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Lift 08 Program Announced

Posted on October 21, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Lift is a tech conference about “Life, Ideas and Futures Together”. And a massive annual dose of inspiration. Geneva, Feb 6-8.

UPDATE: Pricing has been announced for LIFT08. It’s gone up again (ouch). Fortunately the shining loonie is awesome against the CHF right now ( 1 CHF ~= 0.82 CAD), which makes Switzerland almost a bargain these days. Our American cousins, owners of the impoverished Yankee-peso are close, but will pay a few bucks more.

Early bird price:

550CHF for former participants to LIFT06 or LIFT07 (in CAD) (in USD)
650CHF for newcomers (in CAD) (in USD)

From December 15, price will be 850CHF (in CAD) (in USD)

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“Go, and never darken my towels again.” -Groucho Marx

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Thomas Purves

That being said,

Nokia is being handed a sharp lesson in business basics: don’t compete with your biggest customers.

In August, the Finnish phone giant announced it was going “beyond the phone” and creating an online portal called Ovi in a bid to become a major service company. This would offer music, maps and games – bringing it into competition with its biggest channel: the network operators.

Revenge has been swift… – Operators show Nokia who wears the housut* TheRegister

Sure, cracks are beginning to appear in the dominance of the carriers in the mobile value chain. But just yet, not very big cracks.

Who’s deck will win out in the end? the carrier’s? the handsetmaker’s? third players (appl’s, goog’s, yhoo’s, msft’s?) or the open internet?

Place your bets.

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The G-phone stirreth

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Google said to be shipping 50,000 Gphones by year’s end. A UBS analyst is rumored to have information that HTC, a Taiwanese handset manufacturer, will ship about 50,000 cell phones made for Google by the end of
the year. “These initial phones are not going to be for sale, says Benjamin Schachter, at UBS. “These are going to be available for developers only to understand how the software works.” LG (LPL) is also said to be a possible manufacturier.