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One of Jim Paterson's wishes for the future is to see generative music in mobile games, cf Electroplankton on the Nintendo DS Lite, which makes a game (well, play) of generative music. Also: Eno and Spore.
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For network operators: how to use the web to promote your mobile VASs. "Leverage existing consumer behavior" - yup.
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How midlet signing works, what "Java Verified" is (and the structural reasons why it hasn't had more success yet).
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This view on patents in mobile reminds me how interesting innovation is: many people trying many things, most of which will fail and some of them interestingly.
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Charts handset functionality against ease of use (and discusses the likely impact of the iPhone and Nokia N95 on other handset mfrs), but is reminded by insistent daughter that brand/marketing/buzz can trump either
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Great analysis of a triply-segmented mobile data market (and skewers myth of a single market that we users grow into).
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Review of FunForMobile. I'd like to see some usage numbers on these siloed mobile social sites: how do they compare to mobile tools which connect to third-party web services?, eg Shozu for Flickr.
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Want iPhone? Switch to AT&T/Cingular. Darla Mack is annoyed that Apple is locking the iPhone exclusively to Cingular in the US (but for how long?)
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Suggests that unlocked handsets would lead to lower handset costs.
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Interesting list of the underlying characteristics, but I wonder whether successful real world services necessarily have contraints of marketing, technology, etc in place -- constraints that must be embraced
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A demographic view on how we see our phones.
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Apple iPhone will encourage developers to improve UIs via imitation, sez Ajit.
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"raising wireless penetration by 10 percentage points can lead to an increase in gross domestic product of about 0.5 percent"
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"Palm owns the brand, it owns its OS, and as of this week no other company will be able to use the name Palm OS" - David Beers untangles the story of the name rights to Palm
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CEO reviews the Palm vs j2me versions of Google maps mobile.
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Paul Golding salutes the GSM data transport designers and engineers.
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Accelerometers (cf Schulze and Webb, passim) - "a key part of the multicontext environment which will swiftly replace the current narrow obsessions with content & multimedia on mobile devices".
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Wonder how the scrollwheel works inside that case.
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"Tetrachromacy is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four different cones, one other than RGB."
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"Welsh speakers use “gwyrdd” (pronounced “goo-irrrth”) as a general word for green. Yet “grass” literally translates as “blue straw”. That is because the Welsh word for blue (“glas”) can accommodate all shades of green."
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"genetics implies that the mothers of color-blind boys may have genetic peculiarities of their own. Among that somewhat peculiar group of women, one could expect to find the odd tetrachromat."
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"Unlike other variables such as length, width, mass, or time of day, colour is not an inherent property of the object; it is a property of the nervous system of the animal perceiving the light." Bees do not see the same green as us.
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"the architecture of the human visual system uses and supports photoreceptors containing four distinctly different spectral absorbers (chromophores)" - is that pre-wired, or can the brain adapt to an extra input?
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"I might have four different types of photopigment; blue, red, green and shifted green (or red and shifted red). All I need now for four colour vision (tetrachromacy) is a superior brain."
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"Here we are going to discuss the dimensionality and topology of the colour space."
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This week Mobbu hosts the carnival.
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