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Archive | October, 2005
Treo Gets A Speaker Dock, Too
Anything Sony Ericsson can do, so can a Treo, apparently. Now a speaker dock made for the device is available. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Wired Weighs In On the ROKR, A Few Months Late
Wired magazine’s latest cover story attempts to dissect the ROKR and why it turned out so poorly. A decent article, but no new info, really, for readers of this (or pretty much any other mobile) site. It would have been good two months ago — but damn your old-media lead time! —–>Follow us on Twitter [...]
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Intel’s New Location Based Technology Needs Useful Applications
One of the big problems with technology is the prevalent attitude that just because something can be done, people will find it useful. It’s best seen in engineering-led cultures where there’s a feeling that “all that marketing and usability stuff can be worked out later…man, isn’t this damn cool?” In other words, marketing and usiblity [...]
.mobi — How To Make A Bad Idea Even Worse
Both Russell and I have said we don’t like the idea of the .mobi top-level domain. It’s the wrong solution to the wrong question — while mobile Web usability is an issue, it’s not one of mobile-only sites vs. powerful mobile browsers. The way forward is a better understanding of Web and information design for [...]
Location Based Taxis Meets LBS Advertising
Ringo has launched a model that attempts to combine two different ones – ZagMe meets Zingo. It’s not auspicious that neither predecessor worked terribly well, though both sounded damn fine ideas on paper. Ringo allows you to order a Taxi based on your location. You dial “*TAXI” on your mobile. Ringo then tracks where you [...]
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3 Launches $10 3G Handsets
UK 3G operator, 3, is about to launch two Euro 9 ($10.75) handsets into the Irish market, according to The Sunday Times. Signing up for its Euro 60 a month package ($71.74) entitles you to either a Sony Ericsson K608i and the NEC 338. This undercuts Vodafone by c. Euro 40 for the SE model. [...]
Bad News Piles On For ROKR
I’d reported earlier that the ROKR wasn’t selling well, and alongside all the other bad press it’s been getting comes a pretty damning report from an analyst. Albert Lin of American Technology says in a Bloomberg article that customers are returning the ROKR at six time the normal rate for mobile handsets, and that there [...]
Mobile Sousveillance Does It Again
We’ve had some debate of what’s the proper term for sousveillance/ coveillance/ equiveillance, but I’m pretty sure this is sousveillance — a youth in London filmed a cop putting his friend into a garbage can. Textually and The Times call it “a twist” in happy slapping: apparently a couple of police officers went to a [...]
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If Car Companies Employed People from Telecoms
Carlo and I have been kicking around what would happen if a car company only employed people from the telecoms background. This is what we came up with. 1. New cars would come with wheels that you need to change before you can drive it on A roads and you’ll need to reconfigure the brakes [...]
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