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Uplinq: Video of my initial reaction to Nokia’s Stephen Elop keynote

By Ewan on June 2, 2011 in Devices, Opinion

Now then, just barely 30 seconds after Stephen Elop left the stage and as the Uplinq audience began filling out into the San Diego sunshine, I decided to record my initial impressions courtesy of SocialCam on the iPHone. This involved me pointing the phone at my face and nattering at you. Normally it’s pretty easy [...]

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Uplinq: Video of Nokia’s Stephen Elop on stage talking Qualcomm

By Ewan on June 2, 2011 in Devices

For anyone wanting to get a quick glimpse of the triumphant keynote by Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop, at today’s Uplinq conference here in San Diego, I took a quick 60-second video right at the start. In the video, Elop discusses working with Qualcomm — indeed, he points out that Qualcomm’s help and support has been [...]

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Uplinq: The brilliantly theatrical Paul Jacobs keynote introduction

By Ewan on June 2, 2011 in Opinion

I went to the back of the hall for the start of the Paul Jacobs keynote at Uplinq this morning. I was expecting some kind of whizzy introduction — I wanted to get some of it on camera. I’m pleased to report that I wasn’t disappointed. Some chaps arrived into the crowd with big drums. [...]

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Uplinq: Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality SDK working on iPhone/iPad

By Ewan on June 2, 2011 in Applications, Devices

If you happen to use Qualcomm’s rather cool Augumented Reality SDK to construct an application working on the company’s SnapDragon devices, chances are you may also want to extend distribution to iOS for both the iPhone and iPad. Well, now you can. Jay Wright, Qualcomm’s top Augumented Reality chap, showed some examples of applications running [...]

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Uplinq: Augmented reality washing machine instructions are here!

By Ewan on June 2, 2011 in Applications

It’s about time! Finally it’s possible to have those cryptic (at least, to me anyway) buttons on the washing machine decoded thanks to Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality SDK. The company’s Augmented Reality top chap, Jay Wright, demonstrated the washing machine proof-of-concept application at this afternoon’s press conference at Uplinq. I managed to snap a quick 22-second [...]

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Uplinq: Qualcomm’s Jay Wright demos AR games Mavs AR & Inch High Stunt Guy

By Ewan on June 2, 2011 in Applications, Services

Here’s a video I managed to capture of Qualcomm’s Jay Wright demonstrating some new augmented reality games, Mavs AR and Inch High Stunt Guy constructed with the company’s AR SDK.

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Uplinq: Dr Paul Jacobs of Qualcomm speaks to Mobile Industry Review

By Ewan on June 1, 2011 in News, Opinion

Well then, sitting in the press conference this afternoon at Qualcomm’s Uplinq conference I had the opportunity to ask a quick question to the company’s top man, Dr Paul Jacobs. I decided to keep it reasonably light hearted given that time was marching on and that there’d already been a lengthly amount of serious questions [...]

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Rio Caraeff, CEO of Vevo talks at MIPTV 2011

By Momchil on June 1, 2011 in Opinion, Services

Rio Caraeff introduces Vevo at Connected Creativity, MIPTV 2011. Vevo is a music distribution platform focused on providing video on any place and platform. Owned by the world’s largest entertainment companies, Vevo works with artists like Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Rhianna making content available to everyone. More from Rio:

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Noel Penzer of AOL talks at MIPTV 2011

By Momchil on June 1, 2011 in Opinion

Noel Penzer, Vice President of Media and Business Development at AOL Europe talks about creating premium content and distributing it across the web. “Content is a key part to every consumer’s journey on the internet.” Here is the video:

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Claire Tavernier of FMX, Freemantle Media talks about the future of Television

By Momchil on June 1, 2011 in Opinion

Claire Tavernier runs FMX, the Freemantle Central Digital Hub. Freemantle is a large producer of entertainment formats such as the “Idols” and “Got Talent”. In this video Claire talks about the future of Television. “Content is key”, but where and how will it continue to exist? More from Claire:

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Uplinq: A rather cool augmented reality photo frame demo

By Ewan on June 1, 2011 in Devices, Services

Here’s a little tech demonstration I came across at the Qualcomm Museum. It’s showcasing quite a few different technologies: – Peer-to-peer networking – Augmented reality – Remote control The demonstration shows how you could control the contents of a digital photo frame (or, in this case, a series of frames on the wall) just by [...]

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Uplinq: Qualcomm’s Museum Tour (Photos & Video)

By Ewan on June 1, 2011 in Opinion

Qualcomm’s done a lot since it’s inception in 1985. It’s actually rather impressive. The company has been behind some pretty amazing technology trends — something that’s easy to forget in today’s run-fast environment. Therefore I found it a very useful exercise to walk through the recently opened Qualcomm Museum this morning, exploring the company’s key [...]

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