Entries Tagged as 'Mobile'

Business cards 2.0 with mobile phone codes

April 30th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Mobile phone codes such as semacodes and QR for “quick response” codes allow you to to embed data such as SMS messages, phone numbers, and URLs into images of square patterns.
HYPERLINKED BUSINESS CARD. This mobile code is linked to my blog address. I’m planning to have this printed at the back of my business [...]

Tags: Free services · Highlights · Mobile

Mobile e-mail on the high seas

April 6th, 2007 · 5 Comments

There’s probably room enough for only 10 people on this islet of six trees (or shrubs) and a single hut.
Yet on this islet near Olango Island and for several kilometers near it, you can still connect to telecoms networks and send and receive text messages, make calls, and browse the mobile Internet. It boggles my [...]

Tags: Highlights · Internet · Mobile · Personal

Judging people by their phones

March 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments

What’s your phone? Mine’s a Sony Ericsson and, according to a survey by Nielsen Media Research, I’m likely to be an ambitious, success-driven, professional, and individualistic young man.
Nielsen Media Research, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, found in a survey in Australia that certain customer types were attracted to certain phone brands.
I’d like to believe [...]

Tags: Mobile · Personal

Turn your mobile phone into a document scanner with Scanr app

March 22nd, 2007 · 11 Comments

I would give anything to have had this Scanr tool a decade ago when, as a beat reporter, I had to frequently photocopy documents for news stories. When I was still covering the Cebu City Hall beat, I did a series of news reports that exposed illegal collection of fees and various other transactions disallowed [...]

Tags: Free services · Highlights · Internet · Journalism · Mobile · Newsroom tech

Manage songs in your phone, mp3 player with Songbird

March 19th, 2007 · 6 Comments

ITunes locks out other devices by limiting synchronization only to iPods and other Apple-approved devices. There are third-party software you can use to be able to manage songs in your phone or non-iPod mp3 player using iTunes but these applications can be complicated to install or tedious to use.
SONGBIRD, K750i. The transfer queue of [...]

Tags: Mobile · Open source · free software

Traffic, flood, crime data on your mobile phone

March 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Apart from Bulacan State University’s Smart Phone Guard, the Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (Sweep) project that really piqued my interest in this year’s Innovation and Excellence Awards is Ateneo de Manila University’s Smart Safety Assistance (3S).
The system packages mobile services, using open source projects, into a system that offers people access, via a PC [...]

Tags: Mobile · Open source · WebTech