links for 2008-02-20
February 19th, 2008 | Published in Bookmarks
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“Some 36% now use their mobile phones as entertainment devices, compared with 24% eight months ago (study conducted Feb. 23 to March 6) - an increase of 50%.”
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“Ever notice that no one says stuff like, ‘No one will want to use the web on their mobile phone,’ any more? I have, and I can tell you it’s very refreshing!”
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“this season three times more football fans hit ESPN’s mobile site than it did its PC pages”
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41.7 percent said they would scan a QR Code and 34.7 percent said they would send a blank e-mail and access the URL in the reply
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“The global population expands by three people a second, according to International Data Base, an arm of the U.S. Census. In the same second, 38 wireless devices will be sold.”
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On Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhones surged, surpassing incoming traffic from any other type of mobile device.
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The mobile video games market is growing faster than the markets for consoles and handheld video games, according to Understanding & Solutions.
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Customer defection rates (aka ‘churn’) within the mobile telecoms sector have risen from 33.4% in 2005 to 38.6% in 2007 – an increase of 15.3%
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Nokia’s share of the world market for mobile telephones has exceeded 40 per cent
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According to Webcredible, a usability and accessibility consultancy, the most requested mobile service people wanted on their data-enabled mobile phones was email.
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“It’s the recreation of the Internet, it’s the recreation of the PC story and it is before us—and it is very likely it will happen in the next year.”
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“Skyfire browser is set to finally bring PC-like browsing to your Windows Mobile device with crazy speeds and support for all manner of embedded content”
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“What we are seeing with mobile in 2008 are the same issues faced back in the late 90’s - how to make money out of a medium that is somewhat restricted (screen size, processing power, available bandwidth etc) - er….haven’t we heard all this before??”
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“AOL today announced the Open Mobile Platform, which the company plans to release to developers this summer”
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Comprehensive database of mobile device information
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Obama’s campaign makes extensive use of SMS
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Find the closest wi-fi hot spot in portland. Created by adamd.
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“Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones spoke about the creation of Gotham during our interview for Helvetica, and looking back at their description of what GQ wanted from the font, it sounds surprisingly Obama-esque.”
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When the bicycle owner locks up their bicycle they send a text to a security office to trigger the system to guard it. Then if someone then moves, or tries to move the bicycle, a sensor in the lock emits a silent alarm which triggers a CCTV camera to zoom
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Expanding mobile networks to the moon
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HTTP server installed on Android
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Mobile design patterns library
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List of resources for blueprint css grid
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But by common consensus, the company everyone wanted to meet was not an Operator - It was Apple. Like it or not - Google, Apple, Nokia and others drive the agenda today – and already with the launch of iPhone – the Operator is already a bit pipe. Ther
