According to the press, this year’s CeBIT in Hannover somewhat resembled its own “alternative” version: less colorful, less noisy, less visited. Everywhere there was talk of the “crisis as a chance”, mixed moods of doom and optimism. Furthermore, the organizers came up with a new concept for the event labeled “Webciety” — standardized exhibition honeycombs [...]

For a long time, cell phones eked out the existence of a proverbial ugly duckling: small, gray and emitting some nerve-wracking blare from time to time. While they had managed to fulfill the compelling promise of mobile communication, they had been trying hard to catch up with what the great and the graceful of the [...]