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MoDaCo fighting Childhood Leukaemia, supporting Cancer Research UK

October 14, 2010 By Remo Knops Leave a Comment

One of my international friends, Paul O'Brien founder/owner of MoDaCo (a leading online community about smartphones & mobile technology), has started a great initiative for the good cause to fight Childhood Leukaemia. A few months ago I wrote about the Child Cancer Just BEAT it foundation, great initiative of Berner Benelux in the context of Corporate Social Responsibility. During the HTC Participation Ride the day before the start of the Tour de France in Rotterdam, I attended the HTC … [Read more...]

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HTC Participation ride with Team HTC-Columbia – A jersey donation to “Child Cancer Just Beat It”

July 8, 2010 By Remo Knops Leave a Comment

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On July 2nd, one day before the start of Le Tour de France 2010, there are a lot of events on and around the prologue track. HTC UK organized a HTC Participation ride with Erik Zabel and Tristan Hoffman around the Kralingse Plas in Rotterdam. It is a great location to cycle with lots of green, and honestly I didn't have the feeling to be very close to a large city like Rotterdam.Meet Erik Zabel, Tristan Hoffman and team HTC-Columbia In this picture above you can see Erik Zabel, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CYCLING, EVENTS Tagged With: Child Cancer Just Beat It, Erik Zabel, HTC Participation ride, Team HTC-Columbia, Tristan Hoffman

LG Panther Windows Phone 7 Prototype @ Windows Phone Get Together Event, Netherlands

June 29, 2010 By Remo Knops 2 Comments

Last week I attended the very first edition of the Windows Phone Get Together event in Utrecht, the Netherlands. I think it is pretty unique to have an event in which a large company like Microsoft directly interacts and engages with end-users of their products. You can read an extensive event report on MobilityMinded, and please put November 9th in your agenda when the next Windows Phone Get Together event will take place @ Microsoft Netherlands HQ. Meet the local Dutch Windows … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EVENTS, WINDOWS PHONE Tagged With: LG Panther, Windows Mobile 6.5.3, Windows Phone 7

Child Cancer – Just BEAT it ! – An initiative of Berner Benelux

June 21, 2010 By Remo Knops Leave a Comment

Almost everyone has experienced (directly or indirectly) the impact of a terrible dissease like cancer in the circle of close friends and family. It is even more tragic when young childeren are hit by this class of disseases called cancer, as defined by wikipedia:"Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CYCLING, PERSONAL Tagged With: Berner Benelux, Child Cancer, Just Beat It, Kika, Kriibskrank Kanner Foundation, VZW Child Cancer Foundation

DevDays 2010 – Looking back @ Charlie Kindel Windows Phone 7 Interview, Windows Phone 7 Development, Making the Social Connection & Giving Robots Life !

May 29, 2010 By Remo Knops 2 Comments

A few weeks ago I published a Windows Phone 7 related interview with Charlie Kindel, Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience @ DevDays 2010, Netherlands on the MobilityMinded website. DevDays 2010 is a large two-day event for developers on the Microsoft platform(s), and in this article I will share some information about the Windows Phone 7 related sessions.Interview with Charlie Kindel, discussing Windows Phone 7 @ DevDays … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EVENTS, WINDOWS PHONE Tagged With: Charlie Kindel, Daniel van Soest, DevDays 2010, Development, Rob Miles, Silverlight, Tony Krijnen, Windows Phone 7, XNA

HTC Wildfire launch event – Driving a Porsche Carrera GT3 @ Circuit Park Zandvoort

May 21, 2010 By Remo Knops 1 Comment

Tuesday I was invited for the local HTC Wildfire launch event on a special location, Circuit Park Zandvoort. Circuit Park Zandvoort is one of the few car-race tracks in the Netherlands with a rich race history, several race klasses and even Formula 1. This is a special location to introduce a new product like the HTC Wildfire, right ?Introduction HTC Wildfire by Mark Moons, Regional Manager HTC Benelux Mark Moons, Regional Manager HTC Benelux, kicks off the first part of the HTC … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EVENTS, GOOGLE ANDROID Tagged With: HTC Wildfire, Porsche Carrera GT3

Microsoft Office 2010 + SharePoint 2010 Launch Event – The Future of Productivity

May 14, 2010 By Remo Knops 1 Comment

Wednesday I was fortunate to be invited to the local Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 launch event in the Netherlands. As you can read in the press release “Microsoft Delivers the Future of Productivity With Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010“:“Microsoft announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, as well as Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010, for business customers worldwide.”This has two implications: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EVENTS, WINDOWS Tagged With: Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office Mobile 2010, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, SharePoint 2010, Windows Phone 7

Remo Knops’ Brain Bits – Sharing news bits in Tumblr style !

May 3, 2010 By Remo Knops Leave a Comment

Yesterday I silently launched the Remo Knops' Brain Bits website, as a complement to the Remo Knops’ Personal Blog and MobilityMinded. You might remember the article "Mobile Technology related articles publiched @ MobilityMinded.com" last year, in which I explained my thoughts about this strategic decision. The result however was an increased and a significant focus on professional-related content to be published on this blog. It was a first step of strategic re-configuring and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: THIS BLOG Tagged With: Remo Knops' Brain Bits, Remo Knops' Personal Blog, Tumblr