Archive for May, 2007

Google Maps on Nokia (Symbian)

Posted on May 22, 2007. Filed under: location based services, mapping, wireless technology |

I use a Nokia E60 (and N73) and for some time have been looking at using Google Maps on this platform. If you go to the Google Maps website, you’ll see Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm and Blackberry for download. No mention of Symbian or Nokia! BUT — if you point your E60 mobile browser (as I did) [...]

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Mobile Ads

Posted on May 17, 2007. Filed under: advertising, data plans, mobile |

Does anyone really want to receive advertising on their mobile phone? Remember back when Internet access was dial-up — there were very few (if any) ads. Why? I think it was because bandwidth was too expensive and upsetting potential customers is not a good thing. Now that those of us in Australia can generally find [...]

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Look, up in the sky, it’s a Wibree??

Posted on May 11, 2007. Filed under: mobile, wireless technology |

Your advanced smartphone should have some or all of these: Bluetooth, Infrared, WLAN or WiFi, oh and some combination of cellular technology like GSM, GPRS, 3G, HSDPA, WCDMA, etc etc. And a camera, a music player and a radio. Mobile TV, hard to like that where we’re paying high bit rates for data. Show me [...]

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Mobile Bar Codes

Posted on May 10, 2007. Filed under: mobile |

Japan has them. Parts of Europe have them. If you’ve bought any video or console games in the past two years, you’ve probably seen them on the “read me” docs in the box   find out more here: QR Code at Wikipedia
You use a camera phone to look at the image (can be in a [...]

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Next Gen Mobility

Posted on May 10, 2007. Filed under: mobile |

Hi. I’m Gene and this is blog is dedicated to the next generation of mobile — business mobile — like Web 2.0 but mobile — Mobile 2.0.

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