Proving that criminals aren’t the only people to be challenged by mobile technology, a man has paid a record amount for a mobile phone number. He paid $2.75 million for the number 666-6666 in Doha Qatar. Did you get that number? That’s right everyone Рit was 666-6666. I wonder how many prank, crank and [...]
Archive | May, 2006
Times Alleges Carl Freer’s Connection To Xero
The Times has another comprehensive look at the collapse of Gizmondo and some of the personalities behind it. It details the spending excesses of the company’s execs and the criminal history of Carl Freer, which isn’t necessarily news, but it does make a connection between Freer (who’s been arrested on gun charges) and Xero Mobile, [...]
Khosla Ventures Sponsors Carnival of the Mobilists
I’m really happy to announce that Khosla Ventures have agreed to sponsor the Carnival of the Mobilists from June 2006 until the end of the year, which will help us extend our presence and profile in the Blogosphere. The sponsorship will take the form of cash prizes every month, as well as the Best of [...]
.mobi — Kickstarting the Mobile Web, Or Holding It Back?
The .mobi mobile-specific domain has been getting some attention this week since its sunrise period for registrations of industry-related companies began yesterday. Its backers contend a mobile-only domain is needed to push the mobile Web forward, but .mobi could end up doing more harm than good. The Wall Street Journal’s got a typical mainstream press [...]
Mobile Phones: Empowering Stupid Criminals, Part VIII
Here’s another one in our series of occasional posts about the mobile-challenged criminal fraternity. A Milwaukee man robbed a woman a gun point with two accomplices. They stole her handbag, which Americans call a purse, I believe, which contained her mobile phone. So Mr Bright Spark goes to a phone shop to try to get [...]
Links for May 22
- The Smartphones Show – Episode 10 – DoCoMo to make all models global standard – paper (Reuters) – Mobile music is a hit for 3 but calls to City fall on deaf ears (The Sunday Times) – Sony, KDDI to jointly develop Walkman phone (AFP) – No More Shaky Camera Phone Photos (cellular-news) – [...]
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Carlo in Business 2.0
I’ve got an article in this month’s Business 2.0, a special section on “Your Wireless Future”. Probably a little more general than the stuff I get into here on MobHappy, but check it out nonetheless. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Mobile Entertainment Market
I’ll be going to the Mobile Entertainment Market in London this week, on Wednesday and Thursday. It looks like being a pretty good event, with a lot of exhibitors and some interesting keynote speakers. If you’re going too and fancy hooking up for a chat, drop me a line russell AT mobhappy DOT com. See [...]
Portable Cellbooth
Regine at We Make Money Not Art has a nice piece on The Cell Atlantic CellBooth by designer Jenny L Chowdhury. As you can see, the idea is that you take your traveling privacy bubble with you as a backpack and quickly erect it when you want to make that call. I can’t quite see [...]
8% of US Students Don’t Have Mobiles
A survey by Student Monitor, quoted by Newsday found that mobile penetration stands at 92% among US students and 95% among students living on campus. So what’s with the 8%/5% who don’t have a mobile? Are they clinically dead or members of a strange cult which forbids socialising and dating? What’s also strange is that [...]
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