Nokia Research Center is working on some very interesting prototype.

If the absolute location and orientation of a camera is known, along with the properties of the lens, it is possible to determine exactly what parts of the scene are viewed by the camera.

http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/mara/index.html

Dandelife is sort of blog and community organized on individual timeline. It wants to help you to create your own personal life story or biography.

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via NYTimes

THE diminutive cellphone is turning out to be the most clever of devices. As it connects to more networks, stores more kinds of data, delivers more kinds of entertainment — wherever we happen to be — it effectively becomes the most personal computer we own.

Now, as more of the handsets are equipped to use the Global Positioning System, the satellite-based navigation network, we are on the verge of enjoying services made possible only when information is matched automatically to location. Maps on our phones will always know where we are. Our children can’t go missing. Movie listings will always be for the closest theaters; restaurant suggestions, organized by proximity. We will even have the option of choosing free cellphone service if we agree to accept ads focused on nearby businesses. (more…)

Another example for new user experience if you combine content and context:

James Murphy, aka LCD Soundsystem, has just teamed up with Nike to release 45:33: Nike+ Original Run, a 45-plus-minute track designed to accompany joggers on their workouts. Displaying Murphy’s inimitable production style, the track has the dynamics and temporal ebb and flow of an eclectic DJ set, beginning with a long, warm-up segment, moving into a rousing Afrobeat crescendo, peaking with double-time disco, and finally coming back to earth on a parachute of cool, ambient synthesizers. The track is exclusively available from Apple’s iTunes music store, though hopefully it might see a limited vinyl release from DFA, as well — for all those runners with portable turntables, of course.

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Der britische Mobilfunkkonzern Vodafone und der US-Softwareanbieter Microsoft wollen bei der Entwicklung von Handy-Software eng zusammenarbeiten.

Wie Vodafone am Montag in London bekannt gab, will der Konzern damit verstärkt die Entwicklergemeinde von Windows Mobile ansprechen und somit seinen Kunden eine größere Anzahl von Anwendungen bereitstellen.

Vodafone möchte sich in Zukunft bei der Entwicklung neuer mobiler Dienste auf die Plattformen Windows Mobile, Symbian/S60 und Linux beschränken.

“Indem sich Vodafone auf diese drei Plattformen konzentriert, werden wir viel Geld bei der Entwicklung neuer Telefone und Dienste sparen”, lässt sich Vodafone-Manager Jens Schulte-Bockum in einer Mitteilung des Unternehmens zitieren.

http://futurezone.orf.at/business/stories/148611/