Author Archives: mPansy

Update: Print is more backwood than ever

Vor mittlerweile 15 Monaten habe ich anlässlich der Medientage 2011 einen Artikel über die Innovationsbestrebungen und Führungskompetenzen so mancher österreichischer Medien und deren Machern geschrieben. Damals wurden Aussagen wie “Print wird unterschätzt” oder “Print bringt Geld” getroffen. Die Ereignisse der … Continue reading

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On a personal note… I’m back!

3 posts in 12 months is not the ideal frequency I was hoping for when launching this blog… It has been an extremely challenging and demanding period recently. Actually today represents the first real weekend after 14 months where I … Continue reading

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A1 Telekom’s acquisition of Yesss!

I just ran into an article about the recently announced acquisition of Orange Austria by Hutchison “3”. Part of the deal is the subsequent sale of Orange low-end brand Yesss! to market leader A1 Telekom Austria for 390m€. The previously cited … Continue reading

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Mobile could do so much more…

All over tech blogs one can read that smartphones and connected devices represent another wave of the digital revolution. There are 5.6bn mobile phone subscribers and at the end of 2011 already 835m of them were equipped with smartphones. Smartphone … Continue reading

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Print is back(wood)

Exactly 6 months after my last blog entry I am finding the motivation & time to write another article. It has been a busy time over summer and as I expected when starting this blog, new posts will remain sporadic. … Continue reading

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Why Android (Market) still sucks

During the last 12 months Google’s Android OS has turned the smartphone OS market upside down and took over the lead if measured by quantity of new devices sold. No doubt that Android is a big success and will continue … Continue reading

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On the death of the SMS…

It seems that it is part of my job to get regularly asked how long our company can survive as long as we mainly rely on selling SMS. Not one week is passing by without getting this questioned by either … Continue reading

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On Nokia & Microsoft

Please find a comment I have written 2 weeks ago for Horizont about the strategic partnership between Nokia and Microsoft. Der schwächelnde, voerst noch größte Mobiltelefonhersteller Nokia und der Software-Gigant Microsoft haben eine strategische Partnerschaft geknüpft. Nokia wird künftig für seine … Continue reading

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My first blog entry

It’s done. My personal blog is out and here comes the first entry. It has been a huge effort and very interesting journey for a non-techie to create this blog. Thanks to the support of some really skilled people I … Continue reading

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