The WSJ’s been on the trail of the long-rumored Googlephone, posting a story last night saying that an announcement the company’s mobile plans is coming within a few weeks. They followed that up with another saying that the company is in talks with Verizon Wireless about the operator carrying handsets running the Google mobile OS. [...]
Archive | October, 2007
Wired Editor Smacks The Bees’ Nest Of PR People
Going to veer a little OT here… Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired and he of The Long Tail fame, is fed up with PR people spamming him. It’s a frustration with which I can identify, as I get 15-20 PR spams per day, very few of them at all relevant and even fewer of [...]
UK Police Use Bluespam To Appeal For Murder Witnesses
Police in Liverpool are using Bluespamming to try and find witnesses (via SMS Text News) to the August murder of an 11-year-old boy outside a pub there. Apparently a cop car’s been fitted with a Bluetooth transmitter with a 100-meter range, and it pings other phones with a message as it drives around the area. [...]
Getting All Social — Find Us On Twitter and Facebook
We’ve joined 2006, and set up shop in both Twitter and Facebook, if you’re inclined to follow us there. Our Twitter feed, which currently only gets updates of our new blog posts, is at http://twitter.com/MobHappy. Our Facebook group, which will feature all sorts of as-yet-to-be-determined fun stuff, is simply called “MobHappy”. If you’re on Facebook, [...]
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Carnival 97 at VisionMobile Forum
Be sure to check out this week’s installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists, number 97, over at VisionMobile Forum. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Mobile VoIP? Who Cares, As Long As The Calls Are Cheap
3 and Skype have launched the much-rumored “Skypephone”. It’s a basic 3G handset made by a Chinese ODM, using a Qualcomm chipset and the BREW platform (more tech details here). The Skype calling feature works in the pretty much same way as it does on 3′s X-Series handsets: Skype-to-Skype calls aren’t true VoIP calls over [...]
Smexting and Bacn
Wired’s Jargon Watch has a couple of interesting new words. Smexting has been coined to describe the habit of sending an sms, while having a cigarette outside an office or pub, where people have been forced to retreat by law in various parts of the world – most recently in the UK. Orange reported a [...]
Mippin For Some Mobile Content
Refresh Mobile is somewhat well known for their Java-based mobizines, which Russell wrote about last year. But they’re back with a new project, called Mippin. At its most basic level, Mippin is essentially a web-based mobile RSS reader, and it does a great job of letting users follow their favorite sites and blogs through their [...]
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Symbian Book Giveaway and Another UIQ Fast Track Event
UIQ has announced another Fast Track event, scheduled for November 29 and 30 in Budapest. I went to the San Francisco Fast Track back in May, and was really impressed. If you’re just getting started in UIQ or mobile development, it’s well worth attending. Along with the announcement, I’m going to do a little giveaway [...]
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Another Chewable Stat
Mary Meeker is the legendary Morgan Stanley analyst aka the “Queen of the Net” and was recently holding forth at the Web 2.0 Summit. While most of her presentation was about the PC web world, there were a couple of interesting points that caught my eye. First up, there have been around 50 million iPods [...]
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