I am also looking to link to blogs from all over the world based on criteria below especially from India, Chinese language/Japanese/Korean/German language/Spanish language and europe even if they are not in English

Criteria
The blog must be mobile /wireless/web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 related
It must have good content
It must be consistent ie not an ocassional post in a month
I especailly welcome global blogs (even if they are not in English)

kind rgds
Ajit

"Our goal is to act less like a traditional manufacturer, and more like an internet company," Kallasvuo told his shareholders. "Companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft are not our traditional competitors, but they are major forces that must be reckoned with. Make no mistake: We are taking on these challenges seriously and aggressively."

"When we look at it with the eyes we have now, when regarding pedestrian navigation, map services, digital maps, we are even more excited about the opportunities than when making the decision" to buy Navteq, said Kallasvuo.

Absolutely agree! Very few companies in the existing Telco space are going to dominate the world where the Mobile Internet is the dominant player and Nokia is one of them in my view..

For that matter .. very few existing Telecoms companies are going to survive in my view and there is a lot to be learned form Nokia

The mobile part in this mix? Well it interested me that Tim revealed Robbie Williams had made five times as much money from his deal with T-mobile Sony Ericsson in one year than he had from his record label. He made most of all from touring (the because effect in full effect!)

Interesting also that Sony Ericsson spent six times as much promoting Robbie's latest album in Australia than EMI did.

Tony Fish is putting on Being-Digital and it could be the digital event of the summer, covering the mashup of applications and services on the web, mobile and TV.

10th June BAFTA, Piccadilly, London. http://www.being-digital.com/

From their conference media/promotional details

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They have already confirmed many of the best digital executives, entrepreneurs and investors in the UK. The reason that senior people are willing to give their time is that there is a need to discuss & debate the 7 core themes; social, search, advertising, identity, content, location & retail, and understand the implications on investment and cash.

It looks like there will be 30 or so cutting-edge demo companies providing both 1 minute pitches when relevant to a theme and working demos of their products & services. There may be room for one or two more.

TechCrunch UK is running a competition starting on the 11th June for the best Being-Digital Demo Pitch (1 min on stage). The winner will receive free hardware and consultancy from SUN Microsystems and ideas.org (the digital strategy, design and development agency).

130 professional have already registered, they have a capacity limit of 200 on a first paid basis. The event will sell out and you can pay £250 this week or £325 next week.

To register and pay please click here. http://www.mashupevent.com/node/436/register?destination=node/436/register

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AdMob Analytics is accepting limited private beta sign ups at the following link: Admob mobile analytics .

I last met Simeon at Barcelona in 2007 at Mobile World Congress when I was speaking there, and we had a lengthy discussion about Adobe. I remember Sim was optimistic about Adobe/Flash Lite then - but I was not.

My point has always been - on the Mobile web Adobe is not doing what it did on the web(and which made Adobe successful on the web in the first place) i.e. on the Web - it gives the client for free and charges money for the tools. On mobile, it charges a lot of money for the client(at least it did so prior to this announcement). In private discussions I had with Operators and device manufacturers, this had always been a problem for them - thereby slowing uptake of FlashLite.

I know you could argue that the client was not free in the case of FOMA in Japan - but Japan already had a vibrant mobile data industry in the form of imode prior to FOMA(so the FOMA - flashlite was a lesser risk)

However that has changed

The client is now free. That fact along with other changes makes adobe / Flash Lite a much more interesting proposition to watch now on

Its also nice to see Gary Kovacs take on a key new role .. And from my brief interactions with Gary – this is a good move for Adobe with Gary heading mobile developments

Certainly one to watch

Khamish Malhotra
M.Sc, B.Eng, Dip.Eng, CCNA, MIET, MIAENG

Khamish Malhotra is a research scholar at Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan. He has a Dip. Eng in Medical Electronics from Pusa Polytechnic (1996), a B.Eng in Electronics Engineering from Nagpur Univ. (1999), an M.Sc in Computing and Performance Engineering from University of Bradford (2003). He is currently writing-up for his PhD (Embedded Mobile Internet Technologies for Remote Patient Monitoring Applications) at the Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan. He has got publications on his name in various telecommunication conferences and magazines. He has worked as a part-time lecturer at Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan. . He is currently a member of Institution of Engineering and Technology and International Association of Engineers. He has over 5 years of Information and Communications technology experience gained with leading companies in India and UK.

His areas of research are Mobile related Healthcare, Wireless Remote Monitoring, Performance Modelling and Evaluation, Use of Multimedia over Mobile Networks, Mobile Computing and Network Security.

Please contact Khamish at khamishm at gmail.com

So, it was a pleasure to be interviewed by Bob for his blog Flacksrevenge. You can see the interview HERE

Near-Time is one of the leading on-demand, Enterprise 2.0 platform for cross organization collaboration. Near-Time combines blogs, forums and wikis and it enables business professionals to create rich interaction with their prospects, customers, partners and suppliers.

Near-Time has recently launched Near-Time connection which extends the Collaborative Capabilities of Near-Time to other Mobile Devices and to iGoogle via Widgets.

It is an example of a single interface / service (driven by the Web) and extending it to mobile devices and to iGoogle and thereby increasing the reach to existing (and potentially new) users.

By that I mean, while Symbian /Nokia support is absent at the moment on Near-Time; Nokia also supports Mobile Widgets in a big way. Hence Near-Time could easily extend the reach of their application to all Nokia/Symbian devices using the same Widget code base.

Through this strategy, application discovery will also be driven by the Web and via multiple channels (for instance – the Widget may be first discovered in iGoogle but the user may also have a Pocket PC device and may use the near-time application on the Web and also on the pocket PC.)

Finally .. By providing the ability to embed widgets into a home page, the user gets a customized product and at the same time overcomes the limitations of widgets themselves(i.e. the single, monolithic focus of a widget). The choice of launch platforms is also interesting (Web + iGoogle, iPhone, Pocket PC and the Blackberry)

I think leveraging the power of the Web, Mobile Web and Widgets by incorporating the ideas of Mobile SAAS, Mobile Web, Mobile Widgets and Mobile Ajax will be increasingly the way to go – fuelled by the greater uptake of the full Web on Mobile devices, Mobile Ajax and Mobile Widgets.

Mystrands have released version 3.1 of MyStrands Social Player, which allows you to scrobble tracks to Last.fm as you play music on S60 and S40 devices. Recently listened tracks on your mobile device will now be available on your Last.fm profile.

See the full announcement and downloads at the Mystrands blog

Hello all ..

This may be a very big opportunity for someone in the mobile space if you get it right.

Supernova is probably one of the best conferences in the tech visionary space and has played a key role in anticipating critical developments on the path to the Network Age for the last seven years.

Past speakers include Sergey Brin and speakers this year include Jonathan Schwartz, Mike Arrington, Joi Ito and others including me :)

Kevin Werbach, the creator of supernova emailed me about a new initiative they have just announced .. and the upside can be coverage on techcrunch!

For Mobile Connections at Supernova 2008, they are looking for game-changing innovations that provide a glimpse of the wireless future .. and the leading ideas will enjoy coverage on techcrunch.

See details below.

See also the links at the bottom of this email from Kevin to get an ethos of this conference(which is unique)

If you are attending, please email me as well so we can catch up(I am speaking on Wednesday but I will be there for most of the week)

Any qs, please email me at ajit.jaokar at futuretext.com or the supernova folk below and I can try and help if possible

The Supernova conference and TechCrunch are looking for the next great mobile ideas.

It's a safe bet that the most significant innovations in the Network Age will be tied to mobile communications. For Mobile Connections at Supernova 2008, we're looking for game-changing innovations that provide a glimpse of the wireless future. This is not another start-up contest -- it's limited to pre-commercial or non-commercial submissions.

We want to hear about concepts, prototypes, research lab projects, hacks, and business ideas, in any area related to mobile communications: devices, applications, interfaces, business models, location-based services, development tools, use cases, transmission technologies, etc. If your submission blows us away, we'll invite you to showcase it at Supernova 2008, June 16th in San Francisco, CA. You'll also enjoy coverage on TechCrunch, the leading media site covering emerging technologies and companies today, and the Supernova Conversation Hub.

There will be no charge for those selected. Email your submission to mobile@supernova2008.com by May 23, 2008. More details at Mobile connections - Supernova and Techcrunch

and also these links from the creator of supernova Kevin Werbach give you an idea about the thinking behind supernova

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2005/tc20050126_7264.htm
http://www.news.com/Perspective-Techs-big-challenge-Decentralization/2010-1071_3-963113.html
http://www.news.com/Anticipating-a-post-Web,-post-PC-world/2010-1071_3-1008628.html

In spite of the flippant sounding headline .. This blog covers an important topic ..

I am an invited expert advisor to the European union Joint research commission - which is a part of the European union pre legislative/policy support initiative.

In many ways, my unorthodox - but also I believe practical - views complement the more traditional view point and it is always great to be a part of this initiative.

I will cover two aspects in this blog ..

Firstly, which aspects should be legislated to facilitate greater uptake of mobile / wireless technology within the European union (and I seek your feedback on this) ..

Although, no big fan of legislation – there are areas where clearly legislation is needed.

My three candidates are
a) Roaming charges

b) Transparency of pricing and

c) Transcoding(this will need a separate blog) – but by transcoding I also mean any ‘retrofitted changes’ to a site from a provider that affects the accessibility of the site itself

Seek thoughts and feedback ..

Also,

I also spoke about my usual viewpoint .. OpenGardens and Open mobile networks and I gave the example of patientline – to explain the problem at a microcosm level.

Patientline , as its name suggests is a network designed to ‘provides communication services to patients’. Patientline was recently in the news for increasing the cost of calls by 160%.

Let’s delve into the background behind this decision ..

Patientline is a monopoly(aka walled garden)
When it was deployed, mobile phones were totally banned from hospitals
So, at great cost (£160m!) and after considerable time, a network was put in to serve the ‘captive’ audience.

Note that the business model (i.e. recouping the investment of the network) and creating a profit on that investment – depended in the customers NOT having a choice ..

After this network was deployed, it was discovered that phones could be used in hospitals(but obviously not near equipment) and certainly they could be used outside the building itself

At this point, after all the cost and expenses, the customer had a choice ..

So, they took it ..

And this explains the hike in prices and the ‘enhanced services’ (TV) introduced in an attempt to recoup costs.

However, this is a part of a more fundamental problem

Openness makes a lot more sense when viewed from a customer standpoint and technology will catch up sooner than we think - breaking business models which restrict the customer.

This is inevitable. Happened to AOL, is happening to Mobile Operators and will happen to Patientline.

And it underpins the LTE vs. wimax debate
"As an industry it takes us a long time to get things done; we need to move faster otherwise others will eat our lunch," said Sarin

And what is the solution?

Accept that networks will be an investment with little returns. However, look to add services on top of a network.

What could that be in case of patientline?
Maybe a social network amongst patients
Maybe a game to rate the nurse in ward two ..

Who knows?

I don’t. And that’s the point

Patientline would need to be viewed as a platform ..

Intelligence will shift away from the core of the network to the edge of the network. And that means, we don’t know what will be the killer application. It will emerge. And it could be even as odd as a social network amongst patients

A deeper discussion about opening up networks and its impact can be found in the blog on Open Mobile and business models relating to open systems

Comments welcome especially on what should be legislated!

In a curious twist ..patientline’s tagline is – The choice is all yours :)