How Many Texts Could a Texter Text if a Texter Had Text to Text- June 29, 2004 SMS Speed Record Sets Guinness World Record "A 23-year-old Singaporean woman appears to have set a world record for sending text messages over a cellphone, underlining Asia's growing obsession with cellplhone technology.Kimberly Yeo thumbed 26 words in 43.24 seconds into her phone, beating a world record of 67 seconds for the same words set by a Briton in September 2003, said Singapore's dominant telephone carrier, Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), on Monday.Cellphones are an ubiquitous..http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/informationShifting/2004/06/29.html#a5773 (Untitled)- June 29, 2004 AOL Wins Patent for IM TV "A potentially powerful application. Although AOL won't go into details, the patent describes the gist of the new technology: When an AOL user pops up her buddy list, it would show what TV shows her friends are currently watching. Click a link, and her TV would change to that channel. "This enables friends to exchange messages that include links to a particular network or TV show," the patent says. Very intriguing." Lost Remotehttp://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/informationShifting/2004/06/28.html#a5772 I Remember When Kids Didn't Have Cell Phones....- June 25, 2004 Mobile Users Top 1.5 Billion "As of the first week of June 2004, the mobile service industry broke the 1.5 billion subscriber mark worldwide. Research firm EMC also predicts that the industry will pass the 2 billion mark as early as 2006, far earlier than some other predictions, and reach 2.45 billion by the end of 2009." infoSync World Guess where a lot of that growth is going to come from Generation Text "New research from Mobile Youth - a mobile telecoms consultancy - found that 700,000...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/informationShifting/2004/06/24.html#a5758 Here Today, Here Tomorrow- June 24, 2004 Me, My Mobile and I "A new generation of mobile users are becoming so emotionally attached to their phones that they cannot live without them. This is one of the key findings of a study into how people use their mobile phones entitled Me, My Mobile and I. The annual study from research firm Teleconomy reveals that 10 to 14-year-olds - dubbed M-Agers - are rapidly becoming the most sophisticated users of phones. Even toddlers are able to tell the difference between incoming phone calls...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/informationShifting/2004/06/24.html#a5755 None of which Could Possibly Apply to Libraries, Too- June 9, 2004 The Internet Search on Mobile Race "IDC analyst Mr Keith Wayras expects 30 million people, or 17 per cent of US mobile subscribers, to use the web on phones in 2006,while currently in Japan about 44.8 million people, or 58 per cent of internet users, access the web on their mobile phones.Internet access will be available on most of the approx 600 million mobile phones expected to be sold worldwide this year.While it is already possible to run a Google search on phones, it is not always easy...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/informationShifting/2004/06/08.html#a5714 (Untitled)- June 9, 2004 A glimpse of DoCoMo's first e-wallet cellphone. It&146;s no secret that one of the next big things in Japanese cellphones will be the inclusion of noncontact IC chips that allow them to act as e-wallets and commuter passes, amongst other things. DoCoMo is first to the punch with an actual handset, the 3G Fujitsu F900iC, captured here in scintillating close-up detail by an intrepid snapper at a presentation last week. It was featured on a slide alongside two already-announced models and the NEC.http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/informationShifting/2004/06/08.html#a5711 (Untitled)- June 8, 2004 Printing On Pringles. Press Release: Pringles Announces First-of-Its Kind Technology That Prints Directly on Individual Crisps. The Procter & Gamble Company, the maker of Pringles, the 1 selling stacked potato crisp, introduces Pringles Prints, an innovative snack that features a unique, fun design printed on every crisp. The revolutionary Prints technology allows P&G to customize the crisps by printing words and images in a variety of colors directly on the chip. Pringles Prints Fun...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/informationShifting/2004/06/08.html#a5706 (Untitled)- June 8, 2004 The home that watches your health. A consortium of Japanese firms including Hitachi and Matsushita Electric have started work on a system of wirelessly networked devices that watch your health as you go about your daily routine, with the intention of catching health problems in their early stages. Hitachi is making a mat that slides under your futon and measures pulse, breathing, and snoring while you&146;re asleep; Matsushita is working on an unspecified device that allows the &147;easy...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/informationShifting/2004/06/07.html#a5701 |