From the first day, Facebook came to public it faced rumors and complaints. One of the most serious complaints was actually filed November 19, 2008 by Leader Technologies, Inc in the United States district court for the district of Delaware for infringement of U.S Patent No. 7,139,761 in this district. This patent relates to a method and system for the management and storage of electronic information.
According to the latest public Court Order document dated 4th September 2009 (embedded below), Facebook objections were denied and the company will still need to produce its entire source code for Leader’s review no later than September 15, 2009
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Started as research project at Microsoft Research, the innovative SenseCam Technology aimed at helping people with memory loss problems. The SenseCam is a digital camera that you wear on a necklace and takes a picture every 30 seconds without user intervention. It’s equipped with different sensors such as light-intensity and light-color sensors, a passive infrared (body heat) detector, a temperature sensor, and a multiple-axis accelerometer that create the input signal to automatically trigger a photo shoot.
This device has also a sound recorder, built-in GPS and all those nice features to create a digital copy of your life timeline.
Michael Arrington and the techcrunch readers discussed this life recorder and broke it down in all aspects (see the brainstorming here)
Some people were worried about device loss or theft. I wonder how do they protect their mobile phone or laptop? But what really amazed me in the discussion though is how most of the readers were concerned about the privacy issues. Ironically, the same readers are either facebook or twitter users. Furthermore, I think these people really need this device because they seem to have memory loss issues and forgot that they had privacy issues with social networking and blogging before they came a trend. As everything in this world, this trend either evolves or dies. Looking at the daily increase in the number of bloggers/facebook users/twitterers, I doubt the trend would die.
The SenseCam could certainly benefit from a SIM card to connect it to a network, yet another application for mobile broadband enabling remote storage, geo-tagging, face recognition, … Read more…
A year ago, there was only 10% of the advertising firms that have used and tried mobile advertising, today there are more than 50%. Mobile advertising can either be used as the main vehicule in a campaign or it can also be used as part of a media mix.
There are 3 drivers in mobile advertising: Consumers, Operators and Advertising companies.
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Can you imagine yourself in 2020? Ever wondered about applications that can take advantage of the future mobile technology?
Ericsson presented a three conceptual mobile Personal Area Mediator (PAM) that aim to show the usage of the 100 Mbit/s mobile broadband. These concepts can be considered as the 4th generation of mobile devices after TV, PC and Phone. Each concept was described with a scenario to clarify how the mobile solutions could be used to satisfy different needs and wishes. Organizer for business and organization, Harmonizer for well-being health and balance and Exciter for fun and entertainment. Read more…