Nice article from Business Week via Textually: Short messages are a bonanza for wireless carriers, but one that’s now reaping only a fraction of its potential. Why? The marketing side of the text-messaging business is just now getting started. The 1.3 billion cell phones in the world give marketers a possible person-to-person link with consumers [...]
Archive | June, 2004
Push 2 Email
We Make Money Not Art reports that Nextel are launching the next generation of Push2Tlk type services: a unique application that allows users to send a streaming mp3 voice message from their phone to any e-mail recipient quickly and easily by simply pressing the Direct Connect button on the side of every Nextel phone. This [...]
Stuffing cats back into bags
Good article from Dan Gilmour here via Boing Boing on Camera phones. There’s been a lot of hoo-haa recently among various groups about the incipient dangers of camera phones. Whether the scaremongering is about paedophiles, exam cheating or industrial espionage, the message is the same – stop using them. In fact, Sprint have announced that [...]
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HUGE SMS Promotions
160 Characters reports two humongous promotions just launched in the US. First we have a ÏAT&T Wireless have got together with our friends, McDonaldsÓ type of thing with the largest on-pack Text Messaging promotion in U.S. history with an Olympic Trivia Game ‘To Go’ ÷.. Beginning this week, more than 250 million McDonald’s to-go bags [...]
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EMI Goes Mobile
According to New Media Age, EMI is actually being both innovative and rather brave. Unlike the ostrich-like behaviour of the rest the music industry, they’re looking to embrace technology. EMI will this summer become the first record label to launch a trial of mobile ‘super-distribution’, enabling consumers to forward tracks to other users legally. The [...]
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DVD ->> Mobile
MSMobiles reports the launch of software that allows you to convert a DVD to your phone and watch it in great quality, with stereo sound and in full screen landscape mode. A memory card as small as 128 Mb is sufficient to store a full length feature film. With only two clicks, this PC software [...]
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DVD ->> Mobile
MSMobiles reports the launch of software that allows you to convert a DVD to your phone and watch it in great quality, with stereo sound and in full screen landscape mode. A memory card as small as 128 Mb is sufficient to store a full length feature film. With only two clicks, this PC software [...]
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Wireless Voice Calls
We’ve talked about using your mobile to make calls over multiple networks, including local wireless ones recently: First, it [your mobile phone] might hook into your very own wireless network. As you lose that connection, the call will be taken over by your mobile operator. But then, your phone will find a free wireless connection [...]
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Two Cameras
Gizmodo reports the launch of A5502K from Kyocera is the first phone I can recall seeing with two cameras, one in the front like a normal, selfless, god-fearing camera, and another next to the LCD for taking vain, indulgent pictures of yourself. It would be interesting to find out what proportion of photo’s were used [...]
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Cellphone Time and Graphics
The New York Times has an article on cellphone (or mobile or handy) gaming here. As an aside, I wonder what the common parlance will become for a mobile phone? As you can see from the pic (a screen grab from a Spiderman game released later this month for the N-Gage), we’ve come a long [...]
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