My principal interest in mobile applications is to push the boundaries of innovation to create uniquely mobile experiences. I hope my blogs excite and challenge developers to think 'outside the box'.
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First Mobile Game 2.0
In a previous blog I talked about the presentation Will and I are going to do at this year’s Game Developers Conference ( GDC08 ) around the paradigms of Web 2.0 as applied to mobile games using widgets. In that Blog I talked about a new game which built upon our previous experience of the...
NFC at CES
I know my fellow champion Gabor was sceptical about my prediction for a growth in NFC this year so I was very interested to see this announcement from the Consumer Electronics Show relating to a bunch of NFC enabled products which are all compatible with the Nokia 6131 NFC. Of...
Designing for the Emergent Markets
I came across this post at Mobhappy by Carlo Longino which highlights two new Nokia phones (1200 and 1208), which have probably generated little interest amongst developers in the West as they are entry level phone, but are particularly interesting (at least to me ) from a socio-techinal...
Camera phones fuel data usage
An interesting article on the BBC caught my eye yesterday highlighting new research by m-metrics linking increased used of camera phones and sites such a Flikr to rise in demand of data services.
According to the article “ research found that 20% of...
Augmenting our Mobile Reality!
Once again its been too long since I had time to blog. Recently my student Fadi Chehimi and I have been working on the revisions of our paper “Augmented Reality 3D Interactive Advertisements on Smartphones” that was accepted for ICMB 07 and I thought its now a good time to share...
Mobile video sharing could be bigger than YouTube?
The is a very interesting post by Carlo Longino at MobHappy with the suggestion that operators could pool together to create a mobile version of YouTube which would maximise potential users and avoid the situation were individual operators create individual offerings thus watering down the...
An end to the dreaded roaming charges?
Yesterday one of the mobile operators in the UK announced that they have abolished roaming charges for its UK customers when travelling to overseas countries were they have networks. Having been stung by roaming charges on a number of occasions I am hoping that all UK operators will...
Nokia integrated NFC phone
While the main press furore at CES may have been around the iphone I was much more interested to see Nokia announce its first fully integrated NFC phone based on the Nokia 6131 . The specification says that it supports JSR 257 but doesn’t list this of those preinstalled which may mean...
Mobile phones as deployable sensors
I was asked by a colleague in Environmental Science about using a mobile phone to relay pictures back of one of there remote sites every half hour for hopefully about a month. Like most engineers I can’t resist a challenge so we have created an application that provides the functionality...
The Top 10 Tendencies?
I came across this list of what the authors considered to be the most 10 prevailing tendencies permeating research, product development and service design within the field of information technology. Apart from feeling slightly smug as they included many of my own favourite research topics I...
Talking to a poster with your phone
I am teaching Symbian on our MSc course since last Monday so not had much time for blogging or unhappily the smart phone show this year. However, I came across the article discussing the recent development from the NFC forum defining a specification for smart posters which interested me. In...
Mapvertising
I came across another new term this week (don’t you just love them) the so-called ‘mapvertising’ whereby advertisers are targeting maps sites as places to promote there wares. This includes both general route planners to mash-ups. As anyone who reads my blogs I am a long term...
Is their an elephant in the corner of the entertainment industry?
I have just come back from couple of days at the ICEC 2006 and although there were many interesting talks I felt that one topic which was noticeably absent was relating to the rising DIY entertainment cultures such as myspace, mashups, blogging, etc. This put me to thinking that as it is such...
Football in a Flash (Lite)
I thought I would share our experience of a recently completed project where we were looking into development using Flashlite. We recreated a favourite application mfooty that we first developed about four years ago that provides a live football results service (goals, cards, etc) to your...
The diversification of the gamer
I was extremely gratified to see this report on how the gamer audience is diversifying and that marketers should be very wary of relying on the traditional definitions of the so-called hardcore and casual gamer. This is a topic close to my heart as I have been trying to evangelise this...
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My principal interest in mobile applications is to push the boundaries of innovation to create uniquely mobile experiences. I hope my blogs excite and challenge developers to think 'outside the box'.
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