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Future Crime
07.31.08 | Permalink | Comments OffYears ago, I read a scifi novel (can’t remember who by) where the author referred to an all-too-common crime inflicted on women. Saddo blokes would call them on video phones (while blocking their caller ID), with the camera focused on their genitalia and sort of gig about a little.
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Carnival of the Mobilists
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Andrew Grill’s blog, so make sure you check out the best writing about mobile and mobile technology of the last 7 days.
Andrew recently asked a question from the floor at a conference in which he called me the “Grandfather of Mobile Marketing”. While I appreciated the sentiment, [...] -
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Ask a Kid
04.04.08 | Permalink | Comments OffPeople who make and design technology often say things like “It’s so easy to use that a 10 year old kid could use it”. The trouble is that they don’t supply you with a 10 year old kid and you’re left with a shite manual and no clue about how to use 70% of your [...]
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Post MWC Thoughts
02.18.08 | Permalink | Comments OffMobile World Congress was a bit of a washout for MobHappy. Carlo already wrote about the shrimp wot did for him. In my case, I had about 10 meetings a day, plus the parties to handle. If that wasn’t enough to prevent blogging, no access to wifi in my apartment hammered the nail into the [...]
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somebody is having a laugh…
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Hall 7 is a space of some… uh… incongruity
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links for 2008-02-06
02.06.08 | Permalink | Comments OffBuild-to-order cell phone store launched | Computerworld Blogs
Custom phones from China… got spammed about this yesterday, wonder if it is legit
(tags: china)Turning Symbian Smartphones into Mini Wi-Fi Hotspots
(tags: wifi symbian s60)BBC NEWS | Technology | Smart tags hail the web of things
(tags: rfid)FCC Approves Sale of Nationwide Spectrum to AT&T - Yahoo! News
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links for 2008-02-01
02.01.08 | Permalink | Comments OffBlackBerry “Remote Stereo Gateway” found on FCC - Orbitcast.com
(tags: blackberry)What does the Trolltech buyout mean for other Mobile Linux vendors?
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Mobile Web Worth $66 Billion ….Potentially
Interesting report from the Yankee Group suggesting that revenues from the mobile web could be as high as $66 Billion, as opposed to the $9.5 Billion it actually is today.
Crucially, large numbers of consumers are being denied affordable and reliable mobile access to the internet and service providers are missing out on a huge revenue [...] -
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I Just Called To Say “I’m Thirsty”
07.26.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsThe silly reason of news has arrived a little early with this story of thirsty plants phoning their owners to ask for more water.
A group of post-grads at New York University, have been working on a project they call “Botanicals”, which consists on a water sensor in the soil, connecting over a wireless LAN to [...] -
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Spot the Bull
Well, answering my own question in my previous post of identifying an “honest-to-goodness nice LBS application” (the segue* only just occurred to me - honest!), this seems to be such a thing - a Spot the Bull competition for mobile operator, Orange in the UK.
Put together by bleeding edge new media agency, Poke, the promotion is really [...]
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