Why embracing mobile VoIP is vital for carriers

How and why mobile carriers focus on their current revenue model too much and why this will lead to missing the emerging global VoIP market.

VoIP technology was initially used on desktop computers. When these PC-to-phone applications came out there were no big differences or major problems for mobile carriers. The uprising of Wi-Fi and 3G bundled mobile phones are creating a market that did not exist before. Actually, mobile VoIP created a need of which the late majority of customers are not aware of yet today. Continue reading... | 9 Comments

[openidea] Stream free Internet TV on your iPhone and iPod Touch

More and more people are starting to watch TV on their mobile phone. Not so strange, the reason is simple: The amount of bored office clerks waiting for their bus/metro of train is huge! However, millions of iPhone and Touch users are not so fortunate and have to watch iTunes provided content, Hello? Here’s an idea: let’s be the first to supply them with the 5000 tv streams that are… Continue reading... | 7 Comments

Blind mavericks; Why Apple will be the next Sony

Here’s why Apple can’t sustain their leading role. It’s complicated, but stay with me for the next two paragraphs and it makes sense. Let’s start off with an example of another key player to introduce the problem here, our friend from Redmond. Statement: Microsoft’s Office Suite business-model is outdated today. Here’s why: The initial version of Excel fulfilled the essential requirements for spreadsheet work. Then came updates to the… Continue reading... | 6 Comments

‘Build to last’ is bullcrap, consultants repeat and Startups suck.

Today we live in a world that is innovating exponentially. As a result, companies need to innovate more aggressively. In the old world, a company could “catch a next train” to catch up innovative developments. In the “new” world, that would be impossible. What’s the difference? Gary Hamel explained that already a decade ago… companies are either ‘in’ the innovation or you have to buy a company to be… Continue reading... | 6 Comments

Learn to read and pronounce Korean Hangul in 2 days

You don’t need a black belt in Taekwondo to master the Korean language, actually… reading Hangul (Korean writing) is surprisingly easy!

That’s the main point I am trying to make in this post. While the Korean characters seem complex at first, they are easy to read within one week. Skip the touristic English metro maps, and start learning the way the correct way!

Truth is that this information applies for… Continue reading... | 12 Comments

Meganova: Prepare for Urban lunches, Mc Donalds and a lot of beer

This summer, I woke up exited every day to go blogging for TheNextWeb at the Meganova office. The first week, we said to ourselves, wouldn’t it be great if we finally reach the magical 4000 readers on the blog? After some hard work, we broke through the limit in the third week.… Continue reading... | 2 Comments

A lesson about Twitter Spam

Twitter is service that alllows you to send short messages to your followers. Its an easy way to know what your friends are up to and update them about your current life events. But at some point, I catched myself navigating to Twitter more and more, which made me decide to commit Twitter suicide. I unfollowed EVERYONE just like Timothy Ferris did. I couldn’t block out the people that… Continue reading... | 3 Comments

Feedburner video watched almost 15.000 times this week

Long story short; Patrick de Laive and I created a video about a vulnerability in Google’s Feedburner, and put an article on Thenextweb last week, it created a lot of debate and we were quoted on a huge lists of blogs including Techcrunch, Inquisitr and Problogger a chain reaction that generated thousands of views, a very nice ending of my blogging time in Amsterdam. If… Continue reading... | 3 Comments

City trip? 3 cool web meetups in Amsterdam

In a few moments, I am flying to Asia again. While the whole world is looking at the Olympics in China, my plane is headed to South Korea. I found a book to occupy my mind for the time at the airport, but I couldn’t help letting my thoughts run away with me for a moment, as I think back of my time in Amsterdam the last few weeks… Continue reading... | 1 Comment

Working at Meganova, because sitting at home is a bitch

“Finally a holiday!” I yelled earlier, but soon I found out that sitting at home was not as good as I imagined in the first place, don’t get me wrong, I have enough work but I realized that I felt tired all day long and couldn’t get any work out of my hands; do you know that feeling? I decided to get back in the office, simply to regain business… Continue reading... | 2 Comments