Wednesday, December 29, 2004

PODCASTING IN THE NETHERLANDS| Digital-radio broadcasting for re-play on mp3 players - dubbed 'podcasting' after Apple's successful iPod mp3-player, but not specifically related to the device - is taking off in the Netherlands. Dutch broadcaster BNN has just launched three services, the second to do so this week after Dutch brewer Heineken.|DM Europe|

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Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - news) is in talks to offer cell-phone service over Sprint Corp.'s (NYSE:FON - news) network on a trial basis early in 2005, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.|Yahoo News|
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Sunday, December 26, 2004

Mobile advertising is rushing to find its way into handsets everywhere. While the effort is still in its infancy, the audience is too big to ignore. |Textually|
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Thursday, December 23, 2004

NAPSTER MOBILIZED| Napster, a division of Roxio (Nasdaq: ROXI), announced today that it has forged an agreement with Dwango Wireless, a leading mobile developer and publisher of entertainment content to launch "Napster Mobile" across major North American carriers. "Napster Mobile" will initially offer wireless customers access to ring tones and will be the first mobile music content provider to utilize an integrated solution extending from the PC to mobile devices via exclusive device-targeted promotional offers redeemable for PC downloads and subscription service through Napster's PC-based digital music service. |Adverblog|
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SMS SNOWBALL FIGHT| SnowBallwars.com allows users to send SMS text or animated MMS "snowballs" at friends and family. The unsuspecting target receives the text or picture message on their mobile phone, but does not know who threw it until they login on SnowBallWars.com to read the private message from the thrower. |Smartmobs|
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Wednesday, December 22, 2004

TELEPHONE INDUSTRY GEARS UP FOR TV DELIVERY| If everything goes as planned, the telephone industry will be all about television in 2005. TV over your home phone line. TV on your cell phone. Few topics have been as popular this past year among phone companies and their technology partners.|Slashdot|
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004

HOLIDAY FUN| dj BC presents the Beastles. |Boing Boing|
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SPEEGLE SEARCH ENGINE USES SPEECH | A Scottish firm is looking to attract web surfers with a search engine that reads out results, according to the BBC. |Smart Mobs|

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Monday, December 20, 2004

3D GRAPHICS ON MOBILE PHONES| Real-time 3D graphics are familiar to many through their widespread use in computer games. With the introduction of color displays and more powerful processors, also mobile phones are becoming capable of rendering graphics at interactive frame rates.

3D graphics are particularly important for games: It is fair to predict that mobile gaming will not take off without the visual element. Even if the "addictiveness" of a game is more important in the long run, the visuals are what attract people. The most ingenious multi-player game is likely to fail if it looks dull. Beyond gaming, applications such as advertising and messaging are also well suited to exploit the benefits of 3D technology: interactivity and small content size.

This video clip (MPEG file, 2.61 MB) shows a 3D snowboarding game, written entirely in Java, running on the Nokia implementation of Mobile 3D Graphics (M3G) programming interfaces (API). The software is running on an off-the-shelf Nokia 3650 phone. |Nokia Research|

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SMS BOOK PUBLISHED FREELY ONLINE | A book compiled from the comments people sent in SMS in Antwerp and Leeds has been freely published online. The STADSchromosomen (CITYchromosomes) project invited people in Antwerp (Belgium) to write a biography of the City through SMS. In September, a book collecting these SMS was released under Creative Commons license. Author of CITYchromosomes Eric Antonis sees the book as an important contribution to the debate about cultural participation. "The sms messages present an interesting insight into how residents and visitors feel about Antwerp" he says. |Textually|
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004

PUT SMS TEXT ON A BIG SCREEN| Sick of squinting at the minuscule display on your mobile phone or Palm device? Ramesh Raskar might have a solution: tiny built-in projectors that turn virtually any handy surface into a display as big as you want. |Textually|
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Monday, December 13, 2004

MOBILE MARKETING: USE YOUR IMAGINATION| As with many elements of the mobile market, the value chain is complex in mobile marketing too. Simplistically, advertisers rely on their traditional agencies who will either have their own mobile division or work with a specialist company in the area. The agencies will work with portals and operators to run the campaign using the mobile marketing server and platform companies. In reality, the situation is far more complex as companies fight for control of the customer and try to offer a wider portfolio of services. |The Feature|
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SKYPE IS HERE| People really love something free on the Internet, and the fact that telephone companies have acted as - and been perceived as - utility services for years gives them zero brand equity in fighting off this challenge, in fact it works against them. There is an appeal surrounding Skype that harkens back to the early days of the Internet, a time of technology revolution where traditional services and business models were turned on their heads by 'disruptive' technologies. |IT Observer|
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Friday, December 10, 2004

MINIMO - FIREFOX FOR MOBILE PHONES| Mozilla is planning to release a version of Minimo (Mini-Mozilla browser for portable devices) for mobile phones. |Textually|
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CELL PHONES AS NEW MEDIA| Virtual communities have often been studied as narrative places in which users create collective non-linear stories, and build up environments solely via text. In the first decade of the 21st century, I shall risk to say that cyberspace is gone. The idea of a virtual world, a simulated space, completely disconnected from our physical environment, is challenged by the emergence of mobile technology devices, such as cell phones. |Eyebeam Rebog|

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Tuesday, December 07, 2004

REMOTE DESKTOP SEARCH| While searching the desktop seems like the hot new thing from various search companies, some are pointing out that the next step is to tie your desktop search to your mobile phone. |The Feature|
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Friday, December 03, 2004

THE FUTURE OF CONVERSATIONS| Have you thought about the possibility of people recording all their conversations? VoIP is a real threat for telecom companies. Applications such as Skype are on the hype, and more people start to think that voice services should be free. However, there are some problems ahead for this technology:

Spit (voice spam). It could be very dangerous when used in conjunction with phising techniques.

Security. Although VoIP applications look quite safe there is still a weak point. At some point sound need to be delivered for us to communicate. And nobody can assure us that there won't be some spyware applications recording our conversations and transmitting them to the bad guys (let's think about some phone call to our bank).

But there is a more imminent and important possibility, with more serious consequences: compulsory thorough recording of all our conversations. Since more people are using applications such as Skype, managing their communications from their computers, it is pretty clear to me that many of them will start to record every conversation they make. Everything will be stored: date, hour, speakers, dialogue, etc. Conversations from our mobile phones will be stored too (you may already find cellular phones with hard drives up to 1.5GB). |Smartmobs|
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004

LAW RESTRICTS MUNICIPAL WI-FI NETWORKS| The legislation bars municipalities from offering paid telecom services. Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell said late Tuesday night that he had signed into law a large telecommunications bill placing severe restrictions on the ability of cities and towns to offer telecommunications services, an item that was heavily lobbied by Verizon Communications Inc. and other big telephone companies in similar legislation across the country.|Free Press|


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