See The World Through Your Cell Phone
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Family Locator using GPS Sprint Family Locator is a location-based service that uses Sprint’s state-of-the-art GPS technology to enable a parent to use a phone or PC to locate a child on a map. The service also gives the address, surrounding landmarks and accuracy of the child’s location within a specified radius. Sprint also offers a phone with built-in parental controls and a new Web access management feature to help parents limit their children’s access to only the phone services they deem appropriate.
Forensic experts say they are studying how text messages could be linked to crimes. In a bid to make better use of the data mobile phones contain, psychologists at the University of Leicester in England are researching how individuals can be identified by their texting style.
In 2001 AOL launched a new mobile communicator program called “Anywhere”. This linked cell phone activity to email and instant messaging… With the flash and dash of 2006, Sony is the talk of the town with its instalment of Mylo, “My Life Online”, a newly designed mobile communicator. Mylo has been compared to the AOL mobile communicator, but there are a few differences between these two pocket sized communicators.
Two news items point to how much easier it is going to be to see the world through your cell phone. In Dubai, there was an announcement that i-mate™ is partnering with the Dubai eGovernment on a mobile initiative. i-mate™ is a specialist in Microsoft® Windows Mobile® devices and applications. i-mate™ Smartflip devices are preloaded with a ‘favourites’ link to the Dubai e-Government web portal www.mobile.dubai.ae. Users can now access information on the go, including financial, travel, entertainment, flights, prayer timings and other valuable information.’
The web portal is an essential resource providing a range of services that enable people to conduct online transactions and communicate with Dubai Government Departments round the clock. The aim is to provide high-quality customer focused eServices for citizens, residents, visitors and businesses to help make living, visiting and doing business in the Emirate easier.
Even if websites are not designed for cell phones, a Google patent that issued this past week shows they are thinking on how to make them viewable. This patent takes a look at navigation bars, and tries to understand how to rewrite some navigation bars without any significant loss in understanding by a visitor to a site. That approach may well open up an even bigger slice of the world to cell phones. Thanks to William Slawski for pointing that out. I now can’t get the words of that old song out of my head, “It’s a small world after all.”
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