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This week I am in Sweden and Finland showing of Microsoft EPM and Visio 2010 amongst other things, this time last week I was wondering how I was going to get to Lisbon.

Just a quick blog post to recommend two apps I am runing on my iPhone: a) Blogpress - a useful mobile blog applet suppoting a number of well know engines (including MovableType which hosts the CW blogs) and b) WhatsApp - a push IM tool for iPhone and Blackberry that uses IP and therefore no incremental charges ( except when roaming) other than your data plan and can be much faster than erratic SMS Enjoy -- Post From My iPhone

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5 days on and with the Volcano still going strong I sit here watching tv today convinced that Microsoft, Cisco and IBM have a once in a lifetime opportunity to push video conferencing like never before. I wonder how many trapped execs are displaced in the world right now - sort of 1st class refugees -- Post From My iPhone

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The mobile phone has become the main means of voice and digital service communication. With 3G services enabling fast transfer of wireless data, mobile marketing is meeting its potential and is being used by marketeers in many sectors. It has moved away from being a supplemental channel to become the preferred way to reach the lucrative youth market.

With less happening at the desk, the opportunity lies in developing location based services that bridge the digital and real world. We see some of this already from parking meter charging to monitoring of heart pacemakers. The next step is in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) location, not just for navigation but sending enhanced hyper-linked targeted local ads using a combination of Cell-id, wifi and GPS.

Interestingly, GIS became part of the national A-level curriculum in September last year. ESRI (UK) and the Geographical Association have launched the first A-level GIS teaching resource created for the UK market.Written by Dr Peter O'Connor, Head of Geography at Bishop's Stortford College and a member of the Geographical Association ICT Working Group, GIS for A-level Geography is available now from the Geographical Association. 

Today's first disaster surrounded my consumption last night of cheap red wine on an empty stomach. This combination led to a very restless night and a self-promise 'never to do it again'.

On a more positive front Jim Moffat's blog led me to some important content regarding the recent 'Eagle One' disaster simulation exercise in the Netherlands. The ability to deploy rapidly has proved one key aspect of MS Groove's versatility, this was most widely recognized in the benefits it offered in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

You can check out a short video describing the success of using a combination of GIS and Groove technology to support this important civil defense exercise below or click through to a white paper on the excerise here. |If you want to read a white paper on Groove and Katrina you will find one here.

Due to my late inclusion to the event team the only available flight back to the UK is at 09:30 tomorrow morning. So there will be no coverage of tomorrows goings on at Tech-Ed and I get an early escape. I hope I am not too rough by the time I reach home.

My first use of Lotus Notes was back in 1990 with release 2.0. At that time the eight or nine 3.5" disks (I can't remember the exact number) from which it was installed seemed incredibly bloated - so the idea of a 350mb download for the latest full Mac eclipse version would have seemed more than a bit daunting to the Ian of the early 1990s.

They say that nothing is new under the sun. IBM Lotus must be flattered as here in the UK telco Orange is running an 'I am' campaign that could have been inspired by the noteworthy 'I am' campaign for Lotus R5 in 1999 (I wonder who the copywriters were / worked for ?). 

'Allo, 'allo