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CategoryYahoo, Motorola deal highlights struggle for portal power
Yahoo has agreed a deal with Motorola to pre-install its Yahoo Go mobile services on mid- and high-end handsets, including email, search and address book capabilities. The portal already has a similar deal with Nokia and has been actively buildin…
KDDI, Qualcomm to develop own OS and platform
KDDI, Japan’s second largest network operator, has announced it is developing a standard platform for handsets in collaboration with Qualcomm. The operator will require all its handset suppliers to use the platform, which includes everything from…
Managing the personal communications space
The Small Surfaces blog has a link to an interesting thesis by Ana Camila Amorim, who is taking a masters in interaction design at the Interaction Design Insititute Ivrea. In her paper, Ana explores how management of the user’s personal communica…
LogicaCMG’s reality check
LogicaCMG, which supplies and manages a wide range of customer service and delivery platforms for mobile operators, has published some interesting research claiming 58 percent of users don’t know the make and model of their handset. This, presuma…
DoCoMo chooses search engine partners while wider market remains uncertain
NTT DoCoMo has selected nine partners for a new keyword search feature to be included at the top of the i-Mode homepage. The prime location is one of the most valuable pieces of screen real estate in Japan, reaching DoCoMo’s 46.7m i-Mode subscrib…
Pt. 2, Human integration and the death of the device
This is part two of a two part essay by Marek Pawlowski on the future of user interfaces, mobile handsets and human integration. Part one was published last Friday and can be read here.
Direct integration, it would seem, is a step too far for …
Tira’s Jump updated to meet demands of content publishers
Tira Wireless has announced the latest version of its Jump product suite. Jump brings together a number of tools for adapting, deploying and managing content and applications across a wide range of device platforms and operator networks.
When …
Human integration and the death of the device, pt. 1
A team of US scientists recently announced they had successfully implanted a device allowing a paralysed patient to control a mouse pointer on-screen, open email and operate a robotic arm. The unit was connected to the motor cortex, an area of th…