Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Dec 7, 2009, 3:38 pm
I have a new hobby .. Buying comic books from eBay! I have long referenced comics in this blog .. Blogging: Of Tom and Jerry and craving the friction of a human being and recently I discovered that s...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Dec 7, 2009, 2:34 am
Carnival of the mobilists No 203 at AJ Wright's blog Antoine does some great work with the Nokia web server and also one of the only people I know who explores the topic of faith and mobile. So, h...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Dec 6, 2009, 5:59 pm
IKEA launches an iPhone app and makes the IKEA Catalogue 2010 available to customers via Apple iPhone. It allows users to simply flip through the pages of the UK catalogue on an iPhone and discover p...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Dec 6, 2009, 5:52 pm
Thank You Viviane Reding for standing up for the rights of the digital citizen in the EU. We look forward to the same and more from Neelie Kroes.
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Dec 6, 2009, 5:41 pm
In January, I will be speaking at the M-days conference in Munich which is the largest European mobile conference (after Barcelona). Previously, they were mainly German language focused, but from 2010...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Dec 6, 2009, 1:35 pm
The future of the newspaper industry is assured :) I like the bit about the 'best of news' coming from the Sun :)
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Dec 6, 2009, 2:52 am
This year, I was nominated to the global agenda on the future of the Internet by the World Economic Forum While it is nice to be considered amongst the foremost thinkers in this space as per the WEF,...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Dec 5, 2009, 3:48 am
As I have posted before, I am ultimately working on Privacy and Smart Grids .. which I will post as we go along. But here is a paper about is Smart Grids and the need for collaboration - first publish...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Dec 1, 2009, 4:53 am
The LTE Berlin conference last year was a huge success, and LTE World Summit 2010 has already been announced. You can see more videos of the event HERE. I will be blogging more about this event and ...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Dec 1, 2009, 4:40 am
I had blogged about Fraunhofer FOKUS IMS workshop in Berlin before. Although I could not make it, here are the slides and the Event Minutes and some Statements from the Delegates.
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 27, 2009, 1:58 pm
It seems that a Pub is fined £8,000 for customer's illicit downloads over it's open hotspot A legal expert told ZDNet that if the Digital Economy bill, proposed by the government last week, ...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 26, 2009, 2:05 pm
My latest book co-authored with Anna Gatti is now available as an e-book for an introductory price of $4.99 USD(298 pages). If you are interested, just send me an email at ajit.jaokar at futuretext.co...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 25, 2009, 2:35 pm
A Nokia manager says in his blog that Ovi Store downloads rise by 70% sep to oct. Note that this is not an official press release but a Nokia manager on his personal blog. This is interestng .. b...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 24, 2009, 2:45 am
Is it me or does the Peter Fleischer - Privacy - Italy cause deep concern to anyone else? Read the following section in his blog .. Firstly, the entire episode is unprecedented and secondly it cause...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 23, 2009, 5:00 am
Our friend Rudy De Waele is organising the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. Lots of interesting awards including MPA in Innovation, MPA in Marketing, MPA...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 18, 2009, 12:33 pm
Much has been said about the data theft at t-mobile . But are we being unfairly harsh on t-mobile? Consider this .. a) T-mobile reported the incident when they identified it b) The information com...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 15, 2009, 12:45 pm
This is a paper I am working on ..if anyone has any insights or wants to contribute to the interview, happy to speak (ajit.jaokar at futuretext.com). This is a very complex topic due to multiple areas...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 14, 2009, 6:55 am
Why are BBC videos not embeddeble (like YouTube). Why must we go to the BBC site? Sounds really odd for a public service. Have asked them .. I wonder what response I will get ..
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 12, 2009, 7:54 am
The acquisition of Admob by Google is a seminal moment .. Much like the launch of the iPhone. That might seem like an exaggeration, but I think it indicates a turning point for the industry .. And a w...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 11, 2009, 3:38 am
On Thursday this week there is an eight week focus in London of some 40 social media conference and events. mashup* is the kick off event with the speakers including Sarah Beeny (Channel 4), Robin Wi...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 10, 2009, 12:56 am
Microsoft loses Don Dodge. Like many people, I feel this was a bad mistake .. In a world where Apps and Appstores make everything into a platform, the value of a person who can engage with third parti...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 9, 2009, 11:49 am
Google acquires Admob for $750m - Congrats Russell Buckley .. VP alliances of Admob who has been an architect of their vision from the outset. Russell has also been my first two contacts in the indus...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 7, 2009, 3:34 pm
loved it!
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 7, 2009, 3:01 pm
Marek Pawlowski, who created the Mobile User Experience conference asked me my views on : What future for the mobile phone in a multi-platform world? (which is also the theme of the MEX conference ...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 7, 2009, 2:00 pm
Our friend Helen Keegan is creating an interesting event called Heroes of the Mobile Screen in London. It's unique feature is that it also brings (alongwith the rest of the industry) secondary sch...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 6, 2009, 9:24 am
Hello I am trying to get some information about books on iPhone. I would be interested to speak to you if you use book readers like Stanza on the iPhone and / or if you read any books on the iPhone o...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 5, 2009, 11:51 am
Every year, I support the The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal - so I thought I should blog about it this year. You can donate through this link
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Nov 3, 2009, 2:08 pm
One of the best headlines I have seen in the guardian ... So essentially, they are saying that they aren't going to stop you from using non-Orange streaming applications, but if you overstep thei...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 31, 2009, 1:06 pm
This is an excellent article from Techcrunch: Source: For The Future Of The Media Industry, Look In The App Store Sections I liked are: a) Media scarcity is dead. In the future my son will have ...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 31, 2009, 4:24 am
Synopsis and Background This year, I have been nominated to the World Economic Forum's Global agenda for the future of the Internet. This article is based on a discussion paper I created for the...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 29, 2009, 2:49 pm
Here is a thought .. A few years ago, Casual gaming was supposed to be a big beneficiary in the near future. Same with games for women (i.e. not games for the typical male audience) Now .. the iPho...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 29, 2009, 1:39 am
I once had a blog called The phone becomes a magic wand to the cloud services: Mobile sensor based interface to the cloud to jump start the Internet of things .. .. Hence interesting to see a brief v...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 28, 2009, 1:43 pm
Mobile Monday Barcelona has an event on Mobile Innovation. Mobile innovation is definately picking up speed and may be some interesting insights at this event considering it also runs along with the I...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 27, 2009, 4:21 pm
The definition of cloud computing is nebulous ..(excuse the pun ..) but in general .. it is framed in commercial/ vendor language .. i.e. We could say that Cloud computing is a way to consume hardware...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 26, 2009, 5:52 pm
On Nov 11-12, I will be chairing a session at the Fraunhofer FOKUS IMS workshop in Berlin organised by Dr Thomas Magedanz, Niklas Blum and team at Fraunhofer FOKUS. Fraunhofer FOKUS events are always...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 26, 2009, 4:32 pm
LTE Americas is on Nov 4-5 in Dallas .. Although I cannot attend this, I believe it will be a great event considering how successful LTE Berlin was earlier this year. US Operators - especially Verizon...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 25, 2009, 2:45 pm
LTE is needed next year claims a study as reported in fiercewireless My view is: I think LTE is needed next year onwards but not for the reasons listed in the report I give my thoughts below why I ...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 22, 2009, 2:49 am
As the postal strike starts today, many small businesses will be affected. Here is a tip. Try using a service like Yousendit .We have used it for a while and its great. You can send 100M for free an...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 19, 2009, 4:03 am
Awesome documentary from Discovery Channel - Discovering Ardi :) As the strapline says - Darwin could only dream of this .. 17 years of investigation based on a global collaboration of scientists. "A...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 18, 2009, 9:40 am
This is an extended version of the opening talk I gave as the chair of the CTIA mobile appstores event in San Diego. (Note: You can now download presentations from all the speakers using a free regi...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 17, 2009, 1:00 pm
... 39;). Babble it may be .. but that succeeds exactly because it mirrors existing social behaviour And Quentin Tarantino is a genius to recognise this .. and I see almost no OTHER instance of su...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 17, 2009, 11:38 am
Shane and Lauren were kind enough to send me a complimentary copy of their book on Android for review. Firstly, I am a great fan of Android and it's potential and if you doubt the commercial sig...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 17, 2009, 11:16 am
Happy Diwali to our readers :) Image source: photofurl
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 17, 2009, 11:05 am
Our friend Jonathan McDonald has made it in the news with his coverage of a London underground Tube worker .. This is all good .. And is a good example of citizen's media .. However .. I questio...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 17, 2009, 8:09 am
CTIA Mobile apps event presentations are now available for free download (registration required).. as per my previous blog The mobile applications event at CTIA was great and thanks to all who att...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 17, 2009, 7:34 am
Greetings Can you recommend SMS based m-commerce and m-health applications which are live note operational words are a) SMS based and b) Live kind rgds Ajit
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 14, 2009, 12:40 am
The mobile applications event at CTIA was great and thanks to all who attended and participated in it. One comment from an Operator attendee said it all: He said that the people speaking at this e...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 7, 2009, 3:33 pm
Happy to say that Robert Riordan EVP, Director of Corporate Development Nsight Nsight joins us at CTIA for the Mobile applications store .. this is shaping up to be a great event and continues to get...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 3, 2009, 3:00 pm
Mobile app event at CTIA - almost sold out .. with participation from carriers, device manufacturers and developers - this should be a great event. Use link above to register! speakers include T...
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Ajit j. posted an article on Open Gardens - Oct 3, 2009, 9:37 am
Last week, the EIF launched the digital world in 2025 report in the European parliament and I also formally announced the Policy bloggers network. Many thanks for all your comments and feedback and s...
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