Kodak have launched a handheld picture viewer, which is surely more doomed than a doomed thing on Planet Doom. It’s slightly larger than a deck of cards and has a pretty measly 32 MB of storage (which can be supplemented by a memory card) and 3 hours viewing on battery. For this pretty average spec, [...]
Archive | May, 2005
The Death Knell of Privacy
The Kansas City.com (free subscription required or sign in via my pals at the cheeky Bug Me Not) reports about a new service from Sprint, which got me thinking. The Sprint Business Mobility Framework is a service that tracks employees’ movements. It sends out alerts to management when they stray outside the designated Geofence and [...]
MoSoSo for Dogs
A project team at MIT has launched SNIF (Social Networking in Fur) – they just couldn’t resist the “f” there, could they? I’d have gone for MoSoSoDo myself It’s pretty basic though. Pet owners press “positive” or “negative” buttons on modified dog leads/leashes based on how well their pet interacts with other dogs. They should [...]
BT Futurologist Predicts Need for Privacy Bubble
Ian Pearson, BT’s much-quoted futurologist, has gone on record as saying that people will soon need a “digital bubble” to protect them from unwanted marketing messages: “…there will be chips all over the high street relaying information and you will be bombarded with digital information everywhere you go,” said Pearson. “You will need a digital [...]
BBC Covers Blogs
The BBC has started to do a weekly round up of Blogs – Weblog Watch. While you can’t possibly ever claim any degree of comprehensiveness with a short weekly column, it is interesting evidence of blogs crossing the chasm to the mainstream. One of the fascinating elements of watching blogging mature as a channel is [...]
Rebutting the iPod, Again
I’ve elucidated, both here and elsewhere, about why the mobile phone stands a good chance to supplant the iPod and other MP3 players as the mobile music player of choice, as well as some of the obstacles facing it too. But making its way around the blogosphere today is a Wall Street Journal column spelling [...]
The Perfect MoSoMo
The MoSoSo (Mobile Social Software) arena is clearly hotting up right now, even more so following Google’s purchase of Dodgeball a few weeks back. It’s also interesting that a billion dollar entity like Google still buys tiny little two-men-in-a-garage startups. So I thought I’d put down some of my thoughts on the sector. Online YAFRO’s [...]
Wish List Features for 3G Phones
Here’s another very interesting insight from the Impaq GroupĂs recently-published MOBILE LIFE 1 research. Here’s today’s top ways people use their mobiles: 1 Voice 2 SMS 3 Switching to silent mode 4 Calculator 5 Taking pictures 6 Surfing WAP sites 7 Using operator portals 8 Mobile search 9 Bluetooth pairing 10 Alert subscriptions No big [...]
Loyalty Programmes are Big Opportunity, says Impaq
Last week I wrote a post about loyalty programmes and how the big opportunity was a mobile phone based loyalty programme. Today, the Impaq Group launched their fascinating report MOBILE LIFE 1, which among other things, comes to a remarkably similar conclusion. Their opinion is backed by interviews with some 659 UK consumers and 15 [...]
Kensington Does a Kryptonite
I’ve posted a few times about the now infamous case of Kryptonite bike locks – it’s become the classic case study of what happens when you ignore what bloggers are saying. In Kryptonite’s case it’s cost them $12 million so far – and maybe their future. Now another lock company is suffering a similar fate [...]
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