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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Running a mobile webserver on a S60 phone
Nokia has released an open source mobile web server for S60 phones (see title link for details).
This is pretty cool - I set up my Nokia 6680, and it appears to work fine:
http://mario.menti.at.openlaboratory.net:8080
I love some of the concepts the guys at Nokia have come up with: you can send me an instant message, ask me to take a picture, and check my location - see the concept demos here: http://mario.menti.at.openlaboratory.net:8080/concepts.html
(These are just the default pages installed with the Raccoon web server - I'll change them as and when I get some spare time...)
This is pretty cool - I set up my Nokia 6680, and it appears to work fine:
http://mario.menti.at.openlaboratory.net:8080
I love some of the concepts the guys at Nokia have come up with: you can send me an instant message, ask me to take a picture, and check my location - see the concept demos here: http://mario.menti.at.openlaboratory.net:8080/concepts.html
(These are just the default pages installed with the Raccoon web server - I'll change them as and when I get some spare time...)
IM to take over from SMS in the next 5 years
From ZDNet Asia via textually.org:
"IM has the potential to overtake text messaging in popularity, according to analysts, reports ZDNet Asia.
'The main replacement for SMS (short-message service) will be mobile IM,' Ovum's John Delaney said on Wednesday.
Citing a 'faltering of growth' in the SMS market--outside the United Kingdom, at least--Delaney told delegates at the Global Messaging Congress in London that mobile IM 'does it better, but if operators price it right it doesn't do it any cheaper'.
He later told ZDNet UK that he believed 'IM will gradually take over from SMS in the next five years in Europe'."
"IM has the potential to overtake text messaging in popularity, according to analysts, reports ZDNet Asia.
'The main replacement for SMS (short-message service) will be mobile IM,' Ovum's John Delaney said on Wednesday.
Citing a 'faltering of growth' in the SMS market--outside the United Kingdom, at least--Delaney told delegates at the Global Messaging Congress in London that mobile IM 'does it better, but if operators price it right it doesn't do it any cheaper'.
He later told ZDNet UK that he believed 'IM will gradually take over from SMS in the next five years in Europe'."
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Amnesty International launches irrepressible.info
Amnesty has launched a campaign (and website) called irrepressible.info against internet censorship, with an online petition and gadgets to put on your web site (see example on the left).
The IM connection here is some prototype work I'm doing with the BBC, using IM as a potential channel to circumvent internet censorship in e.g. Iran. Some info on this on Ian's blog.
The IM connection here is some prototype work I'm doing with the BBC, using IM as a potential channel to circumvent internet censorship in e.g. Iran. Some info on this on Ian's blog.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Telephia Launches Mobile TV User Panel
via MocoNews:
"Telephia, a performance measurement company for the mobile industry, has launched a mobile television user panel, which will measure the attitudes and behaviors of the mobile TV audience. Telephia will begin by tracking users of the current unicast-based services (for instance, the MobiTV-based offerings on Sprint and Cingular Wireless, and Verizon’s V CAST service)."
"Telephia, a performance measurement company for the mobile industry, has launched a mobile television user panel, which will measure the attitudes and behaviors of the mobile TV audience. Telephia will begin by tracking users of the current unicast-based services (for instance, the MobiTV-based offerings on Sprint and Cingular Wireless, and Verizon’s V CAST service)."