Engadget confesses mystification over this little device, the GadgetyII Bluetooth P2P AV system. Especially since the P2P part implies that to use it with another G2g, youÌd be communicating directly via Bluetooth, and thus you must be within BluetoothÌs distance. Which is basically the same room. But the “same room” comment ain’t necessarily so. Bluetooth [...]
Archive | October, 2004
Deutschland Wireless Ecademy
If you don’t live in Germany, or can’t get to Munich for 16th November, don’t bother to read anymore of this post. Unless you know someone who might be interested, in which case forward this on to them – they’ll thank you for it. But if you can come to Munich for 16th November, we’re [...]
Mobile Phone Sales Factoid
Here’s an (unattributed) quote from the recent Web 2.0 conference via Emergic: “More cell phones are sold in four days than all the Apple computers in history.” I know it’s comparing apples with err…mobile phones, but it’s still pretty impressive. UPDATE: Russ Beattie emailed me that it should be “all the Apple iPods in history” [...]
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Talk Five
Boing Boing reports on one of those ideas that seem pretty pointless if you’re over 25. But if you’re under 25, it’s utterly crovey. TalkNow, by Mobilehookup, allows members to chat/flirt on their mobiles for 5 minutes, without revealing their phone numbers. After that, if both parties decide they want to go further, they can [...]
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15 Year old stabbed over Mobile Phone Theft
The Sun Sentinel reports that a 15 year old boy repeatedly stabbed a classmate with a screwdriver in their Florida school because he thought he’d stolen his mobile phone. He’s being charged with attempted murder. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Kryptonite and Why Companies need Blogs
Cartoonist and Creative Director, Hugh MacLeod has an interesting take on the current Kryptonite scandal which has been circulating via the Blogosphere. In case you missed it, Kryptonite make iconic bike locks. It was recently discovered that they could be very easily opened with any cheap Bic ballpoint. Over to Hugh’s scenario: DAY ONE: KRYPTONITE: [...]
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Mobile Phone Origin
According to the BBC (and how can you argue with them?) the phrase “mobile phone” was first used rather earlier than you’d have thought. 1985? 1980? No, actually 1945. Although “mobile” as in “Hi, I’m on my mobile” didn’t come in until 1986. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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MobileFlashing Comes True
Back on June 15th, I blogged a piece about what I called MobileFlashing I thought of a new type of cyber crime I’d share with you – MobileFlashing – as I have now called it. This will involve: * Obtaining the number of someone with a video phone. * Preferably they should be the opposite [...]
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Sorry I missed your Birthday
October 17th was the day that the web was officially born just 10 years ago. That day a company called Spry introduced a product called “Internet in a Box.” For the first time, you could trot down to a store, buy a software package, take it home and have everything you needed to connect to [...]
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New idea from Malcolm “The Tipping Point” Gladwell
One of the most incisive “marketing” books in the last 10 years is Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. It’s not really about marketing per se, but how viruses spread, including virus ideas. I won’t write any more about The Tipping Point here, other than to say if you’re reading this blog, you MUST read it [...]
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