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Reverse engineering Google Maps for Mobile.

Mobile telecommunications data covering 27 countries, and including the market value of mobile content and third party offers available for services such as mobile messaging, mobile internet and mobile payment.

Interesting real time whiteboarding

Just released as open source: Sidepath is a simple user interface for easily adding .htaccess redirects to a folder on your domain enabling you to give out simple addresses to complex URLs.

Software for sms response marketing. Focuses on non-profits.

Live blogging software

“Some 36% now use their mobile phones as entertainment devices, compared with 24% eight months ago (study conducted Feb. 23 to March 6) – an increase of 50%.”

“Ever notice that no one says stuff like, ‘No one will want to use the web on their mobile phone,’ any more? I have, and I can tell you it’s very refreshing!”

“this season three times more football fans hit ESPN’s mobile site than it did its PC pages”

41.7 percent said they would scan a QR Code and 34.7 percent said they would send a blank e-mail and access the URL in the reply

“The global population expands by three people a second, according to International Data Base, an arm of the U.S. Census. In the same second, 38 wireless devices will be sold.”

On Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhones surged, surpassing incoming traffic from any other type of mobile device.

The mobile video games market is growing faster than the markets for consoles and handheld video games, according to Understanding & Solutions.

Customer defection rates (aka ‘churn’) within the mobile telecoms sector have risen from 33.4% in 2005 to 38.6% in 2007 – an increase of 15.3%

Nokia’s share of the world market for mobile telephones has exceeded 40 per cent

According to Webcredible, a usability and accessibility consultancy, the most requested mobile service people wanted on their data-enabled mobile phones was email.

“It’s the recreation of the Internet, it’s the recreation of the PC story and it is before us—and it is very likely it will happen in the next year.”

“Skyfire browser is set to finally bring PC-like browsing to your Windows Mobile device with crazy speeds and support for all manner of embedded content”

“What we are seeing with mobile in 2008 are the same issues faced back in the late 90’s – how to make money out of a medium that is somewhat restricted (screen size, processing power, available bandwidth etc) – er….haven’t we heard all this before??”

“AOL today announced the Open Mobile Platform, which the company plans to release to developers this summer”

Comprehensive database of mobile device information

Obama’s campaign makes extensive use of SMS

Find the closest wi-fi hot spot in portland. Created by adamd.

“Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones spoke about the creation of Gotham during our interview for Helvetica, and looking back at their description of what GQ wanted from the font, it sounds surprisingly Obama-esque.”

When the bicycle owner locks up their bicycle they send a text to a security office to trigger the system to guard it. Then if someone then moves, or tries to move the bicycle, a sensor in the lock emits a silent alarm which triggers a CCTV camera to zoom

Expanding mobile networks to the moon

HTTP server installed on Android

Mobile design patterns library

List of resources for blueprint css grid

But by common consensus, the company everyone wanted to meet was not an Operator – It was Apple. Like it or not – Google, Apple, Nokia and others drive the agenda today – and already with the launch of iPhone – the Operator is already a bit pipe. Ther

Unconventional basketball offense developed by high school coach now being used by Memphis and the Celtics.

Recap of the news from Mobile Congress and all of the iPhone related news.

95% of AT&T’s iPhone customers regularly surf the Internet. Data services revenue increased from $2.7 billion in 2005 to $6.9 billion in 2007.

The results provide evidence that cell phones reduce grain price dispersion across markets by a minimum of 6.4 percent and reduce intra-annual price variation by 10 percent.

Google sees 50 times more searches on iPhone than any other mobile handset.“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again.”

Interesting combination of Facebook, mobile coupons and SMS.

“What if a brand could determine who, what, when and where a coupon was used?”

Social networking app for mobile. multiple networks

Mac screencasting software

“According to China Mobile, the biggest wireless carrierin China, there were about 400,000 cracked iPhones using its cellular network service at the end of 2007, representing one out of every 10 iPhone shipments announced officially by Apple.”

Wow, what an amazing feat. The balloon looks exactly like Vader’s helmet.

“There is now more than good reason to expect that no biofuel from seeds, possibly none (even cellulosic) grown on land that could grow food, will reduce global warming if substituted for petroleum products.”

A way to make more complex form layouts simpler

Nice service for doing visualization of data. Very cool. May be what is being used to generate the graphs in this blog post: http://gobigalways.com/some-proof-that-departments-can-become-porous/

Examines how the internal usage of Jive’s software shows how departments communicate.

“There is no other way to say it. Holy cow is this thing fast! I am currently testing Webkit build r30090 (DMG download link) against standard Leopard Safari 3.04. This unoptimized WebKit build version is running circles around the standard Safari browser

W3C launches effort to standardize ways to interact with things like battery charge, cameras, etc.

Great videos exploring how a caricature artist attempts to capture the essence of candidates through their body language.

Motorcycle helmet with integrated mobile phone that calls 911 automatically if the wearer is injured. It’s like OnStar on your head.

“Money:Tech, where businesspeople outnumber developers, the tool of choice to enable continuous partial attention is a mobile device, not a laptop. To my surprise, roughly 80% of my Money:Tech rowmates had iPhones in hand. I expected New Yorkers to be a B

Open source php library for generating QR codes

Good example of how carriers cause trouble for themselves by the way they treat customers. It’s funny that they spend so much time enticing switchers and so little retaining current customers.