It’s been a while since we last looked at Bluejacking, but it’s alive and well and seems to be going from strength to strength. At least, that’s what I deduce from a look round BluejackQ, which is the spiritual home of the movement.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out my post in [...]
Archive | September, 2005
Bluetooth Messaging = Bluejacking on Steroids
“Screw the nano”, ZNDR Says
MOTOCEO Ed ZNDR sounds pissed off: ‘Screw the nano,’ said Zander. ‘What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs? People are going to want devices that do more than just play music, something that can be seen in many other countries with more advanced mobile phone networks and savvy users,’ he [...]
PlaceOpedia – Location Based Information
PlaceOpedia (spotted by Carlo at The Guardian) is a way of linking Location to Wikipedia, the open source encyclopedia.
It’s interesting as it combines a number of different trends (I nearly used the meme word there).
- It’s a low-cost mashup of two different, websites/services – Wikipedia and Google Maps.
- Like Wikipedia, content is generated collaboratively [...]
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There’s Some For Motorola, Too
Following the earlier “you better hurry up” message for the Palms, I saw this pic of Motorola CEO Ed ZNDR on News.com, where he’s holding up a couple of phones that he says will be ready in December, ahead of schedule, the Q and a pink version of the RAZR.
There have been a number of [...]
Thoughts On Palm
Just got this email:
“SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 23, 2005 — Ed Colligan, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) president and chief executive officer; Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect; and Denny Strigl, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless, invite the news media to join them for a press conference on Monday, Sept. 26, at [...]
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Next Week @ CTIA
I’ll be in San Francisco next week at the CTIA show, delivering news from the show floor and the slate of interviews I’ve got lined up, staring Monday. So be sure to check back early and often.
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P2P Live Video Streaming
First we had P2P music sharing, then video and film (via BitTorrent) and now we have P2P live TV streaming, according to the Big Picture.
It seems that some clever Chinese engineers have figured it out and now you can watch live TV on your broadband connected PC.
This is bad news for subscription channels, as it [...]
Mobile Manga
When an industry starts to change, it’s like a large tree being felled. It starts off imperceptibly, but rapidly accelerates until it comes crashing down. As an example, the world’s first camera phone was only launched in Japan in November 2000. And now Nokia is the leading digital camera maker in the world.
One of the [...]
And the Winner of Hype of the Year is….
The tech sector seems especially prone to hype – it’s difficult to imagine that say, the ice cream cone industry suffers from quite as much hyperbole and over-claim.
So to really stand out and become a Super Hyper, you really have your work cut out.
But my nomination is the mobile anti-virus industry, most of whom have [...]
Virgin Mobile Exploits Pester Power
Virgin Mobile’s hot New York agency, Mother, have created the Parental Enlightenment Kit, according to Adverblog. The idea is to give kids some tools to pester their poor, long-suffering parents into buying them a mobile – you can tell I’m a parent of mobile-phone age kids.
Tools include stuff like T-shirt stickers (“Do you love me? [...]
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