Smart Company have published a list of Australia’s Top 10 Mobile Moguls. The list doesn’t actually include moguls in the traditional sense (power within an industry and having accumulated significant wealth from the industry – src), more like the people who’ve worked hard to pioneer mobile industry innovation and standards. Great to see Oliver Weidlich [...]
Telstra’s network advantage seems to be showing in the results of this Wired survey on iPhone 3G speeds. U.S. carrier AT&T tied for third with Telstra, Telia and Softbank, where users reported average download speeds of roughly 990 Kbps. Australian carriers Optus and Virgin users reported the slowest speeds of about 390 Kbps on average. [...]
When the iPhone was launched there were numerous ‘mobile web is dead’ debates, as the launch led with the demo of viewing the New York Times in it’s large screen glory. Now, it appears, the NYT is prone to commenting on the threat to the desktop PC that the iPhone poses, with new focused and [...]
News Digital Media today announced the launch of specially designed versions of its websites for the Apple iPhone. As well as being able to view News Digital Media’s entire portfolio of websites, iPhone users can access iPhone optimised versions of: – Leading news and information website, NEWS.com.au – Local business directory, truelocal.com.au – Music and [...]
Lists 10 of the best mobile sites and apps, judged on Ease-of-Use, Interaction design and Visual WOW. The PDF is available here. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I think some of the judging sounds like it comes from the software feature list. Like Shozu: One click uploading to over 30 online social networks, blogs, [...]
See your location on the map, with or without GPS. Save time and tedious keystrokes finding where you are, what’s around you, and how to get there. Watch the video on the right to see how it works. Press “0″ and look for the blue dot: or Google Maps with My Location (beta) While not [...]
Act V: The act of remembering Another possible change: with connected books, the tether between the author and the book is still active after purchase. Errata can be corrected instantly. Updates, no problem. Newsweek, The Future of Reading Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this [...]
Guillaume Thoreau calls the connectivity model on the Kindle a breakthrough: That’s what I call something huge in term of user experience: no sync via a PC, no WiFi hot-spot hunting, no subscription fee, no subscription at all! It’s a naturally connected device. It sounds like it – assuming the closed purchase model of buying [...]
I. The Google Phone: The Story So Far, Some Launch Details & What’s Next « GigaOM Here is what I have been able to gather from my sources: An announcement will likely be made Nov. 13th or Nov. 18th. Handset makers will use a Google Mobile OS platform. Google Mobile OS uses a highly optimized [...]
On Thursday, the reference department initiated service via txt messaging. By doing so, we’ve joined a small handful of academic libraries making this format available to patrons. In order to txt the reference desk, patrons should dial 265010, enter our IM screen name “azkzaklive†followed by their question and press enter. The question will arrive [...]
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