Posted on 22 December 2011 by
News that Christmas lights in Cambridge (UK) were turned on using an NFC smartphone this year has prompted me to take a look at NFC’s eco credentials. Aside from the festive novelty of using a phone to turn on a set of Christmas lights, NFC has the capacity to have a profound effect on the […]
Posted on 28 November 2011 by
When big names in technology decide to team up, the prospect for consumers is usually mouth-watering. When the French Government step in – I think it’s safe to say we’re witnessing the birth of some game-changing technology. The consortium of Gemalto, Archos, Eurecom and WYSIPS has been selected by the French Government to develop the […]
Posted on 24 November 2011 by
Hello from Paris at the EBG event. The catchphrase these past two days has been ‘If you snooze, you lose.’ While that might be taking it a bit far, it’s certainly true that it’s been a highly engaging and fast-moving conference in a fast-moving and evolving industry. And, having dosed up on coffee, I’m keen […]
Posted on 10 October 2011 by
This is my last in a series of 3 blog posts about our recent conference on the mobile revolution held at La Cantine in Paris. Over the evening we looked at how the mobile has changed society as a whole, including way we pay and access social networks.
Posted on 03 October 2011 by
This is my second post on our recent conference on how the mobile had impacted society for our French followers at the IT crowd hang-out, La Cantine, in Paris last week. Last week I blogged about the rise of mobile social media and today it’s the turn of mobile payment.
Posted on 29 September 2011 by
Yesterday I attended our second “bloggers” conference in Paris at La Cantine, a unique collaborative workspace and focal point in France for IT 2.0. Luckily, for those who couldn’t attend the event was videoed (link coming soon), unluckily, for most of you, it was all in French, luckily I speak the language of Sartre, Baudelaire […]
