Archive for July 5th, 2008
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 There's a trend among Windows Mobile smartphone makers - everyone and their mama is making custom user interfaces that sit on top of the Microsoft's mobile OS. We've seen HTC and Gigabyte doing it, and Sony Ericsson will rollout its own UI with the Xperia launch.
Toshiba doesn't want to miss the boat, but they don't have their own solution. Hence, they're licensing Spb Software's apps to enhance the user experience on its Portégé G810 smartphone. The end result is the newly created Toshiba Touch UI which combines Spb Mobile Shell, a customized version of Spb Full Screen Keyboard, the Spb Pocket Plus smart scrolling component, and other Windows Mobile customization enhancements.
As a fan of Spb Software's apps, I've no doubts the G810's UI look stunning. However, it's the QVGA and not VGA screen that's a deal breaker for me for the Portégé G810. I just don't get why Toshiba hasn't used a better screen…
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Mobile coupons are set for boom and Cellfire (which we've already covered in the past) is at the forefront of the growing market. The mobile coupon and discount offer service recently introduced Cellfire 3.0, which is now even more powerful than ever.
For consumers, Cellfire 3.0's new features include:
- Clip 2 Mobile Offer Discovery and Capture - grants users to discover mobile coupons featured by Cellfire advertisers within both interactive and traditional media. As they do, they have the ability to “clip” the mobile coupon with a simple command and the selected offer is automatically saved in the user's Cellfire Saved Offers page, where the offer can be easily accessed and redeemed in the future.
- Rich User Experience - filtering offers by category for easier finding of an appropriate deal.
- Seamless web-phone integration - you can browse, sort, and select Cellfire offers both on the internet and using your mobile phone. Any changes made are simultaneously reflected across both platforms.
As for the advertisers, the new Cellfire version brings:
- Mobilize Traditional and Interactive Media - grants merging of both traditional and interactive media to reach a wider audience. The advertisement source is tracked as consumers respond and capture offers, enabling advertisers to learn which advertisements are most effective in driving transactions.
- Dynamic Targeting - Advertisers can target offers by age, gender, location and other attributes, ensuring their offers are most relevant to their intended audience.
- One to One Offers - Advertisers can deliver very special offers to individuals that have previously interacted with their offers on Cellfire.
Cellfire 3.0 is now available to more than 170 million cell phone users across most carriers and handsets.
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 O2 is all proud to announce they're the first British mobile operator that’ll offer Sierra's latest Wireless Compass 885 USB modem. Announced at this year's Mobile World Congress alongside AirCard 885E ExpressCard, the device provides users with download speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 2 Mbps. Additionally, it includes TRU-Install automatic software installation and a microSD memory card slot to expand its functionality (very neat). In a nutshell, it's one of those accessories that will make you a true mobile warrior, if that's what you're craving for.
The Sierra Wireless Compass 885 USB modem works on both Mac and Personal computer computers, and is available through O2 direct, corporate and business sales channels and online on O2's website.
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FriendMobilizer is certainly not the first Facebook mobile app we've seen. However, it's very neat and simple to use on any Windows Mobile smartphone. This (the “neat” part) is especially true for all the Facebook addicts who “need” to be informed about their friends' activities all the time — it pushes all the notifications directly to the home screen. In addition, FriendMobilizer grants users to set their status, approve friend requests, view group/event invites, check their wall and inbox, and send messages, pokes and wall posts. Kinda neat and very useful, if you're that much into Facebook, and who isn't these days…
It's a free download and in the registration process you'll also need to give FriendMobilizer permission to change status on Facebook. The official FriendMobilizer website makes the process simple.
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 It's hard enough to tell when someone is lying to your face in a language you grew up with, but it's all that much harder when the suspect in question is lying in a foreign language. And, when you're speaking about lies that could get US troops killed in Afghan and Iraqi battlefields, those lies become a growing liability.
So, in an effort to help US Army soldiers identify fibbing suspects in the field, the Pentagon will be issuing Windows Mobile devices to grunts in Afghanistan - with possible deployment in Iraq. The new lie-detection technology isn't perfect, according to the Defense Department, but it's helpful in sorting out which local police officers, interpreters, and allied forces are legit and which should be kept from getting too cozy with US military personnel and information.
With Windows Mobile recently earning Federal security certifications in both Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6.0 trim, the mobile platform perfectly suited to carry-out the military's polygraph-needs. Of course, the WinMo devices in soldier's hands have probably been tweaked to the point where system crashes are non-existent.
“We're not promising perfection — we've been very careful in that,” stated Donald Krapohl, special assistant to the director at the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment. “What we are promising is that, if it's properly used, it will improve over what they are currently doing.”
But, there are those that oppose the deployment of this lie-detection technology in hotspots like Afghanistan and Iraq. “I don't comprehend how anybody could think that this is ready for deployment,” said statistics professor Stephen E. Fienberg, head author of a 2003 National Academy of Sciences study undermining lie-detection technologies. “Sending these instruments into the field in Iraq and Afghanistan without serious scientific assessment, and for use by untrained personnel, is a mockery of what we advocated in our report.”
In either case, we gotta give it up to Windows Mobile for being the battle-hardened mobile OS of choice for the US military. Them's some serious bragging rights.
[Via: MSNBC]
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 For the average person, the prospect of controlling your mobile phone's music player and camera with a flick of the eye-balls is just a ridiculously lazy substitute to a quick finger jab or two. For the disabled, however, eye-controlled mobile tech opens the doors to a whole new world of productivity and independence.
NTT DoCoMo, always pushing the innovation envelope in the mobile field, is working on just the sort of eye-tracking tech that could eventually give disabled persons a working alternative to button-based handsets. The Frontier Technology Research Group, headed by Dr. Masaaki Fukumoto, is a research arm within NTT DoCoMo that explores new technologies - especially in “wearable computing.”
With the aid of the cumbersome-looking headgear that you see pictured above, Fukumoto is able to control a music player with eye movements alone. The head-mounted contraption tracks eye movement by way of the electrical impulses that are used by the brain to control the eyes. And, the technology can even be used to actively aim a cameraphone's camera at a specific object, say a QR code, and take a picture.
Combined with the carrier's other research initiatives like UbiButton, the wristwatch that detects finger movements (which has possible applications as a virtual keyboard), and the Yubi-Wa, a wearable device that turns the fingers in to a cellphone, DoCoMo is poised to redefine what we’ve come to anticipate from mobile devices and how we interact with our environment.
Commercial applications for Fukumoto's eye-tracking technology are a few years off, and we're looking forward to doing away with these awkward appendages called fingers.
NTT DoCoMo
Thanks, Ami!
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 While dialing “911″ in an emergency is the safest way to get help in a hurry, police departments in Boston and Cincinnati, as well as over 100 other communities, have started to adopt SMS text messaging systems as a new means for upright citizens to contact police on the latest criminal activities. And, with technology on their side, police departments savvy to the text messaging boom are quick to get the down-low on nefarious activities in the area.
The text message tip lines have yielded some good results so far, and police hope that the younger demographic will continue to be more open to texting in their tips rather than calling a telephone hotline. Tips are sent anonymously, so tipsters can be assured that police can't track the tip.
“It's obvious that the future of communication is texting,” said officer Michael Charbonnier, the technologically naive commander of the Boston Police Department's Crime Stoppers unit. SMS text messages aren't exactly the future of communication, but it sure is nice to see John Q. PoliceOfficer adopting technology to keep us safe.
[Via: AP]
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MocoNews' Tricia Duryee had a chance to sit down with AT&T's Senior VP Business Mobility Marketing, Jeff Bradley, and managed to wrangle some insightful perspectives on the enterprise market and how the iPhone and BlackBerry play in to the business-class smartphone segment - the iPhone vs. BlackBerry war, if you’ll.
While popular thought has pitted the iPhone against the BlackBerry as the gotta-have enterprise smartphone of 2008, AT&T's got a totally different take. As we've said time and time again, each handset has its own particular strengths and weaknesses, and that's how AT&T is marketing the iPhone 3G and BlackBerry Bold.
Bradley sees the iPhone 3G as a competent enterprise device that will serve all manner of subscriber-types - be they consumer, prosumers, or enterprise customers, the iPhone 3G will be a hit across the board. The BlackBerry Bold 9000, however, will find its own niche amongst the hardcore enterprise crowd that is die-hard loyal to their physical keyboards. Even though, Bradley himself reiterates what I've been saying all along - the virtual keyboard on the iPhone is as fast (if not faster than) a physical keyboard, but it just takes some getting used to. So, there's really no war between the two of the hottest smartphones to launch in 2H 2008, according to AT&T.
What's is interesting is how AT&T is catering to the enterprise market with the iPhone. Businesses involved in everything from insurance or real estate to pharmaceuticals are interested in using the iPhone 3G's enterprise and multimedia capabilities to train salesforces and pitch new products to clients.
So, if you want a top-notch physical keyboard and industry-leading push email ability, then the BlackBerry Bold will be your best-fit handset. If you can forgo a hard keyboard in favor of multimedia abilities and large internal storage, you'll be looking toward the iPhone for satisfaction. In the end, the consumer wins. Go us!
[Via: MocoNews]
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MocoNews' Tricia Duryee had a chance to sit down with AT&T's Senior VP Business Mobility Marketing, Jeff Bradley, and managed to wrangle some insightful perspectives on the enterprise market and how the iPhone and BlackBerry play in to the business-class smartphone segment - the iPhone vs. BlackBerry war, if you’ll.
While popular thought has pitted the iPhone against the BlackBerry as the gotta-have enterprise smartphone of 2008, AT&T's got a totally different take. As we've stated time and time again, each handset has its own particular strengths and weaknesses, and that's how AT&T is marketing the iPhone 3G and BlackBerry Bold.
Bradley sees the iPhone 3G as a competent enterprise device that’ll serve all manner of subscriber-types - be they consumer, prosumers, or enterprise customers, the iPhone 3G will be a hit across the board. The BlackBerry Bold 9000, however, will find its own niche amongst the hardcore enterprise crowd that is die-hard loyal to their physical keyboards. Although, Bradley himself reiterates what I've been saying all along - the virtual keyboard on the iPhone is as fast (if not faster than) a physical keyboard, but it just takes some getting used to. So, there's really no war between the two of the hottest smartphones to launch in 2H 2008, according to AT&T.
What's is interesting is how AT&T is catering to the enterprise market with the iPhone. Businesses involved in everything from insurance or real estate to pharmaceuticals are interested in using the iPhone 3G's enterprise and multimedia capabilities to train salesforces and pitch new products to clients.
So, if you want a top-notch physical keyboard and industry-leading push email capability, then the BlackBerry Bold will be your best-fit handset. If you can forgo a hard keyboard in favor of multimedia abilities and big internal storage, you'll be looking toward the iPhone for satisfaction. In the end, the consumer wins. Go us!
[Via: MocoNews]
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