| | page 1 page 2 page 3 | Communication | | | FierceMobileContent - Mobile Content News, Mobile Marketing News FierceMobileContent is a trusted mobile content & mobile marketing news resource. Get free updates on DRM, MVNO, mobile messaging, mobile video and more. | Vodafone Shows Image Search for Mobile Phones
By MIKAEL RICKNÄS, IDG News Service\Stockholm bureau, IDG
Published: March 3, 2008
Search isn't just about text anymore. At the Cebit trade show in Germany, Vodafone is demonstrating Otello, a search engine that uses images as input. Instead of entering a word or phrase users send pictures via MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) from their mobile phones.
The picture can be anything from a historical building to a CD cover, according to Vodafone. Otello then returns information relevant to the picture to the mobile phone, just like a normal search engine.Vodafone's reasoning behind image search is that it's more convenient to take a picture than to enter search terms with a phone that lacks a normal keyboard. |
| Decoupling social networking - October 01, 2007
Not only do I think Facebook’s $10 billion valuation is far from ridiculous, I believe their future value exceeds that of Google.
Simply put, Communication is more valuable than Search. According to Netcraft, there were just over 135,000,000 websites on the internet as of September 2007. Does that seem low to you? It did to me. It is a respectable number, but not inconceivable. I mean, the internet is supposed to be unfathomably huge, but the total number of websites has fewer commas in it than Mark Cuban’s net worth. That means that Google, for all of its tremendous value, is deriving that value by enabling people to search for a reasonably small number of websites. | The Rise of the Miniblog
The founder of Twitter talks about upcoming features.
A lot of people just use Twitter through the website, but SMS is where it's more interesting, because you're out and about during the day and reporting those things. Twitter is like IM or direct SMS, but the key difference is that replies are not expected. This allows for a different type of sharing. It gives you more freedom. Because replies aren't expected, you can write things that can be ignored, which allows you to write things that aren't necessarily important but could be interesting or fun.
It's a new form of communication that's about ambient awareness and instant insight into people's lives. When you get a Twitter update from a friend, you can picture what they're doing when they report it. | Zingku's mission is to enable individuals and businesses to "mobilize their passion" by leveraging their personal network.
We started in 2005 when we noticed that teenage/twenty something's and their friends were engaging in rich media conversations drawing upon the full reach of mobile text messaging, the immediacy and speed of instant messaging, and thoroughness of web browser interface. A single conversation would take place amidst all these communication channels... often leading to plans for the evening, a purchase down the road, or simply a series of chuckles that passed time.
Concurrently, we saw the arrival of inexpensive "next generation" mobile phones, providing a means to capture and play pictures, words, music, and video. These phones are full fledged production devices sitting in our pockets, allowing us to distribute our "creations" to friends who in turn can distribute to their friends. As we saw folks constantly bouncing media back and forth between their phones, IM, and web browser, it became clear that this manner of dialogue forms a distinct new medium.
Our Zingku service amplifies the capabilities of this new medium, enhancing our collective capacity to promote and share. | Research In Motion (RIM) is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, text messaging (SMS and MMS), Internet and intranet-based applications. | MWC 2008: Mobile website population booming
Posted by Maggie Holland at 12:01PM, Wednesday 13th February 2008
The number of mobile websites has shot up by six times the figure reported by dotMobi in November.
This year will undoubtedly be the year of the mobile internet, with the number of mobile websites having grown phenomenally from 25,000 in November last year to around 150,000 today.
So says dotMobi who completed its latest trawl of the web to update its figures just last night and spoke to IT PRO this morning on the penultimate day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
dotMobi spiders the whole of the internet, using some 200-plus servers to conduct its analysis, the figures from which have helped to confirm that this year will be a momentous one for the mobile web, according to Paul Nerger, vice president of advanced services and applications at dotMobi. | Online Phone Books are the Wave of the Future
Friday, 23 June 2006
Why waste the paper that the phone company uses to make the tradition phone directory that we each get every year? With the advances in the internet, using an online phone book gives you the same information within seconds. Most will find it more convenient to type in the name online rather than searching through a huge stack of pages. With both pros and cons to online phone books, you must decide what will work best for you.
The best feature of the online phone book is the ease and control you have by entering the exact name and information that you want to search for. By avoiding the searching through pages of information, this will save you a great deal of time. You don’t have to strain your eyes through the fine print because the online phone book will take you straight to the entry with a click of the button. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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