This is a continuation of yesterday’s review of my predictions for this year. My score so far 5 out of 6 – not bad so far. 7. Apple launches the iPhone Well, actually I first predicted this back in August 2004, when it was genuinely a “wow! do you think so” thought. And by January, [...]
Archive | December, 2005
Nokia Gives More Details On New Gaming Strategy
When Nokia confirmed it wouldn’t be making any more N-Gage models a little while ago, the surprise was, well, surprising, given it had announced the plans at E3 in May to make the N-Gage a gaming platform and extend it across multiple devices, and reiterated it a couple months ago in Barcelona. But then again, [...]
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ShoZu Widens Handset Support
Russell wrote about ShoZu, a free mobile photo uploading service a couple months ago, noting it looked like a good way to get around the problems of MMS for uploading photos to a sharing site like Flickr. It’s built by Cognima, which makes the cool white-label Snap service that’s pretty similar, but it sold to [...]
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2005 Predictions Reviewed 1 – 6
Back in January of this year, I wrote a whole bunch – 19 in total – of predictions for 2005. How did I do? Over the next 3 days, I’m going to review these and try to assess my performance. I’ll give myself 1 point for each correct one, with a maximum score of 19, [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists Holiday Special
This week, the Carnival of the Mobilists returns to MobHappy, for an end of year, holiday extravaganza. To celebrate, we’re asking all our writers to send in their very favourite post from their writing from the whole of 2005. As you know, the Carnival exists to celebrate the best writing about mobile, so we’re offering [...]
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Links for December 20
- SK Telecom aims to be ‘center of life’ (The Korea Herald) – Opera Quietly Ships Mini Browser (IDG) – Verizon Offers GPS Mobile Search (Pondering Primate) – Company fined £40,000 over Crazy Frog advertisements (The Guardian) – Qix Gets More From Virgin Handsets (160Characters) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Airline Social Networking
Back in July 04, I wrote a piece about the possibilities of social networking on planes, wondering in any airline would pick up on it. Well, they don’t seem to have done, but that hasn’t stopped entrepreneurs from going into the space. AirTroductions arrange for like minded travellers to hook up while flying, for any [...]
TypePad Vs del.icio.us
We wrote last weekend about how TypePad, MobHappy’s blog software/hosting supplier had 18 hours downtime last Friday. We pay to use this service, as we want reliability, so it’s galling when they have persistent problems like this. However, a much bigger issue with these things is how companies deal with problems when they come up. [...]
Links for December 19
- RIM Chairman Hails Patent Office Decision (AP) – Vodafone’s New Growth Map (BusinessWeek) – Doubts Raised on Palm OS Future (eWeek) – T-Mobile Hungary Offers SIM Application Downloads (DMEurope) – Smarter SIM card puts whole world in your hand (IHT) – Mobile GMail (All About Palm) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Product Placement
The big story going around one day a few weeks ago was how an episode of CSI:NY would feature a plug for a Coldplay ringtone worked into the dialogue. I managed to see the episode recently, and thought the placement was pretty obvious and over-the-top — which to my mind is the least successful kind [...]
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