Technology

Leila Modarres, Mobile Complete, talks about TryPhone.com

Mobile Complete knows all about mobile handsets. They decided to share it with consumers, not just with mobile developers who know about DeviceAnywhere. DeviceAnywhere provides real handsets located in data centers around the world so that developers can access them live to build their mobile applications.
They are launching a consumer application, dedicated to mobile consumers. [...]

15 fév 2008 | Lire la suite

UbiEst wins, Senda, Oxford Softworks, Gypsii also rewarded at the Global LBS Challenge.

The Global LBS challenge, organised by Navteq, rewards innovative LBS (Location Based Services) ideas. Nine of the former winners have received venture capital funding. The 4 start-ups, all in early stage, receive part of the total $3 million in cash and Navteq licences. And the 2008 winners are :
UbiEst for UbiSafe : you can track [...]

14 fév 2008 | Lire la suite

Microsoft acquires Danger to strengthen its mobile services

Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, announced today at the WMC in Barcelona that Microsoft acquired Danger. Over the past 12 months, it is Microsoft’s 3rd acquisition in the mobile space after Screentonic and Musiwave.
Danger, a California based company
provides services that allow people to keep in touch, stay organized and keep informed [...]

11 fév 2008 | Lire la suite

Nicolas Charbonnier on the OLPC laptop

Nicolas Charbonnier operates Techvideoblog from Denmark. We had an interesting chat about the OLPC One Laptop Per Child $100 dollar laptop which we believe could also change usage in western Europe.
Nicolas Charbonnier interviewed February 7, 2008, Geneva, Lift

08 fév 2008 | Lire la suite

LIFT 08 videos and selected quotes

As if you were in Geneva, conferences, webcams & interviews of the LIFT conference. You’ll have to fly over for the swiss fondue tonight.

These quotes are from or were quoted by speakers: :
James Katz, scholar : we are entering an « arms race of digital deception »
Genevieve Bell - Intel :Technology changes far [...]

07 fév 2008 | Lire la suite

Paris-on-Rails: Ruby et Rails s’installent dans le web 2.0

La conférence officielle de Ruby en France dédiée à Ruby et Rails se tiendra le Lundi 10 décembre prochain à La Vilette. Le language Ruby et son framework Rails sont régulièrement utilisés par des start-ups ou des projets innovants au sein de groupes installés. Parmi eux : Dexia, Eyeka, Nouvel Observateur (shopping.nouvel.com), Madame Figaro, Scoopeo, [...]

04 déc 2007 | Lire la suite

What China tells us about the internet!

As some of you know, Thomas Crampton hes changed his life and simultaneously got married, left his long time IHT/NYT journalist position and moved from Paris to Hong Kong : 3 of the most stressful events in a man’s life.
Thomas is currently attending Adtech in Beijing : he is blogging from there. So check [...]

16 oct 2007 | Lire la suite

Yann Mauchamp gives us a preview of the European Tech Tour.

We’ll take this weekend a decision about registering Eyeka to the Web and Communities Summit, organized as part of the 28th European Tech Tour Event, scheduled on November 14 -15th in Montreux, Switzerland. The top 25 companies from Europe are selected to meet with the leading US, European, and Asian venture capitalists and media [...]

21 sept 2007 | Lire la suite

US small businesses will spend $70 Billion Online by 2012

According to Jupiter Research,
the total online expenditures by small businesses is expected to top $70 billion by the year 2012, up from $47 billion in 2006…. “In addition, 82 percent of small business decision makers research products or services for their business online, monthly or more frequently.
Increasing competition, better prices, convenience create significant improvements in [...]

17 sept 2007 | Lire la suite

Le Web 3′07 : run to register

If you want to know it all, trends, players, movers in the internet and mobile environment, it will be at le Web 3′07 on December 11 and 12 in Paris staged by Loic.
It’s also a great place to network. I’ll be there. Let’s meet!
Speakers i will listen to : Andrew Keen Cult of the Amateur, [...]

15 sept 2007 | Lire la suite