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If you present to clients – this is an App that may help you. Vocalytics co-founder Benoit Curdy talks here about his new start-up which is to help speakers work on their voice. The Android App, developed by the start-up, is a ‘personal voice trainer’ – allowing users to monitor their intonation (pitch) and speed (slow or fast).

If it can do one thing, it will help presenters understand (and see via the screen) when they are talking too fast (or too slow) when they are rehearsing their presentation.

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The ‘Pace Recorder’ is an currently Android 2.3 app.

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I attended the Mobile Marketing 2011 event and this is Jon Mew of the IAB talking about where and how mobile has emerged as a cutting edge marketing technology.

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CNN Money report:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Video may have killed the radio star, but the PC and a host of other seemingly outdated consumer gadgets live on in the face of many attempts to replace them.

Sales of smartphones and tablets are on the rise, pushed by companies like Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) and Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) that say the newer devices can displace computers, but PC sales also keep on booming. Intel (INTC, Fortune 500) reported last week that its second quarter was its best ever, boosted by strong PC sales. And analyst group Gartner predicts computer sales will rise 22% this year.

It’s not just PCs. Digital cameras, laptops and MP3 players have become nearly ubiquitous tools for even the Luddites among us, even though smartphones can perform many of the same tasks that their single-function brethren can.

But a confluence of events among device manufacturers and service providers suggests that the end for the desktop computer and other “has-been” devices really is on the horizon. Unconnected gadgets are finally starting to lose their luster and are beginning to be replaced by more multi-functional, connected devices.

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How you use your mobile phone has long reflected where you live.

But the spirit of the machines may be wiping away cultural differences  in this article written by The Economist.

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A presentation on mobile by Helge Tennø.

The ‘Shift Happens’ video has been updated. It looks at how we may go about interacting with digital going forward and the role of convergence – and the implications.

What will we all be doing in 2019?

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Facinating article by Josh Lovison today – entitled ‘Looking Up: Mobile from 2010 – 2101′ – examining trends and seeing to the future in mobile.

The advent of 4G, which is imminent and the platforms sorrounding augmented reality will create the ‘true impact of changes’.

As with all star gazing, how many predictions will happen?

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I’m a fan of Helge Tenno’s work and intrepretation of branding. Here, he has updated his views on brand participation.