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About Mobile TV

21 Apr 2006

The Wireless Report lists a few remarks about mobile television and captures the key points for what it means to consumers in a few lines:

  • Watching television clips while mobile using your mobile phone device or handset
  • Watching real-time, streaming television from multiple sources — on demand — anytime you wish using your mobile device
  • Watching pre-recorded television and/or video downloaded from your wireless device directly, or transferred from a PC

To participate in mobile television, for a consumer it requires that:

  • You must pay undivided attention to what you are watching – unlike audio, you need your eyes and ears for mobile TV
  • You must have pretty decent vision to be watching mobile TV or video on a screen the size of what is commonly found on most wireless phones
  • You must be willing to pay a set fee or a per-channel or per-clip fee for what you may be able to directly download (in most cases)

Read more thoughts about this at The Wireless Report

 
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Disney Tracks Your Kids

05 Apr 2006

Next to marketing the kids, Disney has put its focus on localizing them too. Now parents will be able to see where their kids are, who they’ve been talking to and for how long. Using this technology in reverse, parents can now text/call their children with the following message: “I know you’re going to pass the ‘x’ supermarket in 15 seconds, bring home some milk, or you won’t have any in the morning.” – The Disney alert system could then be used to inform kids about stores in the nearby neighborhood and about lovely new toys that are for sale there. “Your mom would surely be pleased if you bring this new movie home that’s for sale in our store a block away from where you’re now.” (that last bit isn’t true yet)

Disney is launching a US service that will enable parents to monitor how their children use their mobile phones. They will be able to track voice, text, video and picture messages and set limits on their children’s calls.

The phone will also allow parents to locate where their children are via a global positioning system.

Disney is targeting 20 to 30 million children with the new service. While the US mobile phone market is well established with 70% of the population already owning a phone, this figure is lower among teenagers.

About 45% to 50% of 13 year olds have a mobile phone, according to technology analysts Jupiter Research.

The new phones for parents, which will be sold over the internet, are expected to be available from June.

Disney has not yet revealed what it will charge for this service, but monthly fees from other providers are as little as $10 per month for each new family member.

Source: BBC News

 
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New Version Of GoogleTalk

31 Mar 2006

Philipp scoops us up with the latest version of GoogleTalk. I tested it out with Nathan and it looks just great. Now you can add icons, choose the appearance and do some other funny stuff. You can also add a picture as avatar, just like in any other chat application. I was looking for a cross-chat possibility, but I can’t seem to locate it. Nevertheless, it got better.

New GoogleTalk

Download the new version (right-click, save as) | read illustrated reviews at Nathan’s & Philipp’s

 
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LetMeParty Mobile Multiple Posting

27 Mar 2006

LetMeParty.com, was developed by Nemanja Stefanovic, a student of the University of Illinois in Chicago over his spring break this past week. It’s a free tool to let you post to your blog (or blogs) by sending text messages to them.

“The way it works is that you register on the site and then add your blogs to your account or profile. You also add your phone number. Your phone number is how the site recognizes you. That way, only you, from your mobile phone number, can send SMS’s to your blog. You can add as many of your blogs as you want, one SMS will post to all of them.

LetMeParty currently supports LiveJournal, Wordpress, Blogger, and Xanga.

Check out LetMeParty | via PicturePhoning

 
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SmellTones For Your Mobile

27 Mar 2006

See, now this is funny: Samsung Electronics has developed a perfume spraying cell phone to release “smell tones” when incoming calls are received. The phone will have controls to adjust the type and amount of sprayed. Perfume will be stored in exchangeable catridges which can be easily reloaded. Samsung has recently filed a patent application.

However, contrary to the meme of slim and small cell phones, the spray unit adds considerable bulk, “It may be difficult to embed a perfume spraying apparatus in a small and lightweight mobile phone,” the application states. And more fundamentally, “the perfume may stain the mobile phone or the user’s clothes.”

via ShinyShiny | Ringtonia | Mobiledia

 
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Everybody Loves Mobile Content

23 Mar 2006

… and that’s why there’s so much happening I don’t have time to write separate posts for it. So here’s a list of recent stuff you can do with your mobile phone:

Wikipedia Mobile:

Users of Pocket PCs, Smartphones and Java-enabled mobile phones running web browsers can now access a lightweight version of the Wikipedia on-line encyclopaedia. New Zealand-based company Instinct has created a mobile version of Wikipedia for mobile devices, currently available as a beta website.

Point your phone to this URL : http://www.3g.co.nz/wiki

PayPal Goes Mobile:

Paypal’s new Paypal Mobile service is apparently up and running, and from what PSFK says there’s really not a whole lot to it: you can either text PAYPAL (729725) with the dollar amount and recipients digits (i.e. “send 10 to 2125551212″), or you can do it manually by calling 1-800-4PAYPAL (1-800-472-9725), which is obviously far less exciting.

In-Game Advertising Goes Mobile:

Expect in the near future to see a rising interest for mobile in-game advertising and with new technology such as a new multimedia devices featuring excellent processor performance, display technology or 3G surround sound, in-game advertising can now be displayed to a very high quality.

ZoneTag Geocoded Moblogging:

Yahoo recently rolled out a great new moblogging application called ZoneTag. The application uploads images from your mobile phone to Flickr and automatically tags them with the location, based on the cell tower nearest you.

MSN/Hotmail users can now access their inboxes from their mobile phones. (you probably just have to surf to the hotmail url and log in) (no press release found yet)

Yahoo Goes Skype:

“Using the new Phone In service, subscribers get a personal phone number for receiving incoming calls to their PC from regular phone lines and mobile phones. Those signing up can receive unlimited domestic calls for $2.99 a month or $29.90 a year. With the Yahoo! Phone Out service, subscribers can make PC-to-phone calls within the U.S. and to 30 other countries for two cents a minute. To use the new services you’ll need to download the new client (available at http://messenger.yahoo.com/).”

 
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MSN Spaces Adds Mobile Video

22 Mar 2006

Microsoft’s MSN.co.uk website has linked up with mobile network 3 to provide bloggers with access to mobile TV and video-sharing tool. Users of MSN Spaces, the blogging tool that allows them to share thoughts, photos and music lists, will now be able view each other’s video clips taken on their mobile phones.

Spaces

… Users will also be able to access SeeMeTV, 3’s mobile TV channel, which shows and pays for customer-created content.”

MSN.co.uk has signed a three-month deal with 3 to create a branded online space where users can submit clips that will then be judged by other users in competition for a cash prize.

Read more on Guardian Unlimited | via PicturePhoning

 
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Odeo Website VoiceMail

21 Mar 2006

With Odeo you’ll be able to record and play voice messages from your friends on MySpace, Xanga, Blogger, LiveJournal, or any other site you use to keep in touch with people you care about. Odeo will alert you when you’ve got new voice messages.

Odeo

1. Create a user account on Odeo.

2. Now click the Odeo “Send Me A Message” Buttons menu.

3. There are tons of button styles to choose from. Just select one and copy-paste the HTML code in your blog template or website.

There’s even a better option. You can embed the Odeo functionality in your blog without asking your visitors to open another window. Just add the following iFRAME code to your HTML.
Your visitors will see a form like the one below. Odeo will alert you when you’ve got new voice messages.
(the sender must have a microphone, obviously)

Try Odeo via Digital Inspiration | LifeHacker

 
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