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Find a song with your voice!

By Nicolas On August 25, 2009 In mobility, technology With No Comments Permanent Link to Find a song with your voice!Permalink

singingHave you ever had a song running on infinite loop in your brain but can’t quite place the name or artist? What about those times you are in a store or in your car and you hear a song that you really like, but you have no idea what the name of the song or artist is? Fortunately, there are two excellent FREE apps for your iPhone, Nokia, Blackberry and Androïd phone, Shazam and Midomi, that can help you name the song and artist, watch the music video, and even buy the song. How do they compare?

Brian Hart of The iPhone Blog conducted a detailed benchmark of those two Apps.* Continue Reading →

“Son, can I buy you an iPhone?” – “Thanks dad, but I’d rather have an iPod Touch!”

By Nicolas On August 10, 2009 In mobility, Paris, technology, VoIP With No Comments Permanent Link to “Son, can I buy you an iPhone?” – “Thanks dad, but I’d rather have an iPod Touch!”Permalink

mifi-1Charlie Sorell  of Wired.com just came up with an interesting concept in one of its latest posts: making the iPod Touch a true communication device just like the iPhone is.

Sorrell just got the MiFi — a mobile, battery-powered WiFi hotspot that can share a high-speed cell connection with several devices via WiFi – and coupled it with an iPod Touch.

And when you actually think about it in terms of costs, it just clearly appears that “the combo of iPod Touch and MiFi might just be better than the iPhone”! Continue Reading →

Picture of the week: Mobile Evolution Matryoshka

By Nicolas On August 2, 2009 In mobility, picture of the week, technology, Vienna With No Comments Permanent Link to Picture of the week: Mobile Evolution MatryoshkaPermalink

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Nokia’s new website helps globetrotters travel green

By Nicolas On May 20, 2009 In environment/green, travel With No Comments Permanent Link to Nokia’s new website helps globetrotters travel greenPermalink

One of the main reasons why people should work from home, is because it is environment friendly. Everyday, hundred of millions of commuters wordlwide take their car to drive to their office instead of using public transportation or work from home, and participate to spreading in the air millions of tons of CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases strongly related to global warming.

Today, more and more “socially responsible” companies are launching new environmental programs – not all of them are only meant to act as some nice PR or advertising for those companies -  to try to make things change. They aren’t revolutionnary, as every one of them is more like a stone which helps build the big wall which at the end will give the big picture. But at least, they help.

Nokia has launched beginning of December, a great green travel resource that is up in beta mode called Green Explorer.  It features travel news, eco-centered information about destinations, tips from fellow green travelers, easy carbon offsets, mobile device access, and loads more.

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According to Jaymi Heimbuch on treehugger, this resource “is geared specifically for people who want to travel in an eco-friendly fashion and provide their own travel tips, and the site has quite a few features that can make it a top resource when it comes out of beta”

And for those of us who are dyed in the wool environment lovers who can’t stand the idea of leaving a Big-Foot environmental print every time they fly, Nokia has developped the world’s first CO2 emission offsetting tool to your mobile: we:offset. It’s already available in 46 languages.

Nokia Easy Meet: give your mobile phone real-time content sharing

By Nicolas On May 4, 2009 In mobility, networking, New York, technology With 2 Comments Permanent Link to Nokia Easy Meet: give your mobile phone real-time content sharingPermalink

broken-bbAt the very end of the 90′s you still had the excuse to remain unreachable for hours as mobile phones were THE hype device of early adopters or wealthy individuals. This was a blessed time.

Try and do the same today and you may lose your job or turn single… Continue Reading →

Skype and Nokia partner to integrate Skype into Nokia devices

By Nicolas On February 17, 2009 In mobility, New York, technology, VoIP With 4 Comments Permanent Link to Skype and Nokia partner to integrate Skype into Nokia devicesPermalink

One of the big issues of a “mobile worker”  – and mostly in the case her or she is a freelancer, works for a young start-up or travel internationally  – is to be thrifty whenever the opportunity arises. Skype, the yet well famous VoIP software, was the first to broaden the horizons of mobile workers by giving them the possibility to work from abroad and save a significant amount of money on phone calls… Continue Reading →

Social media: keep in touch with your on-line community while on the move!

By Nicolas On February 13, 2009 In mobility, technology With 1 Comment Permanent Link to Social media: keep in touch with your on-line community while on the move!Permalink

For those of you who have a twitter or facebook account, you should already be familiar with those “Mark hates Mondays” or “@ Kerolic: check this cool blog: http://www.52ndwest.com”. Else, you will maybe want to get a little bit more familiar with the concept of Social Media (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media).

With the growing development of social media software applications it has turned into an absolute necessity for most of us to stay “visible” to others, should they be family, friends or business partners, regarding what we’re doing or where we are (speaking the language of social media, this translates into: “keep your status up to date”!). In other words: if you’re not visible, it means else that you don’t exist/your life is too boring/you don’t care, or that you’ve never heard of social media or don’t have a computer. Continue Reading →

Turn you mobile phone into a secured Wifi hotspot for your laptop!

By Nicolas On February 5, 2009 In Paris, technology, travel With 10 Comments Permanent Link to Turn you mobile phone into a secured Wifi hotspot for your laptop!Permalink

200562725-001Who has never looked with envy at those people surfing the web on their laptop, from the gate of an airport or while travelling on board of a train?

Who has never been discouraged to purchase a 30mns Internet credit for €15 from the only local provider available at an airport lounge or at a hotel?

As for my part, I’ve experienced both situations during one of the 140 Paris-Vienna flights I took for the past two years (17,5 tonnes of CO2 … I know… I’m so ashamed). But I’ve never been so desperate to subscribe to an additional mobile contract for 12 or 24 month and get one of those “cool” broadband Internet access USB dongles you connect to your PC or Mac and which puts the world at your finger tips while on the move… Continue Reading →

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