TamsPalm readers were recently given a discount on a few Tamoggemon titles(fixed the discount now…so if you want to use it, go ahead) - but the discount didn’t work out. The ESD system simply refused to give the discount out…
In order to understand what happened here, we need to understand MobiHand’s discount architecture(at least how […]

We love humour. And occasionally in this space we bump into funny stuff. Some of its so inside humour that it doesn’t really translate. But occasionally its stuff that everybody can get.Our friend William Volk (CEO of MyNuMo in America)…

I almost missed the news that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has decided that RFID being used in its U.S. VISIT program has been a bust. RFID had been used in a trial over the past 14 months….

WWJ Editors, 28 February 2007
According to AP, Hitachi recently unveiled RFID chips that are just 0.002 inches by 0.002 inches and look like bits of powder. They’re thin enough to be embedded in a piece of paper, company spokesman Masayuki Takeuchi said Thursday. Shown to the public for the first time earlier this month, the new chip is an improvement on its predecessor from Hitachi — the Mu-chip, which at 0.4 millimeters by 0.4 millimeters, looks about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

Wireless World, 26 February 2007
“Live!Aurora” is beaming the sights of the aurora borealis from Alaska straight to mobile phones in Japan. Due to the time zone difference, Japanese consumers can enjoy the sites of the aurora between lunchtime and evening. As well as being able to watch streaming video of northern lights, the site also offers video on demand and still images for download. Offered as a subscription service costing 315 yen per month ($2.60).

WWJ Editors, 28 February 2007
The CDMA Development Group has congratulated KDDI for signing up more new users than their rivals since Japan’s mobile number portability (MNP) rules took effect on October 24, 2006. Of the more than one million subscribers who changed their service provider between October 24, 2006 and January 31, 2007, KDDI has witnessed a net increase of 600,000 3G subscribers, while the other Japanese operators have seen a net reduction. Also, when considering all new subscriptions within the past three months ending in January 2007, KDDI garnered 67 percent of the total number of net subscriptions.

WWJ Editors, 28 Feb. 2007
We noted an interesting post, on a local mobile developers site, which points out out how much money their flat-rate data plan saved the company in January. According to the scanned statement of DoCoMo’s bill; “By using the pakehoudai option [a JPY 3,900 service plan option for unlimited usage of i-mode data traffic] you saved 1.67 million JPY this month.” They calculated the data packets used total just over 1GB (that’s hardcore — Eds) which would have cost approx. 10,000 Euro under the regular per packet billing model.. Yikes!

Having faltered in its strategies, Palm is aggressively looking for a buyer. Its saving grace might be its good patent portfolio.

The new book from FriendsOfED about Flex 2 and Actionscript 3 is out :

The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0
By Charles E Brown

Reading the table of content it looks like a great book. So stay tuned for my book’s review !

Great job Charles !

I think the 800 pound gorilla just wandered into the room. Finally.
Users have plenty of trouble finding content on their computer. We just saw two major operating systems build in live content search. So why couldn’t we do that on mobile devices when we have so much more control over the […]

Ithaca College has announced its second annual student cell phone film competition, the CellFlix Festival, which focuses on 30-second films shot on cell phones. This year's prizes include a $5,000 Judges' Prize and a $5,000 Fan Favorite prize sponsored…

InfoWorld's Paul Roberts reports that, after canceling a planned presentation at the Black Hat DC Briefings & Training event in Arlington, Virginia, Chris Paget of IOActive took the stage after all to give an abridged version of his talk…

Sensor networks are an emerging way to monitor inaccessible and unwired places. The units communicate with each other, and send the information they gather at intervals to the human operators. They’re used to monitor wildlife activity, for example.

But sensor network protocols, based on WiFi use too much power. The researchers experimented with Zigbee nodes […]

IBM and Google are teaming up to bring “gadgets“, mini applications that run on a browser, from the consumer Web to corporate networks, reports ZDNet.
The partnership will allow business users to access Google gadgets from IBM’s WebSphere Portal software. WebSphere Portal 6 and Portal Express customers can get Google Gadget Portlet for free starting in […]

Beceem will be supplying Mobile WiMAX silicon to Samsung for use in fixed and mobile WiMax applications, reports Unstrung.

Samsung is currently the front-runner in the mobile WiMax market. Samsung 802.16e gear is used in Korea’s WiBro standard, and will be used by Sprint in their Washington DC Mobile WiMAX rollout later this year.
Beceem is among […]