Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Dec 8, 2009, 3:30 am
PARIS- Le Web 09 edition has lined up an exciting array of 16 companies at the seed and start-up stage to promote their wares in front of its highly influential jury and public. 135 companies original...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Nov 27, 2009, 6:05 am
TOKYO -Colour Code Technologies showcased their patent-pending QR code innovation at the Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong last week. Their innovative Colour Construct Code (CCC) is capable of storin...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Nov 25, 2009, 5:09 am
TOKYO-23rd November 2009 Before making my trip to Tokyo, I dutifully researched whether my (unlocked) iPhone would work normally in the land of the rising sun. I read internet blogs, asked friends wh...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Nov 9, 2009, 11:52 am
AdMob announced today in a mailing to its customers that it was being acquired by Google for $750m. "After our deal closes, AdMob will work with Google to accelerate the pace of innovation in m...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Oct 30, 2009, 5:26 am
With the French flair and panache followers of Loic Le Meur are well used to, a preview of what is to come at Le Web Paris 09 has been released. Teaming up with co-organiser and wife Geraldine, Loic d...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Oct 29, 2009, 10:25 am
When Eric Schmidt from Google talks about future market trends (with convenient bite-sized quotes) people sit up and listen. When he recently announced that there would be 'an explosion of Android...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Oct 16, 2009, 9:16 am
PARIS- LeWeb09, the leading event in Europe for tech start-ups focussed on both web and (increasingly) mobile, is just round the corner, with Loic and Geraldine LeMeur preparing a packed agenda for th...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Oct 14, 2009, 11:34 am
Tooio (pronounced Two-ee-yo) has been pioneering Location-Based Mobile Social Networking since 2008, with its own twist -firstly, though maps feature within its app they are not, perhaps surprisingly,...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Oct 8, 2009, 10:32 am
For those of you who missed it, last August an AR concept for IKEA was launched based on a simple premise of allowing customers to picture what a certain piece of furniture would like in their home. T...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Sep 28, 2009, 6:10 am
Following the interest my earlier blog post arose over the mysterious $10,000 reward offered by LG for returning one of 5 LG Chocolate phones manufactured with serial numbersComment - Like

Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Sep 22, 2009, 8:30 am
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook new COO, more recently VP of Global Ad Sales at Google, talked today to the press about the launch of the joint Nielsen/Facebook product to measure the effectivess of ad camp...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Sep 20, 2009, 7:09 am
BOSTON's uLocate has been steadily building up its WHERE LBS platform to be able to deliver a wide range of applications and services across the major carriers in the US. Its strategy is paying of...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Sep 17, 2009, 8:10 am
LG took out a quarter page advert in the Financial Times yesterday to announce that it was 'globally searching' for 5 of its Chocolate phones, with the serial numbers: 802KPAE821224, 803KPBF57...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Sep 11, 2009, 8:18 am
BARCELONA Since the launch of Android devices in Spain in April this year and up until last week, only a very limited range of handsets from Taiwanese manufacturer HTC have been available on the ...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Aug 21, 2009, 3:38 am
London-based Acrossair recently rolled out its own take on the Augmented Reality (AR) story, by releasing an application that allows New Yorkers to point their iPhone camera at any city street and get...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Aug 11, 2009, 5:04 am
The summer holiday season being in full swing, it is that time of the year when 'real' news gets replaced with products of the rumour mill. Speculation over what the future may bring once the...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Jul 27, 2009, 11:50 am
I have been reviewing several apps on the iTunes store over the last few days to see what is the current state of location-aware apps with a social networking element. I came across New York based Ce...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Jul 15, 2009, 6:13 am
As the market for smartphones in general increases (they account for over 10% of mobile phone sales, up 12.7% in Q1 2009 compared to growth of 9.4% for standard phones, according to Gartner), and the ...
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Ric F. posted an article on Ric Ferraro's Blog - Jul 8, 2009, 10:12 am
I first came across Layar at Mobile 2.0 Europe when I met Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald (aka DutchCowboy to Twitterers) and he demo'd the latest version of his augmented reality software on a G1 Android...
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