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Monday, November 29, 2004

END OF EMAIL ERA IN KOREA| The email era is coming to an end because replacement communication means such as Internet messengers, mini-homepages (dubbed "one-man media"), and SMS are wielding their power, reports Digital Chosunilbo. |Smartmobs|

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Wednesday, November 24, 2004

WORLDWIDE PC SALES TO PEAK THIS YEAR| Worldwide PC sales are to peak at 12 per cent this year. Beginning next year, sales are to decline with consumers expected to replace fewer computers, according to a report by financial management firm Merrill Lynch, the Reuters news agency has reported. Though computer firms are likely to continue to produce and market notebooks, the lack of a major operating systems upgrade such as the Windows 95 software could deter new computer purchases. PC unit growth is expected to decrease to nine per cent in 2005 and six per cent in 2006. Revenue growth in the market is to shrink to six per cent this year and about two per cent over the next two years. |DM Europe|

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Friday, November 19, 2004

PACMAN-SINGAPORE| A group of Singapore-based researchers are taking Pacman out of the arcade hall of fame and setting him loose on the streets. The virtual reality gaming system allows players to become the insatiable cookie-munching hero of the classic computer game or one of his ghostly nemeses, simply by donning a backpack and a pair of goggles. But instead of becoming a yellow blob trapped in a low-resolution two-dimensional maze, "Human Pacman" can roam freely through real environments... Appears to be a variation of Pacmanhattan with head mounted displays... |SmartMobs|

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EU NIXES PATENTED SOFTWARE| European Commission's IDA (Interchange of Data between Administrations) Unit announced their definition of Open Standards, which require the "intellectual property - i.e. patents possibly present - of (parts of) the standard to be made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis". However... |BoingBoing|

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HANDANGO COMMERCE SOLUTIONS| Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads, today announced a slew of new licensees for its mobile e-commerce solution, the Handango Commerce Engine. The licensees include phone application superstars such as Sorrent and Simeda; content leaders such as Fodor's; leading game publishers such as Namco America Inc., makers of PAC-MAN, Ms. PAC-MAN and Galaxian; and handheld stalwarts such as DDH Software and Chapura. In total, more than 50 mobile content developers have begun using the Handango Commerce Engine this year, bringing the total number of licensees to over 300. |Mobenta|

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Wednesday, November 17, 2004

DECODE/ENCODE MMS MESSAGES IN PHP|is a PHP library for decoding and encoding MMS (Multimedia Message Service) messages. Use it to create your own MMS Proxy-Relay, as the library author has done for his own Peffisaur (nee MMS Diary) app. See also the MMS Diary. |MobileWack|

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004

WIRELESS TO DRIVE INTERNET GROWTH| Wireless services will lead the next growth phase of the Internet as venture capitalists who helped fund the early boom open their wallets again, industry leaders said Monday."I think the Internet's largest opportunities are in bringing new services, ones that we barely imagine, to billions of people around the world, wirelessly," said John Doerr, one of Silicon Valley's most renowned venture capitalists and a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. "We're probably in the early ... adolescence of this Internet world." |Kurzweil AI Net||NY Times|

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MOBILE SCOUT| Mobile SCOUT is a public art project that collects audio narratives of your local surroundings, personal rituals and public sightings. Using your mobile phone, you leave a voice message of your observations with the Mobile SCOUT Ranger, our automated quirky naturalist.Turn your observations into a brief message about the flora (landscapes), fauna (characters) or behaviors (events) that populate your surroundings. |Textually|

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Monday, November 15, 2004

MOBILE PAYMENTS: RIP CREDIT CARDS?| As mobile commerce at long last moves from hype to reality, the question being asked is "which existing payment method will lose ground to the new kid on the block?" |PaidContent|

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Friday, November 12, 2004

MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS - THE JAPANESE EXPERIENCE| Mobile phones have replaced computers as the de facto e-mail terminal of choice for many Japanese who are not in technology, finance, engineering or other computer-intensive occupations. This is particularly true for the young, who most clearly prefer handsets to handhelds. |Receiver|

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SMS GUERILLA PROJECTOR| The SMS Guerilla Projector is a high powered, home made projection device that can be used to project SMS messages on to buildings, signs or any other surface. Made by Troika, the London based collective of designers and artists, it consists of a mobile phone, camera lens and slide projector. |Textually|

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Thursday, November 11, 2004

AD AGENCIES FREAK OUT OVER GENERATION-MOBILE|In theory, advertising agencies should love mobile telephones. What better way to reach consumers on the go?

In practice, though, advertising industry executives are growing increasingly concerned that the popularity of mobile telephones will only make their jobs harder. Their worries centre on the impact that mobile phone use is having on the social lives of young people. They fear the phones are creating a new, more furtive generation that will be more difficult to reach with traditional advertising. |Textually||Financial Times|

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Monday, November 08, 2004

"That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." |Pat Kane|

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SHIRKY: FLAMING AND THE DESIGN OF SOCIAL SOFTWARE| We have grown quite adept at designing interfaces and interactions between computers and machines, but our social tools -- the software the users actually use most often -- remain badly misfit to their task. Social interactions are far more complex and unpredictable than human/computer interaction, and that unpredictability defeats classic user-centric design. As a result, tools used daily by tens of millions are either ignored as design challenges, or treated as if the only possible site of improvement is the user-to-tool interface. |Shirky|

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Friday, November 05, 2004

GOOGLE BY SMS| Google allows quick searches without going through the (usually glacially slow) device's web browser. Send "g search terms" to 46645 (GOOGL). |MobileWack|

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Thursday, November 04, 2004

Smart phones have processors, memory chips and operating systems almost as sophisticated as those of a desktop PC. And just as a series of viruses strangled the internet this year, cellphones - and smart phones in particular - are ripe for a virus attack. It could strike any day, security experts warn. |New Scientist|

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KWICKEE THE MOBILE INFORMATION EXCHANGE (MIX)| Kwickee is described as a kind of mobile eBay, where snippets of information and pictures have replaced real things, and where most of the content for sale is from ordinary people who just want to sell their creative work. It contains 10,000 "how to" guides, facts, reviews, soap operas, life experiences and adult fiction. Each piece is downloadable in three chunks of about 250 words to most Wap-enabled phones using GPRS. |Guardian|

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PHONE IN CONCERT| At 9pm, some 300 Rooster fans were expected to flock to the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to see their heroes perform a 45-minute set. At the same time, up to 1,000 customers on the 3 mobile network were watching the very same concert on their telephones. Live music broadcasts are billed as one of the major enticements of third generation - or 3G - mobile technology. |Wired|

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Wednesday, November 03, 2004

USE A POCKET PC AS WIFIPHONE| Phillip Torrone's tutorial for using the Vonage Voice Over IP (VOIP) service with a WiFi-enabled Pocket PC device. He demonstrates how to turn just about any Pocket PC PDA device in to a real telephone with a working telephone number. |FlashEnabled|

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Nokia on Tuesday announced it plans to start selling a new smart phone capable of handwriting recognition. |CNET Asia||Slashdot|

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INTERNAL BRAIN ACTIVITY DEFINES PERCEPTION| What is real and what is imagined? To try and answer that question, scientists monitored the brains of ferrets as the animals were forced to watch clips of "The Matrix." The connection may not be so obvious, but the researchers worked from the assumption that ferret brains resemble human brains - at least at a basic level. Scientists generally agree that you can see the rudiments of humans in mammals like ferrets. Then the team got inside the ferrets' heads.

The researchers at the University of Rochester in New York wired the brains of ferrets as the animals watched the mind-bending 1999 movie, as well as when they watched TV static and when they sat in complete darkness. The lead researcher, Michael Weliky, says the study demonstrated a lesson that Keanu Reeves' character, Neo, learned in the first Matrix movie - that reality is more than what meets the eye. |ABC News|

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Tuesday, November 02, 2004

NOKIA SMARTPHONE WITH WIDE-SCREEN VIEW| Finland's mobile phone manufacturer has launched three new devices at its flagship. European conference, where the future of mobility is top of the agenda. Nokia's latest smartphone, the 7710, takes a widescreen approach to helping users be productive on the move. The device was launched at the mobile phone maker's Mobility Conference in Monaco in Tuesday. Measuring 128mm by 69.5mm by 19mm, its 640 x 320 pixel touch-sensitive screen gives users a landscape view. Nokia claims this will allow a better Web browsing experience.

The 7710 uses the Series 90 operating system. Pen input and handwriting recognition are both supported, as is connectivity over Bluetooth, which the company clearly hopes will give it the edge in an already crowded market for smart phones. |Telecommunication|

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