OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms. -openmoko Back in an old post about Mobile music & DRM I suggested that an open platform handset was a paradigm busting market opportunity. OpenMoco seems to [...]
Surj Patel is leading an open Linux mobile development effort. This could be the start of the Open Platform Handset that I have been hoping will develop.
via i-mode Business Strategy: Yahoo to launch it’s own billing solution for mobile content in Japan. It means they can now provide full access, content and billing to end users independently from carriers
Would you like porn with that? Mobile phone retailers in China are offering free adult video clips as a value add for handset purchasers. – Link
This article reports a study of 1,000 adults carried out by Intel and finds “nearly one in five people admitted to being unreliable about timekeeping because they had the “safety net” of a mobile.Three quarters said mobiles had made them more “flexible” when meeting friends – allowing them to arrange or cancel social gatherings at the last minute.Many said that text messaging and e-mails let them be in contact with more people and “manage” their relationships more easily,while one in five said it had improved their confidence about approaching the opposite sex for dates”.
I’m running late because of my phone
For a few years now, my social circle has used the expression
“If you don’t have a phone you aren’t a person”
Without the flexibility that near instant communication brings you need to block out specific times & ensuring nothing changes en route for every meeting. This raises the ‘cost’ of making plans to an unacceptable level.
“Why DRM Will Kill Mobile Music – Now, how this all affects mobile is that there will be a huge tide of MP3 players from a number of different vendors coming into the market, in the form of music-enabled phones. So what’s going to happen when you’ve got all these different phones being billed by [...]