At Macworld Expo’s Showstoppers press gathering last week I got an advance peek at a new feature that was rolled out this week. Truphone has just introduced a new Skype feature that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to make calls and instant message other Skype users. You just need is a free Truphone account […]
Mobile
Protect the vote — with your cell phone
Do
you have a video-enabled camera phone (iPhone, Nokia N95, etc.)? Here’s
how you can help protect the vote on election day! Join The UpTake and
the “Video the Vote” coalition’s effort to make sure every vote
counts. Reports of voter intimidation and disfranchisement are already
coming in from around the country.
A look at Nokia’s N78 and N82
As regular readers of this blog know, I’m a member of the Nokia bloggers program. They loan me smart phones to check out for a few months, I write a review and then return them. Nokia N78 Here’s an important caveat up front: Every user has different aesthetic preferences regarding a device’s form factor. Personally, […]
New report: How mobile media can serve the public good
In December I attended an Aspen Institute roundtable on civic engagement and mobile media held in San Francisco with thought leaders in the mobile space such as Jed Alpert, founder of Mobile Commons, and Katrin Verclas, head of MobileActive.org. I wrote a report about the gathering’s conclusions, and the Aspen Institute just published it as […]
ZipClip: Ding, dong, the ringtone is dead
The most interesting person I met at the Stanford Summit last week was Turkish-born Babur Ozen, whose business card says he’s the "boss" of ZipClip, which has offices in Palo Alto, Calif. Babur gave me and Valerie Cunningham a test drive of the free service. ZipClip lets you add video, images or music from the […]