Inside View

Five Ways to Spot a Mobile Web Newbie

AS SOMEONE WHO RINGS up hundreds of euro each month in mobile data charges (see the extortionate effect of data roaming here), I have scratched out five ways to spot someone who does not know more than their default screen on a mobile da...

DAVE with my mobile phone

SEAGATE rolled out public demonstrations of its DAVE storage platform, a technology that allows me to store and share my mobile media on one device for easy access. With DAVE, I can combine the audio and video files that I download onto ...

The Pedagogy Behind Handheld Mobile Learning

I TEACH CREATIVE college students at LIT-Clonmel how to write for impact online and strongly believe this life skill reaches a higher level when it is part of a handheld mobile learning programme. The taskings I set for completion durin...

More than a Mobile

WE PLAY WITH mobile phones during the multimedia degree programme in Tipperary Institute so we can use them more efficiently. Today, it's Twitter (group text in picture) on the Nokia N70. Twitter is one of those applications that could p...

Neutered with Broken Tech

I HAVE SEVERAL SLOTS every day when I try to do specific things. After 9PM, I like to read words on paper. Before 7AM, I like to jog two miles. At 1 PM, I like to avoid fried food. For two solid days, I'm in the media centre at the 2007 ...

More Control for Your Phone

IMAGINE A PHONE YOU CAN CONTROL--really control--from its opening screen. Imagine a phone that let you see whether your friends were within a half mile. Imagine a phone whose desktop you can set up quickly and manage efficiently. Imagi...

More reasons to support mobile web

WITH THE MOBILE PRODUCT LIFECYCLE RIPPING ALONG twice as fast as computers at their peak ten years ago, mobile publishing has arrived as a point of information consumption. I am acutely aware of this fact because I am reading and writing...

Be where you are

CLONMEL -- The cellularisation of public spaces annoys me. It has created yobs who make mobile phones a menace. Two nights ago, a loud woman talked to a friend in Korea while browsing through the carrots in Dunnes Stores, Kilkenny. Last ...

Intelligent Mobile

KILKENNY -- I live in a part of Ireland where my mobile phone signal sucks when rain falls. And to compound my frustrations, it rains a lot in Ireland. While visiting Motorola in Cork last week, I learned that help was at hand--Motowifi ...

A Superphone User

MOBILE BEAT produced a chart (above) to draw distinctions between superphones like the Xperia X10 and the smartphone like my Nokia E90. Superphones have more powerful processors and they are much more extensible than any previous mob...