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Why European (and African) mobile companies should come to CTIA this year

As many readers of this blog will know, CTIA is the North American equivalent of Mobile World Congress and takes place twice a year, once in the ‘fall’ and once in the spring. It’s the biggest mobile trade show in the world. Unlike MWC, which will be in Barcelona for the next four years, CTIA [...]

Pariahs in Palo Alto don’t pick up an Apple

Some years ago when I was lost in the world I worked as a ‘volunteer’ on a moshav in the Negev Desert where I was responsible not for picking peppers, but for planting them. All the farmers on the moshav were fascists and terrified of frost. If the night temperature fell below freezing point, the [...]