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What a wild time I had last week.  I spent the week in Barcelona, Spain attending Mobile World Congress.  I met hundreds of people and gave out and received hundreds of business cards.

I also interviewed a handful of really interesting people.  I hope to write up all my interviews but in the mean time I’m [...]

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Being my second trip to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress I have a bit of advice.  If you or your company needs access to 3G or needs to make phone calls/sms, I suggest Yoigo.  I got my Yoigo sim last year at a store called [...]

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GoMo News is again hosting one of their famous Blenders.  This one will take place Wednesday February 18 at BelChica in Barcelona, during Mobile World Congress. TopMobile20 will be holding the awards ceremony at the beginning of the GoMo party, so please make sure to stop by early and RSVP here.

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Wow, it’ been a while that I’ve been using GrandCentral (one number to rule them all, by forwarding your calls to upto 5 US #rs at once) and I have always been quite happy with their service.  In the last few months though I have been getting perturbed that they don’t forward SMS/text messages to [...]

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I met Frank Hannigan the CEO of Yougetitback.com back in Spain during Mobile World Congress and again when they so kindly sponsored Mobile Geeks of Las Vegas a few months back at CTIA in Las Vegas. I have been talking about his product ever since to anybody I can. Mobile Super Hero from [...]

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I have been traveling since I was 3 months old and have done a great deal of travel for business in my life. I have used, Expedia, Travelocity, Cheap Tickets, and Kayak, to book flights but I keep getting drawn back to a real human travel agent. I have had my fare share [...]

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I have been using a Proporta for about 2 months now and I must say, these guys have a great product. I am using it rarely because I work in an office most of the time but when I do need it, it has been ridiculously useful. I used them first back in [...]

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While I was in Barcelona I met more people then I could count. All of them were very nice but some of them stood out and above the others. Two of those wonderful people were from a company called I-Com Mobile their names are Keren Regev and Avi Polak. I know why we first met, [...]

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SpeedBit blows my mind. It makes it possible to upload and download at 3 to 5 times faster then you would normally be able to on your computer and soon on your mobile phone. This will save a great deal of time and make it possible to watch video without the hiccups. [...]

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Nortcon is probably one of the top 2 or 3 companies I met in Barcelona. The service they provide is so simple, I can just drop an HTML link in next to a video on the net and by clicking on the link it will give the user the ability to send the video [...]

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