Posts Tagged as ‘Mobile’

August 9, 2008

ShotCode: shoot, click, connect

Finally a real application taht uses your cameraphone (smartly). The OP3 has developed a brand new application that allows, with their own words, ‘to make the world clickable’.
ShotCode is a graphical-encoded internet address that refers exclusively to one website, basically allowing direct access to web content on your mobile. Originally developed at Cambridge University [...]

August 1, 2008

Mobile topping Japanese digital music sales

We had always known that Japanese mobile scenario is permanently a step forward. From the implemention of 3G networks , NttDoCoMo mobile services and dazzling phones, Japan is the fastest growing mobile market worldwide. Now it’s showing how far mobile distribution can go.
We’re speaking of mobile music.
Digital distribution is experiencing a huge growth due to [...]

July 28, 2008

Two words (literally) with Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson in ‘The Long tail’ has pointed out how our economy and culture is shifting from mass markets to millions of niches, due to the rise of digital distribution (finally freed from small shelves capacity). In his next book he’s going to show us how companies get rich by charging nothing, and every month [...]

July 23, 2008

Futurlink recipe: mobile, bluetooth, freemium content

Futurlink has developed the first bluetooh network in an european shopping mall. The spanish company, in the effort to add value to visitors and to generate more revenues improving visitors loyalty, has set a bluetooth network in the shopping center L’illa Diagonal (in Barcelona).
The idea was to provide some ‘Freemium’ (free+premium) content to mall visitors, [...]

July 20, 2008

Pandora gives (personalized) radio to mobile

After some great examples of personalized radio services on the web, as Deezer, Pandora decide to move personalized radio to mobile devices.
With a simple application downloadable from the Apple ‘App store’ you’re able to listen music in streaming directily on your iPhone. The application works directly with Pandora’s website, to allow the use of all [...]

July 8, 2008

Mobile can save your life (literally)

New mobile services are emerging day-by-day. After sms to receive just in time coupons, or sms to play videogames on a huge billboard of Times Square, it’s now turn for some lifesaver. Australian Red Cross have launched a mobile service to help people with first aid procedures. By just sending ‘CPR’ to the Red Cross [...]