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May 26th, 2010 by Ruth Jones

Taking a peak at the #Open Mobile Summit

The #Open Mobile Summit 2010 in London opened today, as more than 250 influncers from the mobile, media and internet industries made their way through the doors of the sought after event. Whilst the media, GoMo News and V3 focused their attention on Andrew Gilbert’s keynote on ‘connected things’, we took a look at which speakers were causing a stir in the online communities.

While Nokia and Qualcomm were generating a good buzz in the online communities, it was Peggy Anne Salz’s blog post that attracted the most attention. Providing a sneak preview of the key points of Alisa Bowen’s speech, no doubt the community outside of the #Open Mobile Summit were attracted to the insight.

With use of the open mobile summit hashtag peaking at 9am, we followed the conversations of more than 200 influncers from mobile operators, app developers, vendors, journalists to bloggers.

There was certainly no shortage of online discussions about next week’s arrival of the iPad. From digital design agency Fjord discussing the iPad’s target market…

chetansharma: RT @peggyanne: RT @DanWinterbottom: Fjord: Expect two spikes of adoption for iPad; 15 year olds and 45 year olds

…..to a Nokia blogger posing questions about its revolutionary position….

JayMontano#openmobile ipad – game changer or niche thing?

However, despite the chatter around the #Open Mobile Summit, it was the Meffys’ finalist list that took the top slot for online conversation.

Thanks to TweetMeme, The Twitter Tim.es and Trendistic for the extra data.

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December 14th, 2009 by Speed Budapest (Matt)

Daily News 14/12

Computer Weekly – Government plans to launch cloud next year
The Government is creating a blueprint for its private cloud infrastructure and expects to launch across the public sector next year. Working with 100 IT firms on the architecture dubbed the g-cloud, John Suffolk, Her Majesty’s Government CIO told Computer Weekly that he hopes the service will lower IT expenditure.

Computer Weekly – Nokia to shut high street shops to focus on online sales
Nokia is closing its high street retail outlets worldwide in favour of an reinvigorated online sales strategy and greater use of mobile network operators’ retail outlets.

BBC – UK trails on super-fast broadband say OECD figures
The UK is trailing when it comes to next-generation access, new figures show. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the UK is places 21st out of 30 in terms of speed.

CRN – Channel delight at scaled-back NPfIT
Public sector VARs have welcomed news the government could scrap its £12.7bn NHS National Programme for IT.

The Financial Times – Loophole to be closed on UK broadband tax
Ministers are seeking to close a potential loophole in the government’s planned broadband tax by saying consumers should pay the levy even if they only use their phone lines for internet services.