As we look over Barcelona from our perch in RiBCN towers, we see a thousand people, a thousand buildings and a city in action. We think of the wonders we could unleash if we were able to harness the energy of the people below, the business therein, the connections thereof, the energy inherent. But...
The fine El Periódico newspaper has a story about a thief who was nabbed when the phone he had stolen took a photo of him and send it by e-mail to the victim. The story is here for those who can read Spanish, but we’ll paraphrase it for you. It went like this… a...
There’s money in them there mobiles: For manufacturers, for network providers, for content providers, and for the thieves who snatch the handsets and sell them on. Today’s cellphones, unlike the bricks of old, are typically worth a lot on the black market – moreso the types of phones carried by Mobile World Congress delegates...
Barry visited Barcelona in October 2011 and had his black iPhone 4 stolen. Nothing unusual so far; we have at least 550 criminal incidents here every day. He went to a local police station and gave his details, but on returning the next day the police informed him that he hadn’t followed procedure–he hadn’t made...
We’re pleased – thanks to YouTube – to be able to offer you the facility to send us videos anonymously. Add this email address to the phone contacts of your smartphone, and if you capture something of interest, email it to us, anonymously. Your contact details will not appear, and we won’t see those...
An article written by Santiago Tarín, which ran in La Vanguardia‘s “Viure” supplement on Wednesday October 12th 2011, reports how intimate police knowledge of the capabilities of Apple’s iPhone 4 enabled the arrest of four violent robbers. Entitled, a little obliquely, “Steve Jobs at his most intimate”, the article describes an incident on the...
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