I’ve been playing around with the PPC-6700 from Sprint (otherwise known as the HTC Apache), their latest EV-DO Pocket PC handset. There’s plenty to like about the device — QWERTY keyboard, 3G, Wi-Fi — offset by some minor annoyances, but overall, it’s pretty nifty. If you’re looking for a PDA phone, or an alternative to [...]
Archive | January, 2006
National Union of Journalists Running Scared
Britain’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has issued a Code of Conduct for Citizen Journalists (or what they call Witness Contributors), following an actually quite sensible sounding discussion at The Guardian. The Code reeks of fear and attempted protectionist practices and you can read more about it on Neil McIntosh’s blog, Complete Tosh here. Neil [...]
Location Based Marketing – Could it Really Work? Part Two
Part One of this post concluded that the really important question when studying Location Based Marketing (LBM), in fact, the-answer-to-life-death-and-the-universe question of the subject, is: what kind of marketing messages should you say youǃÙre going to send that will attract opt-in users, that recipients will welcome and that theyǃÙll respond to? In other words, what [...]
Links for January 30
- Mobiles covet Google success (The Times) – M:Metrics Reports That in Battle of Portals Yahoo! Has Early Lead in Mobile Domain (M:Metrics) – ‘Point And Search’ Technology For Cell Phones Hits Japan (TechWeb) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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FCC’s Privacy Fines Have Carriers Quaking In Their Boots
The FCC has proposed fining AT&T and Alltel the staggering amount of $100,000 for “failing to properly certify that they have safeguarded their customers’ personal call information”. Such a huge fine sends a clear message to other operators — that the FCC really couldn’t care less about how they treat customer records. I detailed last [...]
A Cingular Step in the Right Direction
Anyone that’s read my blogging for any length of time has probably come across my posts about Cingular, the enormous wireless division of SBC, now renamed AT&T. Although they got kudos from me for the efforts during the hurricanes this past fall, on the whole IǃÙve felt that this carrier in particular has been dysfunctional [...]
Location Based Marketing – Could it Really Work? Part One
When ZagMe, my previous foray into Location Based Marketing (LBM), was shut by its investors, I wrote at the time that we were 5 years too early. This didn’t mean 5 years too early for user acceptance, incidentally, but too early for marketers and the available technology. However, ZagMe closed 5 years ago now and [...]
WireMedia Announces BluetoothMedia.com; author wonders if BlueSpamming is Back?
WireMedia, a Boca Raton, Florida Company trading on the Pink Sheets has announced the deployment of bluetoothmedia.com. Their press release says: The new site will allow advertisers, partners and end-users to see how WiremediaǃÙs new service offerings will work for them. Users will also see the direction Wiremedia is taking with the new site and [...]
Links for January 27
- It’s about value not shareprice (Digital Evangelist) – Mobile Music Money (This Is Mobility) – Senate and House schedule hearings on cell-phone privacy scandal (RCR) – Interview With An Ex-Sex Text Worker (MocoNews) – Embedded Flash drives aim for handset use (Electronicstalk) – MVNOs: operators as bit-pipes and outsourcing service creation (Lifeblog) – Mobile [...]
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Carnival at Blethers
Stuart at Blethers has done a great job editing the Carnival this week – head on over and check it out for the best of this week’s mobile writing. It’s great to see more new writers joining the Carnival and yet maintaining the excellent quality we’ve come to enjoy. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley [...]
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