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Archive | October, 2005
Halloween Costumes, For Your Phone
Happy Halloween. To make sure your phone doesn’t feel left out on this spookiest of all days, now you can get it its own costume (reg req’d, BugMeNot), part of a growing trend of dressing everyday objects in seasonal decorations. Available from sites like Fun Friends and AnniesCostumes.com, most of them are plush stuffed animals [...]
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Sprint To Launch OTA Downloads Monday
MocoNews points to an article sayingSprint’s full-track download service will launch Monday. There’s two important points, really: – Dual delivery to both mobile phone and PC – $2.50 per track. One of those will be a bigger determinant of its success (or failure) than the other. Any guesses as to which one? —–>Follow us on [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists
Rudy de Waele is hosting this week’s carnival over at m-trends.org. Plenty of great stuff this week, so check it out. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Music Phones A “New Front” In The War On Piracy
The British music industry says music phones pose a huge threat to them because they’ll let kids share music without their computers. It’s another silly argument — people that pirate music will do it over whatever medium’s available. If one of their friends can’t send a song to their phone over Bluetooth, they’ll get it [...]
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@Austin Games Conference – Towards The True Mobile Game
Mobile game guru Greg Costikyan, formerly with Nokia Research but now head of Manifesto Games, highlighted a number of problems facing the mobile games industry, and developers in particular. – The mobile gaming business model impedes innovation, because consumers buy games based on one line of text, and therefore are drawn to recognized brands (Tetris, [...]
Axe Falls On Gizmondo Execs
A commenter on Russell’s earlier post about Gizmondo execs and their interesting management payment plans turned us on to a little further scandal earlier in the week regarding some previous extracurricular activities of some of their executive team — apparently some of them had done some time in Sweden for fraud and organized crime. In [...]
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@Austin Game Conference – Mobile Keynote
Jason Ford, the general manager of games and entertainment for Sprint Nextel gave the mobile keynote this morning at the Austin Game Conference. Here are some notes from his presentation: – All this talk about the “third screen” — the mobile phone is more like the 4th or 5th screen for gamers. – Who is [...]
Hello Helio
One of the MVNOs I met with at CTIA, SK-Earthlink, has rebranded, and is now going by “Helio”. It’s still planning to launch in the spring here in the US, and hasn’t given many details on its content or pricing strategy yet, apart from saying it will target 18- to 30-year-olds with high-end devices and [...]
Spot The Base Station
I saw this on Digg earlier: Can You Spot The Hidden Cell Towers? Nothing new or earth-shattering, but some relatively amusing pictures of base stations and antennas hidden in palm trees, cacti, or, my personal favorite, big plastic rocks. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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