Another outdoors advertisement, shot already a few months ago in Amsterdam. The ad says “Who do I want to be today?”. Options are: kroegtijger (don’t […] Read More
Tag: mobile phone
A week or two ago (just before the migration of this blog the a new server) I walked past an outdoors advertisement in Amsterdam, near […] Read More
Source – via Textually.org. A study by Nielsen Media Research suggests that the type of phone you wear says something about your personality: What your […] Read More
Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf has an article about environmental problems that arise because of people putting mobile phones and other gadgets like iPods in the […] Read More
Here is mr. Dominic busy talking through his handset. Business in Nigeria has changed a lot with the advent of the mobile phone. It has […] Read More
kablog-j2me 2.0.8 for Nokia6233 This is an older pic shot in Jos. I was out on Ahmadu Bello way talking to some people selling all […] Read More
kablog-j2me 2.0.8 for Nokia6233 Just a shot of a shot inside the WAMCO warehouse. We were comparing the quality of our photocams.
Hey, there are people inspired by me :). Check out Darryl Cressman’s article about mobile gifting. Darryl is from the School of Communication, at Simon […] Read More
According to Washington Post, Indian Fishermen make intensive use of the mobile phone to find the best place to sell their fish. While still at […] Read More
(Via the mobile-society@groups.l.google.com mailinglist) The SFGate has an article dated February 27, 2006 about the impact of the mobile phone. The somewhat over the top […] Read More
We have probably seen this example of a USB stick that swells up when full, and deflates when empty. (source: www.smallsurfaces.com) Although this is a […] Read More
(Via Mobile Cowboys) British site www.modyourmob.co.uk is dedicated to modding the phone. Modding the phone in moderate ways already happens quite often, I think, as […] Read More
Textuality.org reports that many of the English(?) office workers have an infatuation for hightech mini-gadgetry such as mobile phones, Blackberry’s, iPods. They are dubbed G.O.S.S.I.P.S […] Read More
The world’s first open source cellphone Qtopia GreenphoneTM has been released. The phone runs on Qtopia, a specially crafted lightweight operating system based on Linux. […] Read More
OK, so I got a new UMTS enabled phone, a Nokia 6233. I got a Dutch T-mobile flat rate internet subscription for € 9,50 a […] Read More
(From www.bright.nl.) If you’ re in dire need of someone to call you to save you from a boring obligatory drink with colleagues, or to […] Read More
According to a yearly recurring research by Dutch consultancy bureau CheckItOut (a Newcom branch), teenagers as well are annoyed by people talking too loud in […] Read More
source: EU website The European Commission has started a public consultation about the issue of child safety and the use of the mobile phone. The […] Read More
Funny, yesterday I discussed my preliminary paper on mobile communication as gift-culture (following the well-known anthropological classic by Marcel Mauss) together with my colleague PhD […] Read More
pic source: http://www.erational.org/netart/recallme/ news source: www.newsday.com The ubiquitous presence of the mobile phone can be a nuisance during class, meetings, concerts, the movies, etc. USA […] Read More