Vodafone in Japan have launched the wittily, thoughtfully named V603SH (maybe it means something witty in Japanese anyway). It’s a handset that responds to movements made by the user.
What this means is that, for instance, you can hold your phone like a putter in golf, play a stroke and then look at the screen to [...]
Archive | January, 2005
Use Your Phone as a Golf Club
Prediction 6
My Predictions for 2005 continue:
6. DRM Rises up the agenda
DRM continues to dominate the conversation and will continue to do so.
However, it’s pretty obvious these days that all DRM is doomed and content owners need to live with that and adjust their business models accordingly.
Every time a foolproof DRM system is launched someone cracks it [...]
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Teens and Mobile Phones
“The Text Generation” is New Zealand’s most comprehensive survey on teen cellphone use, released today by NetSafe, the Internet Safety Group. Once again we’re reminded quite how central mobiles are in young people’s lives – and there’s no reason to suggest that Kiwi Teens are any different from anywhere else. Well, apart from the sheep [...]
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Walking 5 miles for a Recharge
Many villagers living in the Romanian village of Ciosa own mobile phones, even though the nearest electricity is 5 miles away and only accessible on foot.
That’s commitment for you.
Source:New Kerala
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Psst. Heard the Latest About……
Threadwatch (via SmartMobs) points to an interesting (if lengthy) piece of research by the Social Issues Research Centre about the role of gossip in the context of mobiles.
It seems that gossiping is a real need among humans – a sort of psychological equivalent to grooming. Since the mobile facilitates gossip, they’re a GOOD thing and [...]
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Search for People
Business.com has an interesting spin on search. You can search for people to put together an historical resume for them.
Unfortunately, it’s not that good. While it correctly identified some of the stuff a do/did, I have never been in the US airforce or a teacher.
I still reckon that Googlism is the best thing like this [...]
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Deloitte’s Trends of 2005
Deloitte Research have been joining the trend-spotting/prediction game, with their top 12 for 2005. Since 8 deal directly with mobile phones, the main conclusion seems to be that this will be the year of the mobile.
Here’s what they say about mobile stuff:
# Electronic viruses will run rampant in PCs, cellphones, PDAs and gaming consoles. Nuisances [...]
Prediction 5
Continuing my Predictions for 2005, I covered video calling in my fifth in the series:
5. Video Calling
As 3G handset penetration slowly increases, there will be more people to call. Conventional thinking should suggest that this means more people will start using video calling.
But why would they want to? I’m still not convinced people are ready [...]
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eBay Update
If you read my post yesterday about listing advertising space on this blog on eBay, you may be interested to learn that after a shaky start, the bidding has reached $41. And we’ve still got 8 days to go.
Follow the bidding progress here.
It looks like there may be something in the idea!
And if you’re a [...]
Raving Fans
Anyone who has seen The Incredibles knows how dangerous raving fans can be. If you thwart them, they can turn just as rabidly against you – just as Buddy turns into Syndrome, the uber-baddy in the film.
A few weeks ago, I blogged about the raving fan who had produced an iPod commercial in homage to [...]
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