Our good friend Russell Buckley over at MobHappy has a brilliant posting about the new trend of youth posting happy slapping videos now to video sharing sites like YouTube. The BBC’s Panorama TV show apparently had a special on it…

In preparation for Adaptive Path’s UX Week (use discount code UXBB for a 15% discount), Kim Lenox interviewed me. Go take a look!

Last week, Yahoo appointed telco veteran Maggie Wilderotter (she’s CEO of Citizens Communications Company) to its board of directors — and InternetNews’ Clint Boulton thinks there’s a lot to read into the announcement. “Wilderotter previously served as senior vice…

The Federal Communications Commission approved (pdf) a set of 700 MHz ground-rules today for the spectrum auction this January. Band Plan Chart: pdf, Martin Statement: pdf, Copps Statement: pdf, Adelstein Statement: pdf, Tate Statement: pdf, and McDowell Statement: pdf.

The FCC split the 24 MHz reserved for public service (12 MHz x 2 blocks) into 12 […]

BSkyB has linked up with Sony in a deal that will enable British users of the PSP games console to download films and TV shows. The joint venture between Sony and Sky will create Europe’s first official PSP video download…

Soshana Zubhoff , tells us why psychological self-determination plays such a key role in explaining what is happening today in terms of the phenomena of social networking and as we call it a WE MEDIA for a WE SPECIES If…

Some days ago on the Comtaste’s blog we published an article on LiveCycle Data Services and Hibernate integration in Flex RIA applications.

I found an interesting comment that gave us the possibility to goo deep into that topic

Being a gmail (and a Google!) fan ..

Here is a qs: (its not ‘mobile’ but I hope its interesting)

This may be very simple but I want to see a view of my inbox in terms of people that I have SENT email to i.e.

gmail already knows from SENT box who I have sent email to.

Thus if gmail shows my inbox with a view of these people, that’s VERY useful to me since people I SEND email to are valued by me.

So, suppose I sent emails to Werner, Tomi, Alan, Vladimir etc .. then I want to see a view of my inbox with these names first - the logic being almost anyone I have sent emails to is ‘important’ for me (and most correspondence will be with existing contacts)

Has this been done?

Thoughts? Do you think it is useful?

(I have emailed the gmail team - just wondering if such a feature is useful)

There’s this odd argument that
Pundits like Tomi Ahonen assert that texting is the most popular data application on the planet.  And they are right.
I think they are wrong about email being for “old folks” and “stodgy American executives”.  Certainly there’s a growing perception that SMS is for conversing with friends, and email is for conversing […]

I was there starting my 3G consultancy business in 2001 when almost everybody suggested 3G was the biggest failure and many thought telecoms would not survive this investment (and its enormous licence fees). At the same time in October 2001…

It is perhaps one of the fanciest consumer electronics trade shows which takes place every year in January in Las Vegas. I am talking about the International Consumer Electronics Show or CES where you can catch the preview of…

Orange Romania has expanded its HSDPA networks to cover ten additional markets. The service, which was launched in June, is now available in 20 cities, offering peak data transfer rates of 3.6Mbps, according to a report from local newspaper Nine o’Clock.

Singaporean mobile operator StarHub today announced plans to launch a high speed packet access (HSPA) service. It also claims to be the first operator in the southeast Asia region to launch high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) technology. StarHub’s announcement comes two months after rival mobile operator SingTel Mobile rolled out a HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) network in selected parts of the island-state.

The Iranian government is expected to offer another national cellular licence in 2008, two years after its last wireless auction which was won by IranCell. The research and development centre at the Ministry of Communications is ‘preparing the preliminaries of the auction’, Taliya News reports. Iran is currently home to around 20 million mobile subscribers, with the bulk of these served by state-owned TCI; national licences are also held by Taliya and IranCell.

Russia’s second largest cellular operator in terms of subscribers, Vimpelcom, says it is expanding its Wi-Fi hotspot coverage to twelve major airports this week. The operator is charging RUB243 (USD9.50) an hour for access, with airports covered including St Petersburg and Sheremetyevo, Moscow Times reports. Rival firms are already offering extensive Wi-Fi networks; number one cellular operator MTS has around 300 hotspots nationwide, while Golden Telecom offers a Moscow-wide network and is expanding to round 7,500 sites across the country.