There was a long silence. Blackberry was not supposed to be a threat to the connecting people engineers until Barack Obama made it clear that he was using one. Big blow.
There was dead silence for several years when Apple introduced the iPhone. That wasn’t supposed to be more than a one per cent nuisance. Temporarily the estimate of Steven Jobs as a mister no-body in the mobile phones sphere was very correct. But there was no iPhone killer the first, not the second and third year.
Now, most of the consumers understand that the Symbian operating system might be the big problem. For the remaining part of this blog posting I try to figure out what Nokia has to do.
To make a long story short, they really have to listen to their users and accept that Apple and Google have some things in their touchable phones that Connecting People can’t produce or even understand. And Blackberry is also a very profitable cell phone supplier.
Android isn't clear for me yet. I'll blog about it to learn more. The writer of the below story asks, "Do you want Sex and Excitement on your mobile device or do you just want the damn thing to work as promised and provide you with ubiquitous access to your important mobile data and services?"
Android: It’s not about Sex, Excitement, or Cool | Tech Broiler | ZDNet.com: "Sex? Excitement? Cool? We are talking about digital convergence devices, not a week on tour in Amsterdam with Gene Simmons and his roadie crew. That this industry is so preoccupied with how “cool” or “sexy” a piece of electronics is rather than its value-added features or its price and performance ratio when compared to other devices is insane.
I will hand it to Apple that right now, they have the best handheld device on the market. That is, of course, if you can excuse the fact that their Infineon 3G chipset and has more bugs in it than a taco stand in downtown Tijuana and because of a number of problems with the firmware and the iPhone 2.0 software you’ll still be defaulting to the slower EDGE network in some of most 3G dense areas in the country. And I digress — their application store is second to none, if you can excuse Apple’s capriciousness of what applications they allow to be sold in their online store and desire for total control."
Helge: I've to continue on the Android learning curve.
I wrote this post 11/10/06 8:28 AM. Now there are new thoughts on my mind about the use of iPod for product training.
iPod, podcasting, audio from a little whit box you carry with you. The headpset is a superb user interface for the person in the move.
We can listen to music and talkshows created by artists and ordinary people everywhere.
In the Car
On the Street
While in the Gym
Jogging in the woods
Rowing on the river
Cycling on the track
Dish washing at home
At work to get attuned
At home spending your time
To get into mood with the music you like
Listen to your teacher, professor, adviser, mentor and seminar speaker
User manuals on an iPod
Internal training and communication
One company bought and distributed 2 500 iPods for in-house learning
There it was: the example, the company that delivered 2 500 iPods for employees to listen to corporate strategy, services and product information. This type of information distribution is still valid.
Bored on your subway commute? Try TV! - Engadget - www.engadget.com: "Atlanta will be the first city in North America to roll out TV and radio programming in its subway rail cars. Each of 230 cars will be fitted with 15-inch flat screens showing local news loops and radio transmitters offering music in three formats: top 40, jazz and R&B."
Wrote that 3/8/05 5:16 PM and decided to refresh it with some new comments.
Content stays fresh (so fresh!) via software on the trains that downloads new programming when the trains pass through wireless clouds en route. Any FM receiver will be able to pick up the TV and radio audio feeds inside the cars.
Mobile Roaming at high-speed...
In partnership with New York-based media firm The Rail Network, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) stands to rake in about $20 million over the next decade by taking a cut of the ad revenue. And no wonder -- it's hard to find a more captive audience."
Nothing to do on the train...
What a futre we have in the paperless society. I can use my spare time to watch radio and listen to small wide screen television. No need to buy journals and magazines. The zines will come to me through the airways.
This is still emerging 2½ years later...Does anybody have some details about this? What can we listen on the train in Atlanta today?
Mobile broadband set to go mainstream - Computer Business Review: "Mobile broadband set to go mainstream 31st March 2008 By Janine Milne Sales of cellphone data cards are set to quadruple in the next three years, threatening to make wi-fi hotpots as outmoded as public telephone boxes.
"The iPhone has proven that if the user experience is right, users will take advantage of mobile devices for internet sessions," said Richard Webb, directing analyst for WiMAX, WiFi and mobile at Infonetics Research.
Helge: I agree with the trend.
This dramatic growth is driven by the rollout of mobile broadband or High-Speed Download Packet Access HSDPA networks. Cheaper availability will mean more consumers will download MP3s, games or video clips to their mobile devices.
Helge: That's reality already.
"The mobile data services market is becoming more competitive, as mobile operators try to recoup their investments in 3G networks and drive up flattening ARPU. Currently, mobile data services are generally too expensive for mass market adoption, but that will change with the increasingly extensive rollout of high speed HSDPA, the launch of new data plans offering increased download limits, and better subsidies for mobile data cards," said Webb.
Helge: Huge growth of mobile services is around the corner!
By providing richer and more compelling mobile consumer experience, Streamezzo’s standards-based Rich Media Software Suite dramatically boosts the consumption and stickiness of mobile content and applications.
Life is mobile. Our digital experiences move with us into new contexts as we listen to music in line at the bank, watch TV on the train or send project updates from a vacation spot. These new mobile contexts (and the devices and technologies that drive them) require new design thinking and solutions.
Who are the expets of mobile life? Who should be given the rights to define our mobile life's? Who is in charge of my mobile life?
I'm in charge. We, the consumers know, what we need to improve the connectivity of our mobile life and work styles. The consumers are voting every single day about the best mobile devices. Car's, Cell Phone's, Computer's...
I got a mail. It promises "a critical insights into how design can improve these experiences and better integrate them into our lives."
The promise is: "As a specialist in mobile user interface and interaction design, Jared Benson, executive creative director, oversees the design practice for Punchcut (www.punchcut.com), a leading mobile user interface design and development company."
Tellabs Oy, Espoo Tellabs delivers technology that transforms the way the world communicates. Tellabs experts design, develop, deploy and support our solutions for telecom service providers in more than 100 countries. Tellabs Oy has about 500 employees located in Espoo and Oulu. Tellabs has ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certificates. Further information MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "http://www.tellabs.fi." claiming to be http://www.tellabs.fi.
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MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKING
Apophenia writes, “I believe that teenagers are the reason that mobile will happen sooner than we think. I don't believe that the first explosion will be US-based.”
Who is she? “My name is danah boyd and this is the "Best of Apophenia" collection page. If you want to see the full blog, click here. If you want to see my publications, click here. Enjoy!”
USA isn’t a leader in mobile. Apple iPhone and Microsoft Zune are going to add some buzz to the mobile business environment. Motorola needs to make a come-back. Nokia want’s to re-invent its US presence. LG and Sony-Ericsson are also out for a slice.
Best Of Apophenia
“Over the years, I [Apophenia] have written numerous posts about social media, social software, social networks and other industry-relevant topics. Colleagues often remark that it is difficult to sift through my personal blog to find relevant material. For that reason, i decided to put together a "best of" to highlight the essays that are most interesting to newcomers interested in social media. Right now, these are just recent essays and blog posts that deal with particular issues in depth. If you think that a particular entry should be listed here, please let me know! Better yet, add it to del.icio.us or to digg - i'm watching these sites to see what entries are particularly popular or useful.”
“I think that mobile social network-driven systems will look very different than web-based ones but the fundamentals of "friends" and "messages" and some form of presence-conveying "profile" will be core to the system,” she continues.
MARCO AHTISAARI
“The big human fundamental needs and capacities on which the growth of the mobile industry was built are social,” writes Marco Ahtisaari the son of the former Finnish President. Marco has been with Nokia and knows the mobile industry inside out. Last year he quitted and is now working with a new mission: project.
“Social interaction has arguably been the driving force of adoption of both the Internet and mobile communications, continues Marco. I agree. Web 2.0 has made the social possible on the web. But the same promises were available through IRC’s, chats and bulletin boards before the Web 2.0 and blogs. The activists are the core of the movement.
“Starting with voice call with the widest reach to SMS text messaging, e-mail, instant messaging, down to tens of millions of people reading and writing weblogs and sharing of photos with a close group. How many of these have been explicitly designed by anyone?” He writes in his blog. How many bloggers are there? 70 million, I guess today. How many are really active? I have no idea. Does anyone make blogging activity quality control?
“The ones that have succeeded have been simple open ended functionalities (e.g. SMS is 160 characters of text), based on the primitives of social interaction that leave room for human interpretation and invention.” Marco Ahtisaari writes. The simplest things are the best tools. Taking out the complexity from mobile smart phones is going to be an essential mission. But SMS isn’t easy to use. But it works.
“Consider the big human fundamental of gift giving. Has the universal human practice of gift-giving face-to-face really gone digital yet? Could it? Should it?” he continues. I think there are a number of charity networks using that part of the Internet. I’m not an expert in that field.
Who am I? [More about Danah Boyd]
My name is danah boyd and i am a PhD candidate at the School of Information (SIMS) at the University of California - Berkeley and a Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Communications. My research focuses on how people negotiate a presentation of self to unknown audiences in mediated contexts. In particular, my dissertation is looking at how youth engage with networked publics like MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga and YouTube. I am interested in how the architectural differences between unmediated and mediated publics affect sociality, identity and culture. My dissertation research is being funded as a part of the MacArthur Foundation's Initiative on New Media and Learning.
Next year there will be more than 2 billion mobile phone users in the world. That's a big and broad user base. Increasingly value and growth are created in emerging markets. The mobile big picture is in Southeast Asia, China, Russia, South-America, etc. Mobile phones today have become ubiquitous, embedded into the fabric of everyday life.
social interaction has been made possible with the mobile phones
we want to be connected everywhere
the price of being connected has to be low (low treshold)
the impact of mobile phone's on economic growth is twice as big in developing nations as in developed ones (China, India...)
As the number of standard mobile phone features grows, so does the number of touchpoints companies can use to interact with their end users.
The present phones have lots of features that no-one is using
They have too small screens for real Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 convergence
But even though cell phones that are capable of accessing mobile data channels like the mobile Web, SMS, and MMS are becoming the norm, adoption of these channels among North American consumers is low.
Phones are still phones, they are voice and SMS, they have cameras
But how can I do some decent work with a present phone?
The screens are too small and they keys are too small for my fingers
I need a bigger phone: a phone with pocket buck size screen and a keyboard
It should cost half of a laptop, but it should be a phone as well
What is the problem with phones? Mobile channels have strengths and weaknesses in terms of their inherent capabilities for supporting different types of user goals.
The services for phones, should they be different?
I think that it isn't worth while to duplicate the Internet
The phone should enable phoning and web browsing
I want to type while on the move: bus, train, cafe, seminar, exhibition
To design mobile data channels that support user — and business — goals, companies must start by understanding the capabilities of mobile data channels and the goals users want to accomplish, and then focus mobile projects on the user goals that different mobile channels are best-suited to support.
Start with understanding the users, consumers
We need devices that are made for humans
Podcasting with my phone would be great
Webcasting with my phone is also a goal
Writing my blogs with my phone
Don't tell me, it's technically possible. The features are there already. I don't buy it. The present phone's are made for phoning and SMS, but the real keyboard for Web access and interaction isn't there yet. The future phone will look different. I guess my phone should be much larger in size. I want to see what I search. I love to write. Talk is cheap. Multimedia is too expensive. Maybe I like to use my phone as my wallet and bank. I want a secure phone.
I read at Wired: "Apple is now on the verge of introducing the iTV, the big living room play analysts have been calling for since the mid-1990s. It's to be at the center of home entertainment, from TV shows to music and movies. It might even be a DVR, if rumors are to be believed. At the same time, everyone and his uncle claim that Apple is days away from releasing an Apple-branded cell phone that combines full iPod power with an industry-leading design and feature set. For each of these new markets, the question remains: Will Apple come off the way they did in the PC market in the 1990s or the way they have in the digital media player market for the last five years?"
iTV - the center of home entertainment
iPhone - combines full iPod with industry-leading design and feature set
kirjoittaja projekti @ Keskiviikko, 15. Maalis, 2006 - 11:02:15
Very few technological innovations have penetrated the market so effectively or as fast as mobile telephony. Today, at least in Europe, there is little correlation between mobile phone ownership, nationality, income or education. The number of mobile phone owners is growing continuously creating a vast potential market for mobile services in general.
There are attempts to provides an extended look at the future of mobile work and mobile workplaces composed from the collective knowledge of experts available in the field.
They are results from iterative, highly interactive and strategic processes involving the relevant industry, research and policy partners. They have been looking at and identified the most relevant trends & developments in society, industry and technology related to mobile work and mobile workplaces.
The result is an integrated roadmap for mobile work that visualizes future strategic paths: what are the most relevant trends, developments and challenges as well as the associated milestones (in terms of core competencies and technologies) to accelerate innovation in mobile worker support environments in Europe.
The roadmap focusses on different aspects of mobile work and workplaces:
• Social aspects • Legal aspects • Mobility and work settings • Mobile applications • Human interaction with mobile applications, • Mobile service platforms and context-awareness support, and • Mobile access technology.
We have been involved for years in processes trying to understand the possibilities of distance work, social collaboration and expert level networking on a global scale.
Year 2004 did lead to the introduction in Europe of 3G mobile phones based on UMTS technology. The "Universal Mobile Telecommunications System" (UMTS) is a “third generation” cellular communication system that builds on the “second generation” GSM standard.
UMTS has been standardized by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). As well as offering voice telephony, UMTS offers a range of innovative services that it is impossible to provide over current-generation GSM networks, in particular IP-based multimedia data services, video-telephony and mobile videoconferencing.
Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) is a logo, created by the "Wi-Fi Alliance", which guarantees that a radio device is compatible with the IEEE 802.11b or IEEE 802.11g wireless Ethernet standards.
Standardization has made it possible to create extremely low cost equipment both for terminals (where Wi-Fi capabilities can be provided on-chip) and for access stations. IEEE 802.11g standard supports data rates of up to 54 Mb/s over ranges of 100-300 metres.
This means that Wi-Fi technology can be used not only to create wireless local area networks (e.g. on university campuses, in the office or at home) but also so-called hot spots, providing mobile workers with an easy way to connect to the Internet from locations such as airports, hotels, hotels, Internet points and conference centres.
Wi-Fi is almost certainly the fastest growing commercial telecommunications technology today. At the end of 2003, the number of publicly accessible Wi-Fi "hot spots," worldwide amounted to roughly 45,000, compared to 20,000 at the end of 2002. Just over 24,000 of those were in Asia, with slightly over 10,000 each in Europe and North America. Pyramid Research estimated that, by early 2005, the number of global hot spots will exceed 100,000.
Although most European regulators restrict the provision of Wi-Fi services in public spaces, emerging practices in the USA and Canada demonstrate that Wi-Fi can be used as the basis for “Community networks” providing free or very low cost public access to the Internet.
Similar technologies are being deployed in office spaces and university campuses worldwide. This makes Wi-Fi an ideal technology for mobile learning.
When people in the television news business want to find out what’s going on in their industry, they turn to a blog called TVNewser. Mr. Stelter’s blog (tvnewser.com), a seven-day-a-week, almost 24-hour-a-day newsfeed of gossip, anonymous tips, newspaper article links and program ratings, has become a virtual bulletin board for the industry.
Mr. Stelter chronicles the New York and Hollywood centred television industry from the campus at Towson, where he is a senior majoring in mass communication and the editor of the student newspaper. He started the blog in 2004 during winter break, and not long after he was hired by a journalism Web site to keep it going.
These days, by 9 a.m. he is awake and blogging, sometimes in class, courtesy of a campus wide Wi-Fi connection, as well as from his apartment, the student union and his cluttered desk in a corner of the newspaper office.
The pocket office, personal computer (PC) and television (digiTV) will be converging. The new applications will not replace or exclude each other. There will probably be enough space for all of them: PC, mobile, television. The main competition will be about how much time and attention the various tools and services are able to attract from users / consumers / the masses. Web 2.0 has succeeded as a superb marketing campaign drawing attention from PC and Laptop users. Mobile devices have to decide how to be a part of the race for consumer attention.
This is a long post. I've been digging into modern mobile phone applications and new trends. The street smart smart phones will soon be showing multiple mobile TV channels. We're going to receive more entertainment than we ever can consume.
Podcasters and mobile video casters will soon start to produce and distribute content while on the move. Celebrities and politicians will be the targets of massive armies of citizen journalists. Mobile applications will be moving fast into new smarter application areas while the lifespan of mobile gadgets is soon down to 6-12-24 months, compared to 3-4 years for a portable computer.
iTunes is offering movies on a 640 x 480 display. DVD 720 x 640? Have to check it. Did I get the numbers right. My experience is based on what I've seen. The Mobile device for watching movies is quite interesting. The user interface works with a touchscreen pen.
The presentation wasn't not the ideal way to show a video on iTune, but I was able to grasp the idea. Current UMPCs run around 900 MHz to 1GHz processors and have integrated graphics with shared video memory.
iTunes and UMPC Kevin C Tofel:
40 Gb to download movies, music, podcasts
iTunesUMBC story
Some interesting eye candy was deliverd
The presentation did show how to go to search the movies from an Internet site
Various movie posters were shown in a 3D gallery on the Internet page
Scrolling the movies highlighted the one you wanted to select for downloading
I did see how the movie was downloaded and how much time was used
2 h 11 minutes of movie took over 1 h of 20 minutes to download over ADSL. Maybe the server was quite busy. With a faster connection the download to the UMPC would be faster
You could select chapters, read them just like dvd-chapters
Watching in actual size, turn the volume down, playback is very good UMBC has been made to provide portability, it's not a high-definition tv like 800 x 680 (or is it 480) have to check this out
iTunes I can re-size it, Dolby surround size, a quite good sound without headphones
"I wish you would have shown us the full screen of the video, but still, it's good." Was a comment to the presentation.
Mobile marketing. Mobile youth on marketing interview in UK. "They text you all the time," a teenager told. A nice video is appreciated. New phones makes mms possible. The mobile youth opinion on marketing analyzed how text messages and pictures were sent to teenage target groups. They get sms and mmsdelivered to their phones. "The ads load all the time. Night clubs. Stuff of bills. Where to go. All kinds of invitations." One of the youths told.
Are the advertisers really harming people with the mobile phones? The ads just keep popping up. Mobile storytelling is becoming a new thing in evolution. What does it mean for you? me? us? consumers? What can mobile digital storytelling be used for? What kind of business models can we figure out around digital storytelling?
There is a continuous search for new high-profile applications that will appeal to various target groups and especially to the younger generation.
Ads should / could be classified
Tele-medicine reports delivered over your mobile phone
The mobility as a life saver in case of an accident promises new possibilities
"I'm ok," information to folks at home in case of accident
Teenagers watch: Where are you now? Is everything OK?
I try to put many pieces together. Radio online. Podcasting. Mobile TV. Gaming. Multimedia. They do already have mobile TV and entertainment online in UK. Imagine what the life was without the present mobile phone. Bluetooth will add something? The phone can be connected more easily to devices. Visual Radio is a project initiated by a Nokia ecosystem and I guess after some digital rights discussions about compensations to artists this service will be implemented. The mobile TV is just around the corner.
I rush into a new situation. This is a journey into digital lifestyle. I don't know what they are doing. The youngsters walk around in a mall and make a low-quality mobile movie and plan to publish it on YouTube. The calendar is set. Their timing is excellent. They talk to strangers. It won't be a box-office hit, but it's an example of cool things today's teenagers can do with their mobile phones while on the move. It's probably okay for a small target group. Shaky picture. There's isn't an attempt to make an intelligent statement. It's enough that it's cool to make and fun to watch. The viewers will be family and friends. Or maybe the whole world. Sharing is an important aspect. Did someone say party? Alright. Young people coming together, having fun, recording, laughing, joking, telling stories. That's it. It's a toy. But it can be used for business and other more serious applications as well. Documenting accidents.
I also dig into a talk about Telecom TV. "It's a pleasure to chat with you." Says the moderator and the story begins: "The big new thing is mobile content." I learn about Executive reports. Very small phones. The carriers are offering new pricing models.
Continuation of mass-market growth in India, China and Southeast Asia
Developed markets are getting much more segmented services
The rise of the youth market has great potentials
New models are available to appeal to
gaming
video
audio
music
social networking
picture messaging
entertainment on the move
choosoo??
digital database
China and India are growing markets. The rise of the new economies means that a lot of mobile phones will be sold to China, India, Southeast Asian countries in the coming years. A rising tide of micro entrepreneurs is adding to the need for smart mobile phones in those areas too. The ability to run their business on the move is very important. The mobile phone can be used as a download tool in Internet Cafés.
Intelligent segmentation has also brought new phone users. There are mobile Symbian phones destined for the sporty persons. Another interesting segment is the phones for elderly where the camera can be used to magnify a part of the menu in a restaurant. Elderly people get devices that can make their every day life easier. A lot of innovations have been made over Symbian platforms, but they haven't been advertised much. They would earn to be more talked about.
The service providers are catching up
More and more discussions going on
Now there are early users / adopters
3D doctor application that measures blood pressure
The phone then takes the information to a online doctor
The aspiration for seamless connection. Mobile devices can be used everywhere:
Mobile TV
What is happening in the east? Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hongkong, China?
There are 2 million digital TV watchers in Japan (DoCoMo)
NTT Docomo is launching three new Symbian handsets
What kind of content do we see in the future on mobile devices?
Broadcast TV, also reporting TV programs
Flickr, Photostream, podcasting
The wild west of the web is not yet on the mobile devices
How to introduce multimedia environment is an evolutionary process
Third party applications will spread the mobile application range
There are still vast underexploited areas to be covered
Laptop doesn't have a location
You can report with your mobile while wandering down the road
Mobiles will be exploited in a very different way
What are the issues not yet taken in consideration
Flash and mobile space
Flash
Same kind of transition
Flash is a great technology also for mobile phones
The user experience has to be made affective and interesting
The user experience has a great role in mobile space
It's a growth area
Browser plug-ins
S-60 browser, Flash-light will be available
Lacks some of the functionalities that Flash has
Lack for support of the video
Emerge into the same devices
Use the graphical strenghts of Flash
Gizmodo. Samsung Q1. TV. Antenna. Full screen, change the screen resolution. CF-card, USB, power, the ccapabilities of that. It's going to be a mass market. Where can I find interesting websites? Do you want to share?
Opera is the browser that will be used
The device has positional values. We need to
Simplicity to identify
Personal configuration.
Websites can / should / would be marked as mobile friendly:
Technical solutions still needed
What's the best way to do it?
Opera will be used as browser in mobile devices
Automatically formatted for mobile viewing
How to make mobile even more successful
Can we get a microphone for better audiorecording(podcasting)
Lauri Tirkkonen at Nokia explains
Why mobile users don't use data services?
2 % at present
They have to promote these mobile places. Mobile friendly sites are available but we still don't know where they are. There is much more publicity needed.
ICANN the master of Internet
We have a special permission...
Provide a great user experience
Highlight games: it's one of the ways contents is used
Games communities
Chats with mobile phones
The kids at schools are the trend setters
That ought to be a success
Push a rich gaming platform
It's happening already
User generated is very important!
Focused devices to various user groups
I'm not too educated about it yet
Communities and games will be very important
Stand-alone games
Social mobile services already exists
Legal music downloads
We are going to see a change
Content devices
4,5 h video play downs are needed not 30 minutes
New generation of devices are able to do that already
It's already been used
Videocapture
Social mobile games
The X-box communities
The mobile is super nice. I like to have some fun with my mobile. Watching entertainment while on the move. Teenagers tell again that there is too much advertising on Internet"I like the iPod ones. Where they show the chocolate ads...Animation of photos, I can't remember. The orange is very good. Loads of music with the ads would be appreciated. Such things attracts you to the phones. I don't know about the techie things. I got them on my MP3 player. Like to watch or listen while on bus or on train."
When would you watch mobile TV? "If I'm out and missing a TV program." It would be great to get the show on my mobile.
40-50 services
convergences are happening
networks, IPTV, 3G and other networks
How can we be deliver more
DVB-H
Multichannel TV
Cellular capability
Internet
Oxford Trial 16 channels of television
Users expanding their mobile usage to more than 3 hours a week
The surprise: most are doing it at home, the project didn't expect that
The home is a much stronger viewing place than expected
There is a mobile TV trial operating in Spain
The Olympics in China will bring mobile TV
The rights of content, choices of content have to be broad
The individual on the move wants to watch, view and communicate
150 companies offering content
Italy, Spain, Germany
The content community is very keen
We need to address that market that clearly exists today
Talking with telecoms
The information comes from Barcelona
Cherry source
There is a proven demand and we need to be delivering to that demand
The content producers are bring that opportunity
Do you have to deal through operators?
There are direct to consumers portals
The industry has developed a lot during the past two years
Access control and age verification. We need to limit access to certain content
Content brings a revenue model to screen viewing
What they search for has to be provided
Operators own the consumers
Where do you source the content?
Aggregating from ad production companies
Slow to download content doesn't work so well
Now producers are shooting specifically for mobiles
Filming is taking in consideration the limitations of the screen
2 minutes clips, these are the restricting elements
Poor end-user experience
Do they resent you?
Are you down there?
Mobile entertainment
They want a third partner aggregating on their behalf
We need to have a clear business focus. The operator industry is coming together with the content providers and suppliers
Providing a pipeline
Act in a very controlled way
There is a proven demand
Build their own systems
How many messages
333 messages a day is most
600 messages inthe month as an average for some mobile sms addicted
Young woman says: "I love the mobile phone"
Another says that "Maybe my mobile phone is number one and mother comes next."
People are addicted to that
Sign up here. Go mobile. Mobile phones are everywhere
Bring us all together, communities are evolving, they are not same as on Internet
Are the devices driving usfurther apart from each other? Or where are they taking us?
More ad more ways to interact with each other with mobile and online tools
Browse the Internet
Wireless communication with Bluetooth
160 mobile messages in a month to a third person
Young people are constantly messaging
Couldn't live without it. It's my life live
UK 60 mio mobile users
TV on the move is the next big step
I love my child first and the mobile phone next
Live Television
Rather than speak we use a different language sms and mms
Predicted text helps to send sms
Children in school: short form has a bad impact on grammar
30 40 messages per day
Some use hundreds of pounds per month for sms and mms
Watching media will increase the bill
It can be seen on every public place, the addiction is evident
Speaking about seeing our partners
More dependent of mobile phones
As a society: It's gone a little too far
Shouldn't talk on the buses says older lady
Youngsters and teenagers: I can't imagine life without mobile
A big part of my life: Dependency is evident
Always hooked on to a mobile device
You don't leave home without mobile phone
Inseparable used in moderation, sometimes excessively
A weekend without a mobile phone?
I like to try. Maybe I couldn't survive without it
Web 2.0 entrepreneurs can and do start companies for relatively small sums compared to the tens of millions doled out during the dot-com boom days.
Analysts think that the crashes won't hurt as many. This is a boom that doesn't have a big impact in Europe. The European Web 2.0 scene is silent. Skype has already moved over to the eBay area.
Finnish companies are too concentrated around everything mobile, so the Web 2.0 bubble talk doesn't have any bearing here. We're using Web 2.0 applications to add productivity and reach of our knowledge work. Web 2.0 has made our life easier. We can do more with less time. We can reach more people on a global scale with much less effort. The time-shift effect does have some meaning for us.
There was a long silence. Blackberry was not supposed to be a threat to the connecting people engineers until Barack Obama made it clear that he was using one. Big blow. 
