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Music: Homage to Sandy Denny | The Latest

Music: Homage to Sandy Denny | The Latest

I have always loved sandy Denny and Monday night will offer great memories and some fantastic music

Music: Homage to Sandy Denny | The Latest

Music: Homage to Sandy Denny | The Latest

I have always loved sandy Denny and Monday night will offer great memories and some fantastic music

My Webinar on #Mobile #Media #Apps on 3rd May

I'm giving a webinar tomorrow 3rd May on Media Apps; The 10 things we are most asked. It's based on some of the latest input we have been given by #Forrester Research

You can sign up to join in at:

http://www.service2media.com/insight/webinars/webinar-media/

 

Augmented Reality Glasses from Google

Google are showing off their augmented reality glasses. This is an amazing advance and one that will soon catch on as Apps are developed that link contextual content to the 'in the moment' experience as we travel around

BBC News Google Augmented Reality

Seeing François-Frédéric Guy Playing Beethoven tonight

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D, Op.28 (Pastoral)

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 (Quasi una fantasia - Moonlight)

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Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B flat, Op.106 (Hammerklavier)

François-Frédéric Guy piano

A chance to enjoy the varied glories of Beethoven's piano sonatas played by one of the composer's most respected interpreters.François-Frédéric Guy has chosen three especially popular and fascinating works. Guy's recording of the groundbreaking, mysterious and immensely dynamic Hammerklavier Sonata has been selected as the best available by BBC Radio 3's Building A Library, and the Washington Post wrote: 'This was worshipful Beethoven, Great-Man Beethoven, with the quirks and foibles smoothed away or elevated... into a kind of divine frenzy... there was no denying the power and authority of Guy's performance.'

20 March 2012, 7:30pm

 

Service2Media are at MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012, FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 1, BARCELONA

The Service2Media Experience

• our stand showcasing our App Lifecycle Platform (stand 7B35 – opposite the RIM/ BlackBerry stand),
• our tapas party at Tuesday February 28th at 5PM, La Fianna, Banys Vells 15, Barcelona. Please, fill out the registration for below or email to mhalstein@service2media.com
• by making a dedicated appointment with our team.

Service2Media Booth (App Planet – Hall 7, B35)
At the Service2Media Booth we will share the latest on our further optimized App Lifecycle Platform and App Centers.

Photo entitled "Cluster of Butterflies at Iguazu Falls" : Audley Travel Photo Competition

For a few fleeting seconds they formed a fragile cluster, drinking from a muddy stream close to where hundreds of tourists walked towards the Devil's Throat, before a crowd of children ran at them and dispersed them. It was a magical moment.

via photocomp.audleytravel.com

Proud to have helped Service2Media with the launch of their great new site

I’m really proud to have helped structure and write the word behind #Service2Media’s new web site. If you don't know anything much about the new world of #Apps and why they are going to replace the web as the way you access the internet then it's also worth a read !

Check it out at www.service2media.com  

 

The App Journey - My take on Forrester's Death of the Web

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2XZNsBz0aGw

George Colony of @Forrester explains in his presentation video why the rapidly increasing power of devices at the periphery of the internet and the availability of cloud based services is moving more rapidly than enhancements to network infrastructure. He also points to the death of PC and web based interaction explaining that users prefer the faster more effective use of Apps and particularly the better user experience that they provide.

The outcome is that immensely powerful but portable devices interacting directly over the web with Cloud based servers will deliver the App Internet where highly effective, easy to use Apps will drive more valuable social interactions and business enabling collaboration and enable the consumerisation of the Enterprise.

At @Service2Media they believe that this is part of the App Journey towards a new #AppEconomy driven by customer demand and powered by Portfolios of core and mission-critical #Apps developed in a highly professional manner that run on all devices and are both secure and highly
efficient.

@Service2Media is doing this already. They have an App Lifecycle Platform that enables the creation of highly efficient Apps that run across all platforms. We provide the security features and
collaborative orchestration that supports complex processes and social interaction. We have made this Platform available to leading organizations in the form of App centers where they build maintain and evolve portfolios of Apps for their target markets and the Enterprise.

What you need to know about why we didn't sign up!

Why did David Cameron refuse to sign up?

Before the summit, Mr Cameron said he would not sign up to any change involving all 27 member states that did not protect British interests - particularly on financial services and access to the single market. The UK has long been resisting calls from other EU leaders for a Europe-wide bank transactions tax which it says would hit the City of London hardest. It is not thought such a tax was specifically discussed but Mr Cameron sought a separate legally-binding "protocol" to protect the City of London from more EU financial regulations# He didn't get one# France's Nicolas Sarkozy argued that much of the financial crisis was down to a lack of regulation and it would not have been right to give the UK a "waiver"#

What else did the UK government demand?

Mr Cameron also wanted an agreement that the European Banking Authority would remain in London, protection for US financial institutions based in London that do not trade with the rest of Europe, and an agreement that any changes - including a financial transactions tax - would require the unanimous backing of all EU members# He didn't get any of those either#

Who is to blame?

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has laid the blame squarely at Mr Cameron's door. He says he would have preferred a deal involving the 27 EU states but that wasn't possible "thanks to our British friends". But the UK government says it was not asking for anything unreasonable. Foreign Secretary William Hague said EU leaders had made "nothing like enough of an effort" to meet UK concerns. Deputy PM Nick Clegg, whose Liberal Democrat party is much more pro-European than their Conservative coalition partners, said the UK's demands had been "modest" and affected the single market as a whole, not just the UK. Labour say the PM failed to build alliances in Europe ahead of the summit and has achieved nothing that will protect the City of London.

via www.bbc.co.uk