“Any A.I. smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.” – Ian Mcdonald – River of Gods
TED is a super resource to hear, see and experience the vision of tomorrow.
Check out this TED Talk : Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech
The technology is just commodity stuff and this could be build at the price of a normal smartphone.You can do stuff like simply project a dialpad on your hand and start dialling a phone number .. awesome !
This puts mobile computing in a totally new perspective …
Nice Windows video :
According to this newsitems, Vodafone has become a BPOS Partner
LONDON (Reuters) – Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone network operator by revenue, is to offer Microsoft online services to small and medium-sized businesses through the computer, phone and browser, it said on Thursday.
The group said it would sell and manage Microsoft products such as e-mail, calendars, portals, instant messaging and web conferencing tools.
Vodafone said Microsoft Online Services are now available in the United States and would be available in other markets in the first half of 2009.
"The demands on our customers are changing dramatically in today’s complex business and economic environment," said Tom Craig, Global Business Services Director of Vodafone Group.
"By combining Vodafone’s fixed and mobile communication services with Microsoft Online Services we can provide all the elements of a fully hosted communications solution."
The two companies said they also intended to continue growing the partnership through future collaboration and development.
Source: Vodafone to offer Microsoft online services (Reuters)
Mary-Jo Foley provides a good overview of Windows Mobile solutions announced at the WMC yesterday:
During a February 16 press conference at the Mobile World Congress show, CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees that the company is making some tweaks to its mobile strategy. The list of what Microsoft didn’t end up making at the show is as interesting as what it did.
Continue at source: Cheat sheet: A quick guide to Microsoft’s mobile announcements
Experimenting a bit with Microsoft Tag. Will put it on a coffeemug or something 🙂
Microsoft Tag : http://tag.microsoft.com
Major win for Microsoft in the field of Internet Search …
… Verizon Communications Inc has chosen Microsoft Corp to provide Internet search services for cell phones, in what is seen as a blow to rivals Google Inc and Yahoo Inc.
Verizon Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said on Wednesday that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would announce the deal later in the day at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Seidenberg, speaking at a Citigroup conference, gave no further details.
The deal follows more than a year of speculation on who would become the default mobile search provider for Verizon Wireless, which is set to surpass AT&T Inc as the No. 1 U.S. mobile carrier after it closes its purchase of smaller operator Alltel later this week.
"It’s certainly a feather in Microsoft’s cap. Tough news for Google and tougher news for Yahoo," CCS Insight analyst John Jackson said of the agreement. …
Source : MSN Money
No this is not an aillness …
The Redfly is an awesome companion to my Palm Treo Pro (or any Windows Mobile device for that matter).
It is basicly a Netbook without storage, powerfull CPU, etc. An “empty” device which connects to you MObile device and acts as a Remote Desktop …
I did notice that the price increased again, that had a discount until last week. As the price is around that of a Netbook I expect they will drop the prices …
The iPhone is a very good example of software + Services. A connected smartphone with a lot (or shoudl I say a huge number of) local applications. Over 50% of the iPhone users use 11+ apps …
The Apple iPhone’s Application Store is considered an innovative step forward in creating a true convergence device. Although mobile apps are not new, from the T-Mobile G1 to the Blackberry Bold, everyone is hopping on the bandwagon.
But are iPhone owners really interested in mobile applications any more than other Smartphone users, or is it just hype? To find out, I looked at some survey data from Compete’s new Smartphone Intelligence product.
Source: Smartphone Intelligence
- Smartphone owners are more likely to bypass applications altogether: 34% of Smartphone owners have not added an application to their phone, versus just 7% of iPhone users.
- iPhone users are more likely to have added a number of different applications to their device: 72% had more than five applications on their phones, compared to only 23% of other Smartphone owners.
Source: The Mobile Application Rush: Is the iPhone Really Leading the Way?
Ik begrijp hier niets van … De snelheid van internettoegang wordt met een factor 10 verlaagd en de gebruiker zou hier niets van merken ?? Dit lijkt me in deze tijd een tegengestelde beweging …
Telecombedrijf Vodafone gaat de snelheid van zijn mobiele internetaanbod verlagen naar een ‘marktconform’ niveau van 256 kbps. Nu is dat nog maximaal 3600 kbps.
Volgens woordvoerster Nicole Tuts van het bedrijf geldt de verlaging alleen voor nieuwe klanten en voor abonnees die hun contract verlengen. Bestaande klanten houden de huidige snelheid. De prijs van het abonnement blijft gelijk.
Het bedrijf zegt dat de meeste klanten weinig of niets van de verlaging zullen merken, omdat ze mobiel internet alleen gebruiken om te surfen of hun e-mail te lezen. Dat kan bij de lagere snelheid ook prima. Volgens Tuts bieden Vodafones concurrenten vergelijkbare snelheden aan.
This is a very cool site, developed by Sprint. It is sort of the ultimate widgets combined providing a realtime view on what’s happening : NOW …
Kudos to Ben 😉
