Example of MMS Russell Beattie has blogged a rant about MMS. In a blog entitled “MMS still sucks” (get off the fence on this will you, Russ?) he writes about a failed MMS to someone on the same network, when both sender and recipients have Nokia’s. It doesn’t arrive – quelle surprise! The only damn [...]
Archive | July, 2004
The word according to Howard
One of my favourite writers on technology and society in Howard Rheingold, who has written a great piece in The Feature about why mobile services fail. Nice to see that Howard agrees with much I have to say on the subject Designer Scott Jenson says mobile services like WAP and MMS were set up to [...]
Mobile Entertainment
Justin Hall has written a thought-provoking piece in The Feature about the role of Mobile Entertainment in society. We are the first generation of humans carrying powerful personal computers in our pockets. What kind of collaboration is possible? How can we find and organize our contacts and connections in an entire city? By playing together, [...]
21st Century Crime
Engadget reports a “crime” that would happily sit within the pages of 1984. Warronnica Harris, a college student in Florida, definitely made a mistake when she answered a phone call from her mom while watching the opening credits to Catwoman at a local theater (though going to see that movie in the first place was [...]
3 Launch Music Video
Proving that there must be someone at 3 who knows what they’re doing, New Media Age highlights an article in The Mirror Today’s Mirror reports that mobile network 3 has introduced full-length music videos that customers can play on their phones. The mobile network has joined forces with record label BMG to launch their new [...]
Death over a mobile
Engadget reports a very sad story from the UK a 12-year old English boy attempted to scare his parents after they refused to let him get a cellphone by faking a suicide, and unfortunately only succeeded at killing himself. But it does provide a horrible reminder of just how important the mobile is in kids’ [...]
Pokia
Reuters carries this interesting story about a retro hybrid phone – the Pokia. When he walks down the street trying out his nifty invention, Nicholas Roope looks just a little bit crazy. He is, after all, talking into a heavy, black, old, Bakelite telephone handset, with a thick coiled cord leading into his pocket. Heads [...]
Bill Gates’ Hovel
There’s a great blog here about a Microsoft Intern’s experience of dining with the Big Man at home. Including airport level security to get in! —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Obvious Orange
W2Forum (subscription needed) highlights an extraordinary article in the FT. So extraordinary that I’ve taken a couple of days to digest it. I don’t have access to the original article, but have no reason to doubt W2Forum’s interpretation. In an Interview with the FT Sanjiv Ahuja identified a key change in the mobile Industry. Successful [...]
The Mobile Detective
SmartMobs has a story about a Japanese TV Show, that illustrates quite how deeply the mobile phone is embedded into society. Literally translated as “the cell phone detective,” Keitai Deka is a weekly show on Japan’s BS-i channel wherein a teen with a super-cellphone solves crimes. “Although Westerners might find the premise implausible, in Japan, [...]
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