In a short commercial portraying a scenario that would never happen in real life, a young woman is sitting one a bus enjoying her music when a charming charismatic gentlemen enters the vehicle and proceeds to sit in front of her. He puts his Sony Ericsson W890i up to her headphones and uses TrackID to…
Archives for February 2008
New Google Android SDK out in a few weeks, expect a new UI
Google’s current Android SDK is a bit lacking, but as The Register found out when visiting a developer centric conference in London, a new SDK is coming out within a few weeks, new UI included as well. “We’ll see a major new release of the SDK in the next couple of weeks. This will show…
Video: ShakeLock, gesture based keypad lock application for S60
ShakeLock is a very simple application that runs in the background and uses the accelerometer inside Nseries devices. Shake the phone up and down to lock, left and right to unlock. It’s handy for those of us who digg monoblocks, people with sliders already have some sort of protection guaranteed and clamshell owners need not…
25 startups selected for Mobile Monday Peer Awards
25 of the best mobile startups will be showing off their software or services in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress and the winner will hopefully get bought out or earn some VC money. The two I find most interesting are Funambol which offers an open source push email and synchronized PIM solution, and mbit.tv which…
Video: Brief Sony Ericsson Z555 preview
The Z555 is a mid range Sony Ericsson device that has a 1.9 inch internal screen, external OLED screen, 1.3 megapixel camera, but what sets it apart is the gesture control. Wave your hand over the device and your alarm will be silenced, your call, etc. Interesting gimmick for sure, but will it be enough…
Callpod Phoenix allows conferencing and communications for 5 users via Bluetooth
The company behind the 6-devices-at-once charger and the ultra long range Bluetooth headset, recently unveiled Phoenix – the Bluetooth 2.0 conferencing device, which allows joining 5 headsets and a mobile phone or Skype. According to Callpod, Phoenix covers area of up to 300,000+ sq ft, supports push-to-talk, while providing the participants with full-duplex conference calling…
Juniper Research: Financial transactions conducted via mobile phone to generate over $587 billion by 2011
The new Juniper Research’s report titled “Mobile Financial Services: Banking & payment markets 2007-2011” suggests that the “rush by banks and mobile operators” to deliver financial services to the mobile phone will result in just over 612 million mobile phone users generating over $587 billion worth of financial transactions by 2011. According to the research…
Pinger launches voice-SMS kind of service
Recently, Pinger launched its instant voice messaging service to allow anyone with a mobile phone to send voice messages directly to more than 20 countries for the cost of a local call. The idea is to provide users with an easy to use, “rich and economical alternative to international text messages.” To use Pinger simply…
FolioLink goes iPhone; Photographers rejoice
ISProductions’ FolioLink is a service dedicated to photographers and artists that helps them “capitalize on the business opportunities of the web.” And now — like many other companies — they’ve launched the optimized version of their website for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users. As expected everything is automated and no additionally efforts are…
BlackBerry Professional Software now available via Orange Spain
Orange Spain and Research In Motion (RIM) recently launched the BlackBerry Professional Software in Spain to allow small and medium sized businesses to manage their own mail server and access office information whilst on the move. It’s not my intent to talk about the RIM’s solution here, there’s more about it on their website. Rather…