Mobile phones

Web ac­cess is im­por­tant the­se days, no mat­ter where you are. Your cus­tomers’ abil­i­ty to ac­cess your web­site at their con­ve­nience is vi­tal. Making your web­site user-friend­ly on a com­put­er is one thing; mak­ing it avail­able on a mo­bile plat­form is an­oth­er. The mo­bile Internet is the next bat­tle­ground for de­vel­op­ers and de­sign­ers and should be se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­ered by ad­ver­tis­ers. Your reg­u­lar web­site won’t cut it on mo­bile phones. Making your web­site ac­ces­si­ble on a mo­bile net­work does re­quire a (...)

Live video stream­ing site Justin.tv to­day an­nounced an up­date that in­cludes what it has dubbed “Frame Reinsertion,” which will al­low users to upload the full res­o­lu­tion ver­sion of a video in the back­ground, even as the video is be­ing broad­cast live. Justin.tv lets users stream con­tent live to the in­ter­net, whether it is from their we­b­cams, mo­bile phones or wired in from a TV. Its com­peti­tors in­clude Ustream.TV, blogTV and Flixwagon. It is cur­rent­ly avail­able on iPhone and Android (...)

Blog WinRumors is re­port­ing that Microsoft is prepar­ing a sec­ond, de­vel­op­er-cen­tric soft­ware up­date for its Windows Phone 7 plat­form to be re­leased this February. The in­for­ma­tion was re­layed to the site by an anony­mous source in­volved with Windows Phone de­vel­op­ment. “Mi­crosoft’s sec­ond up­date will in­tro­duce en­hanced de­vel­op­er con­trols for ap­pli­ca­tions,” reads the re­port. “Mi­crosoft is ex­pect­ed to open up sev­er­al new APIs that will al­low for greater mul­ti-task­ing, in-app down­loads and bet­ter (...)

An anony­mous read­er writes "European trav­ellers who use their mo­bile phones abroad could soon see a dra­mat­ic re­duc­tion in their bills, after the European Commission an­nounced plans to erad­i­cate roam­ing charges by 2015. In a con­sul­ta­tion pa­per launched yes­ter­day, the EC in­vit­ed con­sumers, busi­ness­es, tele­com op­er­a­tors and pub­lic au­thor­i­ties to eval­u­ate the EU's ex­ist­ing roam­ing rules, and to share their ideas on the best ways to boost com­pe­ti­tion in roam­ing ser­vices. 'Huge dif­fer­ences (...)

Sorry for the ab­sence. The Pandia ed­i­tors have been out trav­el­ling (from ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the Korea con­flict in Seoul to tak­ing part in the Online Information Conference in London). Now we are back onhspace=”4″ track, how­ev­er, with a new list of search engine rel­e­vant ar­ti­cles and posts from around the Web. Making Copyright Work Better Online Google Public Policy Blog: We will pre­vent terms that are close­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with pira­cy from ap­pear­ing in Autocomplete. We’ll act on re­li­able copy­right (...)

In Star Trek, they don’t spend a lot of time typ­ing things on key­board­s—they just speak to their com­put­ers, and the com­put­ers speak back. It’s a more nat­u­ral way to com­mu­ni­cate, but get­ting there re­quires chip­ping away at a range of hard re­search prob­lems. We’ve re­cent­ly made some strides with speech tech­nolo­gies and tools that take voice in­put: for ex­am­ple, we launched Voice Search, Voice Input and Voice Actions for mo­bile phones, al­low­ing you to speak web search­es, com­pose emails by voice, (...)

As the old say­ing goes, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, or in the case of Gowalla vs. Foursquare, if you can’t beat ‘em, in­te­grate your lo­ca­tion based ser­vices with them. Gowalla’s newest up­date gives users the abil­i­ty to share check-in in­for­ma­tion with Foursquare. The fea­ture joins the ap­pli­ca­tions abil­i­ty to share lo­ca­tions with Facebook and Twitter users, pro­vid­ing friends with your lo­ca­tion based in­fo on var­i­ous GPS en­abled de­vices in­clud­ing tablets, mo­bile phones and other portable (...)

Kerry McDuling, our res­i­dent pub­lic­i­ty ex­pert, to­day takes a look at whether you should fo­cus pub­lic­i­ty on your pro­duct or ser­vice or your per­son­al­i­ty and ex­per­tise. While not al­ways a clear si­t­u­a­tion, Kerry pre­sents a com­pelling case espe­cial­ly for ex­perts to fo­cus on their own sto­ry rather than the pro­duct it­self, which as you will see has sev­er­al ad­van­tages. Here is what Kerry has to say…The Richard Branson Effect These days, I seem to refer to Richard Branson quite a fair bit dur­ing (...)

Infographic punch­es the idea in­to one’s pro­ces­sor al­most im­me­di­ate­ly be­cause of the way data is pre­sent­ed is neat, sim­ple and less words more fun. Hence, it is im­por­tant to al­ways make sure your in­for­graph­ics is sim­ple but in­for­ma­tive, fun and re­li­able. With the­se cri­te­ria, your Infographics will not fail your au­di­ence. As you get a hang of it, you’ll re­al­ized that you can easi­ly con­vert any ideas in­to Infographics pre­sen­ta­tion. Fantastic news for all you so­cial me­dia ad­dicts out there (...)

No, I don’t mean that search engine op­ti­miza­tion will hap­pen au­to­mat­i­cal­ly. I am ask­ing if you have con­sid­ered what the world will be like in the not-too-dis­tant fu­ture, when a big chunk of search­es will be ex­e­cut­ed from your cus­tomers’ cars. Perhaps this strikes you as a bit too much Buck Rogers, but many peo­ple thought we wouldn’t be search­ing for things from cell phones not too long ago. The tech­nol­o­gy is ar­riv­ing and it’s not too soon for mar­keters to start think­ing about how it will (...)

No, I don’t mean that search engine op­ti­miza­tion will hap­pen au­to­mat­i­cal­ly. I am ask­ing if you have con­sid­ered what the world will be like in the not-too-dis­tant fu­ture, when a big chunk of search­es will be ex­e­cut­ed from your cus­tomers’ cars. Perhaps this strikes you as a bit too much Buck Rogers, but many peo­ple thought we wouldn’t be search­ing for things from cell phones not too long ago. The tech­nol­o­gy is ar­riv­ing and it’s not too soon for mar­keters to start think­ing about how it will (...)

by Mike Moran Image by K. Todd Storch via Flickr No, I don't mean that search engine op­ti­miza­tion will hap­pen au­to­mat­i­cal­ly. I am ask­ing if you have con­sid­ered what the world will be like in the not-too-dis­tant fu­ture, when a big chunk of search­es will be ex­e­cut­ed from your cus­tomers' cars. Perhaps this strikes you as a bit too much Buck Rogers, but many peo­ple thought we wouldn't be search­ing for things from cell phones not too long ago. The tech­nol­o­gy is ar­riv­ing and it's not (...)

Social me­dia is pow­er­ing the world in ways many have nev­er imag­ined. We can see new con­nec­tions be­ing formed out of seem­ing­ly thin air. With more pro­file in­te­gra­tion than ev­er be­fore, it’s im­por­tant to un­der­stand how to man­age your dig­i­tal per­son­al­i­ty. Branding isn’t just for cor­po­ra­tions. It can al­so ap­ply to an in­di­vid­u­al item or per­son. It feels great to build a col­lec­tion of your­self on­line. Using tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Google it’s easy to de­vel­op an in­ter­pre­ta­tion of your­self. (...)

Kineto Wireless, de­vel­op­er of soft­ware that lever­ages Wi-Fi tech­nol­o­gy for mo­bile phones, has raised $3 mil­lion in equity and debt fund­ing, ac­cord­ing to a fil­ing with the SEC. Based in Milpitas, Calif., Kineto al­lows mo­bile phones to work on both cel­lu­lar and Wi-Fi net­works. Last mon­th, T-Mobile an­nounced plans to preload its Android phones with Kineto’s app for Wi-Fi call­ing. The com­pa­ny last raised $9 mil­lion in fund­ing in March. Investors in­clude Venrock Associates, Sutter Hill (...)

The fam­i­ly is talk­ing about turkey again. That must mean it's time for re­flec­tion and to look ahead to the next 12 to 18 months. In that spir­it, here is part one of a two part series on trends in the en­ter­prise. What's ev­i­dent in all of the­se trends is the role data is play­ing in how tech­nolo­gies are evolv­ing. Is it the mega­trend of the next decade? In all of this, we think about the way peo­ple work the­se days. We have mul­ti­ple mo­bile phones. We work in of­fices and homes. For many (...)

Are you ready for IPv6? Did you know you'd bet­ter soon be ready? Is your ISP, or even coun­try ready, and do they know why? If you don't even know what IPv6 is, you are not alone. There are bil­lions of peo­ple who don't know, and they shouldn't, since this fun­da­men­tal pro­to­col - IPv6 be­ing the lat­est ver­sion of IP, in­vent­ed in the 1970s by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn - is so deeply buried in the Internet ser­vices we use ev­ery day that when you are forced to see it, you know some­thing is very, (...)

Leading the world in mo­bile mal­ware More than a mil­lion mo­bile phones in China have been in­fect­ed with the AVK.Dumx.A Trojan.…

Rolling Stone pub­lish­er, Wenner Media, has been hit with a class ac­tion law­suit over spam text mes­sages that were used to ag­gres­sive­ly pro­mote Rolling Stone, US Weekly and Men's Journal. Of course, it's not clear that this is ac­tu­al­ly il­le­gal. The law­suit is based on a law that for­bids the au­to­mat­ic di­al­ing of mar­ket­ing phone calls to mo­bile phones, but it's not clear if that ac­tu­al­ly ap­plies to SMS mes­sages as well. Permalink | Comments | Email This (...)

The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the life of the Web. It’s used ev­ery time you trans­fer a doc­u­ment, or make an AJAX re­quest. But HTTP is a rel­a­tive un­known among web de­vel­op­ers. This in­tro­duc­tion will demon­strate how the set of de­sign prin­ci­ples, known as REST, un­der­pin HTTP, and al­low you to em­brace its fullest pow­er by build­ing in­ter­faces which can be used from al­most any de­vice or op­er­at­ing sys­tem. Why REST REST is a sim­ple way to or­ga­nize in­ter­ac­tions be­tween in­de­pen­dent (...)

A stag­ger­ing 417 mil­lion mo­bile phones were sold world­wide last quar­ter, up 35 per­cent from the same pe­ri­od last year, the re­search firm says.