Mobile Web News: Week of August 6, 2007

August 7, 2007 on 6:31 pm | In Mobile Web News, Web Design |

 

 

Click on the player at left to view the week’s major news about the Mobile Web.

GigaOm: Watch Your TV Cable On Your Handheld
It works like this: You make your TV cable look like one of the computers connected to your home computer network. Then, just like a computer on your home network can share files on another computer that’s on the network, a computer on your home network can share the TV cable’s programs.

Not only that, just like you can access a file on one of your home computers from anywhere on the Internet (with some special software, like “GoTomyPC”), you can view your TV cable’s programs from anywhere on the Internet, even on your handheld device using some special software.

You connect your cable to your home network using Sling Media’s “Slingbox” and their “Sling Viewer” software. This is all just arriving in the US, and likely to be possible with AT&T’s  3G network first.

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TMobile UK Will Pay You for Your Unused Cell Phone
If you’re in the UK, TMobile, in a move combining marketing sense and concern for the environment (probably in that order) will give you or the charity of your choice upto $160 for any discarded cell phones you may have lying around. This is according to UPI.

We presume that they will recycle these phones in an environmentally-friendly way…
 
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More than 1.2 Billion Broadband Mobile Connections by 2011?
According to Juniper Research, the reputed intelligence firm centered around high-technology, that is what the future portends. Demand will be in the order North America, Western Europe, the Far East and China. Juniper also predicts that by 2012, mobile broadband service companies will earn… no, this is not a mistake.. more than $400 billion annually in service charges. Sounds like a good business to be in, ya?!
 
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VisiStat Serves Web Analytics to Your Handheld Device
VisiStat, a reputed web analytics company, has reformatted its web site visitor statistics to fit on the screen of your Treo,  iPhone, BlackBerry, PDA or other palmtop. Consequently you can be walking on the Great Wall of China while simultaneously checking to see how many visitors your web site had last Christmas!

Check out the neat demos on VisiStat’s web site.
 
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Nokia Agrees With Microsoft to Use Microsoft’s DRM Technology
Nokia decided in June that it wouyld redesign itself to make mobile software and services a major revenue center. According to Reuters, to enable lucrative multimedia (i.e., music, games) downloads into cell phones, Nokia has contracted with Microsoft to use Microsoft’s software for access-control of downloaded media files (the technology is known as “Digital Rights Management”, abbreviated “DRM” ).

Generally speaking, we’re seeing everything in the desktop web world being implemented in the mobile web world…

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