MWC Barcelona: The Best & The Worst

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IMG_1714I have to say that I am absolutely impressed with the MWC this year.

First of all it is huge, equivalent to 40 football (soccer) fields and more than 72.000 attendants. The city is full and vibrant I like it! If you are in the Mobile and Software this is the place to be, both industries are merging.

The Best

We have the opportunity to see some important news:

  • Firefox OS is here! A new kid in town to compete against IOS and Android
  • UBUNTU OS as well :-) Tests seem to show a better performance than Firefox OS
  • An even more OS!!! Samsung the new OS, named Tizen, will also compete against iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry 10, Firefox OS and Ubuntu Mobile.
  • Nokia 105: 15€ Cell phone, yes 15€ If I can get whatsapp on it I will get one :-)
  • Probably the biggest cell phone in the market Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet
  • Finally, many and many new applications and cloud software, the amount of creativity and possibilities is having a exponential increase every year. My choice are:
    • Captio: You can create automatically your expenses report just take pictures of the tickets!
    •  Waze: Social Routing app, get in time to your job thanks to your friends
    • 123Dapp : Imaging digital holographic technology creates realistic, three-dimensional experiences unlike any other.

The Worst

This is not very bad, nevertheless I have to confess that I didn’t see any tremendous innovation from hardware perspective: no batteries for Android or iphone that last one week (even 3 days) or real flexible screen that you can bed a create a 13″ right from your pocket.

The real worst thing: many cells phones, wallets and tablets have been pickpocketed this week (even wikipedia mention Barcelona as a reference)! You can read the bad experience of Nobi here. Again the Spanish Politician are unable to change the law in order to protect the citizens and the best asset for Spanish economy: Turist. We have pickpockets that have been arrested for more that 100 times, once they are arrested they leave the police station in less than 30 minutes. And police is doing a great job, they know them and they catch them. However if politician don’t change the laws there is nothing they can do.

Squarespace Adds Commerce System For A High-Class Blogging/Sales Experience

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Reblogged from TechCrunch:

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Squarespace knows from fancy. They make dead-simple websites for people who require a high level of design and elegance and, unlike, say, our website, a lot of Squarespace sites are surprisingly beautiful. Now those same designers who use the site for their private blogs can sell their wares right from their sites.

The service, called Squarespace Commerce, connects to Stripe for payment handling…

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If you want to create your web site easy and fast keeping a good design. That's the best option (if you like zen and/ ¡or minimalistic design like me)

From an Apple Big Supporter: Don’t buy an iphone 5

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iphone call failedI don’t care about stock market, from innovation and technology standpoint Apple is losing ground every minut in front of Android phones. If you are living in Europe I do recommend not buying and iphone 5, definetly is not working if you want to use it for something really simple: making calls. Yes, believe it or not iphone 5 may have hardware of software glitches that are generating constant connection cuts, poor audio call quality and many times service unavailable missage. It seems that iphone 5 is designed only to work properly in California 3G and LTE networks. When you try to used it in Europe definitely is not working no matter if you are in France using Orange, in Germany using T-mobile or in Spain using Telefonica or Vodafone, constant cuts &  lost connections remain the same. Just to give you a flavour of the problem here you have more than 50 pages of complains in Apple forums.

I’ve been Apple big supporte for years, know I am simply angry customer obliged to carry to cells in order to do my work properly. Thanks Apple.

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viCloning – The First Affordable Intelligent Virtual Agent That’s Easy To Set Up And Maintain

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viCloning is the first affordable solution that doesn’t require IT skills. Support for 35+ languages. Automatic and proactive trainers allow users to easily improve the system with or even without intervention. Advanced natural language engine and algorithms for same price as click to chat solutions without the agent.

Viclone, an emerging leader in intelligent virtual agent solutions, has launched viCloning® public beta – the first affordable intelligent virtual agent and customer service optimisation solution that doesn’t require IT skills to set up and maintain. viCloning benefits companies that are spending too much on online customer service and support, and yet are not able to provide customers with the service and support they deserve. This solution helps smaller companies and start-ups that are often unable to deliver adequate customer service due to the excessive monetary and human costs of providing a true around-the-clock customer service and support.

Lear more at http://www.vicloning.net/

The Enterprise Cool Kids

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The old, difficult to use, complex to implement Enterprise software is heading to Shangri la. The software easy to set up, with excellent design and usability is beating old Gorillas. Zyncro is also going to give a different fresh approach to the corporate software Industry with his new Zyncro+ coming soon.

I recommend this great Tech Cruch article if you want to know where Enterprise Software yndustry is going http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/the-enterprise-cool-kids/