Articles Tagged ‘mobile’

Representing Layar at ISMAR 09

 

October 28th, 2009 by dirk
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Layar is a young company. I’ve joined the company as CTO only 4 months ago. So the people in the world of Augmented Reality are entirely new to me and everyone at ISMAR was a new face. It’s funny to think that after 3 days of ISMAR I already feel part of the club! It’s a small world, so running around the Marriott hotel with a Layar badge quickly got me acquainted with almost everyone at ISMAR. Everyone knew Layar, many knew me by name and wanted to talk with me, showing how much the new startups of 2009 like Layar have captured the minds of people and given a new impulse to Augmented Reality as a whole. And many presentations started by mentioning Wikitude and Layar as the companies that created a paradigm shift in AR for 2009, moving it in the eyes of the general public away from the marker-based 3D football players that you could see last year.

Read more about ISMAR on the Layar blog.

Can the SIM card become the future App Store?

 

June 19th, 2009 by dirk
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It’s the dream of every operator: Regain control over the billing of content to their subscribers. We’ve had the walled gardens of Vodafone Live! and i-mode. And now operators are faced with handset manufacturers creating their own, successful content stores: Apple’s App Store, the Android Market, Microsoft its Windows Marketplace, Nokia the Ovi Store… Are operators reduced to becoming the bit-pipe?
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MoMo#11: Visionary speakers on their vision of mobile

 

June 5th, 2009 by dirk
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Last Monday, instead of spending the public holiday afternoon in a sunny park enjoying one of the many music festivals, I stayed inside the Rode Hoed to listen to some very famous speakers giving their vision on mobile. Two of them inspired me most: Andrew Gill and Robert Rice. On the mobile device as a means for personal advertising and for viewing the world with a 7th sense (or is it still 6th sense?).
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The iPhone as a playground

 

May 25th, 2009 by dirk
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Is it an overhyped mobile phone? A lot of press coverage everytime a big company launches an iPhone app, but probably only around 130,000 owners in The Netherlands, amounting to less than 1% of the mobile phone market. For companies with customers accross the entire population definetely not a platform to dedicate all their attention. But fact is that the iPhone offers a great test bed for things to come and a playground to try things out.
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What on earth is Pecha Kucha?

 

March 31st, 2009 by dirk
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Yesterday at MoMo Amsterdam #10 a new experiment was held: The public had been asked previously to submit ideas for presentations to be performed in Pecha-Kucha style: 20 slides in 20 seconds each. In the end five presentations were selected by the MoMo organisers, amongst which my presentation on the future mobile loyalty platform. Read more »

Mobile Madness at Adobe User Group

 

March 16th, 2009 by dirk
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Last week, the NL Adobe User Group organized an event themes ‘Mobile Madness’. While you would expect such an event to be entirely focused on Flash Lite development, the Adobe platform for applications on the mobile phones, most of the speakers actually didn’t use Flash Lite for their examples. Like any mobile event nowadays, all the buzz is about the iPhone (in this case it was “the other phone”) and how to duplicate the success and model of Apple.
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