There was a time when a flight was the only place where you could not be disturbed, no blackberry and no phone calls. Now that is set to change. Emirates were the first airline to allow mobile calls to be made. Their new airbus is fitted with a device that stops interference with flight electronics. They plan to roll this out to other planes and for blackberry users soon. Enjoy the peace while it lasts....
Mobile
March 25, 2008
March 13, 2008
O2's 'Little Blue Book' goes live
O2's new web portal launch, Bluebook, is giving a platform for customers to publish their 'mobile lives' online.
Users will be able to automatically save pictures and text messages before editing and displaying content in online albums that can be viewed and shared by others.
Blueblog will allow O2 customers to creative interactive diaries using photos and messages saved directly from their handset.
As O2 makes it's social networking debut should every brand be considering starting an online community? Bluebook does after all provide a service that enhances and pulls together user's lives, but is it simply just another branded network site? And what 'extra' does it give us that the Facebooks, MySpaces and Bebos of this world don't?
O2 users find out for yourself here if you haven't already...
source: BrandRepublic
Singing for England: The World's First Interactive Football Shirt
England kit makers Umbro have used a QR code in their new away strip giving them new ways of engaging with fans.
The code, which can be found in all replica shirts, is read and translated by phones carrying QR software. Simply point at the two-dimensional pattern, and your phone directs you to the Umbro WAP site which cannot be accessed any other way. The site contains exclusive information, pictures and competitions relating England.
To download the software and find out more visit Umbro's website.
source: Sky
January 08, 2008
Yahoo Opens Mobile Software To Outside Developers
Vying with rivals such as Google and Microsoft to conquer the mobile Web, Yahoo announced Monday that it will open up its mobile software and services to outside developers as part of a broader strategy to appeal to as many cell phone consumers as possible.
Yahoo also unveiled a revamped mobile home page and the launch of the latest version of its package of key mobile applications known as Yahoo Go at the start of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The cell phone strategy follows the blueprint laid out last fall when CEO Jerry Yang said the company aimed to be the starting point for most Internet consumers by creating platforms open to third-party publishers and developers. To that end, eBay, MySpace and MTV have already created mobile widgets tailored to the new Yahoo landing page and Yahoo Go.
Both services offer access to popular Yahoo applications such as e-mail, search, news, photo-sharing and other features found on the company's Web portal.
The new moves are also aimed at boosting Yahoo's share of the emerging mobile advertising market. By providing a wider range of content via outside developers, the company hopes to attract more mobile users, which in turn will draw more advertisers.
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December 06, 2007
November 06, 2007
October 29, 2007
Talk is cheap
Today 3 launched a new handset which allows users to make calls using Skype to other Skype users for free. It was only a matter of time before a mobile provider made this possible. VOIP (voice over internet protocol) will increasingly be more accessible for users and will impact voice revenue for all providers. For now the service only allows calls from skype to skype unlike the web version which offers cheap international calls as well. Users can also use the IM functionality that Skype offers. Imagine a world where accessing the web on your mobile was as great an experience as it is on your PC and where phone calls were cheap or free? How long will it be before we all carry mobile devices with built in wireless and the Skype platform? This would mean that the mobile network itself would be hardly used. The network providers will fight hard to protect their market share but will 3 set another new trend going?
October 26, 2007
May 11, 2007
Back it up
Next time you lose your mobile or drop it in the bath, no need to panic because a clever little site called www.mobyko.com will store all your mobile numbers online. It is fast and easy so check it out before it is too late!
April 16, 2007
Deepfish
From Microsoft Live Labs
Microsoft are launching a new approach to mobile web browsing. Instead of making websites develop mobile specific platforms, and make users load specially developed pages, Deepfish, as the project is known, will show the full layout of the page as a sort of thumbnail. Users can then zoom in to whichever areas of the page they are interested in to read the content from that particular page.
