Following my musings yesterday, What’s also fascinating is if the humble MP3 player will survive anyway. Many phones now come with MP3 players (albeit mainly with shite usability at the moment), so has the iPod got a future, no matter how uber-cool it might be? Who wants two devices when one slightly less cool one [...]
Archive | July, 2004
86c Phone
According to Textually, Interpulse for LG Telecom have launched a basic mobile phone for 86 cents: the model only supports calling and SMS service. It weighs 2.02 ounces (63g) and is 59 inches wide (15mm). According to an executive of LG Telecom “The model was born to provide mobile phones to elderly people because its [...]
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Ringtone.net
Representing a major market shift, Ringtone.net is shutting up shop in the UK. Andy Clarke, a senior partner writes on the site: From the 26th September 1998 we have received over 10 million visitors and still receive over 1000 visitors per day. We were the first ringtone related domain name registered in the world and [...]
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The Ultimate Mobile Home
The Evening Standard reports on the ultimate mobile home: Panpuch was inspired by the Thames to design the sphere as an answer to London’s overheated housing-market. His design is being shown at the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (Riba) exhibit of innovative housing, Future House London. “The river in London is empty, yet there is [...]
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iPod Stuff
The Register carries a story today about pPod. London-based iPod users, sensitive souls that they are, can now avoid the horror of unkempt public toilets, thanks to pPod (yes, pPod), a directory of reviewed public conveniences designed especially for the trendy music player. Developed by digital media firm Nykris for reasons probably best known to [...]
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Browser Wars
A rather startling observation from the BlogOn conflab last week from Boing Boing Probably 99 times out of 100 when he asks that question all the hands go up, right? Well first there was a pause and then a giggle and then a whoop of laughter as the audience looked around and realized that NO [...]
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Mobile Social Software
ElasticSpace has done a fabulous job of cataloging a whole bunch of mobile social software applications. We’ve featured quite a few here, but there’s some new ones too: Jabberwocky / Familiar Strangers This research project explores our often ignored yet real relationships with Familiar Strangers. We describe several experiments and studies that lead to a [...]
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Orange and the Oldies
Techdirt has a story about Orange in the UK teaching the over 50′s how to send text messages and how to download ringtones. I greatly admire Orange’s previously announced strategy of becoming educators. Too many people are becoming isolated by technology, whereas it should be one of the great enablers of society. It’s just a [...]
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Camera phone Hysteria
Boing Boing reports on a PBS story about what happened when Kodak cameras were introduced in May 1888. It seems that “authorities” reacted with similar hysteria to today’s camera phones, trying to ban their use in all sorts of places. The appearance of Eastman’s cameras was so sudden and so pervasive that the reaction in [...]
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Business Plan Surgery
TJ and I have developed an idea to help those aspiring entrepreneurs out there: The “Business Plan Surgery” is designed to give expert feedback for your very own business idea – for free. Here is how it works: You are a early stage company in the process of finalizing your business plan or looking for [...]
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