Snippets

Opera Mobile – designed for a wide variety of mobile phones and cellphones using Java, with provision for Palm and Pocket PC devices.

Origami Project – the community working with Microsoft’s platforms for Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) devices.

Mobile Instant Messaging – Vodafone and MSN teaming up to provide a synchronised service.

USSD – Unstructured Supplementary Service Data – allowing ongoing data interaction from mobile phone users and service providers.

Carrypad – aiming to promote ultra-mobile technology, including a comparison of devices.

“eBook reader will be literature’s iPod” – the upsurge of dedicated eBook reader hardware in 2006? – using ‘electronic paper’.

Pogo – device from 2001/2 with larger screen and oriented around web browsing

BBC Backstage – mashing up BBC content


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