I wrote a post about location based tourism a couple of weeks ago, at the request of a Mobile Weblog reader. Incidentally, if you have anything you’d like my opinion on, for what it’s worth, drop me a line or leave a comment. A good example of LBS and tourism is covered by Poynter Online [...]
Archive | February, 2005
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Bush v Kennedy
Here’s a picture of the famous JFK “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech in 1963 You can read the speech here, if you like. I couldn’t help contrast this to Mr Bush’s visit next week to Mainz. The German government is basically putting the whole town into lock down. They’re closing roads, schools and even rivers [...]
Is Mobile Phone Jamming the New Bluejacking?
There seem to have been a flurry of people lately, claiming to jam mobile phones – for “fun”. Or maybe it’s a flurry of stories, which all seem to lead back to the New York Post one here. You can buy one in the US for upwards of $250, which seems quite a lot of [...]
Scanning Documents with Your Mobile
CNet posts a story (via JK on the Run) that the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France have turned a mobile phone into a document scanner. In other words, take any camera phone with a res of 1 megapixel or more, point it at a text document (or say, a white board) and click. [...]
Record Every Phone Call on your Nokia Series 60
Israeli company, Natural Widget, has launched Natural Recorder, an application that automatically records every phone call you make or receive. If you have a Nokia Series 60 phone, you can download and install the software for $11.95. Thereafter, all your calls are recorded until you choose to delete them. While recording a phone call isn’t [...]
Top 100 Gadgets of All Time
Mobile PC has a list of the Top 100 Gadgets of All Time. It’s got some great photos, but it must have been quite a challenge to put together and bound to be a little controversial! What have they left out, that you’d have put in? There’s some fascinating ones here, like Number 18, pictured [...]
Something for the Weekend from SFR
An amusing ad from French mobile service, SFR. A mobile keeps things truly personal – unlike an answerfone. And here’s another good one doing the rounds. A Sysadmin’s dream. Have a great weekend. Russell —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
File Sharing TV Programmes – 24 and The Simpsons Lead the Way
Hurray! The UK leads the world in something again. Unfortunately, it’s just pirated TV programmes download from Bit Torrent networks. 18.5% of all piracy is happening in the UK, ahead of Australia at 15.6% and the US at 7.3% according to research by Envisional. The report concludes that the main driver (apart from high broadband [...]
Skype, Motorola and VoIP – The Operator’s Dilemma
On Monday Motorola announced a strategic alliance with Skype, the Voice over IP service. For those that don’t know, VoIP lets you make pretty good calls over the net. And because it’s going over the net, it’s free providing you have a connection and a device capable of interfacing like this. Historically, this is generally [...]
Is TV the Next Victim?
Firstly, we had music file sharing, which hasn’t gone away by any means despite the rather desperate attempts of the RIAA and the quaintly named BPI to bully customers through the courts. Then we had the MPAA shutting down sites using Bit Torrent to distribute legitimate files and some of their member’s films. Now apparently [...]
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