Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
Nielsen is out with some interesting stats on the US mobile Internet market. According to Nielsen, the US is the global leader (!) in mobile Internet adoption with 40 million subscribers actively using the Internet on their mobile devices. The UK, Italy, Russi and Spain round out the top five ...
Tags: cnn, google, mail, Mobile, nielsen, stats, us, yahoo
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Never mind the iPocalypse - some of the best iphone apps will be free
Let's not talk about the fact that I'm still trying to restore my contacts list - iPhone firmware 2.0 promises to make life a whole lot better. Out of the more than 500 apps that were released ...
Tags: apps, gnu, ibm, itunes, Mobile, sony, sony ericsson
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Half the World's Population Has at Least One Mobile Phone
The Daily Telegraph reports that mobile phone usage has reached 49 percent penetration rate globally in 2007, according to the International Telecommunications Union. The fastest growth was seen in developing countries in Asia and Africa. The report states that the growth ...
Tags: daily telegraph, devices, fon, gartner, kyocera, Mobile, virgin, zyb
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 by Lindsay Wong
1. O.K., Avatar, Work With Me – The Introduction of the Wii Fit
What is it? The Wii has become the best-selling gaming console of our time, selling more than 25MM systems worldwide. It appeals to people of all ages—everyone from grandparents to hardcore gamers find the Wii’s games (e.g. bowling ...
Tags: Advertising, Analytics, facebook, Mobile, nintendo, nytimes, tbs, virgin, wii
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Monday, May 19th, 2008 by John-Alistair George
What does the hotel of the future look like? It's a common question and a massive opportunity given the relationship that many travelers have with a hotel -- even more so given how far behind most hotels are from a technology standpoint. Things are starting to change, however.
Sheraton Hotels & Resorts and ...
Tags: apple, hotel, kiosk, microsoft, Mobile, sheraton, starwood, surface, travel, windows
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 by John-Alistair George
Adobe, in a bid to increase the proliferation of Flash and Air installations across platforms and devices, launched “The Open Screen Project” and removed all licensing fees for the next release of their players.
The project supporters include “Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, ...
Tags: Adobe, flash, Mobile, set top boxes, wireless
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Bank of America, in partnership with MIT Media Lab, has announced it will fund up to $15 million for the creation of the Center for Future Banking. Among the many areas to be researched are social media, virtual worlds and mobile computing and how customer experiences will be transformed by ...
Tags: banking, bankofamerica, financial services medialab, innovation, mit, Mobile, research
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
How do you design one of the first multi-touch, multi-user interface experiences for a retail environment?
That's what our Avenue A | Razorfish design team solved for Microsoft and AT&T Wireless. Last week, at the CTIA Wireless Conference, the companies announced their initiative to bring Microsoft Surface to life in ...
Tags: apple, at&t wireless, computing, CTIA, design, development, device recognition, environment, iphone, microsoft, Mobile, multi-touch, multi-user, surface
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 by John-Alistair George
Yesterday at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas, Yahoo introduced the new version of their Mobile search. This latest incarnation of mobile search lets Web Publishers integrate search into their mobile sites. In my opinion, Yahoo is the leader in the mobile web application department. At least ...
Tags: CTIA, Mobile, oneSEARCh, search, Voice, wireless, yahoo
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008 by Marisa Gallagher
Rolling out one of the biggest -- if not the only -- large scale urban 2D barcode program in the U.S., CitySearch will now be tagging scores of local San Francisco restaurants with the pixelated codes. Partnering with Audio Antenna and ScanBuy, CitySearch announced their plans to put up ...
Tags: 2d, antenna, avenue a | razorfish, barcodes, japan, location, Mobile, scanbuy, SmartPox, sprint, wired, wireless
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Monday, February 25th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
There's an interesting article by Jack Ewing in BusinessWeek that talks about how companies like Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens are embracing renewable energy in Asia and Africa in order to supply rural areas with mobile services. According to Ewing, growth in the mobile industry will be heavily contingent upon the ...
Tags: base, energy, interface, Mobile, renewable, stations
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Monday, February 18th, 2008 by John-Alistair George
On February 12 a panel of human behavior and technology experts gathered at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. One of the sessions was titled "Its the User Experience, Stupid".
David Benjamin, from EE Times, wrote an excellent piece on the conference.
He wrote that Anup Murarka sighted a ChangeWave ...
Tags: apple, Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, feature, interface, iphone, Mobile, phones, user interface
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Qualcomm, ARM, NEC, and Texas Instruments are just a few of the companies showcasing prototypes running Google's Android operating system at this year's GSMA World Congress in Barcelona. Despite the fact that these prototypes were implemented on circuit boards rather than actual phones and the Android UI itself is still ...
Tags: action, google, googlephone, interface, Mobile
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Yahoo launched its oneConnect social mobile application in Barcelona this week. The application is essentially an address book on steroids - it aggregates social networks such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and LinkedIn in addition to messaging services including Yahoo Messenger, GoogleTalk, AIM, MSN, and SMS. Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and ...
Tags: enter, interface, Mobile, phonebook, social, Social Media
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 by Mia Northrop
Once the home of privacy policy, terms & conditions and regulatory links and other low priority must-haves, the site footer is enjoying a renaissance as a strategic navigation and branding tool. The footer is often a repository for boring fine -print links, but Pop Upon Magazine has showcased 15 ...
Tags: archive, blog, design, Design Tactics, digital, Digital Branding, evolution, footer, interface, microsoft, Mobile, Web 2.0
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 by Mia Northrop
Schmap, an international city guide mashup with Google Maps, provides visitors with numerous ways to access their entertainment and attractions content. Users can visit the online site, download a desktop application or add a widget to their own site or blog. Interestingly, there is a sense that each access ...
Tags: 3D Interfaces, Design Tactics, like, Mobile, Social Media, Web 2.0, widget, with, would
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
The high bid for the much-coveted nation-wide C-block of 700 megahertz (MHz) band wireless spectrum being auctioned by the FCC stands at $4,713,823,000. Since it has exceeded the $4.6 billion reserve price, whoever wins this auction will be required to provide open access to competitors as well as all devices ...
Tags: access, interface, Mobile, open, spectrum
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Rather than develop a device to compete with the iPhone, Nokia is focusing on a "UI accelerator kit" that will work with any device running Symbian S60. This is an approach similar to that being adopted by Microsoft for its Windows Mobile 7 platform.
Not content to simply emulate the iPhone's ...
Tags: archive, Mobile, nokia, phone, Technology, working
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
Sprint is setting the pace for U.S. wireless carriers by supporting 2D barcode scanning in '08. The company is pushing out the service under two different monikers: "Phone IQ" and "2-D Intelligence". It's no secret that we here at Avenue A | Razorfish have been big proponents of 2D ...
Tags: barcode, launches, Mobile, reader, Social Media, sprint, Web 2.0
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Soon you'll be able to talk trash to your fellow gamers over VOIP. This week at Consumer Electronics Show Sony announced that Skype will be included on the PSP system. Calls to other people using Skype on PCs or PSPs are free, all you need to do is ...
Tags: Mobile, psp, skype, sony, Web 2.0
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