I have been a great fan of Second Life for a very long time. A few months ago I almost quitted since it was starting to become boring and quite repetitive.
Vollee Inc., a company with offices in the United States and Israel has anounced a Second Life viewer for Symbian enabled mobile phones. This is [...]

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I came through a short, but interesting, post from Simon Judge over at Mobile Phone Development.
Simon makes a very good point. When you have a brilliant idea for a mobile service you may find yourself engaging so many partners asking for slices of the pie that makes the whole service not appealing for each of [...]

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You will be able to access Skype services while you are hitting the road without having to be a 3 customer in Europe or firing up your laptop in a WiFi covered area You will finally be free from you mobile phone plan and you will be able to talk and chat for free forever! … (Well on some mobile phones it will be possible but they are a few) This means that you will always need to have your application running in the foreground consuming battery power at a much faster rate compared to the idle state.

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As many blogs have already reported Google has just launched the App Engine project.

In a few words, Google App Engine will let you build a full stack and automatically scalable web application hosted on their premises.
This is what Google is saying about the project:
Today we’re announcing a preview release of Google App Engine, an application-hosting [...]

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When I look at how people use their mobile phone I always end up with the very same conclusion.
We tend to look at things with our eyes and not really with the eyes of your customers. Having a quick look at who is sitting near to me I find a bunch of tech savvy, marketing [...]

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Mobile phones equipped with high quality cameras are getting very popular and affordable in the last few years. It is not uncommon to find 5 megapixels cameras able to produce high quality pictures and videos.
If in the past it was hard for journalist to produce content while on the move without the support of professional [...]

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Qik is a brand new service that wille let you stream live content from your mobile phone to the Internet.
Qik delivers a simple application to install on your mobile phone that will take control of your mobile phone camera and will deliver your video stream to QIK servers.
From what I can read from their web [...]

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There is a great article on the New York Times that reveals the fact that Google has noticed that traffic to their sites coming from iPhone has surged during the last holidays period.
You can read the original article by clicking here.
I think there a lot of interesting things in this article.
First one: The amount of [...]

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I think that the question “Where are you?” is the first sentence pronounced by most people when making phone calls to a mobile phone.
I am sure that pretty much anyone has desired to give fake answers to that question. Something like “I am queuing at the post office” instead of revealing that you are enjoying [...]

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Yahoo! has released version 3.0 of their popular Yahoo!Go mobile service.
According to their press release (that you may read by clicking here) their goal is to “enable and lead a mobile ecosystem” … “by providing indispensable & compelling services to consumers, developers, publishers and advertisers”.
An old marketing colleague told me years ago that the words [...]

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As you know from my previous post, last week I was sitting with more than twenty brilliant people talking about mobile internet and the future of mobile devices, between other things.
I met a lot of people with clever ideas and initiatives for the future.
After spending more that three years in Innovation and some months in [...]

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I have read a very interesting post at 0xDECAFBAD.
The most interesting sentence in that post is the following:
An API is an admission that you haven’t the creativity or time to build everything your website needs.
In a general sense I tend to agree to this sentence. It is true that there are plenty of web services [...]

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Disney will pull the plug on their MVNO operations by the end of the year.
This is what I read today on the Examiner web site.
Disney said that despite the fact that some of their services had a great success with parents they failed to get large retailers to sell their mobile phones and services.
One of [...]

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I have recently run into J2MEdit and I found it very interesting.
J2MEdit is a java application that should run on most mobiles providing you with a complete text editor for source code with syntax highlighting. If we would stop here there would be nothing new on the horizon.
The interesting thing about J2MEdit is that you [...]

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