Mobile Search as a Location Tool
MEX, the Mobile User Experience blog, carries a recent post of interest regarding mobile user behavior in the areas of search and location. According to the piece, highlighting data from M-Spatial, which creates search applications for UK operators, mobile searchers enter very specific requests, often brand names, when using mobile search as a means of […]
Next Generation Mobile TV Excites Con...
According to a new study, only 13 to 15% of US customers with experience on mobile TV believed this concept will fly. The remaining 75% remain skeptic. Despite this rather disappointing response, there is still hope for the “next generation” of Mobile TV services. In that same study, majority of general consumers remain very excited […]
cybernetics sociology : the Reasons f...
The number of Twitter users is growing tremendously every month. The key aspects of its service are speed, ease of use, social networking and versatility. Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service which was founded in March 2006 by a small group of software engineers in San Francisco, CA. After an initial testing period […]
Westrend Racer- A Gaming PMP
A Portable Media Player is a device that already combines a couple of multimedia functions in one place, but the Westrend Racer is able to add even more. As you can imagine by the title of the post, this Racer player is a gaming gadget. There are 5 games included on the âpackageâ, those being […]
Google Earth UK street view to come i...
Every person who has used Google’s Google Earth application has been impressed by the sheer genius of the application. Just the thought of seeing places (alright, the place where you live) from a top down view just like those spy photos that you see in action and espionage films is enough to titillate even the […]
Trashing an iPod nano
What does it take to destroy an iPod nano and what’s inside this tiny package ? The guys over at Arstechnica put the nano through its paces. To simulate the everyday accidents that could result in a broken iPod, they came up with a few situations that would ultimately leave the nano lifeless : 1. […]
Life Before Mobile Phones
In this interconnected wireless world, it’s virtually impossible to imagine life without mobile phones and Internet. Like a wonder drug that can cure a man’s misery, we are hooked on everything mobile. But what is life before the emergence of mobile phones ? Is it better ? Sometimes I can’t help but reminisce about those […]
Latest Mobile Marketing Study Release...
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has released the 3rd annual Mobile Attitude and Usage Study. Being the strong advocate of mobile marketing, the results are of course very positive (if the results are not that impressive will MMA still publish it ?) What would be very interesting to see in this study are the forces […]
FIFA 19 Review for Xbox 360
It’s hard to believe that EA’s FIFA franchise has been around since 1993. We’re talking grunge era folks; plaid flannels, the Gulf War, and not even an outside chance that Team U.S.A. would be a World Cup contender…or even be in the big dance for that matter. Things have changed a great deal from the […]
The Internet and change
For Manuel CASTEILS : we should have healthy doubts about the bombastic claims from futurologists and techno-prophets that because we now have the Internet everything will change. Society is a complicated system that can shape and twist technology to unexpected uses. It is not correct to predict a total transformation just because there is a […]
