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I see where you are my dear

Google is launching a new application called Latitude which is based on their maps. It helps track your friends in real time through their mobile location. Google knows quite a lot on your online life, now they even track you outside. Somehow brilliant.

That much with your future mobile

This Japanese video gives some clue on future mobile capabilities. Amazing.

Control lights with Twitter

Twitter is used here in an unexpected way: to execute a machine-to-machine action. This video demonstrates the control of lights from a mobile phone via Twitter. The link gives more details.
Control Lights with Twitter from Justin Wickett on Vimeo.

Browse the web and send to your phone

The pictures says it all: ZipClick is a cool application to send videos, pictures, text or ringtones in seconds to your phone. Just install the free app and right-click your mouse. That's it!

Future Mobile Phone powered by Nanotechnologies

  Imagine a mobile phone that you can fold around your arm. Imagine a phone that cleans itself. Imagine a phone whose shape is changing to adapt to your style. Welcome to the world of nanotechnologies. Nokia - in association with Cambridge University - is working on a prototype called Morph to demonstrate possibilities offered by nanotechnologies in the future. According to the manufacturer such concepts could reach the consumer market in the next ten to fifteen years.

To do Reminder per mail or SMS

There are lots of online services with which you can list up things you want to be reminded of. This one called remindTron has the advantage of being extremely simple and efficient. You can be alerted per mail or SMS and can access / edit your reminders in one click.

Instant RSS feeds to your mobile

  Pingie is the easiest RSS to SMS platform you can find. Put your mobile number and the feed address and that´s it. The management of your feeds is also very easy and quick.

  

Web star Google goes mobile, mobile star Nokia goes Web. Who wins?

Google has intiated a big move into the mobile business with Android (see previous articles). Now it´s Nokia to be under the limelights. Nokia is moving one step ahead into the web business. Latest move with Ovi. Ovi means portal in their complicated finnish language, it´s a social community. Photos, Maps, Music, Games. CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo: "We forecast internet services will amount for 100 billion euros in 2010". 

Hyperlinks in the real world

  Nokia has revealed a new technology called Point & Find which will revolutionize the way we interact in the real world. Point your mobile - any set equipped with a camera and an internet connection - at say  a cinema in front of you. The device recognizes the object and then displays related information, in that case it might be the programme of movies currently running. In a later future, you can imagine pointing at any person in the street to get the webpage of that person displayed on your phone as long as the person allows to share such information. Let´s see if governments would allow this. Via Gizmodo.

German rockband integrates revolutionary QR mobile code in MySpace to promote their music

 

German band Out of Square integrated the revolutionary QR code in their MySpace page. Take a picture with your mobile of the code appearing next to the song. By doing that, you download the promotional version of their song. (NB: older mobile phones don´t support). A new way to widespread a multimedia content or communication message to the masses.