The Idaho Statesman has a nice anecdotal round up of how central the mobile phone suddenly seems to have become in the US. Danielle Oremus lives the angst of being 15 years old and not having a cell phone. “People are kind of like ‘Whoa, I’m sorry,’ when I tell them,” said Oremus. “You get [...]
Archive | September, 2004
Location Based Insensitivity
What is it with people who work in Location Based Services? Either they’re insensitive, lack any form of emotional intelligence or they’re just plain stupid. You decide. First we have Aligo CEO Robert Smith jumping in with his size 9′s, narrowly managing to avoid suggesting beating employees who aren’t where they should be. Then we [...]
LBS Analysis
Frost & Sullivan, John Younghusband, analyst gave a telephone briefing on the state of the Location Based Services market yesterday. You can listen to a recording and see the slides here. John’s presentation outlines why LBS, despite its early promise just doesn’t seem to be happening. This is partly poor technology (inaccurate and clunky) and [...]
Oktoberfest
I have a touch of beer ‘flu today as I was out last night at Oktoberfest – or Wiesn, as locals call it. And yes, I’ve gone native enough to don lederhosen. While I’ve obviously heard about this event, it’s the first time I’ve been and it really is something you have to experience. There’s [...]
Sex and Drugs and Mobile Phones
The Streets’ new video has been banned from just about everywhere. Even the former wild-child-turned-boring-old-granny MTV has relegated it to a post 11 pm slot. You can download it here if you want to see what the fuss is about. Apart from proposing that drugs are pretty endemic in youth culture (not really news) it’s [...]
Awesome Wave
Nothing to do with mobile – well, I guess the guy is moving! Check out this truly awesome surfing feat on this gigantic wave, spotted on Tom Hume’s blog. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Mobiles are GOOD 4 Kids
Talk about going out on a limb – this guy’s fallen off the end of the branch. David Butler, chief executive of the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations, said in a speech at the LibDem Conference that he did not believe handsets posed a risk to children by heating up their brains. “From a [...]
Lip Reading Phone
How fiendishly clever. Engadget reports that an Israeli company has developed a $200 cellphone for the lip-reading deaf; the callerÌs voice is electronically mimed by a character on screen, whose lips can be read. The downside might be that this could threaten the jobs of a whole bunch of professional hearing signers who translate for [...]
Woman Thwarts Attacker with her Mobile
WisTV reports that a Connecticut woman used her mobile phone to help catch a sexual predator: Hartford Police arrested 25-year-old Kywan Gunn on Tuesday. They say a woman used her camera phone to take a picture of Gunn’s car, then sent the photo to police. She allegedly recognized him as the man who attacked her [...]
Sun with New Pricing Model
It’s interesting that Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog scooped Sun’s PR people by a day when he revealed the launch of Sun’s new Pay As You Go pricing for its supercomputing. Jonathan is Sun’s CEO, by the way, not some investigative journalist. Is this a sign that blogging has come of age? —–>Follow us on Twitter too: [...]
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