Making Things Happen

It’s amazing to notice how fast touchscreen phones are gaining market share these days. Keep in mind that these graphs are referred only to Nokia (which produces tons of entry level phones). Via: LUKEW

This great infographic from iStrategy shows the size of the Mobile Market in all world countries, delivering also some interesting drill downs on specific subjects. Among the others it’s very interesting to notice how SMS messaging is by far the most used messaging system, despite all media and people attention seem attracted only by Instant [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]