ARTICLES
Project Natal for Xbox 360 – A Controller Free Gaming Experience
January 7, 2010 -- (17:00) -- CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES), FEATURED, GADGETS, OPEN INNOVATIONLast year I attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but unfortunately I do need to miss one of the best technology shows on the planet this year. Since I’m passionate about Windows Phones and other Microsoft products I didn’t want to miss the Microsoft CES 2010 keynote with Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach. While Steve Ballmer announced to the public that the HTC HD2 will... [Read more]
The One Minute Sales Person (Johnson & Wilson, 1984)
December 30, 2009 -- (12:30) -- BOOKSBack in march of this year I published a short book review of a bestseller The One Minute Manager (Blanchard & Johnson, 1983) which has sold over 13 million copies. As you can read in the conclusion I decided to look for another book in the One Minute series: The One Minute $ales Person -more sales in less time with less stress-. Despite that the original publication is from 1984, there are... [Read more]
Wallpaper* and HTC team-up for design awards !
December 16, 2009 -- (0:15) -- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, FEATURED, MOBILE TECHNOLOGYYesterday I received some interesting news about HTC, which for a change isn’t about one of their latest devices, like the sponsorship announcement of Team Columbia-HTC just before the start of the Tour de France 2009 earlier this year. However HTC now teams-up with Wallpaper* and sponsors the Wallpaper* design awards 2010, as you can read on the Wallpaper* website. An intersting move since... [Read more]
Steve Ballmer keynote: Join the New Efficiency @ TechNet_Live Netherlands
October 28, 2009 -- (14:00) -- EVENTS, FEATURED, WINDOWS DESKTOP, WINDOWS MOBILEMicrosoft TechNet_Live, an event for IT Professionals and Technical Decision Makers, is held on October 8th in the World Forum Conference Centre, The Hague (Netherlands). During the Microsoft TechNet_Live Event Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010 are launched for the business market in The Netherlands. The session that I personally was most excited about is the keynote ... [Read more]
Windows Phones Launch Event Netherlands – Event Impressions
October 26, 2009 -- (20:05) -- EVENTS, FEATURED, WINDOWS MOBILEOctober 6th is an important day for Microsoft and Windows Mobile in particular due to the launch of the new brand Windows Phones, the new mobile operating system Windows Mobile 6.5 and two services Microsoft MyPhone and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. I was fortunate to be invited by the Windows Mobile Team in the Netherlands to attend the local launch event at the Lute Suites in Amstelveen (near... [Read more]
Business Model Generation – A handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers and Challengers
October 7, 2009 -- (15:00) -- BOOKS, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, OPEN INNOVATIONBack in June 2009 I visited the “Business Model Innovation Knowledge Fair and Book Launch” in Amsterdam, where a first (prototype)version of the Business Model Generation (hand)book was launched. Furthermore I was able to meet the book-team as well as over 100 business model practitioners from 13 different countries there. Last week I was very excited, since the team of the Business Model... [Read more]
Layar Browser facilitates TNT Mail “explore” Augmented Reality
August 30, 2009 -- (23:35) -- FEATURED, GOOGLE ANDROIDDuring Mobile Monday Amsterdam #11 Robert Rice and Joe Pine II, two excellent speakers, addressed the very interesting topic of Augmented Reality. Both speakers had different approaches and views on addressing the topic, but it resulted in a great event and perception on Augmented reality. This article will show a YouTube video titled: “TNT Post goes mobile with Layar” and it certainly... [Read more]
iPhone Application porting to Windows Mobile – Discussing an interesting case study !
August 12, 2009 -- (14:35) -- APPLE IPHONE, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, FEATURED, WINDOWS MOBILEConstanze Roman -a Community PM with the Windows Mobile Community Team- has published an interesting article on the Windows Mobile Team blog with the title: “Ready to Port your iPhone App to Windows Mobile?“ Although I’m not a developer, nor having a formal Information Technology & Computer Science education, I would like to have a detailed look at this cool case study... [Read more]
MindMeister – Collaborative Online Mind Mapping (on your iPhone)!
August 6, 2009 -- (14:45) -- APPLE IPHONE, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, FEATUREDA few weeks ago Jason Langridge wrote an article on his blog “Online Mind Mapping” which caught my attention and covers a great online service for Mind Mapping called MindMeister. Last year I attended a traning of Marc Tigchelaar which I covered in the article: “Speed reading, mindmapping & braintraining“, and during the recent “Business Model Knowledge Fair... [Read more]
Microsoft, Yahoo! – Will the Search Landscape really change ??
July 31, 2009 -- (0:45) -- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, TECHNOLOGYPerhaps some of your remember the acquisition propositions of Microsoft to Yahoo! earlier this year, which in the end didn’t result in Microsoft buying Yahoo!. However yesterday the news spread very fast on the web that both companies announced a long-term agreement in the Web Search segment.“Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for... [Read more]
