Continuing with Part 2 of my audio interview with Dan Harple, CEO of GeoSentric, the company behind GyPSii, a digital mobile lifestyle application. But look beneath the hood (and listen in to Part 1 of the series) and GyPSii isn't just another company jockeying for position in the location-aware mobile social networking space. It's got its eye on the prize: Using our location, our social graph (because we are members...

Checking in before I check out to meetings in The Netherlands after a week packed with pre-CTIA briefings and a few discussions under NDA. More about that next week, along with a string of posts including an in-depth look at RingRing Media, complete with a rundown of the stats its seeing (all the more interesting since RingRing is regarded as the largest spending media agency in the U.K.), and why its (not-yet-releas...

Regular readers will recall that MSG has partnered with bnetTV to cover industry events such as CTIA and, more recently, Mobile World Congress (MWC). The team did an awesome job, producing 200+ interviews. I focused on analysis, and conducted some 20 interviews with senior executives at companies including abphone, BuzzCity, Movius, Gracenote, Mob4Hire, GyPSii, AdMob, BuddyMob, Gigafone, BubbleMotion, Visto, JumpTap,...

Thanks to Andrea Henninge and Stuart Willett, who heads up MSG Media Solutions, this next Mobile World Congress is shaping up to be the best so far! My schedule is packed with briefings, speaking engagements (such as the Qualcomm's Plaza Mobile Internet Forum), and a string of video interviews I'm conducting together with MSG's own in-house film crew. Slots are going fast - so if you would like to learn more please...