Many thanks to Carlo for holding things together while I was away for the last two weeks on holiday. I’ve been on an activity holiday, doing stuff like canyoning (that’s me on the right), white water rafting and kayaking. Sounds rather macho, except that everything I did, my kids did too. On a more tech [...]
Archive | August, 2007
Location Based Services Still Searching For A Market
I noted a little while ago that Russell Beattie is back from his blogging hiatus, and if you haven’t bookmarked his site or subscribed to his feed, you should. He’s got a great post on consumer-focused location based services this week, which he succinctly sums up by saying “Most LBS applications are a black hole [...]
Wonder If He’s Available For Work In Movie Theaters…
Apparently a Japanese macaque monkey at a zoo in Russia isn’t a fan of cameraphones, as it’s taken to grabbing them out of people’s hands (via Picturephoning) when they try to snap pictures of him and his family. He’s already taken a dozen handsets, only some of which have been recovered intact. Could this evolve [...]
The Question of Touchscreens
While mobile devices with touchscreens have been around for a long time, the launch of the iPhone has brought renewed focus on the debate about whether touchscreen-based user interfaces are an optimal solution for the mobile space. Of course, this isn’t an either/or debate: even the most ardent fan of touchscreens should realize that they’re [...]
8 Things
I’ve been trying to come up with 8 reasonably interesting things about myself since Rudy de Waele tagged me with this meme a while back. I’m not generally too good at these things, so here goes with 8 semi-interesting things (hopefully) you didn’t know about me. 1. Despite having a solidly Italian name, and being [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists 86
I’m happy to host the 86th installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists, founded some time ago by Russell here at MobHappy. It’s great to see the Carnival carrying on, and Judy Breck is now doing a fantastic job of running the show. The Carnival continues to be a vibrant and active community, keeping tabs [...]
BREAKING NEWS: DIETRICH FOUND!!!
Thanks to Mike Masnick for the tip: the infamous “Dietrich” from the Stefan Eriksson of Gizmondo Ferrari crash has been located! Eriksson (pictured here) originally claimed that “a German man called Dietrich” was driving the million-dollar Ferrari Enzo when it crashed, and he fled the scene after the wreck. An extensive search never turned up [...]
Mobile Makes Its Way Into Art
Newfangled devices like mobile phones are often dismissed by old-school cultural elitists with disdain, while more forward-thinking types see them as a way to draw the wider public into the arts. A couple stories have popped up along that front. First, in Edinburgh, researchers have created a system that displays “invisible art” on some of [...]
Hooray For Pop-Up Ads On Your Mobile!
Mobile advertising is a fairly common subject here on MobHappy, thanks largely to my esteemed colleague Russell’s role at AdMob and his interest in the industry. The ad mechanism that it and many other players in the space, like Third Screen and Google, use is a familiar one: a mobile equivalent of a text link [...]
Carnival 85 At Mobile Point View
First-time host Paul Ruppert has done a nice job with the 85th installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists at his Mobile Point View blog, so be sure to check it out for the week’s best posts on mobile. Be sure to get your entries in for next week’s Carnival (more info here) — which [...]
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