Category: Mobile

How to answer your mobile through a tattoo :)

Digital Tattoo Interface

Very intresting concept, imagine answering your mobile phone by pressing an area of your skin, its not a sci-fi movie scene but one of the entries in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition.

The Digital Tattoo Interface works via a Bluetooth device implanted underneath your skin. Don’t worry, you won’t have anything bulging out like a weird growth – the chip is flat, flexible and made of silicone. It lies between your skin and muscle tissue.
Intrestingly this device electricity powers up by bilogical components of the body “convert’s the blood’s glucose and oxygen from the artery as electricity required”.

This device communicates wirelessly with the world as well as with other devices implanted in the same body. It is always present, always on, but out of sight and non-obtrusive. It also continually monitors for many blood disorders, alerting the person of a health problem: A human version of the check engine light. Product styling is the latest and coolest downloaded display interface showing on any tattoo on the block. This product is waterproof too!!.

Great ideas 🙂

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On2 Technology Included in Adobe Flash Lite 3 Application

on2 technologies

On2 Technologies announced that it has licensed its optimized TrueMotion(R) VP6(TM) video decoder software to Sony for use in its mylo communicator “COM-2” device.

The COM-2 uses On2’s TrueMotion VP6 decoder with Adobe(R) Flash(R) Lite 3 software, and provides access to videos posted on Flash-based web sites. When connected to a wi-fi hotspot, the mylo communicator can also upload and download content to and from the Web using the touch screen interface on its 3.5-inch high-resolution display. By integrating an optimized version of On2’s VP6 decoder, the mylo communicator users have the ability to enjoy web based video content, while on-the-go.

“We continue to improve the quality of our video solutions for leading handheld device manufacturers, and the mylo communicator is one of the best examples of mobile video products on the market today,” said Bill Joll, president and CEO of On2 Technologies. “Most of the leading user-generated content web sites today use our Flix Engine product and VP6 compression scheme to create and publish video, and we see the market trends moving toward mobile video sharing and consumption.”

I think trend to see video on mobile is going to be a big hit in current year. 🙂

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Mobile World Congress: Global Mobile World Awards 2008 announced

Global Mobile World Awards 2008

Mobile World Congress 2008 is over and the winners of the Global Mobile World Awards 2008 have been announced.

The winners for 2008 in different categories are:
Best Mobile Game
– Cellufun: Call of the Pharaoh, Glu Mobile: My Hangman
Best Mobile Music Service
– Omnifone: MusicStation
Best Mobile Video Service
– mywaves: mywaves
Best Mobile Social Networking Service
– BuzzCity: myGamma.com
Best Mobile Infotainment Portal for News/entertainment
– Yahoo! Connected Life: Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0
Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service
– Microsoft: Windows Mobile 6
Best Mobile Messaging Service
– Seven: System Seven 7.0
The GSMA Chairman’s Award
– Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder, Chairman & Group CEO Bharti Enterprise
Best Mobile Handset or Device
– SonyEricsson: W910 Walkman Phone, 3UK: 3 Skypephone – Highly Commended
Best Broadcast Commercial
– Safaricom: M-PESA ‘Send Money Home’ campaign
Best Mobile Advertising
– Crossmedia Avenue: AMF Pension – the MMS campaign
Best Use of Mobile for Social & Economic Development
– Grameenphone: CellBazaar
Best Network Quality Initiative
– RAD Data Communications: LA-130 Cell Gateway – Cost-Effective HSPA Backhaul
Best Service Delivery Platform
– Aepona: Aepona Telecom Web Services Platform
Best Billing and Customer Solution
– Bharti Airtel: mChek on Airtel – Mobile Payments Service
Best Roaming Product or Service
– Syniverse Technologies: Syniverse Datanet

Congratulations to all the winners!

vivek

Winners of International Mobile Gaming Awards Announced

International Mobile Gaming Awards

IMGA announced winners of 2007 International gaming awards, this year the IMGAs bring in over 400 developers from 42 countries to compete for $40, 000 worth of prizes in five categories. And event took place in the crowded GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and featured judges from Japan, Europe and the US — including Modojo’s own Justin Bailey; their job, to scrutinize 25 nominated games from the US China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, India, UK, Netherlands, France, Denmark, Spain, Poland, Sweden and Australia.

Here are the Winners for the 2007 edition of the awards:
Best Casual Game – Treasure Arm by Tequila Mobile
Best IP-based licensed – Furby Island by LemonQuest
Best 3D – One by Digital Legends
Best Gameplay – Dirk Dagger and the Fallen Idol by Jadestone
Operators Choice – Metal Gear Solid Mobile by Ideaworks3D
Public Choice Award – WRC 3D by Firemint

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Adobe Pitches New Flash Streaming Platform as iPhone Killer for Mobile Operators

Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks CS3

Adobe unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a new client/server streaming media delivery platform with a new mobile profile built to Adobe’s server backend is designed to enable personalize-able user interfaces (UIs) that can be branded by operators and delivered over the air to subscriber phones.

The new mobile profile client software empowers mobile operators to monetize the UI “in the way that ringtones and wall papers are monetized,” says Anup Murarka, director of technical marketing for Adobe’s mobile and devices unit. “You can make the entire UI brandable and we think there is a revenue opportunity there. For operators, we also can elevate key data services to the top of the UI, so you don’t force users to drill down to discover hot new services.”

It’s intresting that people are talking more about mobile experiences and “The evolution of mobile has changed with the iPhone” how it can be improve more or give a another great user experiences to mobile users. Intresting! 🙂

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Netbiscuits Embraces Adobe Flash and AJAX to Enable Rich Content for the Mobile Web

netbiscuits

Just Found this another news from PRNewswire that Netbiscuits is the first mobile software development platform to support Adobe Flash and AJAX technologies for developers to create the next-generation Mobile Internet experience. Now, media, content and advertising professionals have a full solution to deliver high-quality, tailored Web experiences that incorporate mobile advertising and shopping on virtually any mobile device.

The integration of Adobe Flash and AJAX expands the unique Biscuits concept inherent to the Netbiscuits platform, giving developers the toolkit needed to create a wide range of Mobile Internet applications including mobile advertising landing pages, content shops, audio and video downloads and more. The resulting high-end user interfaces, convenient rich media integration and visual effects virtually guarantee a more satisfying and productive consumer experience on the mobile Web.
“Netbiscuits is committed to improving the development of high quality mobile Web sites that achieve a faster path to profit from mobile Internet programs,” said Michael Neidhoefer, CEO of Dynetic Solutions, the company behind Netbiscuits. “By delivering Flash embedded in browser-based mobile applications, Netbiscuits has taken another critical step in building a mobile Web that is as rich and accessible as the PC-based Internet experience.”

The other intresting things which i found about this company is the platform integrates Bango’s mobile payment system for worldwide mobile billing and combines it with a new “Content-Shop-Biscuit.” so sailing of ringtones, wallpapers, videos can be done easily.

You can see live flash demo: hall 7, booth 7B70 in Mobile World Congress.

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Adobe Launches Flash Home and Flash Cast 2 at Mobile World Congress

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Adobe today announced that major content providers, including MTV Networks, the Nasdaq Stock Market, eBay, Reuters, Dolce & Gabbana and others are using the company’s Flash Player compatible mobile products and solutions to extend their brands to the handheld market. Leading companies are adopting Adobe® Flash® Home, a new mobile application for rich, dynamic home screens, and Adobe Flash® Cast™ 2 technology, the next generation offline portal solution, to deliver high-impact user experiences and provide instant access to data services.

The new Adobe Flash Home application combines customizable data-enabled wallpapers and home screens with live data services to provide users with more personalized mobile experiences.
Flash Cast 2 delivers rich, easy-to-use data services through mobile applications such as news, sports or entertainment channels.Licensed by operators like NTT DoCoMo, Verizon Wireless and Chunghwa Telecom, Flash Cast offers operators the ability to tailor mobile experiences based on subscriber’s profiles and device capabilities while reaching high volume, mass-market handsets.

I must say this is what i was waiting for to design more engaging experiences for Mobile and devices. Great news!! 🙂

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Nokia Maps 2.0 hits beta release

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Nokia Maps 2.0 hits beta release

Nokia Maps is approaching the release of its second major version (2.0). a semi-public beta.The new version brings a number of improvements which includes a new pedestrian mode, enhanced driving navigation mode, satellite maps, much improved search and new real time traffic information.
Some details on features are:

  • The driving navigation interface has been much enhanced, with proper turn indicators and transparent panels.
  • There’s a new pedstrian mode (Walk), with no voice instructions but with “breadcrumbs” that are shown where you have been walking so you can easily see what direction to take. (Walk is included in the driving navigation license for car navigation but can also be purchased separately at a lower cost).
  • Satellite maps are now included (Google Maps) for 200 cities worldwide. The satellite maps are downloaded over the air and are saved automatically. Next time you start Maps, the satellite maps will be there, no need to download them again. There’s a hybrid view that combines satellite view with the regular maps.
  • Improved search function with results listed by categories (i.e. streets, restaurants, towns).
  • Improved places (landmarks) functionality. Places can be saved as favourites and collections (folders) created.
  • Upgrade facilities are provided to convert old navigation licenses and maps to the newer formats. There’s also a companion (new version of the) MapLoader utility.
  • There’s real time traffic information handling that allows dynamic rerouting of navigation. This is available for 18 European countries and is a premium addon.

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White paper: Improving the Mobile User Interface through Touch

haptics mobile user interface

haptics mobile user interface

Just found this White paper about Improving the Mobile User Interface through Touch, a very intresting to read. An Independent research suggesting how haptics can be used to improve the user experience, and how operators can use haptics to increase differentiation and customer satisfaction, enhance brand, and drive additional revenue using high-value, haptic content and services.

The Word * Haptics, come from the Greek “hapesthai,” meaning “to touch.” Haptics technology used in mobile device user interfaces is also known as haptic, tactile, touch, and vibrotactile feedback.

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Mobile phone reads text to the blind

K-NFB Reading Technology

Today i found this very intresting news!! a mobile handset which released today is being touted as the smallest text-to-speech device ever created.

K-NFB Reading Technology, a joint venture between the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies, aims to help blind, partially-sighted and people with learning difficulties to ‘read’ text. The software has been designed to work with Nokia’s N82 handset to create the smallest text-to-speech reading device in the world.

The software turns the phone into a pocket-sized reader, enabling users to take a picture of most printed material and have it read back to them.

“Blind users hear the contents of the document read in clear synthetic speech, while users who can see the screen and those with learning disabilities can easily enlarge, read, track and highlight the material.”

“The software makes use of the N82’s large screen and 5-megapixel camera, and combines the best available character-recognition software with text-to-speech conversion technology.”

A communication tool which can enhance life and help to the society, is something which always i am keen to!! rather then just a fashion statement.

Have a look in to the details feature list here.

vivek

Playyoo Launches Community-Based Platform for Flash lite Mobile Casual Games

Playyoo flash lite games

Playyoo, a social networking platform for creating and sharing mobile casual games, today announced the official launch of its public beta site (www.playyoo.com and m.playyoo.com on mobile phones) giving mobile users easy access to free Adobe Flash Lite games.

“Since we first unveiled our preview site in October, Playyoo has generated strong interest within the Flash Lite and gaming communities. We’ve had visitors from 82 countries on 162 mobile networks on our mobile site, and we are seeing an enthusiastic and growing community of early adopters on our web site, including several leading Flash Lite game developers,” said Chris Pelly, CEO of Playyoo.

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