The Windows Live Barcode website seems to be back. Now under a new address: it's no longer only barcode.ideas.live.com, it's now barcode.ideas.live-int.com.

See my post from October last year.

Mobile Life 2012 by Younghee Jung from Nokia

Younghee Jung leads a multidisciplinary research team at Nokia called “Insight and Innovation.” She talks about what to expect next from your mobile phone, the newest ideas in the pipeline, and the questions that Nokia is asking women.

According to Younghee Jung, there will be a shift in the near future from getting connected to whom we are getting connected to and how and when we are getting connected.

Handbag designers should listen to the cellphone-handbag discussion from the workshop.

Via Bryan.

PS:
Presentation is also available as a podcast on iTunes

Three Trends Driving Big Games - Social Un-tethered Games With Computers In Them

I think there are three key trends that will drive this concept of Big Games way beyond it’s current niche role:

Current Trends:

1. The rise of mobile converged devices - computer, phone, internet access, camera, audio
2. The rise of the mobile “evernet” - persistent connections for mobile devices (3G, 4G and Wimax)
3. Co-creation - the growth youtube, wikipedia, blogs, podcasts is an indication of motivation

Future trend:

• Augmented reality - location based meta data in the real world, imagine wikipedia overlaying the street your walking down.

See also:
Desktop Tower of Money: 3 tips to profit from casual games

We did already write about Nokia's initiative for Mobile Codes (we call them also Mobile Tags). Now they also created a proper subdomain: http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/scan.htm.

Nokia's preinstalled Mobile Code Reader

If you have a Nokia N93, N93i, N95 or E90, you will find the Nokia barcode reader preinstalled on your device, ready to scan mobile codes around you.

And thank you Nokia for pointing also to the Kaywa Reader.


I had several interesting talks with operators, handset manufacturers and clients during the last weeks and all of them understand how important it is to support the ISO certified standard codes: QR Codes and Datamatrix.

Once there is a consensus (which should be achieved this year), all major handset manufacturers (Nokia, Sharp, Panasonic, Asus do it already; Motorola, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, LG should join them ) will hopefully preinstall mobile code readers which support both QR Code and Datamatrix. If this happens mobile codes will go mainstream even more quickly than in Japan.

Why? There was never a better time for it, as mobile codes could give the needed boost to the mobile internet.
And now we have finally enough handsets which are ready for the mobile internet (in 2008 every subscriber will have a mobile internet capable phone in Switzerland), data prices are coming down (in Switzerland changes are announced for Q4, Orange UK is now at £8/month), there are enough interesting mobile services, there are several companies who can build mobile code readers and mobile codes are simply the easiest, most efficient, cheapest and consumer-friendly way to access anything with your mobile.

Japan showed the way, now the rest of the world has only to catch up.

Mobile Novel Sales Growing

The Economist has caught-on to the growth of mobile novels in Japan noting; “with sales of books in decline, a new market has come as a godsend to Japan’s publishing companies. Sales of mobile-phone
novels—books that you download and read, usually in instalments, on the screen of your keitai, or mobile phone—have jumped from nothing five years ago to over ¥10 billion ($82m) a year today and are still growing fast.” BusinessWeek ran a good op-ed on this subject last month as well.

The Girls Love Mobile Manga
Mobile Manga Previewer


If you understand german, you can also start reading the first chapter of the first swiss mobile novel here: Sabina Altermatt's Nervengift



Also available as Podcast


See older posts about the topic:
Mobile Mangas: Women at 11 pm (28.10.2006)
Mobile Mangas: 40 cents the story (12.7.2006)
The first swiss phone novel (20.2.2006)
What Can You Learn from a Cell Phone? (14.6.2005)
Novels delivered to your phone (3.11.2004)

Yesterday Howie Sennhauser from MNC, Alcatel-Lucent and Roland Greber from Postfinance and myself did our Orbit-iEX seminar Handy-Commerce 2007: M-Marketing, Tagging, M-Payment.

Here is my part (in german):
Mobile Tags (Slides as PDF, 4.8 MB) presentation at Orbit-iEX.

Crossposted at: roger.kaywa.ch


PS:
Funny: Jürg Stuker checks in this Orbit-iEX bog post, if all the speakers who used the word 2.0 in their presentations, also used some web 2.0 tools to speak about Orbit-iEX. Not that many - he found out.

Cool, the Musée d'Art Contemporain (myspace link) in Québec starts using QR Codes.

Via Infopub

30: Roger Fischer about QR-Codes



Thank you Mario. I hope you enjoyed your stay in Zurich.

In the interview I explain my view of the 2d barcode space. Readers of this blog probably already know my spiel, but here it is again:
To make the 2d barcode space interesting for everyone, we need open ISO-standards like Datamatrix and QR Code. These two have been adopted either by industry heavyweights like Nokia (worldwide) and Motorola (in Taiwan) or by the leading mobile internet telcos like NTTDoCoMo, KDDI, Softbank and subsequently by all japanese handset manufacturers (Sharp, Panasonic...).

So if you have developed your own 2d barcode, that's fine and cool - there are really good ones out there -, but support at least one of the two open standards with the full URL possibility. It's a matter of time (till all camera's are as good as the ones they use in Japan) and common sense (it's simple and everybody understands it right away) till we all will converge to use the full URL to access common mobile sites.

Second Life QR Code Service

See also:
QR Code in Second Life pointing to the QR Code of approx31. Nice;)
Virtualized Worlds and Mobile Phones
QR Codes jetzt auch in Second Life

Camellia Introduction

NTT and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation grant royalty-free licenses of the essential patents for Camellia in order to establish a leadership role toward achieving a low-cost secure advanced telecommunication society through the proliferation and promotion of Camellia that contribute to the construction of an environment in which various security products and services can be used widely.