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Carnival of the mobilists 163 at Golden Swamp

This week’s carnival of the mobilists is hosted by the Queen of the Carnival, Judy Breck over at Golden Swamp. This Carnival is packed with nuggets of writing gold created over the past week by veteran bloggers from the mobile space. Posts include touch screens, app stores, mobile world congress, and the economy – a [...]

Carnival of the mobilists 133 is at visionmobile.com

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Visiion Mobile. As usual, a great range of news and views on all thins mobile so I encourage you to head over to Vision Mobile and have a read. This week there are quite a few thought pieces and observations worth reading. The iPhone 3G has kept most [...]

Carnival of the mobilists 131 at blog.mjelly.com

This week’s carnival of the mobilists is over at mjelly. This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists touching down at mjelly after last week’s edition here at London Calling.  Lots of interesting stuff this week from posts covering big, structural themes, to detailed analysis of specific issues, to reviews of the latest newsflow.  It’s all here in [...]

Carnival of the Mobilsts 119 is up at mobilejones.com

Over at mobileljones.com you will find this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, where you will see a reflection of mobile’s push to data and multimedia in 2008, and how handset companies, former handset companies, internet companies, new entrants and social networking giants are all involved in mashups of services. Once again, the mobile world’s finest provide [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 117 is up at mobilestance.com

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted over at Jamie Well’s excellent Mobilestance website.  Here you can read the freshest posts from around the mobile world about everything from games, website design, QR codes, how mobile social network meets crowd powered media right through to the case for banning mobiles in schools.  Head on [...]

Location based social network applications roundup and review

When not spending time with my family, I have been looking at a range of new and developing location based social network applications designed for the mobile.  A summary of each one is presented below with links to their websites. What I have seen in the first few months of the year is a rapid [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 116

Carnival of the mobilists #116 is ready for reading over at Situational Marketing where you can once again read the best of the mobile blogs from around the globe.  If you’re into wireless then you can’t miss the carnival of the mobilists each week.

First look at Fire Eagle – the Yahoo! location aware service

A few weeks ago I read about the new Yahoo! location initiative called Fire Eagle.  Being a former practitioner in the Location industry, I rushed to the site, only to find I needed an invitation.  Luckily David Recordon from sixapart (movable type) was kind enough to send me one.  For those of you trying to [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 115 is here

Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists number 115, hosted for the first time on my site, located in London, England. Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to have a look around after you have read all the carnival has to offer this week. In another week in mobile where there has been much [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists #108 is up at www.skydeck.com/blog/

This week’s rich instalment of all things mobile is available over at the Skydeck Blog with contributions from John Puterbaugh from Nellymoser lays down a concise yet thorough review of the 700 mhz auction that defines openness, reviews Google’s impact, explains what is at stake, and addresses what it will all mean for the future of [...]

The Davos Effect – Google CEO Eric Schmidt expects mobile to be big – is he right and what has to happen to prove him right?

Much has been written on the “Davos Effect”, where the musings at this annual event from senior executives of large companies such as Google and Sony actually become true, or at least offer a window into the current thinking or focus of a particular company or industry segment. By now, many of you will have read the [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists #106

Carnival of the Mobilists #106 is up at  http://www.xellular.net/2008/01/carnival-106-is.html, hosted by Xen Mendelsohn of Xellular Identity. where you will read a number of interesting articles from thought leaders in the mobile space including… Ajit Jaokar of Open Gardens asks us will P2P IMS applications take off or will there be only Web applications? Very interesting [...]

US report says consumers ready for LBS

Consumers Ready for Wireless Location-Based Services; 2005 Will be a Strong Year for Carrier Deployments SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., December 9, 2004 – Location-Based Services (LBS) in the US wireless consumer market may finally be poised to realize their long-hyped potential, according to In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com). With Enhanced 911 capabilities deployed in many areas and a fast-growing base [...]

Going wireless

I’ve been using WiFi for nearly 4 years – when my Dlink access point cost me $1100! Now you can pick up a WiFi bundle for under $300.  Even printers now like the HP 2510 “multi-function” unit come with WiFi built in, meaning your home network can share the same resources. The Netgear DG834G is [...]

US Wireless Broadband Services

Comments from a US based Technologist. The big question in the US is who is going to win the next telecom war: wireless, wireline or cable.  They each have a critical strength and weakness, and each can potentially give away the other’s service for free. The phone companies have DSL but are challenged to fund [...]