Aloha. Just letting all my fellow mobilists know that I will be attending the Venture Wire Network Ventures this Thursday February 9th in San Jose, California at the Fairmont Hotel. I strongly recommend that you take a look at the website and if there’s something in particular that anyone would like to see covered, please [...]
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Mobile 2.0 IS NOT Web 2.0
Introduction Fellow Web 2.0 Workgroup member Ajit Joakar has been creating an extensive series of posts over at his blog Open Gardens about Mobile Web 2.0 and how it is defined as well as how it compares to or differs from Web 2.0. Ajit’s work, which is very well thought out and truly comprehensive got [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Opera Mini Released Worldwide!
John Gale over at MobileTracker was kind enough to tip me off that Opera Mini, the terriffic browser that works on the 95% of phones that don’t have the power to run full blown Opera has been released worldwide today. You can read the full release here: Opera Mini Worldwide If you haven’t tried this [...]
bluepulse – the write once, play anywhere mobile platform.
bluepulse, a product of Bluepulse Pty. Ltd in Sydney, Australia may just be the first company to have “cracked the code” to one of the single most significant and confounding problems faced by mobile developers, carriers, handset manufacturers and most significantly end-users. The company has developed a proprietary technology platform called OADP (Open Application Delivery [...]
Warm and Wireless: the Audex Jacket by Motorola and Burton
Mashups aren’t just for the web. If nothing else, the Audex Jacket, a bluetooth enabled high tech piece of outerwear co-developed by Motorola and Burton proves that fact with panache. I can’t count the number of times I tried to configure electronic gear and sporting attire (for me cycling gear) in such a way that [...]
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Surging Sales But Tighter Margins Reported by Nokia in Q4 ’05
Reuters news agency reports that Nokia, the world’s largest phone manufacturer saw an increase in sales, particularly in emerging markets, but strong competition particularly for higher end phones such as Motorola’s Razr and Sony Ericsson’s Walkman Phone have made for some tough markets, particularly the usually strong Christmas Season. Analysts still generally rate Nokia acumulate, [...]
Nokia Announces New “Midrange” Handset: 6125 Flip Phone
With all the fanfare and attention Nokia has been getting lately surrounding their slew of ground-breaking new devices such as the N90 (which I wrote about here and here) it might be easy to overlook a somewhat less bleeding edge device announcment like the one on the 6125. However, if you miss this announcement (and [...]
Coming to a Pocket Near You; Advertising to Mobiles Threatens to Annoy Billions
As anyone reading Russell, Carlo or any of my writing already knows, none of us feels that unsolicited messages of any sort are appropriate EVER. Unless you are telling me something that is going to save my life, prevent dismemberment or keep me from getting arrested, please keep your message to yourself! In short if [...]
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