The Beautiful Sounds of Cities – Soundwalking
I left New York City in 1992. Years later business brought me back to it, if only for a brief week. As a European, the first thing you notice is the wailing of the sirens. Not the ones that entrapped Ulysses, but the firetrucks, the police, the ambulances that shoot downtown or uptown, as a [...]
At last: When mobile giants pull out of the Mobile World Congress
Back in the late 1990s, the Mobile World Congress was called 3GSM and was held in the lovely Cannes, South of France. Some ten thousand, then fifteen thousand mobile pioneers attended, not the fifty-five thousand mobile warlords that clog Barcelona each February. In the early days of it all, the organisers were happy [...]
