The winners of the Navteq Global LBS Challenge have been announced, which rewards developers for building Location Based applications. While I’m very excited about location based services, I am sorry to say I’m slightly underwhelmed by the results. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that the technology is fiendishly clever and the guys who built [...]
Archive | March, 2005
MMS Launched Too Early?
Cellular News carries a story about a recent mobile (un-named) event in which a panel of experts concluded that perhaps (very tentatively) MMS was launched too early and that’s the reason it hasn’t taken off. The panel consisted of senior people in operators and analysts. What they actually mean is that they launched it (backed [...]
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Flickr and the Ransom Notes
As you know, I’ve put out a call for guest bloggers to help out during my skiing holiday next week. One will be Dennis Hettema, from Sweden’s OP3. OP3 are particularly into bar code scanning, with camera phones, which I believe will be incredibly important, as it’s a way of joining the real world with [...]
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Gotcha! Mobile Game Launches on Wmode Network
This is a cool sounding game, that really uses the functionality of today’s mobiles, rather than pretending it’s a Gameboy or a small PC. Gotcha! allows you to take a photo with your camera. Then you throw your choice of objects at pic, which stick until the picture finally gets blocked out. So, you could [...]
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Location and Commonwealth Games
The Queen handed the Commonwealth Games baton to supermodel, Elle MacPherson at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace, last night. The baton will be passed by relay over 180,000 km until it reaches Melbourne in time for the 2006 games. For the first time, this baton also includes a GPS device and two miniature cameras, allowing [...]
China and India – Opportunities or Threats?
The mobile behemoths in the West are positively salivating at the huge opportunities represented by the mobile market in India and China. That’s where the next billion mobile handsets will be sold and where standards could be developed that affect the rest of the world. Except, maybe it’s not an opportunity but a dire threat [...]
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AOL Goes Mobile
The mighty, but ailing ISP, AOL (still the biggest in the world though) has announced a raft of initiatives in the US to move itself into mobile, big time. This includes streaming music to phones and navigation features. According to Net Imperative, this also includes a mobile version of Radio(at)AOL. “While radio applications in phones [...]
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Call for Guest Bloggers
I’m off skiing next week for about 10 days, so I’m looking for a few guest bloggers to fill in for me. Guest Blogging gets you the chance to get in front of The Mobile Weblog’s highly discerning and discriminating audience of about 50,000 readers. It’s a bit like giving a speech to a crowded [...]
Mr I-mode Interview
There’s an interesting interview with Kei-ichi Enoki at CNet News (via Tom Hume), who is generally considered to be a driving force behind NTT DoCoMo’s I-mode service. It’s unexpectedly frank and echoes some of the themes I’ve been writing about here. Take his thoughts on Video Conferencing: Videoconferencing–this is part of your job. There is [...]
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“Ring it again, Sam” says Universal Studios
Universal Studios have announced a deal with Infospace and Corbis to make available “iconic Hollywood content available for use in mobile phones”. This will result in a full suite of voice and video ringers, ringback tones, animated screensavers and wallpapers produced from some of the most popular Universal movies. The only real question is what [...]
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