Monthly Archives: December 2006

Understanding (and Cataloging) Mobile 2.0

Rudy has a great post about Mobile 2.0 at Read/WriteWeb. Great to see that Richard MacManus has joined the conversation as well, normally great stuff going on at R/WW and I’m happy to see more mobile in the mix. The … Continue reading

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Messaging, Widgets, IM …. IA?

I’ve been seeing more and more mentions of Twitter recently. I joined up a few months ago after the SF Tech Session on mobile communities, but I just put the badge up on my page today after seeing it pop … Continue reading

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The iPhone

Russ pinged me yesterday about the oft rumoured iPhone, it’s also come across #mobitopia in a few forms. The hot issue Russ has been tracking is “will the iPhone include a standards compliant mobile web browser?” Which if the device … Continue reading

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Time Sink

I recently switched over to Cingular from TMobile, and rebooted my phone for the first time last night while swapping around memory cards. I didn’t notice till this morning that the time on my phone was way way off. Figuring … Continue reading

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Microsoft Doing the Big Drive in the US

I think location based services are a fantastic idea, in theory. However the cost structures the carriers generally want to provide, and the cartel of cartography data keeps most of the interesting stuff that could happen with LBS from really … Continue reading

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Mobile Monday – Tellme

Last night was the December Silicon Valley Mobile Monday at Tellme (thanks Tellme folks!). They provided an excellent overview of voice based services – output, input, and multimodal. Here are a few things that stuck out for me: Hearing a … Continue reading

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GreenPhone at the Homebrew Mobile Meeting

The Homebrew Mobile Phone club meeting on December 13th has a fantastic lineup, including Benoit Schillings talking about some TrollTech efforts like GreenPhone and a discussion of the Open Source Java effort when it comes to ME. Thanks to John … Continue reading

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Open Ecosystem for Service Providers

I really liked the post that Paddy put up recently at OpenGardens, particularly this bit: In our open garden, the service provider is the garden designer and horticulturist, who will be creative in order to captivate his audience. He doesn’t … Continue reading

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Bye Bye T-Mobile

I swapped my mobile phone number (MINE!! thank you number portability) to Cingular yesterday. It took nearly 14 hours for my new handset to start ringing instead of my old one when I call my number, but eventually it did … Continue reading

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