Just as we’re finally getting MMS interconnect here in the US, O2 over in the UK has figured out yet another way to screw up MMS, says the indefatigable Alfie Dennen. The carrier used to send MMS to email addresses with the image simply attached, but has now reverted to the old “here’s a link [...]
Archive | July, 2005
Smartphone Sales Figures
Russell took a look a couple weeks back at the sales of smartphones broken down by operating system, and now a research firm has released its view of smartphone and PDA sales for the second quarter. The firm in question is Canalys, and every quarter when they release these and other numbers I struggle to [...]
Moto Drops The Ball Again
There was widespread circulation that Motorola would finally show off the iTunes phone at its press and analyst event in Chicago last night, but alas, it wasn’t to be. Again. They did show off the first ROKR music phone, but without iTunes capability, who cares? (And I still don’t like the STPD name.) Evidently the [...]
Mobile Implications of Yahoo-Konfabulator
Yahoo has bought Konfabulator, which makes software that lets users run widgets — generally single-task-focused mini-applications that do a wide variety of things like check the weather or stock quotes, control other applications like music players or check Web sites for updates. Whether for Konfabulator or Apple’s Dashboard (which pretty much stole the Mac market [...]
Oh, So Predictable
I saw the highly speculative post on Engadget titled “Could Nokia dump Symbian?” last night before I went to bed, and knew I’d wake up to plenty more speculative FUD, and I was right. I also knew I’d already found something to write about… I was going to go through and analyze why I’ve got [...]
Contactless Payment Systems Poised for Growth?
The fellas at ABI Research must have analysed the analysis market and come to the conclusion that there’s a gap in the market for hyperbole and overblown claims. A few months ago they pronounced the Mobile TV market "a goldmine", now they’re equally hyped about contactless payment systems, describing uptake as "Shocking and Welcome". Now, [...]
George Orwell on Video Phone Design
The New Yorker had a recent and rather wonderfully whimsical article on Raold Dahl, best known for his brilliant, if curmudgeonly, kids’ books. A couple of sentences have a lesson for video camera use – or lack of it. Dahl shared with George Orwell an acute sense of why small children often see adults as [...]
Guidelines For Your New Mobile App
The blogosphere is sorta like six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Everybody’s got the sites they read (you can see Russell and I’s suggestions), and like Kevin Bacon movies, there’s some overlap, and it’s always sort of interesting to see when two seemingly unrelated sites you follow touch on the same topic at the same time. [...]
RSS Feed Move
We’ve started a new FeedBurner feed for Mobhappy, mainly so we can keep track of how many people are subscribed. While the old feeds will still work and you’re free to use them, we’d appreciate it if you changed the feed URL you’re using to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mobhappy, if it’s not too much trouble Thanks! —–>Follow us [...]
Vodafone Germany to Block Skype
Vodafone have announced that they’re going to block all VoIP calls over their network from 2007. Actually, look at the fine print and you see they’ve already done it according to Hartmut Leuschner, MD of Off the Record GmbH, writing at W2F (subscription needed): For its new datacard tariffs, Vodafone has doubled the available data [...]
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