I’m now sitting at a café in Helsinki. It’s -11°c outside, just bought winter tires for my bike and chilling before heading home. It has been 6 months that I have not contributed to my blog… Where have those 6 months gone? What have I done so important and time [...]
Quick update! Last Friday I was invited by a friend to join an event at Premier Park, a driving track in southern Finland. The event was quite interesting as we got a chance to discover the different tracks around activities such as off road driving, emergency braking and traction control [...]
The N9, rumored to be Nokia’s first MeeGo device, seems to be on the verge of becoming public. For once, Nokia has managed to create a lot of buzz behind an event that used to be unnoticed: Nokia Connection 2011 Nokia is known to host its events on the sidelines of major [...]
I’ve been flying a fair bit in the US and came accross inflight wifi few tmes. I never could justify paying for it. Now that I have a job that requires to be always on, it starts to make more sense. However, it is still expensive, priced at $10 per [...]
The French government has a long history of using speed as a pretext to tax consumers. Close to 0 tolerance on speed limits, fixed speed cameras with automatic billing (you have to pay before you can defend yourself, removing your rights of innocence until proven guilty) and more. Wednesday, the [...]
Beginning of the month I did my first ever April’s fool on this blog. Although it was a fun experiment, and quite many people got fooled, there was some element of truth. The past year has been a really good learning experience, and I had planned it like that. I’ve [...]
Tom Scott is one of these kids who had a dream, and went for it! Tom and I met at the Charity Hack weekend. I joined him and Dan Williams to build the ridiculous Charity Shock. We had a good time and honestly, after spending so much time managing people, [...]
Here we are! A year ago I was free as a bird and decided to properly start blogging for myself and others. It was the second blog I was really launching, the first one was just my personal adventures in Finland when I moved there in 2003. In a year [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
