John Gale over at MobileTracker was kind enough to tip me off that Opera Mini, the terriffic browser that works on the 95% of phones that don’t have the power to run full blown Opera has been released worldwide today. You can read the full release here: Opera Mini Worldwide If you haven’t tried this [...]
Archive | January, 2006
Loyalty Programmes Miss Big Opportunities
The New York Times launches a rather peculiar “loyalty programme” today, I couldn’t help thinking that they were missing a sizable opportunity by not including a mobile phone dimension to their idea. Actually, the principles can be extended to any loyalty programme and are potentially very exciting. Before looking at these though, it’s worth briefly [...]
Prediction 6 Comes Home to Roost
In my 2006 Predictions, I suggested that Gizmondo, the inept wannabe entrant into the handheld gaming market, must die. Sure enough, less than 20 days later, Gizmondo Europe have filed for bankruptcy. I don’t doubt that a similar fate awaits the US arm in due course. Gizmondo must be a classic case study of inept [...]
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Links For January 23
- Ben Godfrey on the Mobile Opportunities conference – Canon DSLR phone? (BIOS) – NTT DoCoMo to Sell 3G FOMA Windows OS Handsets Made by HTC (NTT DoCoMo) – Dump Verizon, Vodafone told (The Times) – Wireless: Cellphone industry goes gaga for radio (IHT) – How Cell Phones Roil Japan’s Stocks (Textually) – Connexion’s Future [...]
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Murdoch Forecasts Golden Age for Media
Rupert Murdoch was interviewed last night on BBC Radio 5 Live, according to Media Bulletin. You can listen here, including downloading the iPod for posterity. His main conclusion though is that media is about to enter a Golden Age: “I think we’re on the eve of a golden age for media, but all these wonderful [...]
Do You Think Operators Really Care About Your Privacy?
There’s been a bit of an uproar in the US the last couple of weeks over the online sale of people’s mobile phone records. The basic idea is that you go to one of these Web sites, pay $100 or $150, give them a phone number, and within a few hours, they send you the [...]
bluepulse – the write once, play anywhere mobile platform.
bluepulse, a product of Bluepulse Pty. Ltd in Sydney, Australia may just be the first company to have “cracked the code” to one of the single most significant and confounding problems faced by mobile developers, carriers, handset manufacturers and most significantly end-users. The company has developed a proprietary technology platform called OADP (Open Application Delivery [...]
Warm and Wireless: the Audex Jacket by Motorola and Burton
Mashups aren’t just for the web. If nothing else, the Audex Jacket, a bluetooth enabled high tech piece of outerwear co-developed by Motorola and Burton proves that fact with panache. I can’t count the number of times I tried to configure electronic gear and sporting attire (for me cycling gear) in such a way that [...]
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Links For January 20
- Features Less Important Than Aesthetics for New Handsets (cellular-news) – Half the World will use a Mobile Phone by 2009 (cellular-news) – Mobiles ‘don’t raise cancer risk’ (BBC) – China approves TD-SCDMA standard (RCR News) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Carnival of the Mobilists at Golden Swamp
The Carnival of the Mobilists is back, after a short holiday break. Don’t forget to check it out at Golden Swamp – Judy’s done a great editing job and picked some cool posts about all things mobile from around the web. Make sure you see the info on Mobilists at 3GSM in Barcelona, where we’re [...]
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