The London, UK, Borough of Lewisham has launched a great idea to clean up the place, using MMS (via Springwise). The public is invited to download a Java app to their phones. Then they take photos of offending graffiti, dumped rubbish, abandoned cars etc and the photo is uploaded to the council who rush round [...]
Archive | March, 2006
Free Phone Calls for Advertising
With a certain inevitability, the first (I think) company has announced that they’ll be offering a free mobile phone service if users agree to watch ads on their phone. The more they watch, the greater discounts they get, until the 3G service becomes completely free. The company in question is Israeli based, Orange. This sounds [...]
Links for March 24
- Call It A Sell Phone (BusinessWeek) – A Big Push For The Small Screen (BusinessWeek) – Now Playing On Your Cell Phone (BusinessWeek) – Doku-iruka Dolphin kid tracking “phone” (Engadget Mobile) – Case for mobile TV without the mobile operator (3GNewsroom) – mix – beyond browsing (gotomobile) – Intel Inside for cell phones–sort of [...]
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Carnival of the Mobilists #20
This week’s Carnival is up and I think it’s actually one of the best yet. Head over to Dorrian Porter’s Weblog and have a look. For those of you who aren’t from around these parts, the Carnival features the best writing about mobile from around the web in the last week. Although only 20 editions [...]
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You Make the Call: Great Mobile TV or Great Geek Gadget?
Continuing Carlo’s “You Make the Call” theme, I thought I’d ask you what you think of this one. ROK Entertainment have just launched a box named BLCX that will beam TV to your mobile. If you’ve got a wireless network or are within 10 meters of a broadband connection, your TV gets streamed to your [...]
Links for March 22
- Sling Media Goes Mobile, Finally (Om Malik) – Nokia Confirms Range of Gaming Handsets Coming (Phone Scoop) – .Mobi On Its Way (MocoNews) – First legal P2P music download service for S60? (S60 Multimedia Blog) – Nokia unveil developer details of next generation mobile gaming (All About Symbian) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley [...]
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PayPal Mobile Launches, Mobile Payments Apocalypse Upon Us, etc etc
As you’ve probably noticed, PayPal launched its long-awaited mobile service today, ready to bring down the pain on all other pretenders to the mobile payments crown. Or is it? There’s little doubt that PayPal will make a big splash in the US’ nascent market; after all, that’s what big brands do. It’s got a huge [...]
Mobiles Will Kill iPods and Video Cameras
Moco News reports that Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s head of multimedia has predicted that In the next 6-12 months, there will be more of these announcements. The next to disappear will be the makers of music devices and then the manufacturers of video cameras,” Nokia made a similarly apprently implausible claim back in 2000 about cameras. [...]
Democratisation of Pop Idol
I posted a couple of weeks ago about a mobile version of Pop Idol, that was billed as “The People’s Idol” from Finland. But now we have a true People’s Idol, as the people have wrested the Idol concept away from the media. In a real demonstration of community power and User Generated Content, I [...]
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Mobile Vs Computer
I was thinking that an interesting test of how advanced mobile phone evolution has got would be to ask if there was anything you used your mobile for, when your computer was readily available. Of course, I know that mobiles are generally used when you’re out and about and don’t have a computer with you. [...]
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