Techdirt reopens the debate on having a central mobile phone directory. a new study suggesting that 52% of users would opt-in to such a directory if it had some privacy protection (just what kind of protection is not described and could make a huge difference). 11% would opt-in even without privacy protection. Of course, as [...]
Archive | August, 2004
History repeats
Captain Kendall made history when on July 22 1910 when he sent the first-ever wireless telegraph that resulted in the capture of a criminal. He sent it from the ship, The Montrose, from a point 120 miles out to sea, west of Cornwall, England, to the White Star Company in Liverpool, it read: Have strong [...]
Read full story •
Comments Off
Change This
I’ve been most remiss in failing to mention Seth Godin’s new initiative – Change This. I’m a great admirer of Seth and most of what he does and I think Change This is a worthy and interesting initiative – visionary even, but what would you expect? The idea is that Change This is series of [...]
Read full story •
Comments Off
More new funding
I see that Scalado, the Swedish imaging specialist – as in camera phone image – has raised c $ 2 million. Their main product currently seems to be PhotoTwister that lets you make cool & twisted photos in a flash. Choose between a wide range of different warp filters, all with funny and hip effects. [...]
Read full story •
Comments Off
Mobile Phone Directory
I featured these guys a while back, but since then The Mobile Phone Directory has been coming on in veritable leaps and bounds. It’s a free resource for the mobile community – from the casually interested to the deeply techie, who needs the latest specs on handsets. Check it out. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: [...]
Read full story •
Comments Off
Blogging
Firstly, welcome to my 100th BlogLines RSS subscriber – nice to have you on board, along with the original 99 of course! Many people who read blogs are actually bloggers themselves, which means that many people who read this are (de facto) bloggers! In fact, if you read this and aren’t a blogger, drop me [...]
Carnival of the Capitalists
Roll up, roll up. For those of you who enjoyed reading my turn at hosting Carnival of the Capitalists last week, you might like to check out this week’s excellent selection of writing and musings at New Dog Old Trick. Check out the blog while you’re there – some great stuff. —–>Follow us on Twitter [...]
Read full story •
Comments Off
Nokia and Vodafone
According to Reuters Vodafone and Nokia are joining forces to make java (J2ME) easier to use across a wider range of handsets. At the moment consumers have a limited choice of Java programs such as games because it too expensive for operators and software makers to make the available on all handsets. The major potential [...]
Read full story •
Comments Off
Nokia Lingo
According to Moco News our friends at Nokia have stopped calling phones errr…..phones. The new lexicon du jour is terminal because, from their point of view, weÌve already evolved away from the phone towards a converged device that combines things such as FM radio, digital camera, MP3 player. I absolutely agree that we need a [...]
Read full story •
Comments Off
The Great iPod Conspiracy
The New York Times has an amusing silly-season story about iPods. Specifically how a bunch of people are convinced that it’s pre-programed to prefer certain tracks over others. The evidence? Put your iPod on Shuffle and hear it for yourself. Lucy Shaw, a social worker in New York, has stopped using Shuffle altogether. “It was [...]
Recent Comments