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A Few Things I’ve Seen…
I’ve snapped pics of a couple of things recently I thought I’d share.
First up, I was checking out grills at my local Lowe’s, and saw this ad for an audio tour about the product. You just call in to the 800 number, and you get walked through the grill’s features while you’re standing there [...]
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Text Games, On Paper
08.14.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsApparently, back in the day, people used to fill in these things called “Crossword Puzzles” that were printed in these other things called “newspapers”, instead of playing solitare or Snake or Tetris on their mobile phone. USA Today, one of these “newspapers”, and a quite large one at that, appears to be attempting to drag [...]
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Mobile Society
Consumer Information via SMS
07.28.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsBBC NEWS | Business | Italians dial up best food price:
However, if Italians feel that their local food retailer is charging unreasonable prices, they can now call on a new service to help them haggle or walk away. Thanks to a short message service (SMS) text system set up jointly by the [...] -
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When Will The Mobile Web Be Mass Market?
07.25.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsMy good friend Tarek Abu-Esber wondered earlier this week when the mobile web will hit mass adoption, and more specifically, what would define that:
While I might not go as far as using the term “critical-mass” I definitely agree with the overall idea of their report. The traditional barriers to the Mobile Web are all [...] -
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ITU Takes On ICE
About three years ago, Russell posted about the ICE phenomenon (and the ensuing hoax email). It’s pretty well known by now: ICE stands for In Case of Emergency, and the idea is to put the letters in front of a contact in your phone, so emergency workers know who to contact should you be in [...]
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Operators Getting Into Social Network Aggregators
07.09.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsOrange is rolling out a new service for its Orange World portal that aggregates a number of popular social networking sites into a single location, with plans to later launch a standalone app version. This stuff is pretty interesting for a number of reasons.
I think it’s great that they’re trying to make things better and [...] -
Mobile Society
Preach It, Brother Ewan!
07.07.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsEwan MacLeod over at SMS Text News enjoys a good rant, often accurately venting his spleen at some of the stupidity that’s far too rampant in this industry. But he’s really outdone himself with his latest effort, titled SMS Text News - How long will we be trapped in this mobile hell hole?:
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Mobile Society
Local Services For Local People
06.05.08 | Permalink | 7 CommentsSome researchers from Northeastern University have been tracking the whereabouts of some 100,000 mobile users and found some interesting results. Many stories about the research have focused on the privacy implications, but we’ll ignore them for the time being, and focus instead on the main finding: that most people in the study (from what’s identified [...]
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Mobile Society
They’re Tracking You — Around The Mall
Mobiles help UK malls track shoppers’ every move | The Register (via JimH):
Mobile phone tracking technology is being put to good use watching how punters migrate around a shopping centre, thanks to gear from Portsmouth-based Path Technologies.
By installing receivers around a shopping centre the company can pick up communication between handsets and base stations, enabling [...] -
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Unnecessary Convergence
05.08.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsI’m going to wade once again into one of Russell’s favorite topics, the separatista vs. convergionist debate. Whatever your feelings on the matter, I think we can all probably agree that there’s plenty of unnecessary convergence around. Like this handheld dictionary/MP3 player. Bet the folks at Franklin were left scratching their heads when these things [...]
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