Not sure how much f this is still a prototype, but it seems to be working and it’s definetly the application I’m waiting for!

A new technology developed by GeoVector, a small American technology firm, in cooperation with three Japanese companies( KDDI, a cellular carrier, in partnership with NEC Magnus Communications, a networking company, and Mapion) allows cell phone users in Japan to point their phones at a nearby location and get information about that location immediately. With the GeoVector technology, control is given over to the user, who gets information only from what he or she points at.

“…….Mr. Matsunuma showed how it works on a Shinjuku street. He selected “lodgings” on the screen. Then he pointed his phone toward a cluster of tall buildings. A list of hotels in that area popped up, with distances. He chose the closest one, about a quarter-mile away. An arrow appeared to show him the way, and in the upper left corner the number of meters ticked down as he got closer. Another click, and he could see a map showing both his and the hotel’s locations.”

“……The point-and-click idea could solve one of the most potentially annoying side effects of local wireless advertising. In the movie “Minority Report,” as Tom Cruise’s character moved through an urban setting, walls that identified him sent a barrage of personally tailored visual advertising. Industry executives are afraid that similar wireless spam may come to plague cellphones and other portable devices in the future.”
Uses for the technology also include Local Search Advertising as well as just simplifying our lives.

www.smartmobs.com

http://geovector.com

Ich weiß noch nicht genau, was ich an der Idee so super finde, aber ich muss es hier festhalten. Die FAS hat nämich Blogs internationaler WM-Besucher gelesen und Auszüge auf ihre Seite gestellt.

Vielleicht weil es einfach 1a relevanter (=interessanter) User-generierter Content (für mich) ist, den man sonst so nicht bekommen würde…

www.spreeblick.de

Sanno University in Japan is experimentally using RFID tags to make classes more interactive.
RFID readers are installed on desks and students put their FeliCa RFID cards on the readers when a class starts. The RFID readers are integrated with devices that have four switches — students can for example push the switches to answer a teacher’s question. Then, the students’ responses are automatically aggregated and shown on the teacher’s personal computer.

http://ubiks.net/local/blog/jmt/archives3/005560.html
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/COLUMN/20060623/241682/

Eine interessesante Meldung, die ich bei iBusiness gefunden habe, vor allem auch, weil über 15.000 Kunden befragt wurden.

Immer mehr Handy-Nutzer surfen mobil zu Internet-Networking-Plattformen und ‘Web 2.0′-Portalen. Dmit entwickelt sich das Handy zunehmend als Vertriebsweg für nutzergenerierten Content, wie jetzt eine aktuelle Studie zeigt.

Mobiles Networking ist ein neuer Trend unter deutschen Mobilfunk-Kunden. Zu diesem Fazit kommt eine aktuelle Markanalyse des US-amerikanischen Marktforschungsinstituts M:Metrics. Demnach haben zwischen Januar und April 2006 mehr als sieben Prozent der deutschen Handy-Nutzer über ihr Handy Networking betrieben: beispielsweise die mobile Variante der Internet-Networking-Plattform OpenBC genutzt oder mobil die Web-Angebote von MySpace, YouTube oder Flickr besucht.

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Alfie Dennen wrote Smarmobs the following.