Mobile Phones
Bluetooth Stuff Feb 13,2004
06430 TEL: 203-254-1531 FAX: 203-254-7442 www.lemosint.com sales@lemosint.com A note on the Promi SD: Jamie Allen got this from the folks at Initium: "If you want to use Promi-SD with Tx, Rx, and ground pins only, you have to disable hardware flow control feature on Promi-SD. The AT command for this is: AT+UARTCONFIG, baudrate, parity, stopbit, flow control For example, if you use 9600 bps, no parity, one stopbit, no hardware flow control, then command is AT+UARTCONFIG,9600,N,1,0 Or, you may do same job at Promi-WIN(v3b) software."
ConQwest Oct 12,2004
ConQwest is a large-scale urban game in which teams race through the city searching for hidden treasure using cellphone cameras and giant inflatable animals." It's a game for mobile phones created by Ubiquity Labs (aka Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert) for Qwest.
Doors East Project Links Jan 2,2004
Some interesting project links from the Doors East conference in 2003, including: "...HP Labs India has conducted an exhaustive survey of the ways in which urban and rural Indians from all socio-economic strata use technology..." "...e-Chaupal, an agricultural e-business initiative by ITC, one of India's larger conglomerates, offers rural farmers information, products and services to enhance farm productivity, improve farm-gate price realisation and cut transaction costs."
E-Tech notes Feb 13,2004
He and his company are doing a "Wireless Roadshow to teach local technology NGOs how wireless technologies can be used to bring Internet and intranet connectivity to those parts of the world not included in the plans of the commercial telecommunications companies."... Lili covered the history of the social computing group really well, and gave great context and setup for Wallop, an environment they're working on which maps and organizes relationships between you and the people you care about, through emails, photos, shared work, and other documents.
Eruvim in Manhattan Jul 14,2005
Elliott Malkin has done an interesting project on Eruvim in Manhattan.
Java and Cell Phones Sep 15,2003
An article on J2ME development on OSX using the MIDP, courtesy of Mark Argo (for those allergic to acronyms: J2ME = Java 2, mobile edition, which is the reference implementation of Java for cell phones, PDA's and other limited mobile devices.... Java multimedia for J2ME is accomplished through the MM-API" New book: The MIDP 2.0 Style Guide for J2ME From Shawn Van Every, some details on 3GPP and Quicktime, a standard for cell phone video?
MobileWhack Jul 9,2004
Rael Dornfest's blog of all things related to mobile computing.
Nokia Imagewear Frames, and more Oct 4,2003
Nokia's got a whole line of networked objects available and coming RSN. Check out their imagewear: medallions, picture frames, and personal image viewers.
Notes from O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference 2005 Mar 17,2005
It's the last day of O'Reilly Etech, and there's been a number of useful things happen here.... Here's a few links, from Erik Smartt's talk and from Dennis Crowley: A Python series 60 wiki Matt Webb pointed out that the new powerbooks (after January 2005) have a built-in accelerometer, and he's posted a link to a tool for accessing it and scripting it.
Smart Mobs Jul 9,2004
Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs blog dedicated to subjects stemming from his book of the same name. He and other bloggers report on various social/technology items here.