Mobile Clipper is a new internet service which allows users to create personalised clips of web page content -- including news, sports results, weather, and flight information -- that can then be viewed on cell phones. It's also aimed at companies for clipping productivity data such as address books, delivery data and so on.

Via Network Edge

The visible difference in camera phones
by Ken'ichi Mineta

Writer's Note: If you've never had a phone equipped with a camera, you can't fully understand how the camera phone changes things. Here's what I learned in my first two weeks with a camera phone: Those who say "I don’t need a camera on my phone" may not be saying so for long.

from the Keitai Log

This is an interesting read: Doing Business With the Telecom Industry.

Dan Scherlis on Telco vs. Games Cultures
presented originally at GDC 2003

Dan has thought about, written about and lived these issues for the last three years. In this presentation, he summarizes the issues that both sides face in dealing with each other. A fantastic presentation.

Nokia to intro Perl/Python on mobiles

Big news for geeks everywhere—Nokia has announced it will make software to run Python on future phones!

Mobile Phones Enter 2-Mpixel Era

Auto-focus (AF) mechanisms and electronic flashes are likely to become more common in mobile phone cameras once the 2-megapixel mark is reached. AF in particular will be essential, because the depth of field of the fixed-focus design is quite shallow once the pixel pitch drops to under about 3 micrometers.

Via Smartmobs

Experts: Phones won’t replace cameras:

Proving once again that, “they just don’t get it”, so called experts have decided camera phones won’t replace old fashioned cameras.

Techdirt writes in "Missing The Point On Camera Phones":

Sometimes you want to sit down folks and have them read (once again) Clayton Christensen's research on how disruptive technologies work. What's amazing is that, despite the popularity of his work, those who are facing the challenge of a disruptive technology never seem to notice it until it's too late.

Right he is, but the phones are getting quickly better and better. I never thought last year that I would enjoy the picture quality of a GX 20 only a year later.

Centre for Mobilities Research Conference:

How are new technologies of information and mobile communication replacing, converging with, or in other ways re-shaping ‘older technologies’ and patterns of corporeal travel? How are new technologies of surveillance and information retrieval affecting the constitution of borders, belonging, and ‘out of place’ bodies? What kinds of new ‘risk society’, what new ‘disasters’, are these mobilities generating? In what ways does life ‘on screen’ replace, redirect, or re-scale life ‘on the move’? Do ‘cybercities’ and ‘intelligent’ transport systems offer a new connectivity that can solve the impasse of transportation failure and social exclusion? How are the new possibilities for mobile communication changing the boundaries between the private and the public, with what impact on forms of citizenship, participation and democracy? How do the contemporary materialities of the ‘mobile life’ either reproduce or challenge existing forms of difference and inequality?

Via Anne Galloway

Emerging Business Applications in the Japanese Mobile Internet by Professor Jeffrey L. Funk, author of Mobile Disruption.

It is ironic that there are probably many more mobile Internet business users in Japan than in the United States or Europe in spite of the fact that U.S. and European service providers initially placed much more emphasis on business users than Japanese service providers (e.g., see J.P. Morgan, 2000).

The reason for this unexpected turn of events is that screen savers and ring tones -- and the micro-payment services that support these contents -- created a critical mass of users in Japan, which in turn has driven innovation in the market. Improvements in displays, camera phones, application processors, memory and software are improving the performance-cost ratios of business applications (Funk, 2001; Funk, 2003).

See also:
Disruption! How the Mobile Phone is Changing the Japanese Internet and Software Industries (PDF)