Archive | May, 2006

Links for May 19

- Sun and Samsung team up to enable Java app multi-tasking (Engadget Mobile) – Google Reader For Mobile Phones (Textually) – WiMAX Vendors Must Think About Qualcomm Royalties (cellular-news) – A cell phone game can look like this? (Siliconera) – The 500th Lucy Hood Kiss-Ass Story (MocoNews) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo

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Stop the Presses!

From InfoWorld: Java-enabled mobile phones present a great opportunity for Java application developers, Motorola officials stressed at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Thursday evening. Java developers can develop Java applications for Java-enabled phones? Who knew? [tags]mobile, java, j2me[/tags] —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo

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Marketing Director for the Day

Marketing Director for the Day

The legendary marketing guru and blogging natural, Seth Godin, has been waxing about mobile in his nice spare style. Seth’s take is that the reason mobile data hasn’t exploded is that mobile operators’ problem is that they’re “trying to solve the wrong problem”. And that we’re going to discover a whole bunch of stuff that [...]

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Carnival 28 At Digital Evangelist

Digital Evangelist has done a great job of hosting this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, the 28th installment. Check out the new Carnival of the Mobilists site for more info on contributing or hosting. [tags]mobile, carnival of the mobilists, mobilists[/tags] —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo

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Links for May 18

- Nokia Announces E50 Business Smartphone with Style (Mobile Burn) – In The Wild: Mobile messaging services – Crickee, Hotxt, Juize, Tex2me (SMS Text News) – Sony Ericsson launches five new mobile phones (Reuters) – The mobile-phone-controlled interactive mannequin (Gizmag) – O2 first to use new wearable Bluetooth Hypertags (Cambridge Network) —–>Follow us on Twitter [...]

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World Cup Mobile Content

World Cup Mobile Content

The World Cup kicks off in Germany on June 9, and beyond its importance in its own right (as well as a lovely summertime distraction), it’s going to be a huge piling-on point for mobile content, as developers and content providers try to capitalize on the excitement. Much of it, judging by past experience, will [...]

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Dean Bubley’s Had Enough Wi-Fi Ripoffs…

Dean Bubley’s Had Enough Wi-Fi Ripoffs…

… and he’s not going to take it any more. He’s — understandably — annoyed with the outrageous Wi-Fi rates at hotels and conferences, with Hilton hotels on the end of this particular rant. The 30 euros per day they want at their Vienna location (where he’s attending an event last week) was the final [...]

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Cool RSS Reader Feature

Cool RSS Reader Feature

This is a little self-indulgent, but if anyone is out there working for an RSS Reader company, perhaps you can develop these tools. Or if you know where these features might exist, let me know please. 1. I’d really like a way of using something like BlogLines offline, when I’m on planes or travelling. It [...]

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Links for May 17

- Doppelganger, A New Online Ad Model? (GigaOm) – Wi-Fi/cellular service plan launched in Norway (IDG) – Silicon Valley backs US wireless broadband plan (Reuters) – Mobile WiMAX to be used by 21.3 mln people in 2012 – study (Telecom Paper) – 3G crippled by lack of services (vnunet) – Is your iron still on? [...]

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Bacardi’s B-Live Goes Live

Bacardi’s B-Live Goes Live

Bacardi have just launched their B-Live radio channel on both the web, but perhaps more interestingly for MobHappy readers, on the mobile. It’s a music-only channel, with no DJs, ads or interruptions and runs 24/7 with music that’s chosen to dance to. A whole bunch of top DJ’s helped compile the mix of music and [...]

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