With the technical challenges more or less resolved, I think the biggest challenge for LBS is user acceptance owing to privacy and security issues.
Location based services face distrust by users owing to the loss of personal freedom and control over the technology e.g. intrusive advertising, commercial pressure, loss of autonomy, etc. It is crucial for [...]
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Posted in Mobile on June 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Head over to this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists at London Calling for some of the finest in mobile blogging. The main focus this week is on Nokia’s acquisition of Symbian and making it open source.
This week’s carnival also features my post Mobile is quickly becoming a lifestyle assistant
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Posted in Mobile, Web, tagged assistant, business, Gmail, Google, iPhone, lifestyle, Mobile, Mobile Phone, RSS, Social Networking on June 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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Mobile phone is not just a mere communication tool anymore. With advancements in technology and lowering costs, new generation mobile phones are highly advanced, multi-faceted and most importantly ‘affordable’. The new iPhone is just $199 (with strings attached, of course). These new age devices are quickly becoming a ‘must have’ to complement our [...]
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, tagged geotagging, LBS, Mobile on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is up at mTrends. The main focus this week is on one of my favorite topics “LBS” with almost half the posts on this topic alone, also covers mobile advertising, mobile workforce, NFC, mobile apps and mobile browser.
And what do you know, it also features my post in the [...]
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, Web, tagged geotagging, GPS, iPhone, LBS, maps, Mobile, Web on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Geotagging lets you add geographic information, such as latitude and longitude as indicated by the integrated GPS system, to any digital content — from pictures and videos to news articles and blog posts . So when you take a picture/video or post a blog your location is also saved. Then you can overlay [...]
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In his post Mordy Gilden asks What makes a Smartphone ‘Smart’. He gives a few examples of what might be construed as a Smartphone, but with a plethora of phones from different tiers having similar functionality that we may attribute to a Smartphone, how do we define what it really is.
I think “Smartphone” [...]
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In my previous post I had discussed Why video calls haven’t taken off, here I’m making a case FOR Mobile Video Calling. I had posted this question on LinkedIn and IXDA forums to get some insights from people in the industry and user experience community as to why video calling didn’t take off. From the [...]
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Posted in Mobile, Usability, User Experience, tagged business, failed, IXDA, LinkedIn, Mobile, privacy, QoS, quality, Usability, User Experience, Video Call, Video Telephony on June 11, 2008 | 20 Comments »
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It was supposed to be the next big thing but it seems to have fizzled out like MMS. It failed in many 3G-enabled countries that deployed it. Gartner’s consumer mobile hype cycle (July 2007) claims that wireless video calling has failed to create any excitement in the mobile industry, with no demand from [...]
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Posted in Mobile on June 9, 2008 | No Comments »
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is up at Wap Review with some excellent entries on mobile and wireless as always.
It also features my post on What I want from Local Search on mobiles
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Web, tagged business, LBS, location, Mobile, mobile search, mobile social networking, search on June 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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Another one in the “What I want…” series. I’m focusing on ‘Local Search on mobile’ and not ‘Search on mobile’ because people searching from their mobiles will usually be doing so on the go and hence would mostly be focusing on local content like searching for something or someplace close by (or someone, [...]
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