Open, open, open. It’s the buzzword of the moment in mobile, thanks to the likes of Google and Verizon. Operators are talking about how they’re open, how they want to foster innovation and new business models, and how they love openness and so on. But then pops up BusinessWeek with a story on how US [...]
Archive | December, 2007
Early Android Device Spotted
Japanese operator Willcom has been showing off (via Engadget) a prototype device running Google’s Android platform. The screenshots look pretty nice, but they’re really going to have to work on the form factor and design if they want to sell many of these. Also, having an ethernet jack instead of a mobile data connection probably [...]
Mobile Phones Empowering Stupid Criminals Everywhere, Part XI
The last update in this ongoing series was back in March, but things roll on. The Page One story in Saturday’s WSJ highlighted just how many stupid perps are getting busted because they can’t resist taking photos of themselves in the act with their cameraphones. A prosecutor in the town of Nashua, New Hampshire says [...]
links for 2007-12-11
Microsoft launches mobile advertising on MSN Mobile – LiveSide – News blog (tags: microsoft advertising mobile-ads) Apple ups iPhone purchase limit to five | One More Thing – CNET News.com sales slowing? (tags: apple iphone) Motorola Taps TAT’s Cascades For Cell Phone UI – Yahoo! News (tags: motorola ui) BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click [...]
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Pictures Come to Radio
There’s an interesting feature on the BBC about how Digital Radio is being enhanced by the addition of pictures. I’m a big fan of radio and have speculated for some time that its Golden Age is yet to come, stimulated by a migration into mobile phones. Indeed, there’s a strong argument that audio and mobile [...]
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A Few Thoughts To End The Week
I’ve returned from Amsterdam, but managed to pick up some nasty throat virus or something on the way back. So that means you’ll have to insert your own witty repartee and insight into the following stories, which I thought looked interesting: – AT&T flings cellphone network wide open – A masterful PR job on the [...]
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Privacy Backlash
At the German Mobile Monday Summit this week, I was asked to preview MobHappy’s predictions for 2008. Watch this space for the full gamut in due course, but one of them was that a big Buzzword next year would be “Privacy” as people suddenly wake up to what’s actually happening in our world. To be [...]
links for 2007-12-07
AT&T flings cellphone network wide open – USATODAY.com (tags: open at&t) Techdirt: AT&T Does Nothing, Convinces Reporter It Has Now ‘Opened’ Its Network (tags: at&t open) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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A Blind Call
This idea is certainly brilliant, I just can’t work out if it has any practical value whatsoever. It starts off with the premise that people often forget to lock their phones and make useless calls to other people. The caller doesn’t know it’s happening and the recipient is left hearing muffled sounds as a mobile [...]
In A World Full Of Sensors, Who’s Watching The Watchers?
I’m still here in Amsterdam at Nokia World, and listened to an interesting talk this morning from Joe Paradiso, who heads up the Responsive Environments Group at MIT’s famous media lab. The group works on building all sorts of sensor devices and networks, and devising new ways to blend the real and virtual worlds. They [...]
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