TAG: mobile
"Dear AT&T: Whenever you send me a service-related text message that says something like "now U can make international calls from UR phone," I want to punch you in the face."
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Twitter Prepping its Mobile Ad Units?
"AdSense for SMS, essentially. Imagine being able to add 15-25 extra characters onto every single post where someone mentions they are thirsty, or the word "sex" pops up."
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"This false notion that ringtones are something in and of themselves is an anachronism, an artifact dating back to the time when mobile phones existed in their own ecosystem, wholly separate from the PC or the Internet."
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"Google's plan for world domination. Also why the iPod Classic sucks."
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Google Keywords as the new battleground
Nokia takes on Apple in AdWords.
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"Small changes in incentives can make a big difference in our beliefs. For instance, UFO sightings are down dramatically in the last decade...I think [one factor is] cell phones and cell phone cameras."
Visual voicemail for the BlackBerry. Take that iPhone.
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"Context defines the value of functionality and there are plenty of times you might not want to carry even a small digital camera at which point, the worst camera you have on your phone is going to be better than the best camera you have in your house"
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Where You Carry, Why It Matters
Jan Chipchase, researcher for Nokia breaks down the different ways phones are carried around the world.
"So as our cities grow more dense, our social relationships are moving into Twitter time. Bettencourt and his coauthors would claim that this is neither good nor bad -- it's simply the inevitable outcome of urban growth."
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Send a drink to a friend via text message that they can redeem at participating bars. Only available in NYC at the moment.
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temporary retreat from randomness
Russell Davies on Twitter: "If you've been watching the blogosphere recently you'll have noticed that everyone's all aflutter about something called Twitter."
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me + alex quit google. (dodgeball forever!!!!) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"It's no real secret that Google wasn't supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us - especially as we couldn't convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources"
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Is a new breed of wireless worker emerging?
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The American consumer is twice as likely to carry his mobile phone as he is to carry cash
"For those aged 18-34, the average is four times as likely."
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How Steve Jobs Played Hardball In iPhone Birth
"In Deal With Cingular he Called The Shots; Flirting With Verizon"
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25 Most Interesting VoIP Startups
"This list presents our choices for some of the most exciting VoIP companies and products to watch."
How Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote
Should he really have announced six months before release?
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Plan Will Allow 911 and 311 Lines to Accept Digital Images
"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who built his fortune on innovations in information technology, announced a plan yesterday that will allow emergency 911 call centers and the popular 311 service line to receive digital photos and videos from callers."
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Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!
"AT&T just bought Cingular? Cingular was already owned by AT&T? Bellsouth owns who?! Let Stephen Colbert help you figure this out!"
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Apple Fails to Reinvent Telecommunications Industry
"Apple did NOT reinvent to telecommunications sector even though there is a good chance that it could have done so. Too bad."
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"The two big user interface questions I have about the iPhone are how useful it will be if you can't pay full attention to the screen, and whether it will favor power users once they've gotten the hang of it."
Apple's New Calling: The iPhone
Time has a good breakdown of the iPhone.
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Yahoo! Go. The Internet to go.
"Yahoo Go! is the first application optimized for the “small screen� of a mobile phone that truly makes it easy and fun to access the Internet."
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The Two Keys To Happy Customers
"So remember: if you want happy customers, nail the basics, and simplify the decisions your customers have to make."
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LG taps into the power of blogs
"LG appears to have enlisted the power of bloggers to help promote its new Chocolate phone. "
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Promotion from LG about their new "Chocolate" phone. They are incredibly open about wanting to recruit bloggers to talk about the product. Cool stuff. (If anyone there happens to read this, I'd be happy to help.)
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Your social life will never be the same, thanks to a digital service called Dodgeball
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Use twttr to stay in touch with your friends all the time. If you have a cell and can txt, you’ll never be bored again…E V E R !
"There are relatively few universal socially acceptable excuses for interacting with strangers in public spaces, but sport is one of them - useful if you are thinking of use cases for shared viewing of mobile TV for example."
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Motorola Q: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
"For a product to feel harmonious the user, the system that surrounds it must be harmonious. No product is outside of a system, though not all products are systems."
Ubiquitous Blurbs: The Future of Search
What happens when searches crosses over from the computer and enters the 'real world'?
Mobile-Phone Models That Improve Upon the RAZR, SLVR, and PEBL.
McSweeney's: "ANGL HAR PSTA"
Future Perfect: Micro Breaks, Macro Breaks
"If you design mobile devices, applications or services you should be interested in micro and macro breaks - as a commonly carried mobile essential there is a fair chance that the mobile phone will be used during that break."
How Americans use their cell phones
A new Pew Internet & American Life Project Report.
Wi-fi set to re-wire social rules
"With more people now using broadband rather than dial-up and online shopping soaring during the weeks before Christmas, there is no doubt that Britons are big fans of the net."
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Lots of good research from the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association
"Younger people are not tied to a location anymore," said Ritch Blasi, Cingular's director of media relations. "They really are tied to their phones."
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The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon
"Digital devices and network connections can allow individuals to bypass chains of command and control."
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Rupert Murdoch On the Media Microchunk
"We're downloading minute segmentsâ€â€original "mobisodes"â€â€of the Fox hit "24." Soon we'll be downloading the funniest joke of the week in "Family Guy." People will be sitting in bars and holding up their phones and laughing. It'll be a pretty serious pi
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Allows you to use more (and older) mobile phones with your Mac. Finally . . .
"Your mobile phone company could make money from selling information about your location to the companies that offer this service."
"When a mobile phone is primarily used as a phone book to facilitate kiosk phone calls, how does this change the way the product should be designed?"
Five questions on the role of the CMO and the future of marketing, as answered by Howard Handler, chief marketing officer for Virgin Mobile USA.
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Why Big Media Just Doesn't Get Mobile (And Many Other Things)
"The fundamental problem is that big media doesn't understand that there's just one big content market, not thousands of tiny little differentiated ones."
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"Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN cable sports network is mulling a deal to distribute some television programs on Apple's iTunes music and video service"
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Texting teenagers are proving 'more literate than ever before'
"The most comprehensive comparison made of exam papers of the past 25 years has discovered that the writing ability of 16-year-olds has never been higher."
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Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone
"Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong."
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How Steve Jobs snookered the entire cell phone industry
The Theory: Steve Jobs used Motorola to get a deal with Cingular with the eventual plan of an iPod phone.
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Mobile phones are more than just phones in China
"All this suggests a lot of room for growth, for China at least, in presumably the same "advanced services" that only 17% of UK survey respondents use on a daily basis"
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Nokia Phone Hacks, Security, Mod Chips, Discussion, Cellphone ring tones and hardware!
"Mobile phones are not just bad browsers on resource-constrained devices with crappy connectivity and non-free voice."
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A look at the different ways people in London, Paris and Madrid use their mobile phones.
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A Manifesto for Taking Wikipedia into the Physical World
"One of the most exciting things that's going to happen in the next 10 years, in my view, is that the Wikipedia will move into the physical world."
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"He's away from his desk" is something that's now true of New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell.
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Laptops are mobile devices, too
peterme.com: "Now that laptops outsell desktops, it's worth treating them as interesting and distinct entities that warrant special consideration as a mobile device. "
Ten interesting ideas in videogame design
Gamesblog: "So here’s the entire article, which looks into a few interesting ideas buzzing around the industry at the moment – ideas that promise to take gaming in intriguing new directions."
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'The Crazy Frog sound? That's my fault.'
The sight of a strange blue-grey frog with a helmet and goggles, revving up an imaginary motorbike while making an infuriating "ding ding dididing" noise, is familiar to much of the country. In fact to most of them it's too familiar... far, far too famili
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90% Crud: "If I can find out something as arbitrary as Ron Howard's birth date from somewhere as disconnected as a movie theater seat, our entire relationship to information is changing."
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British men are almost twice as likely to use their mobile phones for talking compared with women, who prefer to text, according to research on Wednesday.
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Korean Kids' Greatest Fear: No Cell Phone
"What would be the harshest punishment to junior and senior high school students today? Confiscation of their cell phones, rendering them helpless to send SMs to their friends or post their digital school pictures on the Internet."
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How "search" is redefining the Web  and our lives
Seattle Times: "When search engines can change the lives of pastry chefs, a technology transformation clearly is under way. These online guides were once merely the means to a destination, the robots that could quickly fetch a site from the Web haystack."
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Concern over rise of 'happy slapping' craze
Fad of filming violent attacks on mobile phones spreads
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Pub chef bitten by deadly spider
A chef bitten by a deadly spider in his pub kitchen was saved after experts were able to identify the creature from a picture on his mobile phone.
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A Whole New Way to Look at Cell Phones
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New rivals take aim at the champ
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Exams ban for mobile phone users
Almost 300 school and college students were disqualified from exams in England last summer for malpractice involving mobile phones, figures show.
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Guardian: "Girls are the biggest downloaders of ringtones and wallpapers, so they are obviously in tune with downloading content ... just the game subject matter seems not to appeal."
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The File Manager Is Dead. Long Live the Lifeblog
O'Reilly: "Convergence of digital media devices has been a rocky and troublesome path over the last decade or so, but signs are that everything is converging into a phone-shaped object that is permanently and wirelessly networked."
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Mobile Benchmark Data Reveals Widespread Use of Mobile Media, Including Games, Messaging and Ringtones
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Email, Scale-Free Networks, and the Mobile Internet
Using e-mail rather than SMS as the messaging medium for mobile phones has made mobile Internet services in Japan more successful than in the West, says an industry expert -- a claim supported by recently discovered mathematical properties of networks.
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Gadgets rule on college campuses
USA Today: "The American college campus, long an oasis of scholarship and coming-of-age, is now being transformed by a more palpable force: an armada of laptops, cell phones and perpetual connectivity."
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SMS, E-mail Announce Pope's Death
Wired: "It took just minutes for the Vatican to alert the world's media of Pope John Paul's death -- using text messages and e-mail so the 2,000-year-old Church could meet the new demands of real-time news."
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Time: In a wireless world, teenagers are driving the hottest new technologies since the dotcom era
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PSP, I Love You: For Gamers, The Date Has Finally Arrived
Washington Post: ""What portable gaming does is take video games to the public in the same way that the cell phone took communication out of the homes and into the street . . ."
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Some instructions for bypassing talking to someone and connecting directly with their voicemail
Wired: "Tens of thousands of Japanese cell-phone owners are poring over full-length novels on their tiny screens."
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A quarter of American adults who have cell phones have used the devices' text-messaging features within the past month, a new study finds.
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ClickZ: "A full 63 percent of cell phone users in the Generation Y demographic use SMS (define) compared to 31 percent of Generation X (ages 28 to 39) mobile phone users."
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Cell phone use booms, despite uneven service
Some research data from the CTIA
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Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective response to the digital divide
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Think of a Number ... Come On, Think!
What are impact of cell phones on our memory?
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Backpacks, Lunch Boxes and Cells?
Nearly Half of US Teens and Tweens Have Cell Phones, According to NOP World mKids Study
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Cameraphones as Personal Storytelling Media
The cameraphone exists at this moment in that ephemeral, potent and confusing phase of its adoption cycle where people are still deciding what kind of social medium it is.
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"Make way for The Mobiles" is a newly released SYNAPSE report (pdf) produced by The Media Center on mobility as a cultural imperative. How Wireless technologies bring "We Media" to news, information strategies.
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The New Yorker on ringtones
Mobiles 'part of social fabric'
On Gen Y: "But increasingly I think we are going to see this group looking at the devices and means to reach out to the world and pull the world towards them and to re-order and re-structure it actually on the phone."
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Forget wikis, blogs and other online learning tools -- one professor says the future of higher education is mobile.
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South Korean Students Burned for SMS Cheating
Info about the South Korean SMS cheating scandal
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Mobile backup failure puts friendships in peril
A third of mobile users don't keep a separate record of important numbers
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Colleges' Land Lines Nearing Silent End
"It used to be you'd call someone because you had a reason to call," said Ian Johnson, 28, a graduate student at American. "Now you call because you're bored waiting for the bus to come. . . . It's almost a noise pollution."
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smashTheTONES will take almost any MP3 or MIDI file from your computer and send it to your cellular phone as a short ringtone for free!
Not Just for Emergencies Anymore
The elderly are increasingly making cell phones a part of their everyday life
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Some offices opt for cell phones only
The implications for people's personal lives are huge
The New Social Etiquette: Friends Don't Let Friends Dial Drunk
Nice to see the New York Times finally paying attention to this underreported problem
A list of all the different ways people around the world say cell phone
Passengers to Airlines: No Cell Phones
Recent survey reveals more people prefer to keep cabins phone-free.
A generation lost in its personal space
New technology is bringing to light philosopher Martin Heidegger's observation that technology is the art of arranging the world so that we don't have to experience it.
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A brilliant way to get your cell phone returned should you ever lose it
Someone commenting on my "Coming of Age" story
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Send SMS to anyone's phone with phonenumber@teleflip.com
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Awesome flash-based site where Vodafone looks at the future
Scientists said on Monday they have come up with a cell phone cover that will grow into a sunflower when thrown away.
New Forms of Online Communication Spell End of Email Era in Korea
Help available for 'drunken diallers'
Virgin Mobile is starting a service that will allow you to block certain numbers until 6 am
American Demographics article from November 2004 on mobile technology and youth culture
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Are Cellphone Users Ready to Do More?
NPD Group surveyed a national sample of 4,703 adults in September 2004 about advanced wireless services, and found interest in features like sending or receiving pictures and downloading games to be fairly low.
Home phones face uncertain future
The fixed line phone in your home could soon be an endangered specie
Google adds SMS search
Protests in Madrid organized by SMS, chatrooms
Can these ads really tempt Americans to SMS?
Survey Says: Cell Phones Left Out
What happens when cell phones get left out of polling?
Mobile Providers Abuzz about Non-Voice Apps
Teens and even preteens believe having a cell phone is a necessity
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Helping parents keep track of their kids with GPS
There's been a 50% drop in land lines since 1997
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Information about mobile youth culture
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Howard Rheingold applies McLuhan's rules to mobile media
Interesting concept . . . SMS beer coupons
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Howard Rheingold applies Postman's rules to mobile technology
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Connecting people via text messages
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NYTimes covers people using their cellphones to help them organize in a more decentralized way
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Mobile Users Making Most of Wireless Net?
Cellphones are altering social behavior in ways that seem counterintuitve
Escape-a-date encourages lying
Wireless applications must woo youth without forgetting the enterprise
Mobiles and the appropriation of place
Cell-Phone Users Want Their Tunes
Mobile phones with purchasing power
RFID phones in Japan
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Text message classes for over 50s
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WhoAt - Meet Someone - Anywhere
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