Google’s really mobile bus
A bus in computer language is normally a slightly technical term referring to the innermost workings of your hard drive – really good to see it being used here in its proper context and combining mobile and fixed internet.
Mobile internet to take over in UK within two years
Two leading broadband experts have predicted that mobile internet usage will overtake fixed landline usage within the next two years.
The growth in laptops and mobile friendly phones together with the lowering of prices of accessing wireless internet has made it much easier to use , than having to rely on a landline connection.
With that trend continuing , and the expected growth in mobile internet devices over the next couple of years, a fixed line internet connection may soon be a thing of the past !
Nvidia unveils new MID chip, Tegra
US computer company Nvidia , has announced its new chip , Tegra , which will be specifically aimed at the new generation of Mobile Internet Devices , due to start coming to market later this year. Analysts believe it will be between 6 and 10 times faster than its competitors, including Intel.
Web 2 goes mobile
The first of four web 2 expos’s finished in San Francisco last month , the other three being in New york , Berlin and Tokyo , later this year.
Whilst the term web 2 can mean pretty much anything you want it to , one of the chief areas of focus here was the mobile web , and how it is likely to explode in the not to distant future.
There was a real sense of both urgency and opportunity , especially for developers to shape the future of the mobile internet , by what they can come up with that will drive the devices about to come out.
There’s a full report on the expo here , with links to the other three later in the year
Canada begins to address wireless problem
The recent news that Apple had eventually agreed terms with a Canadian carrier ( Rogers ) for the iPhone , highlighted that Canada seemed to have a real problem with its wireless networks in away that the US doesn’t , and it seems the Canadian government is trying to do something about it.
Digital wallets here but not here !
Reuters – A seminar in Helsinki has been discussing the chicken and egg paradox of using cell phones as a ‘digital wallet’ . Whether you like the idea or not , its definitely coming – where you will be able to use your phone to make small payments simply by swiping it against a reader , which then automatically debits your bank account …
Blackberry squares up to iPhone
Mobile Internet for Dummy’s
No particular reason for plugging a book , but its quite a good indication that some particular concept or idea has arrives when a Dummy’s book is written about it – so here’s to the mobile internet , even if we’re not quite sure what it is yet !
coutesy amazon
Mobile advertising goes missing ( 2 )
Trade ssociations come in different shapes and sizes and have differing levels of effectivesness.The Mobile Marketing Association seems to have quite an impressive membership and certainly has some good aims in terms of helping develop areas of the mobile internet.
Mobile advertising goes missing
Great article in the International Herald and Tribune that basically asks the question , where is all the mobile advertising ? It follows on slightly , in a different context , to the chicken and egg question that the iPhone to Canada issue raises.
The article focus’s on the amount of hype that has and does exist around mobile advertising and ask’s , where’s the beef ? Where is all this great mobile advertising , has anyone seen it ?