Sony's specialized messaging handset, the Mylo gadget, is a small, Wi-Fi enabled handset that provides a Web browser, messaging, phone and digital music player. See more at Sony's Mylo site. Also see Engadget's review, and Gizmodo's video at YouTube. Seems like a pretty…
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists, the week’s best blogging about mobile, is at Oliver's MobileCrunch. As always, great stuff… ceo
Two recent (and relatively quiet) mobile industry news caught my attention: Sybase/Mobile 365 – Sybase acquires Mobile 365. Mobile 365, a messaging infrastructure provider, will be operating as Sybase Mobile 365, a wholly-owned subsidiary. This will give Sybase an edge in mobile infrastructure,…
See a very good and entertaining talk on Human Computation and “games with a purpose” by Luis von Ahn, assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. What an ingenious method to have humans help solve the open problems yet…
OMG, you guys have to read Joel's review of Sprint's LG Fusic handset. Joel cracks me up! A good, honest review. The following is just one of the examples of the handset's poor UI design/experience that he brings up: “The first thing you…
Deadlines: Abstract due: November 27, 2006 Full Paper due: December 4, 2006 Acceptance notification: March 8, 2007 Camera-ready paper due: April 6, 2007 Location: Puerto Rico, USA Conference Dates: June 19-22, 2007 (Tentative) Organizers: Conference General Chair: Edward W. Knightly, Rice University Program…
Anousheh Ansari is a serial entrepreneur and is Chairwoman to Prodea Systems of Plano Texas. She also is the first female private space explorer (tourist), who is flying under commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency. She is part of the International…
Today I watched NASA-TV's video stream – you should check it out, it is pretty awesome to see in real-time (or not) the men and women of STS-115 workingat an altitude of 200+ miles, while moving at 17,000+ miles/second. The STS-115 mission is…
Brandon Watts, evangelist at scanR sent me an email introducing their product… scanR allows you to scan, copy, and fax with your digital camera or camera phone. This could be a handy thing… Check out the short YouTube video that shows how to…
Keeping your handset firmware (the software embedded in hardware) up-to-date is an important thing to do. Why? Because software is constantly being updated with enhancements and/or bug fixes. If you have one of the more recent S60 Nokia handsets, go checkout the Nokia…
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