puts in its products.
Convert is a very nice and simple application to do conversions on your iPhone. Sure you can find dozens of free apps that do just that, but if you watch this [...]

It’s been a long time since Nokia last excited me with a product announcement, as while some manufacturers kept innovating (HTC) even if stuck with a buggy os (Windows Mobile 6), and others made their way into a totally new market for them (Apple); Nokia seemed to oversleep over its marketshare, which now faces serious [...]