Hello! And Welcome To the 41nd Carnival of the Mobilists brought to you by MOpocket and Khosla Ventures who awards $250 to the author of the best post each month. This weeks Carnival also has a special dedication in honor of my parents Stuart and Paula Oberman (pictured above) who celebrated their 32nd Anniversary last Friday August 18th. My mother is looking for a new cell phone and is open to suggestions :-). I love you Mom and Dad, thanks for everything and I hope we celebrate another 32 anniversaries and more!

There are a lot of great contributions to this weeks carnival but before we get to them their is some Carnival and Mobilist business that we have to take care of. REMEMBER, IF YOU FIND YOUR BLOG MENTIONED HERE IT IS ONLY COMMON COURTESY TO LINK BACK. If you don’t my parents may be very disappointed in you ;-).

MY JEWISH MOTHER SAYS VOTE NOW!

My mother told me to remind you that If you have not already done so please go over to the Carnival website and vote for July’s best post. This is an essential part of the now well sponsored Carnival by Khosla Ventures and such great stuff should not go to waste, my mother says. Its always good to listen to your Jewish mother If you vote maybe she will cook you her famous brownies… yummmmm.

DAD SAYS LETS PARTY IN LA.

Always the party social networking man (he is the CEO of a major insurance brokerage firm) my father feels obliged to tell you about the 2nd CTIA Gathering Of The Mobilists and urges those interested to RSVP and attend. “My son and other influential mobilists will be there,” he says, “it would be insane not to try and make it. The event will be held at Cicada Restaurant on Tuesday September 12, 2006 and invitations are limited. For more information visit the information source for the event at Rudy’s M-Trends.

And by the way, if anyone out their is looking for insurance and or an insurance broker you should contact me as me and my brother can take special care of you. We have some amazing policies for technology companies and firms, even web freelancers. The company is a very well known and highly respected insurance brokerage.

And now, as my parents dance to their wedding song… I present to you this weeks Carnival of the Mobilists:

We Begin With Carnival Newcomers Or At Least Blogs That Are New To Me

Sprint’s $3bn 4G Gamble

Kevin Evan’s in Kevin’s Mobile Industry Commentary, a blog I just discovered because of the Carnival, talks about Sprint’s move to WiMax and, to be frank, tells it like it really is. [Read]

Access’s Latest Press Releases

Tam Hanna has a Palm specific blog titled TamsPalm: The Palm OS Blog in which he deconstructs Access’ latest press release about the growing momentum of Access’ Linux OS Platform for Palm. [Read]

Now Lets Talk About Mobile Influences On Our Lives And The Way We Live Them

Can Mobile Devices Help You Get Things Done?

Mat Miller over at ZDNet in his Mobile Gadgeteer Blog has a great article about the everyday life and mobile devices which discusses the ways in which we organize our lives and get things done via our mobiles. [Read]

Mobile Phones, Social Coordination, Urban Environments

Howard Rheingold from Smartmobs has an interesting little ditty on “hyper-cordination” and the way mobile technology is influencing our societal ergonomic discourses (especially regarding the philosophy of waiting). [Read]

Connecting Cultures Through Music

From the Mobilist daddy himself, Rudy De Waele of M-Trends.org sends in an article he wrote for Vodafones Reciever Magazine in which Rudy talks beautifully and eloquently about the ways in which mobile technology makes music into a social networking phenomena the likes of which we have never seen. While Rudy’s article is meant to be about music specifically it has some real buried treasures deep inside its discourse that can be used to discuss the greater impacts that mobile technology will have on our smartmobby like existence. [Read]

Lets Get Technical For A Moment Here

I am Now Cingular 3Gified! Or Am I?

My own submission to the Carnival in which I talk about my run in with Cingular’s (an America’s) UMTS and HSDPA standards, its technical difference with its European counterpart and why that means I can;t really use it yet. [Read]

People Over Process And IT In Mobile Workforces

Rod McLaren’s blog over at Mobbu has a really interesting article that I was intimidated by at first but then found actually really enjoyable and interesting. So don’t get the “IT” jargon get to you ever wanted to know if a synchronous/asynchronous data model between mobile device and a server mean that users can get horribly out of sync, leading to catastrophic real-world failures to public service infrastructures that need it the most you need not worry says McLaren. [Read]

The Mobile Service Architecture Specification

C. Enrique Ortiz in his same-named titled Mobility Weblog points to an article he wrote in the Sun’s Mobility Development Center which, he says, introduces JSR 248 and next generation platform for Java ME devices. See how the pieces of the new platform fit together. I link to his blog, the rest is up to you. [Read]

Mobile Technology and Politics, A Favorite Topic Of Mine

Women Voter Registration Goes SMS Mobile

From the Personal Democracy technology and politics blogosphere we have a post about the ways in which a Women’s voter registration organization is using the ubiquitous nature of mobile technology and SMS to increase voter registration drives amongst women. [Read]

BBC Wap Use Flourishing In Africa

From the mobile technology and political activism blog MobileActive Ken Banks from Kiwanja.net writes about how Africa (and in particular Nigeria) is dominating international mobile phone access to the BBC website and how this is a great example of what the economics of broadband versus mobile phones means in developing countries. [Read]

Why Not Learn Something On You Mobile Every Once In A While

Mobile Learning Reading List

I blogged about this post from Stephanie Rieger’s blog Keitai: Mobility, Culture and User Experience earlier on MOpocket and I am glad to see in this weeks carnival. Simply put its a collection of projects and resources that Stephanie has collected regarding the theme of mobile learning and education. [Read]

Little Kids Need Converged Mobiles

Judy Breck, my literal NYC neighbor (she lives like one block from me) writes a reaction to a New York Times Article about kids going back to school with laptops and cell phones in her blog Golden Swamp. Her concern is with yet the not so easily converged uses of these technologies for children and discusses how the convergences between the two can be better improved. Judy, we still have to get coffee sometime, ping me. [Read]

Although, Lets Not Forget The Importance Of Mobile Marketing

Google Coupons - But Where’s the Mobile Element?

Russell Buckley over at MOBHappy sends in his thoughts on Google’s lack of mobile thinking vis-a-vis creating the ability for local business to coupons against their products and services via Google Maps allowing users to simply print them and then then redeem them as usual. Join the debate [Read]

Yelp Mobile

Dennis the WAP expert from WapReview applies his expertise to analyzing and critiquing Yelp’s Mobile site. For those of you that don’t know, Yelp.com is a site featuring user generated reviews of businesses, services and attractions mainly in major US cities. [Read]

What Can Your PC Do For Your Mobile

Nokia PC Suite Wishlist

Listen up Nokia! The Mobile Diva herself, Darla Mack in her newly decorated Darla Mack blog talks about the often underestimated power and beauty of Nokia PC Suite and talks about a few features she would like to see in future versions with the with the newer S60 devices and all the cool new features installed. I would just like to add that I wish they made one for Mac. [Read]

How to Share Your 3G Connection

Martin Sauter of Martin’s Mobile Technology Page (aka Mobile Society) takes a break from his summer holiday to talk about what I basically would tart to think about as Fon for mobile data. Simply put, Martin describes how to share your 3G connection using the Internet connection sharing functionality of Windows XP. Anyone try it on a Mac? [Read]

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Dear Mr Leonid Iakovlev. You submitted the link http://wblog.livejournal.com/15992.html#cutid1 which does not link to a post or an article. So I do not know what you want me to do but the Carnival rules are rules. So I will just mention that you sent this in in case an error was made.

THE POST OF THE WEEK

As part of Khosla Ventures‘ sponsorship to the Carnival they pay-out 250 dollars to the best post of the month the contestants of which are decided by the various sites hosting a Carnival during that month. It is therefore my responsibility to vote for a post or article that I believe merits this type of attention and award. It is therefore, on those grounds that I award Rudy De Waele’s Connecting Cultures Through Music article the honorary Stu and Paula Oberman post of the week award and therefore submit the article into the voting pool for Augusts mobile technology post of the month. Congratulations Rudy! As an extra bonus my mother has agreed to cook you a batch of her famous brownies, yummm.

In Conclusion…

Well, thats it for this Carnival. I hope you had as much fun reading it as I have had writing it. And if this was your first visit to MOpocket then welcome and I hope to see your referral links here again soon Stop and stay a while, read some old or new articles and enjoy.

Next weeks Carnival of the Mobilists will be hosted by MobileActive. Full a full list of upcoming Carnivals visit the Carnival websites schedule page.

For a full list of past Carnival of the Mobilists visit here.

Want to submit an article to the Carnival of the Mobilists or perhaps even host? Don’t delay, its really easy. Just visit the Carnival’s about page for more information and instruction.

To send my parents a happy anniversary message send an email to Stuart and Paula Oberman via Bluesites_at_aol.com

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British born artist and cuneiform/writing expert Tom Kemp could very well be an artist close to MOpocket’s heart. Kemp uses drawing tablets, scanners and a Palm Vx handheld with TealPaint software to produce works of art that explore the relationship between the human hand stroke and the digital medium. The largest of these works of art, Analysis (4 feet by 16 feet), is made up of one-thousand smaller works which were made on a Palm Pilot and then reproduced and enlarged either by printing or laser cutting. Each mini work was then laid out in a zig-zag down the page, starting at the top right. After each successful palm painting was completed it was added, chronologically, to the work. Some works also stand on their own and have been shown in galleries and art shows throughout London and the European continent.

Kemp explains that “The digital quality of the painting is quite apparent. The Palm screen has a low resolution. Because each small painting is printed at actual size the individual pixels are clearly seen. These contrast with the obvious swiftness and complexity of the movements used when wielding the tiny electronic brushes. The graininess of the pixels can’t hide the humanity of the original movements.”

Kemp also created works of art with a software he developed called “Particle Painter”,“ which mimics the movement of charged particles. Each positive and negative particle leaves a colored trail of its movement around the screen as it interacts with other positive and negative electrons (kind of like the apartment I share with my girlfriend). The colors, type of trail and movement of the particles can be adjusted and manipulated at anytime. A Particle Painting by Kemp entitled ”You Live Here“ was commissioned by Oxford Publishing last year to celebrate the 125th anniversary of its famous bookshop in Broad Street. It ran down the entire length of the building at Beaver House tower at Blackwell Ltd.

You can ”try your hand“ at ”Particle Painting“ for yourself here.

A signed, limited edition poster of Analysis is available. Click here to find out more

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Today at their 3GSM Press Conference, ACCESS and PalmSource talked about, not a new barrage Treo’s, but an ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP). A new commercial-grade Linux-based platform designed for smartphones and mobile devices is the latest evolution of PALM OS for Linux.

Trying to move beyond their Treo Success, the duo’s goal is to make ALP the platform of choice for the development of high volume, feature rich smartphones and mobile devices for high performance networks such as 2.5G and 3G around the world.

ALP will replace Palm OS and there will be no OS 6. The look and feel may no longer be “Palmy” as well. In other words, the Palm system is going to have a major overhaul, if, that is, you (or they) can still call it Palm when its all done and released in 2007.

The transformation of Palms OS to the Linux based ALP system comes after almost two years of zero upgrades on the current Palm OS. Palm is also leading mobile Linux out of its fragmented existence and into the real time practicality lime light. They are, of course, also the founding member of the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) forum.

The ALP software Developer Kit (due to be released and available for licenses by the end of 2006, “combines best-in-class open source Linux components with proven mobile technologies developed by PalmSource and ACCESS’ Linux expertise,” said Toru Arakawa, president and CEO of ACCESS. “As a commercial-grade, flexible, open, robust and standards-based mobile Linux based platform, ALP is designed to provide handset manufacturers with faster time-to-market while supporting the goal of operators to offer revenue-generating services, applications and content.”

Here is the geek stuff…

The major make up of ALP consists of a standard, commercial-grade Linux kernel (version 2.6.12 and above), an optimized, implantation of GIMP ToolKit (GTK+) which provides popular open source libraries for the creation of graphical interfaces, GStreamer (an open source, modular and multi-threaded streaming media framework) and SQLite (a high performance database engine commonly used in embedded devices).

ACCESS and PalmSource technologies incorporated into ALP include the ACCESS NetFront Browser, PalmSource’s messaging and Telephony middleware as well as their various mobile applications including PIM’s, multimedia, messaging, HotSYnc and Palm Desktop.

ALP features MAX, a new application framework that will deliver the new user interface for the new OS as well as the ability to run the plethora of already existing Palm Powered applications via an emulator (so you wont have to get another version of the Palmasutra :-)) ALP will also have built in J2ME and open source support, which is a major leap to what they have now.

One important fact to pull from that is that the new OS will be able to run your already existing Palm Powered applications on a powerful emulator.

The move serves to benefit developers, handset vendors and mobile operators alike by providing a much broader open source range of new technologies that is also commonly understood while, at the same time, building a foundation that allows for continuos improvement and enhancement.

The open source platform also allows a lot more flexibility to accommodate unique operator requirements.

It was not made clear if the new operating system would also apply to Palm’s standard PDA’s like the Tungsten and Zire, or even if they would continue to make them.

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Yep, its that time again. Here are some interesting links from around the web that you should definitely pocket

TODAY MOpocket is 1 Month Old!

SMS / MMS

Group Orgy by SMS/MMS? Happy Shagging! A teenage phenomena.

And, on that note, is it that surprising to find out that 3G Users Text More?

MOBILE MARKETING

The Pondering Primate has an excellent post on what exactly the The Physical World Connection is and the future difficulties that surround its inevitable adoption.

And on that note, just Moto me the money. Motorola sets to launch a new mobile-wallet service called m-wallet. (No word if the “m” stands for Motorola or Mobile). More.

MOBILE VIDEO & ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

MobiTv teams up with IPWireless to co-develop solutions that enable operators to migrate subscribers in high-usage areas to IPWireless’ new TDtv technology.

Also, a new liquid lens technology will help camera phones oom and autofocus without any moving parts.

THE FUTURE

This has nothing to do with mobile, yet. But it is damn cool! [thanks SmartMobs!]

PODS

The New York Times had a great article this weekend that I forgot to blog about… it made me think twice about getting another iPod.

APPLE TALK AND PALM TALK

Apple may take a bite out of palm? As both a palm and Mac user I don’t know how I should feel about this. I guess my gut reaction should make me kind of happy

WHAT EVER HAPPENED…

to this?

GREAT ARTICLE

… from Oliver Starr on the difference between Mobile web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0

Whereas Mobile Web 2.0 is all about the advanced capabilities associated with a specific subset of systems within a mobile device and particularly centered around some kind of web enabled interface Mobile 2.0 is more about the entirety of the device and its myriad and highly differentiated possibilities for interaction with the end user. In a nutshell, Mobile 2.0 is the superset of life altering functionality conveyed by a functioning mobile phone to that phone’s owner.

Mobile 2.0 is not device dependent. There is no measuring stick of functionality that is a determinant as to whether or not a mobile phone is or is not a Mobile 2.0 device. All functioning phones today are Mobile 2.0. It isn’t what the phone does, so much as what is being done with the phone that has lead us to Mobile 2.0.[read more]

“The Silicon Eye: How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete (Enterprise)” (George Gilder)

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Not sure if I am going yet, but this years South By South West Festival (SXSW) will be incorporating mobile technology into the event on many levels. For those of you unfamiliar with the festival, SXSW is probably the coolest festival of its kind incorporating music, interactive technology and film all into one 2 week long orgy of fun fun and more fun.

The conference has set up what they are calling the SXSW ToolBox which will allow attendees to view schedules and cast votes from your cell phone, watch trailers and clips from the festival on your iPod® or PSP ®, or use the SXSW clickguide® to help navigate vast number of opportunities that SXSW has to offer.

SFXW even has a sample video they want you to watch and or download to your iPod or PSP in order to “get used to the way we will deliver a wide variety of media for this year’s festival.”

The conference will also allow attendees to navigate the festivals complicated scheduling easier with a number of easy to use tools and applications such as SXSW SMS, the SXSW 2006 Clickguide by CitizenPod as well as a SXSW 2006 Schedule for Palm OS Devices.

The festival’s SMS service will allow those registered for the festival to receive special notices and alerts via their Online Registrants Directory. SXSW will send you alerts and updates specific to your badge type from last minute schedule changes, Special Events, to Flash happy hours and more.

Those sad souls who cannot make the event can still stay in the SMS action by sending the the text message “sx add” to the short code 56658.

SFXW will also sport some neat features like getting the band schedule to your mobile phone by just sending a text message with the band or clubname. SFXW will then text-message your mobile with band and showcase information.

The service will also sport an American Idol text message like voting system for your favorite band. It costs $1.99 a vote and your mobile number will be entered in a drawing to win 2 FREE Platinum Badges for SXSW 2007! Simply TXT MSG: “sx vote.band ‘band-name’” to 56658.

Those also attending the SXSW Film Conference and Festival will also be able to vote for their favorite film to win the SXSW 2006 Film Audience Award. Simply TXT MSG: sx vote.film filmname to 56658 by 5.pm March 14th.

The SMS technology was created through technology provided by Wiredset and StarTXT.

I might just go to try all this stuff out.

South by Southwest Music and Media Conference (SXSW) 2006, in its twentieth year, will take place March 15 - 19, 2006. The SXSW Film Conference and SXSW Interactive Festival, both in their thirteenth year, will take place March 10 - 14, 2006 with the Film Festival running from March 10 - 18, 2006.

If you are going, let me know

“Ringtone Mania!: Platinum: Platinum (Ringtone Series)” (Music Sales Limited)

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