Mobiliser's editorial to start this week from sunny Berlin
We have entered december 2000 at full speed and beam you some mobiliser news
from a sunny Berlin, the secret wireless capital of Germany.
While UMTS-crazy Europe is waking up from an unbelievable state of mental
hibernation concerning how much money can really be made with UMTS subscribers
and what the technology will deliver if too many videosuckers are sharing the same cell
capacity, USA is producing their own wireless news, apart from showing the rest of the
world this media-addicted country is kind of too stupid to elect a new president.
As pointed out in unstrung.com - as you might know one of the best sources on
all mobile and wireless stuff going on in the USA - AT&T Wireless is joining
the GSM cheerleaders by deciding to build a massive GSM/GPRS network using
the most modern technology available in the market. I believe that they will
make every effort to build a wireless network bumping with the coolest
value-added services even the Europeans will envy.
To give you a taste, here's some quoted lines:
"A slew of announcements today confirmed that AT&T Wireless has signed
several letters of intent to purchase significant volumes of infrastructure equipment
to migrate their current network to -- you guessed it -- GSM. The gear will be
advanced base station and mobile equipment that includes GPRS functionality
on a GSM platform, with the added sparkle of being UMTS capable in the future."
Right from Madrid, mobiliser advisor Mans Shapshak, CEO of
pressyes.com,
sends us some insights on the dos and don'ts of wireless advertising. A worthwhile
read if you want to ignite your mobile brainwaves on how to communicate with
your mobile customers. Find the full story here.
Fighting for better usability of wireless services, the mobiliser.org team and their partner
eye square are finalising the
first German "WAP Usability Studie 1.0" (for a start in German, sorry dudes)
investigating the leading German WAP portals and services. This study can soon
be purchased on mobiliser.org.
Mobile Economy (ME) GmbH i.G., mobiliser.org's operator, just went to Ieper, Belgium,
to conincidentally learn about the unfortunate crash of
Lernout & Hauspie while joining
the first BIA exchange which was our motivation for traveling to Belgium in the first place.
To calm down the present press people, Jo Lernout gave an incredible presentation
demoing the power of SAIL technology (speech, artificial intelligence & language)
and L&H's cool products. However, L&H seems to have messed up their accounting
plus having made a couple of serious management mistakes. A case to watch and
to learn from.
ME now is a member of biaeurope.org
which is Europe's leading association of Business Incubators. Some good European networking
for us, that is for sure.
Finally, this coming friday, mobiliser will hit the plane to Tokyo where we will
spend 10 days seeing the mobile future as it unfolds in today's Japan. Expect some heavy
reporting on this screen on the coolest apps and devices we spot over there.
