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Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists number 72,
bounced on from last week at the slightly oddly named
Silicon
Valley Himalayan Expedition. Mind you, with '3-Lib' as my own site name, who am I to
talk?! '3-Lib', in case you were wondering, dates back to 1994 and my
Psion shareware library - at the time, Psion were naming everything after their
Series 3 palmtop, i.e. 3-Link, 3-Fax, so I fitted in with their naming scheme
and have been regretting it ever since. Mind you, at least my site always gets
included first in alphabetical lists! 8-)
I'm struggling to find a cohesive way to string this
week's entries together, so I'll leap in regardless. The best first and the
rest in no particular order(!):
Starting off with my post of the week, Dan Taylor
at the Mobile Enterprise blog sent in his insightful 'This
is what happens when we let engineers run the show' - as a (part time)
engineer and geek myself, so much of this rang true!
Tim Trent has been puzzling over
what
are and aren't valid uses for SMS alerts and adverts. This one will of
course run and run...
Dennis at WAP Review discusses a Western
alternative to using those 2D 'QR' codes that are now in use in Japan.
Almost as good?
Caroline Lewko at Wireless In Progress has done an
excellent write-up of Nokia's recent 'Mashup' event in Silicon Valley, with a
look at
what
their 'Open Innovation' is all about.
Barbara Ballard at Little Springs Design asks
browser developers to
extend
the Browser Object Model so that both desktop and mobile browsers can take
advantage of extended functions (e.g. imaging)
Martin Sauter provides a short but interesting list
of the
countries
which currently have pre-paid access to 3G and faster (HSDPA) data
services.
Geoff Ballinger at 'Reflections on Things Mobile'
talks about the new Orange and Vodafone data tariffs, but
points
out that over-complex restrictions on what can and can't be done don't help
user confidence with taking up mobile data.
'Symbian Guru' Ricky Cadden reports on trying to
upload
(blog) videos directly from his Nokia N95 and hitting problems with three
clients/services, interesting stuff, Ricky, I'd plump for Vox though - watch
this space for my own tests!
Nancy Broden at Idlemode reports on research into
social
networks and mobile communities, with participants reporting their daily
social networking activities over a 14-day period in January 2007. The full
data is available if you want to dig further.
Chetan Sharma at Always On Real Time Access
summarises
the conclusions of two wireless panels at the WSA 2007 Investment Forum and
Technology Showcase - which he descibes as 'kind of like final of the
American Idol of the Tech world'!
Judy Breck, for a change blogging from iCommons,
talks about
delivering
educational content via Twitter - although her maths is a bit off - Judy,
go back and count the characters in Newton's Laws again, I'd believe 138
words... 8-)
Mendelsohn Xen at Xellular Identity talks about
an
interesting ringtone marketing campaign by Sprint, targetting 'opinion
leaders'.
Anders Borg at Abiro asks valid
questions
about the lack of 'mobility' in enterprises, fires a broadside at Windows
Mobile and wonders why companies don't focus on using low-tech solutions with
the handsets that their employees already own.
Troy Norcross at Mobile Marketing and Spam
summarises why MMS has never really taken off, in his critical
MMS
Hat-Trick post.
Roland Piquepaille at SmartMobs has a news item
about
proximity
charging for laptops and phones, delivering (potentially) up to 40W of
power without a physical connection(!)
Although I couldn't make the S60 Summit a week or
so ago in Madrid, there has been such good coverage from around the blogosphere
that not getting to Spain really didn't matter that much. Forgive me for
singling out my colleague Rafe's columns, covering
Samsung's
presence at the event, the
Operator
keynotes, the
Hardware
and Platform demos and
Application
demos and Research projects. Good stuff.
I can't really let a Carnival hosting pass by without at
least a couple of self-penned plugs and pieces from the last 7 days. Centring
on the two uber-converged smartphones of the day, I've put together a
Tips page for the Nokia
N95 and (over at AllAboutSymbian)
my
initial verdict on the Nokia E90 Communicator.
Finally, filed under 'off the wall', Chuck Russell
presents a tale of
unlocking
a car door remotely using a cell phone.
Happy Reading! Thanks to all the people who also
contributed entries that were too short or too wacky to make the final 'cut'.
Your efforts are appreciated, please try again for next week's Carnival, which
is at Xellular Identity -
see you there, in pink!
Steve Litchfield, 6 May 2007. |
