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Since a couple of days I am a user of the Berlin-based Bluetooth-powered mobile social network aka aki. I think aka aki is a very cool and super sticky application with a great future. Thumbs up to the 8 co-founders from the UDK (Berlin University of the Arts) for coming up with a mobile innovation that takes advantage of the unique mobile technology Bluetooth to enable a new form of intelligent encounters and meetings in the real world.
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Jan Michael Hess | mail |
08/04/09 |
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Many people in our beloved mobile economy are excited about the new startup company called Blyk because it is the first ad-funded MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) in the world. Blyk launched in the UK on 24 September, 2007, and is targeted at 16 to 24 year-old customers only. Co-founder and CEO of Blyk is Pekka Ala-Pietilä, former President of Nokia Corporation (1999-2005) and Nokia Mobile Phones (1992-1998). Pekka’s supposedly strong contacts with the top management of many MNOs (Mobile Network Operator) will help Blyk close more beneficial Host MNO deals in 2008 and 2009 as Blyk plans to go pan-European
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Jan Michael Hess | mail |
08/01/24 |
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Once again the Mobile World Congress 2008 (formerly called 3GSM) will take place in beautiful Barcelona from 11-14 February 2008. The Mobile World Congress is the epicentre of the mobile economy and I strongly recommend you to go there to see mobile innovation and meet wireless executives for dealmaking and future-talking.
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Jan Michael Hess | mail |
08/01/16 |
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While big-screen video is big, small-screen video is still very small. The PC-based Internet video revolution is in full swing and there are many video aggregator and enablers out there for user-generated and professional content that is ad-financed or, sometimes, sold by views or downloads.
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Jan Michael Hess | mail |
07/09/15 |
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Mobile Voice-over-IP (VoIP) will be the ultimate killer application! SMS-over-IP (SoIP) will be the next one! The good news for consumers is that Mobile VoIP is being betatested by a new breed of Mobile VoIP startups such as iSkoot and Truphone. The bad news for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) is that the betatests are coming to an end very soon. Then Mobile VoIP will be ready for the mass market.
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Jan Michael Hess | mail |
07/01/25 |
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