Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life

"Start with this book if you want to understand the broadest social and technological impacts of the mobile phone. Although focused on the keitai in Japanese society, the authors provide a conceptual toolkit for examining the effects of emerging communication practices across the boundaries of nationality and discipline. This is not just about a technology or the way it is used in one country. It's about understanding one of the most important ways that twenty-first century lives will differ from those of the twentieth century."
--Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

See the blogentry by Mizuko Ito and the introduction PDF.

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See also:
Technologies of the Childhood Imagination: Yugioh, Media Mixes, and Everyday Cultural Production

MEX: The PMN Mobile User Experience conference (Conference Blog)
MEX is the strategy forum for pioneers of mobile user experience
London, 6 - 7th September 2005

Mobile Business Forum '05
Berne, 5 - 7th September 2005

Memory, Memory, Memory

The biggest enemy when creating Flash Lite content is not performance, but running out of memory. I touched on this already in various places throughout this article, and it really is most likely the issue on which you'll spend most of your debugging time. First, you need to realize that file size is not equal to memory used. File size is an important indicator, but it is simply not the same as how much memory your movie needs to run.

from Best Practices for Porting Flash Animation to Mobile Phones

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Jérôme showed me yesterday the new Nokia Mobile Search. On his UMTS phone iit was really quick. Chapeau!

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