I was recently invited by the IEE in Oxford to give a presentation titled “Services for Next Generation Wireless Applications” based on some themes in my book, which I updated for this presentation to include ideas from the world of IMS. Feel free to download the slides. There aren’t any speaker’s notes, but the general [...]

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Recently, I posted about using location-based advertising to find a local plumber or cheap milk in the local Tesco Metro. How might the plumber bit work?
Well, in certain circles there is a lot of interest in the address book on your mobile phone, as it is the centre of user attention and is what drives [...]

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I’ve already raved on this blog about the photo widget in the Google desktop sidebar. Every 5 seconds it displays a thumbnail image of one of the digital pictures on my PC. I find that at least every 1/2 hour I will click on one and enjoy it full-screen. My wife asked why can’t we [...]

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Recently I used a 3G mobile to gain data access for my laptop (running XP). To my horror, just sitting there doing nothing - no surfing, no emails, no RSS …. absolutely nothing whatsoever - the data meter is whizzing away clocking up lots of bytes on the uplink and downlink. Clearly, something is happening [...]

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I was watching a DVD the other night (Without a Trace) and heard a song that I liked on the sound track. Unfortunately, it wasn’t credited at the end. Then I remembered Shazam, the music identification service, so I dialled 2580 (which I remembered, as it’s the middle keys going downward) and held it out [...]

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