It seems Nokia are taking the recent, very isolated cases of Bluesnarfing pretty seriously. According to Zed Net UK Nokia is to work with Swedish security company Pointsec Mobile Technologies to develop an encryption tool for high-end phones. The security tool will protect data such as email, text and multimedia messages, calendar and address book [...]
Archive | August, 2004
BBC Opera Flashmobbing
We Make Money Not Art says the dear old BBC (still very cool despite being an old Lady) is branching into Opera Flashmobbing stylee. The BBC is planning to stage a live “flashmob” opera at one of Britain’s busiest railway stations this autumn. The exact venue and date are being kept secret until the last [...]
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Mobile Sex
If you’ve ever been errr….pleasurably startled when your phone is on vibrate and someone calls, you might be interested in this. Purring Kitty is a downloadable mobile phone application costing a mere $4.99 that will Instantly turn your cell phone into a discreet vibrating personal ‘masseur’ – turn your phone’s vibrations on at will!. While [...]
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Mobile in Society
Douglas Rushkoff at The Feature writes an interesting review of Sci-fi writer and media academic Paul Levinson’s new book Cellphone: The Story of the World’s Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything! Basically Levinson argues that the mobile is a natural evolutionary stage in man’s development: …. the invention of the cell phone [...]
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Shag Phone revisited
A while ago, I wrote about a couple embarking on an affair and investing in a his ‘n hers shag phone. The idea being that it kept suspicious spouses from seeing intimate messages or revealing phone bills. Plus they’d know that any calls must be from their lover. Belle du Jour (anonymous high class escort, [...]
Virtual Girlfriend
Textually reports on the launch of a Virtual Girlfriend on your Mobile phone via The Washington Times and CNN. Programmers in Hong Kong have created an online dating game featuring a cyber dream girl that can be wooed and won via a 3G phone… “The user can send her chocolates or a diamond ring, and [...]
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Mobile Coke
Courtesy of The Raw Feed here a pic of the new Coke vending machine in Japan. the Cmo2 supports I-Mode phones with FeliCa capability. To buy a coke, the thirsty user holds his expensive Japanese phone up to a special pad, and the transaction takes place in half a second. The machine also has an [...]
Digital Hitching
Alex at Future Now had a great idea and then found someone was doing it. A few weeks ago, on my Red Herring blog, I wrote about an idea I’d had for doing real-time carpooling. …. The basic idea was that the same technologies that allow for smart mobs and flash mobs also would allow [...]
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Email must die
I’ve blogged before that we’re going to see the end of email – dramatic though this might seem today. So it’s nice to see others are thinking the same way, especially as eminent as Steve Boyd, President of Corante and Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome. Here’s Chris Pirillo’s Top 10 list of why email will die [...]
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.MP
Textually reports (via SmartMobs) that registrations are now open for domains ending with .mp (instead of .com, for instance). You can snap one up at Sunrise.mp Not sure why you’d want one, mind you. At $179 it’s also expensive. And judging by the fact that vodafone.mp, orange.mp and t-mobile.mp are all available (it’s been open [...]
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