Archive for the 'Mobile Culture' Category

PEW: Future of Internet III report … Most Will Access Internet Via Mobile By 2020

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

I read this article over on mediapost entitled “Most Will Access Internet Via Mobile By 2020″, that discusses a PEW R&D report called “The Future of Internet III”. It predicts the majority of people (we’re talking the “average” person, not necessarily techies, here) worldwide will access the internet via Mobile by … get this 2020 [...]

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FITC unconference mobile sessions at Adobe MAX 2008

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Looks like there are a couple of mobile “unconference” sessions sponsored by FITC concurrent to Adobe MAX 2008 San Francisco. Nov 16th 2:30 pm (Mon): Flash Developers Guide to building iPhone Applications Nov 18th 12:00 pm (Wed): Flash Lite’s future in an iPhone Dominated Landscape with Tony McDonald Unfortunately, I’m fairly sure if I can [...]

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Surprise, surprise, today, I voted for the candidate that understands gadgets …

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

“I’ll call RIM tomorrow about there being no Flash on my Berry … It’s definitely “Change – We need”!”

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MITX Mobile Event: How Will the Future of the Internet and Wireless Networks Drive Digital Media?

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

MITX is sponsoring an event on November 13th, 2008 in Boston. The topic is “How will the future of the Internet and Wireless networks drive digital media”. Here are some details: Speakers to date: Josh Martin, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group; Rich Miner, Group Manager, Mobile Platforms, Google MITX and MassNetComms are joining forces to sponsor [...]

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Being “Geordi LaForge” with myvu glasses and N95/IPod Touch

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Me, playing Flash Lite video content on Myvu Solos from my Nokia N95 Myvu – “video eyeware” I’m not sure when I got my first myvu glasses (check them out), but from the looks of their website (www.myvu.com), they’ve gone through several renditions of the product, and now offer up a series of them (probably [...]

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www.somebodyelsesphone.com by Nokia

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Nokia has another great marketing piece called: www.somebodyelsesphone.com It depicts, 3 typical consumers of Nokia devices and their daily usage of their devices. It has 3 profiles, from various regions:   • Jade (APAC)   • Anna (Europe)   • Luca (South America?) Check it out when you get a chance. P.S. “Shout out” to [...]

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Mobile Internet World 2008 in Boston this week

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Mobile Internet World 2008 is going on this week in Boston, October 21-23, 2008. Join 175+ industry executives from the entire mobile Internet ecosystem including Google, Intel, Access, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Hearst Publications, Yankee Group, Texas Instruments and many others. Mobile Internet services are an untapped $66 billion global market according to Yankee Group. Learn how [...]

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Text’ing Speak 101 conventions from T-Mobile USA

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

I got some marketing literature from GSM (underdog) T-Mobile USA. It has some good “TXT’ing 101″ tid-bits, that I’ll share in this post. Yes, we more than still have silly adverts about TXT’ing and voice plans here in the US … although, data and mobile services are growing and thriving businesses, as mobile devices become [...]

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ActionScript Conference in Singapore

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

A while back, the new Singapore based: “ActionScript Conference” caught my eye. Looks like it’s taking place right about now. Pretty neat idea. Who knows, perhaps it may even go on to be a worldwide event!? Anyways, I noticed, Stefan Wessel‘s giving a introductory type session on working with Flash on mobile and devices. Pretty [...]

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Mobile vision pieces from NTT DoCoMo (Japan)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

A while back, I posted about Nokia’s vision piece on the “Evolution of Screens” … Now here are some videos from NTT DoCoMo on possible mobile concepts in 201x. “The Road to Hokusai’s Waterfall” “Mobile phones have evolved to become indispensable tools that have changed the way we lead our lives, and they are certain [...]

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