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Open Handset Alliance and Android

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:02:16 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy
clipper's remarks: Um, i don't really get it. But it sounds freaking awesome. haha.

Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we’re not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing — the Open Handset Alliance and Android — is more significant and ambitious than a single phone. In fact, through the joint efforts of the members of the Open Handset Alliance, we hope Android will be the foundation for many new phones and will create an entirely new mobile experience for users, with new applications and new capabilities we can’t imagine today

Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications — all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation.

Tags: gphone, google

Firefox coming to iPhone

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:17:07 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy

Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

The iPhone, with its fully-functioning Safari browser, showed us that mobile browsing need not be a compromise. Now, the folks at Mozilla are working on a mobile version of Firefox.

Tags: iphone, firefox

Program that transfers your voicemail to text

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:17:50 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy

Clip Source: simulscribe.com

SimulScribe offers a simpler way to handle pesky voicemail.

SimulScribe converts your voicemail into text messages and then sends them directly to your mobile phone, Blackberry, Goodlink enabled phone and/or your email account.

You can instantly see who has called and what they said, whether you are sitting in a business meeting or traveling on the road. Your voicemail functionality does not change; it can still be listened to and stored for later use.

Try Simulscribe for 1 Free Week!

Tags: mobile

iPhone Countdown Site

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:20:00 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy

Clip Source: www.iphonecountdown.com

137 days,
5 hours,
46 minutes,
37 seconds
(till June).

Until then, this will
have to do. (pdf)

Tags: mobile, mobile+iphone

Social Maps

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:56:57 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy

Clip Source: gigaom.com

We haven’t exactly been searching for a mapped-out musical bike tour of Seattle¹, or a map that plots the public bathrooms of the world (nicely named Crap, I gotta go!²) But social maps, where users can “geotag” photos, text and video with location data and pin this info to an online interactive map, are weirdly addictive to both make and explore.

Already big companies like Yahoo see the potential. This year, Flickr added geotagging with a drag-n-drop⁸ interface with Yahoo maps. A day after the service went live, Flickr said 1.2 million photos had been geotagged⁹ — check out the more recent map of Flickr’s geotagged photos here¹⁰. Next year, we’re thinking more mainstream photo-sharing services will better leverage location data and geotagging maps.

Nokia, always ready to oblige, hooked up with Flickr¹² and announced devices like the N95¹³ that will make geotagging and uploading to Flickr easier. Yahoo also has a research division¹⁴ working on a mobile application called Zonetag¹⁵, which makes it easier to tag and upload photos from a wider array of camera phones. Next year we expect to start seeing people actually using these and other mobile services and devices to geotag content, given few people are actually using them now.

Tags: social+maps

Personalize your voicemail for each caller

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:46:00 GMT

clipped by: juliapatriciaroy
clipper's remarks: Somebody read my mind, creative personalized messages here I come!

Clip Source: youmail.com

Individualize Your Voice Greetings

YouMail is the new voice mail for cell phones. Among many features, it allows you to record unique voice greetings for anyone who calls you, based on their caller ID. Individualize your voice greetings for friends, family or important callers while maintaining a standard greeting for work and unknown callers.

Check your voice messages from any phone or via the web and forward favorite messages to anyone via email. Have fun with the already infamous DITCHMAIL feature that hangs up on unwanted callers after your custom greeting for them is played.

YouMail works with your existing phone and carrier and is easy to trial without risk. YouMail is free for users who sign up now while there are still beta accounts available and easy to change back and forth between your current voice mail and YouMail.

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Compatible with the following phone services:

Tags: youmail, mobile, mobile+youmail