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An old one
links for 2007-07-30
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Nokia annonce aujourd’hui le lancement de son application multimédia MyNseries, une application S60 permettant d’accéder à toute l’expérience multimédia proposée par les Nokia Nseries, accessible directement depuis son mobile.
Infoworld says: India adds record 7 million mobile users in June
Emerging? Heck, this is booming.
Gosh, I wish I were a mobile service provider in India at the moment. Would be really fun.
The boom in India’s mobile telephony market is loud and clear, with the country adding a record 7.34 million new subscribers in June.
The monthly additions were the highest ever for the country, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said Wednesday. This followed the addition of 6.57 million new subscribers in May.
links for 2007-07-27
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Oscar is not just the average cat.
“He’s a cat with an uncanny instinct for death,” said Dr. David M. Dosa, assistant professor at the Brown University School of Medicine and a geriatric specialist. “He attends deaths. He’s pretty insistent on it.”
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A hop onto the bed, a fastidious lick of the paws, then a snuggle beside a nursing home patient with little time left. Oscar’s purr, when keeping close company with the dying, is so intense it’s almost a low rumble.
New market share order – Samsung Leaves Motorola Behind on the Cell Phone Market in Q2.
Not that I am one to follow such news. But, co-worker (and amazing industry watcher) Peter B tells me that Moto and Nokia have been the top two for the past 13 years.
Wow. Now that’s interesting.
Link: X-bit labs – Samsung Leaves Motorola Behind on the Cell Phone Market in Q2.:
Following the recently announced financial results for the second quarter recently announced by Motorola and Samsung Electronics, several analysts have come to conclusions that the South Korean-based electronics giant has left the U.S.-based Motorola behind in terms of cell phone shipments in the Q2 2007. Still, the world’s largest maker of handsets, Nokia, not only remains on top, but might become the biggest beneficiary of Motorola’s market share drop.
One more thing:
As we all know, this market share game can spin your head.
I remember in way back when, when I thought Sony-Ericsson would never dig themselves out of their hole and that LG and Samsung would blow everyone away. Where’s LG? And Samsung really was looking sick recently.
I also thought Moto would never go down, for some black magic. It’s about time! It’s obscene how they managed a last gasp coasting due to the RAZR.
And does anyone remember Panasonic? How about Siemens, no BenQ, no Siemens, no, uh, whereditgo?
But these global market shares also hide a few things. Regional market shares mean a lot, too, like Moto in the US and China; Samsung in Korea and Pana in Japan; and, of course, Nokia in India and the US (what a contrast).
Winksite releases new features
Better late than never, I’ve finally been able to take a peak at some of new things David Harper and gang have added to Winksite (see some stuff below, a follow link below for even more details).
Gotta say, pretty nifty.
Winksite is really good to begin with. I’ve written about it a lot over the past years (just look here). Winksite makes it really easy to create and manage mobile websites. WIth that as a basic, they have been adding small tweaks without destroying the main goal.
With this last release, they’ve added:
– Color schemes and backgrounds that work across a great variety of mobile devices and screens.
– Mobile sites with 100% valid XHTML code, fully compliant with W3C Mobile Web Standards (in addition to the usual WAP fare).
– A search engine optimization tool including a Google Mobile Sitemap for each site.
– Sony PSP, Nintendo DS Lite, and Apple iPhone optimized pages (adding to a long list of other supported devices – see link below).
Way to go, guys.
Winksite. Love the Mobile Web.
Winksite makes it easy to publish mobile Internet sites and build simple mobile connections via mobile phones. Winksite is the first standards compliant mobile Website builder that also includes RSS-driven content deployment and mobile-tuned community features such as forum, chat, and polls. This approach delivers fresh content, fast-loading screens, and universally accessible community features to you and your audience. The Winksite service is a free and fully hosted solution. No software install on your phone is necessary to view a Winksite powered mobile site. Learn more about how it works.One platform. Many uses.
Use your mobile site as your personal podium to the world, a convenient mobile dashboard to all you find important or as a space to build and manage a mobile community. Create a mobile edition of your blog, journal or news service. Start a mobile chat room, forum or poll. Glue together your friends, feeds, and favorites into your own mobile personal portal. Organize an event or street team and spread the word on the where, when and why. Link SMS, QR Codes, mobile ads, or Twitter & Jaiku messages to a mobile destination where people can see and do more.
Simple to navigate. Simple to use.
Each Winksite benefits from thousands of hours of fresh research, user testing and community feedback From it’s simple, channel-based structure, to it’s universal “Main Menu” link, Click-to-call dialing options, and easy to use community features – each mobile site you launch comes bundled with a pleasurable mobile experience.
links for 2007-07-24
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Today Nokia has acquired the media sharing service Twango. Twango combines online storage with social networking, allowing users to organize and share photos, videos and other personal media.
links for 2007-07-18
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1,276 people who bought an iPhone hadn’t heard of the Nokia E70 until now because Nokia’s marketing team is too busy tossing salad to get the word out. [Just had to share this. And hat tip to Matt.]