Last episode of the Symbian saga… Nokia has been going full circle with its Symbian strategy: closed-semi open-fully open-closed. This post definitely highlights the key aspects of the new licensing model, and it is not pretty. It won’t impact hobbyists, it won’t impact large corporations, but it will definitely have [...]
In a previous post I was venting about the challenges of the mobile ecosystem. Well, it was of course published on the 1st of April, and was my first April’s fool published on my blog. I have to say that I was hapily surprised by the response I got from [...]
As some of you might have noticed, a lot of things have been changing in my life lately. My company, LeCatalyst, has been running quite well, my life in London has been quite good and I’ve got really good friends over there. #LeStudio52 is set to live a life of its [...]
I had a chance to play with Angry Birds Rio while at SXSW last week. Have to say the game is definitely refreshing. Same principle, which will make it easy for a 2y old to play, but more opportunities for grown ups to push the game. This partnership is definitely [...]
I was horrified to find out that in order to develop for Nokia Qt on a Mac, I had to download xCode, the OSX/iOS dev environment from Apple. Worse, in order to download the latest version from Apple (4.0), you need to either become an Apple Developer ($99/y please…), or [...]
Gaming has for me almost always had a mobile component. Let it be from my first Game Boy, the Neo Geo, Game Gear or other handeld consoles, I’ve always enjoyed gaming on the go. With the evolution of mobile phones towards smart phones, there has been several attempts to merge [...]
Here is an interview I made while at Mobile World Congress 2011. Ville Heijari, Bird Whisperer at Rovio, gives us some insight of what’s happening in their world.
Amazon.de seem to have leaked the specs of the iPad 2 this morning. Not that I am usually happy about leaks, this time it’s only couple of hours before official release. What struck me was the Thunderbolt port. This would make sense for the iPad to not only compete with [...]
Ringbow has been a quite interesting company to follow. Their technology is a small ring acting as a control element for your mobile or any other bluetooth equipped device. Although the technology is quite simple, the usage can be quite powerful as one only needs a limited amount of motion [...]
Few months back I organized a competition for my 10000 visitors. Fauz was one of the lucky ones to get an Ovi Pack, nicely offered by the Ovi team in Germany. Here is the unboxing:
It’s official, you can now Embed Angry Birds levels anywhere! To do that, get to the Facebook game: https://apps.facebook.com/angrybirds/ and play a level. Paste it to your blog and Play!
Today I received my bluetooth Hear Rate monitor from Sports Tracker. I’ve been experimenting with a Polar one, but as I am using Sports Tracker on my N9, I figured out it would be good to try their belt as well. Here are pictures of the “Unboxing”. First impressions [...]
Definitely the future, helping people to learn instead of assisting them.
It’s been crazy at the Campus Party and I’ve had an amazing time! I was last night at the “Geeks on Beer” event, listening to investors, startups and entrepreneurs discussing about the Brazilian market, the challenges and opportunities. It was a crash course in Portuguese, but it was fun I [...]
Since I got to São Paulo on Monday, I’ve been diving deep in the Campus Party. It’s been really fun and I’ve started to feel like a Campusero myself. But it hasn’t been that easy… Let’s rewind and look at how things went! I got to the venue on [...]
Once again, I am lucky to spend time with bright people sharing their passion of Technology, Innovation with maybe a bit of geekyness So what is the Campus Party? The Campus Party is the reunion of thousands of individuals, coming together for a week in the same location and doing [...]
When I joined Nokia back in 2007, I had never done much of public speaking and was for sure not looking for that kind of role. After 2 years working on products, I was lucky enough to be brought to Mobile World Congress to be on the floor, “selling” the [...]
Kevin Energy was playing his last set at Sade last night. Had an amazing time with the guys as usual. Hard to explain the feeling, and am sure this video will not give the full picture.
If someone knows about pushing the limits, it is Jeb Corliss. His dream has been to land a wingsuit without parachute. He has been practicing flying and has done amazing videos, pushing the envelope. Today the bucket of luck emptied dramatically. Jeb was jumping in Cape Town, at the Table [...]
If 5 years ago, someone would have told me that they were building a new mobile operator in France, I would have though they were crazy. It takes an amazing amount of resource, energy, money and time to build an infrastructure that supports modern technologies. On top of that, you [...]
