East London game developers, Figure Games, are bringing what they believe to be the new generation of augmented reality gaming to smartphones and tablets, and are set to take the tech world by storm. From feeding them, playing with them and, believe it or not, even administering medicine to them, the creatures of the new digital game, Animin, aren’t just any old companions. Using the latest augmented reality technology you’ll be able to set your digital pet loose into the real world, with the ultimate aim being to become a portal in which to communicate with friends and family. Animin Director, Joe Kletz, says, “Our primary aim at Toy Fair is to creatively disrupt the toy industry, as we strongly believe there is such a clear space for a genuinely new digital pet that uses cutting edge mobile technologies in such a fun, social and innovative way.” The idea behind the game itself is to continuously evolve your particular Animin creature. In order to do so you will have to take care of their food and medicine needs as well as play mini-games to keep them fit and in good condition. The healthier and happier your Animin is, the more Zef coins you will receive, and it’s these Zef coins that you use to unlock Evo tokens, which ultimately allow your Animin to evolve.
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Upon purchase you will receive a neatly designed Animin pack, which contains your specific creature. Then all that’s left to do is to download the Animin app on your tablet or smartphone and you can set your creature free into real-world environments. Animin will be showcased for the first ever time at Toy Fair 2014, in the GreenHouse at London’s Olympia on 21 January. Meanwhile, you can see Animin in action by clicking play on the video below, and watch this space for more news ahead of its full commercial launch later this year.
I am accustomed to spending thousands going to Mobile World Congress. Typically, this is a straight business expense for me. I have to be there. It’s a great opportunity to discover new technologies, services, companies and individuals. Perhaps the biggest reason for going to MWC is the networking — and this shouldn’t be under valued. Yes, it’s possible to meet many people at other points throughout the year, the magic with MWC is that everyone is ready to meet, to explore, to ponder new ideas during this particular week. This year, I had some significant work commitments. Normally I fly out on the Saturday or Sunday beforehand and I routinely stay through until the following Friday to make sure I can get round all the meetings and stands I need to. This year, I could only go for one day. It could be any day. I picked Tuesday. I reasoned that although it’s traditionally one of the busiest days at the show, the supporting infrastructure around the city is usually pretty quiet. I wasn’t wrong! Here’s how I did it: I booked a British Airways flight about 30 days prior. London Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 is most convenient for me and I managed to get a return economy flight for £133. I selected a 730am departure. This put me on the ground at Fira Gran Via about 1030am. I then booked the last (if memory serves) flight out of Barcelona at 825pm, returning me to London at 940pm.Consider the virtues of BA versus anyone else. Efficient service, you can use their mobile app and you get a sandwich and a drink. And Terminal 5 is brilliant.Getting from the Airport to downtown Barcelona or to the Fira is usually an absolute arse when I arrive on the Saturday (and particularly the Sunday) because there are so many other people trying to do the same thing. Monday, I understand, is even worse. Whether it’s a taxi, train, bus, whatever, the delays mount up pretty quickly. I used the free-of-charge shuttle bus that whisked me from the Airport door to the Fira in about 15 minutes. Excellent.I had to pick up my badge. That was highly simple. I didn’t bother with paper. I just presented my NFC-enabled phone with my pre-reg details loaded and my passport. I got my badge a moment later. Boom. I think I was ready to rock in Hall 1 by about 1107am. I know this because I did an Instagram tweet about this point.I spent about 6 hours in the halls meeting people. This is absolutely not ideal — I’m used to spending days wandering around — so I had to keep on target continually, especially as I’d arranged a few interviews.By about 5pm I began to think about exiting. By 530pm I had made a serious commitment to exit. I used the GSMA’s MWC app to confirm that the taxi queues outside the Fira Gran Via were already at the 20-minute mark. It’s important to give due consideration to the logistics required to move tens of thousands of MWC people around Barcelona. There are delays. I didn’t want to get stuck in a ’20 minute’ queue that took 80 minutes. I have heard (and experienced) similar.Which brings me to the hack suggested by seasoned MWC visitor, Rafe Blandford. He recommended I get the bus or the tube to ‘somewhere else’ (e.g. Placa Catalunya or Placa Espanya) and pick up a cab from there. I hesitated for a few minutes watching the taxi queue grow and resolved to give this a go.The tube/train stop is just across the road from the Fira. I popped across and found very helpful transport staff on hand to help with the ticket machine. I purchased a 2.85 Euro one-way ticket and hopped on the next train to Placa Espanya (where the old MWC events used to take place at Fira Montjuic).Boom! I hopped off the escalator and immediately spied three empty cabs (with their green lights on) waiting for business. I strolled across and jumped in. I was at the Airport 20 minutes later. Now, I actually could probably have stayed on location for another hour or so — but I wanted to leave enough room to avoid missing my flight. I was playing it very, very safe. (I should also have tried out Hailo which is available in Barcelona.) Leaving at 530pm allowed me to avoid the crazy queues. Indeed things were beginning to get rather busy by the time I got on the train, with queues for the tube backing out quite far. It’s rather amazing how quickly things get clogged up when thousands of people have the same idea. So if I’d left it any later, I worry that I could have arrived at Placa Espanya and found zero cabs. And then not have been able to find a Hailo. I’m pleased to report that this methodology worked nicely. I got to take in *some* of the show. However I have also been able to balance this with my work commitments — and I’ll even be able to go along to the NotAtMWC event taking place in London on Thursday! My total expenditure was thus: BA flight: £133Barcelona tube ticket: £2.50 (roughly)Taxi from Placa Espanya to Barcelona Airport: £20 (roughly)So rough total: £156. There’s one other key consideration point with Mobile World Congress: Getting in the door costs money. At least £600 for standard entry to the exhibition. There are ways of avoiding this. If you’re particularly keen to avoid having to buy a pass (who wouldn’t be?), I strongly recommend developing a relationship with one of the bigger industry players. They receive an allocation of tickets that they routinely give away to anyone they deem deserving. Some of the niche players with stands also get a bundle of tickets that they often don’t bother using. Again, strike up a relationship — talk to them and see if they can help. They often go to waste. Don’t forget that if, for example, you buy thousands of pounds of text messaging credits every month from a supplier, the chances are they probably have a stand or a presence at the show and could probably be pressed into giving you one of their spare tickets for next year. Press passes aren’t an option for most — they’re incredibly difficult to come by. The GSMA rigorously filter out anyone who’s clearly just knocked up a blog the week before in the hope of getting free entry. If you genuinely start an online mobile publication and prove yourself across the year, you should be able to get a press pass. The GSMA are really clear here, though — there’s no automatic guarantee that you qualify — and even past approval doesn’t mean you get in the door automatically the next year. Finally, if you’re a speaker, you obviously get a free badge — a very funky gold one. It’s definitely worth ‘submitting papers’ to the MWC conference team for 2015 soon if you’d like to participate. This is also quite a stretch simply because there just isn’t a lot of space available so you’ll need some stimulating ideas and a bit of credibility for the GSMA to consider including you. Right then. MWC in a day. Done! I’d very much welcome your suggestions and hacks in the comments.
Bring it on. I can’t wait. I’m getting on the plane in 8 hours. I am not going to print my badge. Instead I’m going to use the Mobile World Congress app along with my Photo ID to get my badge. Paperless entry, finally! And, in an MWC first for me, I’m going to actually try and use the PayPal buy-food service and see how that works. I’ve always been way too crazy busy at past events. I’ll let you know how I get on. Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter to receive updates.
Good morning it’s Julian here once again, this time with part one of a two-part series on points to consider when developing enterprise applications. I know this will be a little obtuse to those who aren’t actively working in the sector so if you’ve any questions please do add them below and I’ll respond. Here we go… - – - – - If you want mobile users to be productive they need the information to do their work at their fingertips no matter were they are. Getting from a desk bound company to a mobile one requires a lot of legwork, little of which appears in the colour brochures. What follows is technical but I would hope that any project manager or mobile infrastructure architect will be able to scan through it and say: “we got that one”, “hmmm”, “I think he missed a trick”, “good point” (etc). These are only starting points: For a number of them you are going to have to spend some time with legal, maybe compliance and probably IT security to see where they rank on your firm’s risk list. What is a problem in banking is not in pharmaceuticals. What the regulators in London will issue £100m fine for may not bother anyone in Hong Kong. If you don’t run voice over IP then don’t worry about solving it for mobile. In Part 1, I will: Address the easily skipped bit regarding getting your information flows from data centre servers safely onto the internetIllustrate that encapsulating your data is not something you may want to delay And in Part 2, I will: List the user groups for mobile solution infrastructure designShow secure app development over the internet is both necessary and possibleSuggest a solid list of apps that many users would consider required for utility, security and regulatory compliance: including voiceRun through ways to integrate mobile app development so it works well for traditional devs as well as app specialists. Mobile Data: The Double Headed Eagle That Will Bite Your Kneecaps Off Let’s say the factory services group in Minnesota wants to use iPads running an app they are writing locally. It will allow supervisors to tap into the plant control and HR systems so they will be able to see what what products every machine is working on, who the end customer is and the staff member allocated to it. If the device goes missing you will end up with a bunch of confidential commercial, HR and production data “out there” but that is quantifiable and the risk can be managed. In some places you might characterise this as low impact data – but in parts of China it could be quite a nasty loss. CIO after CIO is being quoted as saying losing data from mobile devices is their biggest nightmare. But there are two parts to this problem and it is the other part that you hear very little about in the press. Look Server Side The elephant in the enterprise room is that you will be exposing data systems, like HR or production control, to the internet which have never before permitted their data flow to hit the company’s DMZ, let alone fly out through the external firewall. Now you are allowing connections from the mobile telephone network, anywhere in the world, into your intranet and your servers, 24 hours a day, every day of the week. Depending on where you work, some of those servers may hold data whose release actually would cause problems for major governments. Even if it doesn’t scare you, it will scare your corporate risk team. While locking down your devices will satisfy your CIO and probably was the initial justification for the MDM project, locking down external access your intranet access is something you need to do as well. Even if you are planning to use a SaaS MDM installation you will still need DMZ and intranet servers to control access to your business databases and email. It is not helpful, but MDM sales and installation glossies typically include front page pictures with dashed lines flying in from mobile devices through the firewall (“just open port 8789 and the universe can be yours”) to the servers. Page two may show a couple of boxes in the DMZ. A global MDM vendor’s MD trumpeted, “for the truly paranoid we support a reverse proxy in the company DMZ”. That last implementation, on page 12, is the only right one but the breezy language that preceded it affects how long people think this will take. In the initial whiteboard/back-of-the-envelope planning stage, there are some very good things to bring up early. If you put these into the centre of a mind-map hopefully you, and the teams you call on, will start to describe something robust and workable. Certificates for authentication: Speak to an expert – the people who really know this stuff are legends and this isn’t a subject for internet fuzzy niceness. Generally, the more certificates (per device, per app if possible) the better because these are the one control you can kill on your side if a device goes missing and offline. My first piece of advice is make sure no traffic gets through the reverse proxy without a valid “corporate ownership” certificate and only then do you think about authenticating users. My second piece of advice is never use intranet server validated passwords on mobile device: use one time tokens, RSA keys or whatever. In most companies, intranet single-sign-on usernames and passwords are the highest grade security information that any user has in that domain. They shouldn’t be used on client or vendor sites. In some places usernames and passwords aren’t even trusted: it is two factor internally and externally and, yes. some MDM vendors struggle with this. Whatever. Use something unique for mobile authentication. Secure mobile data flows need their own solution: Do not assume that you can piggyback on your VPN server farm for secure app communications – it very nearly works, almost to the point that you can be railroaded into it. However, VPN connection licences are stupidly expensive, probably fully allocated and the degrees of control that systems like Juniper give you are fabulous and way over specified for simple data streams. On paper, per app VPN sounds far more appropriate than, I assure you, it will be once you are writing lots of apps. Consider 1,000 remote concurrent app users tying up Juniper endpoints and then picture 20% of them flipping to a different app triggering a new session every 3 minute, as people tend to do on mobile phones. Using full device VPN doesn’t work either because it breaks Apple Push Notification Service and thus MDM – unless your company allows unsolicited inbound network connections from anywhere in Apple’s class A network (which, I think we can all agree, it doesn’t). Instead use your MDM/EMM vendor’s carefully designed SSL hardware/SDK supported solution. AirWatch’s solution allows you to integrate it into your own apps via their SDK, or wrap any normal app with their software, so that the data back haul is encrypted using SSL to your AirWatch DMZ cluster. It integrates with your certificate authority on a per-device/per-app basis. If you use a CA hooked into AirWatch’s externally facing device service module, its internally facing console and your intranet directory service, you can issue and revoke certificates in real time so that your app, DMZ gatekeeper and AD reliant servers all respond independently but at the same time. Credentials can’t linger on offline mobile devices for nasty people to reuse. Also, in AirWatch, you can easily manage the certificates on the same L1 console page that you use to manage lost devices. Go to market and find a really good MDM/EMM company that will provide you with 90% if the infrastructure software support you need and 95% of the mobile device OS services abstraction support you definitely need. I like AirWatch because I have actually got this kind of infrastructure implemented and integrated quickly – for other people, products like Antenna, Citrix, MobileIron, Maas360, BoxTone, Afaria (SAP), Good Dynamics appeal. As with all infrastructure software you need to base your choice not only on features but also on market dominance and your ability to recruit skilled people over the next 5 years. Once you have an authenticated device and user, you can switch the data stream into your intranet and permit your internal end systems to treat it like any other marginally distrusted request from within the network. Plan for Stage 2 with secure data channels, email etc happening 4 hours and 30 minutes after stage one is working: Setting up the DMZ infrastructure for apps and data is well understood but can way too easily be indefinitely deferred during an initial MDM implementation. This is because the focus is on securing the devices. As Chris Marsh of the Yankee Group notes, pure MDM is the starting point for most firms but once it is done it becomes obvious that Apps will follow really fast. The, “get it done and get it done now” culture in big organisations often prevents discussing next week let alone what will be required in six months. New hardware in corporate data centres can be expensive and slow to order, especially when you are clustering and pairing in high availability configurations across countries or regions. So, my advice is get all the possible hardware ordered up front. Look Mobile Side What is needed on the mobile device is really quite well understood by the vendors, analysts and commentators but it changes so, so fast. You don’t want to secure the device, but you do want to secure what is on the device. It is probably worth saying the obvious that mobile security is impossible to guarantee if you loose the device. Whoever has the hardware can do what they want given sufficient time and skill. What you require is a group of coordinating apps on the device that trust each other to appropriate degrees given the threat model you are happy with. The enterprise platform that app writers can depend on, within this circle of trust, includes generic components such as email, share-point, document reader-helpers, instant chat and voice. iO7 supports mutual trust between managed apps and Samsung Knox is similar (as is Blackberry’s Balance). These work on devices whether it is enrolled in MDM or not which means you can provide a single eco-system of apps that all of your developers can rely on. It doesn’t matter if the target is corporate devices or BYOD. The solution is, at last, transforming from a secure device into a secure platform with services. Look Inwards – Know Thyself If a device is lost, can you say what precisely is missing? If you lose personally identifying data, in many jurisdictions and regulatory regimes you will have to notify each person and say exactly what was lost: no more and no less. Do you have any mechanism in your business that would enable you to quantify this? Could the L1 service desk workflow, “User reports they have lost their mobile device” automatically kick off a report to the regulatory compliance team? Planning for data loss in companies operating in the Square Mile is not about shutting your eyes and wishing. Devices and data will be lost. The regulators will punish data loss. They will hang out to dry any company that hasn’t even attempted to get this right. The sorts of fines that the SEC and the new regulatory arm of the Bank of England can issue should be large enough to pay for some thinking time. Clarify with with your legal and regulatory compliance teams where your company stands with this. Encapsulating the data: Some of you (particularly if your background was in enterprise data systems) will remember the notion that data is saved in detail but queried through semantically defined “data objects”. These could be implemented as queryable stored procedures in the database, within “universes” in Business Objects(TM), transformations in Informatica(TM) or some sorts of statistically things in SAS(TM). The driver for this architecture was initially “write your own reports”. However, requirements for regulatory and financial reporting meant that all reports required the same well defined data semantics for the regulated components to ensure that ad-hoc and standard reports were consistent. My experience is that most data-warehouse and reporting solutions got about 80% of the implementation done and then gave up. What I am proposing here, wearing my dusty data architect’s hat, is that only properly semantically defined data objects should be allowed to be used in mobile apps. I have written a couple of regulatory reporting frameworks in my time and this feels like exactly the same problem, for a very similar business driver and so the same solution should work. Data objects allow querying in several dimensions: time, name, location etc, depending on the object. The better defined the semantics of the object typically the fewer dimensions you can query. If you define the objects right, they can even be updated. The actual solution is not particularly technically novel: few of the things discussed so far about mobile infrastructure have been. The work will be getting the data architects, database managers and data systems support teams identified and on-board. If you know exactly what you want and why you need it, you should be able to drum up some agreement quite quite quickly within the database groups. When, later, the apps teams come to use corporate data, you can steer them in the right direction to the right people. You can facilitate great architecture. Data as inventory: If each app can check-out and in every object with a record of the dimensions using the MDM/EMM console. Voila! You have an accurate data inventory. OK, any offline data acquisitions may be missing from the inventory but that information can go into the police report as an appendix (or, better, get some advice from your legal team). The problem for today is that I don’t think any MDM/EMM supports this kind of thinking yet – but they will. The great thing is you do not have to complete the implementation of data objects for every single database in your enterprise (which would be impossible in every company I have worked in recently). Only the data which mobile apps use needs this treatment. Provided your app writers work closely with the data architects, preferably with a long range plan, the query layers can be built up as required without any impact on existing systems. Further, if you are a fan of treating data as an asset, the data-as-inventory model will give you some great material for analysis and a good angle on calculating return on investment. The Take Home Taking a company mobile isn’t so much about doing anything directly yourself, but ensuring that those whose job it is to make the visible bits work can do so. There is no glamour in it. If you can coordinate the infrastructure work including: Certificate authority deep integration with the device, apps, servers and the MDM consoleThe hardware to handle the data back-haul per-device and per-appUp-to-date data inventories If you get it right at the very start, then actually implementing it all and hooking it up is quite quick in my experience – just two or three weeks of 15 hour days will do it. The art is getting legal, compliance and HR on board. Then convincing the identity management, IT security, active directory, data architects (for each global division, for each management group, for each database), CTO and remote access teams that the mobile regulatory priorities are well thought through and you can, with everybody’s help, actually satisfy them. Hopefully you can do that now. Part 2 is all about giving your software development teams a development and device platform they can really use and make hum for their clients. All good stuff and it includes details on how to do that without opening new company wide attack vectors! Stay tuned!
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It is Mobile World Congress time next week so therefore I present the following tips that should be rather useful for newbies — although I hope some regular attendees might find some use from them. Right. Here we go… Passport: Do not lose your flipping passport. I always keep mine *on* me. Make sure you’ve got a photocopy in Evernote or Dropbox.Your MWC badge: Take it off when you exit the venue. I know this is a simple dullard tip but I’m always amazed when people forget — or when they deliberately keep it on because they like the look of it. It is a walking advertisement to the hordes (and I do mean, HORDES) of Barcelona thieves and vagabonds.Your valuables: Think carefully about whether you need to bring your £2,500 camera. Don’t be surprised to return to your hotel room and find it missing from your rucksack as one blogger colleague experienced a few years ago. Not good.Plan your time properly: It’s all too easy to decide that since everyone who is anyone is there, you should meet them. Don’t over stretch. A few years ago I thought I could easily do one 20-minute meeting every hour. No. It’s nigh-on-impossible because everyone else is late… because you just don’t realise how flipping big the place is. Don’t forget to allow for the random ‘fancy meeting you here’ connections.Battery. You will look stupid — seriously stupid — when your top of the range smartphone is out of battery by 11am. It will be, especially if you’re trying to connect with people and, even worse, if you’re trying to do demonstrations to people. Your phone will have to work triple time just to try and squeeze it’s signal through to the many transmitters around the venue. With tens and tens of thousands of people all trying to do the same thing, your battery won’t be able to hack it. So, take multiple phones. Sim swap if necessary. If connectivity is important to you, definitely think about getting a Mophie battery pack so you can charge your devices. And remember, MWC is when even the best mobile phones look really stupid — when you remember that, yes, Nokia did have it right years ago with their approach to managing battery life. Your 3310 will last the whole of MWC. Your S4 or 5S won’t even see midday — so allow for needing to demonstrate your app or service at 1am in the morning to someone very important.Team Whatsapp: Other messaging apps are available of course. But get your whole team on Whatsapp or something like that with a live connected chatroom. That’s one of the most effective methods of staying in touch with a disparate set of people at such a venue. And let’s face it, a lot of the communication is mission critical, particularly when the CEO of Vodafone has just arrived on your stand and your boss has decided to go and get a ham sandwich somewhere.Remember to eat: Have a huge breakfast if you can. But, there’s a better way ahead and this one comes from Rafe Blandford — the man who writes the infamous All About Symbian and All About Windows Phone sites. Blandford fills his suitcase with Mars Bars whilst in the UK and then takes at least 4 of them out each day in his ruck sack. It’s a very, very smart move and one that I’ve started doing regularly too. If you’re being serious with your meetings, food will be your lowest priority. And standing in large queues will not appeal. By 11am on the Tuesday you’ll be screwed, especially if you missed breakfast and managed to eat 5 tiny canapés the night before. Mars Bars. Seriously. You can wolf them down whilst you’re walking to the next hall.Parties. Don’t forget that a lot of the networking is done after hours at the hundreds of parties and events that happen throughout Barcelona. There are a series of excellent party lists — I’ll try and tweet some as I discover them.Get some sleep. Although it’s tempting to stay up late and do the party thing, if you’ve actually got to deliver a service level (i.e. be able to speak competently to customers on your stand), I strongly recommend getting to bed as soon as you can. Most of the MWC attendees do zero exercise for the whole year, spending all day at the office sitting on chairs. Imagine the shock to the system when you have no choice but to walk 10 miles a day for almost a week. Don’t underestimate the shock to the system. Now, here’s a selection of tips from the wider MIR Twittersphere:
@Ew4n Never rely on public wifi spots. — Aleksi Moisio (@funktio) February 18, 2014
That’s a good one Aleksi.
@Ew4n pretty obvious, but as tempting as it is, don't get really drunk as you won't be on top form — Joe Neale (@Joe) February 18, 2014
Very sensible advice from Joe.
@Ew4n comfortable shoes — Patrick Smith (@patrickjpr) February 18, 2014
Short and sweet Patrick … but a seriously important point, especially for women. Think twice about the funky shoes. Choose the ones that you can actually walk in.
@Ew4n take time to plan who you need to see rather than just wandering. Hugely trying and leaves too much to chance otherwise. — Ben Fletcher (@BenFletch) February 18, 2014
Ah yes this sensible advice Ben. It’s way too easy to just think, ‘right,… I’ll just see what’s going on in Hall 8,’ and then wasting 2 hours of prime networking time. Get searching and connecting with people right now, ahead of time.
@Ew4n if you’re on a stand, leave it and see other people/stands. Not everyone will come to you. — Patrick Smith (@patrickjpr) February 18, 2014
Another sage piece of advice Patrick — very important for those who are attending along with their company and expecting to be camped out on the stand. Book some time in your diary to get out to see other people.
@Ew4n buy Berocca, Lemsip and ibuprofen from Gatwick on your way. — ilicco (@ilicco) February 18, 2014
Ilicco speaks from experience, I think. He’s been to tons of MWCs. Very good idea this. And also, travel via LHR if you can. Terminal 5 is my favourite. Although I have to say Gatwick is doing well at competing. Berocca is required, definitely.
@Ew4n wear comfy shoes and take snacks – queues for food and drink are loooong! #MWC14 — Lauren McGregor (@laurenmcgregor) February 18, 2014
Ah you’re absolutely right Lauren! If you expect to be disappointed with huge queues and plan accordingly then you’ll be fine.
@Ew4n 1 Be ready to get robbed in Barca 2 Don’t come for one day, you need three to get around 3 Want cool stuff, look for small companies — Geert Audenaert (@FastGeert) February 18, 2014
Very good. Geert’s right about the ‘cool stuff’ — I highly recommend seeking out the smaller stands at the back of the halls as that’s where you’ll often see some amazingly smart innovations.
@Ew4n pre-paid SIM (roaming Data is expensive & local WiFi unreliable), biz cards (lots), alcohol less, spare phone batteries, plug adaptors — Liron Segev (@Liron_Segev) February 18, 2014
How could I forget business cards, Liron??? Goodness me. Very good point. Oh… and plug adapters… arrrrgh! Yes don’t forget those. Or chargers.
@Ew4n use @VisuallySocial — Patrick Smith (@patrickjpr) February 18, 2014
And this is reader Patrick showing precisely the sort of attitude you need at MWC. Don’t be afraid to promote yourself. I might even wear my rather bold MOBILE INDUSTRY REVIEW jacket again.
@Ew4n Download the @TripAdvisor City App for Barcelona. It is like having a tour guide in your pocket. #MWC2014 #DialogicMWC — Jolene Pierangeli (@JPierangeli) February 18, 2014
Can’t forget TripAdvisor Jolene, very good idea, especially when you’re hunting for a good Tapas restaurant! Well then, if you’ve got any more suggestions please put them in the comments. Thank you for everyone who response to my request for tips on Twitter. I recommend clicking through and following each of the individuals above! Have a wonderful MWC — and I might see you there. I’m there on the Tuesday.
