Back in January, I wrote my predictions for the year, one of which was
More and more mobile virus stories will hit the headlines. Only for the real story to emerge that to catch one you’d have to be as unlucky as to get struck by lightening on a clear day while standing in a rubber [...]
Archive | April, 2005
More Zombie Killer Mobile Virus Press Releases
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moblogUK Wins Web User Gold Award
Proving that the spirit of the empire is still alive and well, Alfie Dennen and Mat Brown’s moblogUK swept aside their larger and better funded rivals to win Gold in Web User review of moblogs.
The plucky duo left competitors like 6 Apart and Buzznet weeping in helpless rage as the judges gave moblogUK a [...]
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Mobile TV to have Millions of Subscribers
Reuters reports that, research group, Informa forecast 125 million people will be watching mobile TV by 2010. This excludes streaming/downloading video, by the way – we’re talking the traditional one-to-many model.
If they’re right, this is actually rather pitiful – it’s a little less than 6% of worldwide penetration of mobile phones. It means that any [...]
Copenhagen’s Mobile Phone Location Based Tours
Near Near Future has an amusing story about a Footsteps of Hans Christian Andersen tour in Copenhagen.
Tourists follow a route marked with 2000 white footsteps on the pavement. Then, at strategic points, they dial in with their mobile phones to listen to an audio narrative about the great man.
A nice idea and an example of [...]
Yahoo! and Nokia Comment
Net Imperative reports that the Yahoo! portal will come pre-installed on some of Nokia’s new phones – Series 60 high end smart phones.
Yahoo! Entertainment services will allow Nokia users to download ringtones, wallpapers and games.
I’m sure the seasoned thinkers of Nokia have thought this through, but what are the operators going to think? Currently, about [...]
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Huggy Shirts
Yuck, that Happy Slapping story has left a nasty taste. So here’s a story that panders to our higher senses altogether.
Again, from We Make Money Not Art comes the F+R Hugs Lycra shirt. The shirt hooks up over a mobile network and via a series of sensors, the wearer receives a simulated hug from a [...]
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Happy Slapping – The Video Proof
I’ve written before about Happy Slapping here and here. Basically, it’s the practice of slapping an unsuspecting person hard, while their friends (can people like this have friends?) film the action and reaction on their video phones.
The videos are then shared over the web and passed from phone to phone by Bluetooth.
Firstly, it sounds like [...]
Nokia’s Mobile Jukebox
Nokia announced its new multimedia-centric N-series, with the N91 music phone grabbing much of the attention and already being called an “iPod killer”. For starters, it’s got a 4-gigabyte hard drive, support for all the major digital music formats (bar Apple’s DRM-ed AAC files) and dedicated music controls, and a laundry list of other features: [...]
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More DIY Ringtones
I meant to post this last week, but it slipped through the cracks. Fortunately Matt Maier at MobilePlaya picked it up: Warp Records’s cool Bleep.com download store (which sells un-DRMed music) will let users choose snippets of songs from Bleep’s catalog and make their own ringtone.
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Ki-Bi Raises £10 million
Ki-Bi Mobile Technologies have just raised £10m ($19m) via institutional investors in London according to Globes Online.
That’s the boring bit out of the way, apart from that it’s a vote of confidence by professional investors, most of whom don’t know their mobile from their microwave.
[By the way, a little known fact about the [...]
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