scanR

Use scanR to save, send and share any document or whiteboard. scanR is great when you’re away from your office or don’t have access to a scanner, copier or fax. Try using scanR to create digital copies of:

• Contracts and signature pages
• Whiteboard drawings
• Meeting notes
• Any letter-sized or larger document

Mobile faxing and copying
scanR enables you to email digital copies or send faxes while travelling or at home, without seeking and paying for a copy center. scanR can send copies to any email address or North American fax number.

There is another company who knows how to do that and they do it right on the handset and give the user immediate feedback as to the quality of the scan. And they have more interesting stuff in the pocket than just that. I'll soon report more.

Film Network, the BBC’s online short film showcase is also available on mobile. The mobile version offers very short films, specifically designed for mobile devices. To access the service type the address -
Access the Filmnetwork on your mobile

See also site help: Film Network on your mobile

Nokia expects more user-generated content on mobile Web

While mobile telecommunications providers worldwide are spurring on content providers to target the mobile space, Nokia is expecting that half of web content accessible to mobile phones would be user-generated.

[...] "It’s personal empowerment, especially when mobile phones become commodities and people prefer to use them over their PCs. With their phones, they could share photos, videos and post these on their blogs. The more the devices and services are available, the more user content can be generated," Nokia Asia Pacific Multimedia Experiences director Jawahar Kanjilal said.

A Nokia-sponsored research conducted last year, which covered 5,500 respondents in 11 countries, showed that 44 percent want to replace their standalone digital cameras with phones that have integrated cameras.

Another 67 percent want to use their phones to download music and browse the Internet.

Via Amy

iPod City Guides
In Switzerland Basel, Lausanne and Geneva are covered.
Here is what you can expect from such a city guide: Basel

PSP City Guides

Sony have confirmed the launch of 'Planet PSP' (Working title) for September 2006. Planet PSP will have interactive City guides for 6 European Cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Paris, Prague and Rome. Each guide has been developed with the young city breaker and frequent traveller in mind and comes packed with information on how to experience the very best places in town - from the latest restaurants to the most underground of clubs - along with videos, audio walks, photography, maps and pre-planned itineraries to suit every sort of visit, and every type of adventurous traveller.

Barbara Ballard defines a device classification scheme based on user needs and behaviors in A New Device Taxonomy. I welcome this approach as I also consider the old classification smart phone, PDA, mobile phone as absolutely irrelevant.

• General purpose work devices, currently dominated by desktop computers, tablets, laptops, and the like. These devices can do a wide variety of information-centered tasks. Contrast these with special-purpose work devices, such as the UPS Diad delivery driver device. Users are likely to have a general purpose work device available or carried while working, but not while outside of work hours.
• General purpose entertainment devices, such as the iPod video and Sony Playstation Portable. These devices might be game-centric, book-centric, or media-centric, but are intended to readily support the use of other entertainment media. They may even have communications service.
• Communications and control devices, which include phones, desktop phones, PDA, Blackberries, and a plethora of future devices. These devices that allow the user to communicate with others via voice, text, and other methods.
• Specialized devices, or information appliances. These include watches, iPods, ATMs, GameBoys, and so forth. These devices are focused on delivering a specific experience to the user, and if they do other things, those secondary items are very secondary. An iPod has a calendar on it, but it in no way interferes with the use of the device as a music player.

But I think even these categories - especially work, entertainment, communication - will more and more be intertwined. Right now these categories make still sense, but not for long. Even today police officers play GTA with PSPs to learn to drive better with their real cars. Is this work or entertainment?

She continues with the Personal Communications Device (PCD) from the communication and control category. I find the examples she gives very interesting. Then she creates new categories like voice-centric, messaging-centric and information-centric:

A PCD is always carried, and is thus described by The Carry Principle. It is multi-purpose, but will be configured to market segments’ needs. Like some drivers need small efficient cars and others need large trucks for farm work, some PCD users need a messaging-centric device and others need a voice-centric device. Still others, such as doctors, may actually need an information-centric device.

Couldn't it be that we use devices according to our own personal characteristics. Some people like to watch, others to read and still others to listen and they will most often choose and/or use a device accordingly - regardless of such categories as work, entertainment or communication.

Over 50% of young people use mobile to interact with brands

According to new research, 57% of 18- to 34-year-olds have interacted with a company via an SMS short code number and 60% have used their phone to access mobile content in the past three months.

The research, from the latest Enpocket Mobile Media Monitor UK conducted by Enpocket with Harris Interactive, also showed increased interest in content applications such as music (34%), movies (22%) and photos (52%).

The research found that 18-34s were most interested in content services. When asked what applications they would use if price was not a barrier, 67% selected sharing pictures with family and friends, 58% in downloading songs, 53% in video calling, and 39% in watching movie trailers or sporting highlight video clips.

Via Laurent Haug's Mobile Generation

Btw. thanks Laurent;)

The title in English is “The potential of user generated content in mobil networks by the example of a concept of a mobile Blogging portal in Austria”. The research aims to find out critical success factors of moblog communities and gives solutions and hints for solving them.
Questionnaire by Eric Holzbauer


Company: Kaywa AG
Interview partner: Roger Fischer
Position: CEO
Date: May 4 Start: 22:56 End: 23:51

Well Tomi, it's going pretty fast. That means that the mobile internet will be on all phones in 2008. Thanks for the tip.

Jorma Ollila already told us that we should watch the emerging markets. On tuesday I was at a Gartner presentation by Reto Schmid* and the non-availabilty of a good IT-infrastructure was considered as dangerous for emerging markets. My thinking now is, maybe they just skip the PC world and start doing things via mobile.

Qualcomm forecast shows strength of mobile market

About 60 per cent of handset sales growth comes from emerging markets, accounting for the strong sales of low-priced chips.

On Monday, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported sales of all types of chips rose 7.3 per cent in the first quarter to $59.1bn. But it said the growth was driven by very strong sales of mobile phones, with unit sales up 31 per cent from the first quarter of 2005 and expected to reach 1bn this year.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said that replacement cycles for phones declining from an average of 26 months to 18 months along with robust demand in China were two factors behind the growth.

“China now has approximately 410m cell phone subscribers,” said George Scalise, SIA president. “It is adding new subscribers at the rate of 5m a month, and Chinese consumers appear to be choosing high-end phones with increased functionality.”

PS:
a) The presentation by Reto Schmid* was not technical, and that was good and people seemed to like it. But the few slides which were, were all about SOA, CRM etc.

b) When someone said, that the future looks bright again for IT Managers, I had to react. "Guys, it's not about technology, and the IT managers will have a hard time to follow the global innovations which will emerge quicker and quicker. So I see the future rather as a traditional IT manager's hell."

I am pleased then to read on Gartners own blogs a post which is very much in line with my own thinking.

MySpace-Ready Mobile Phones

What I find interesting is the "Gifting and Begging" feature that lets users either purchase content through their mobiles to have it delivered to another user or they can "beg" another member to purchase content for them.

See also:
Helio Services
and the contender of Myspace: Cyworld US