Gear Live has this link to D-Link’s new webcam/IPcam that allows 3G users to access the stream live. The WiFi connection to your home or business network means this puppy can go anywhere to watch what is happening whilst you are out and about.
This is the first video surveillance system I’ve seen that allows 3G devices to have direct access to the video stream instead of utilising a PC or server system.
The 3G video streaming is direct from the DCS-2120’s onboard web server utilising the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). As long as your 3G device has data access to the Internet and a RealPlayer or PVPlayer video client you are good to go.
Price is approx US$300 (not available in Australia yet)
Development platforms on mobile devices
July 3, 2006
The Mobile Experience Blog has some great statistics that Anders Lindh has put together on the types of development platforms currently deployed on mobile devices.
Lindh has grouped these platforms together as "they share the capability of enabling third-party content and/or applications".
The largest deployed world wide is of course Java, but as Lindh notes, there is no break down of Java’s MIDP 1.x & 2.x platforms that he could locate do they are both lumped together.
Amazingly Flash Lite takes up the second position in deployed numbers. Definitely something to be looking into if you are developing applications for mobile.
3G Mobile PDAs are looking great, but wait for 3.5G.
July 1, 2006
Mark Gilmour has a piece on a newly announced 3G PDA called the QTEK 9000. Powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 5.0 edition, the device is one of the latest in 3G PDAs with QWERTY keyboards to hit the market.
Although we are starting to see some major improvements to the design and usability of these devices, I really think that if you are interested in looking to purchase this you should wait for HSDPA versions that will start to appear between now and Christmas this year.
3G’s "killer application" or specifically, it’s killer service has always been speed. With speed comes enablement of data hungry services and applications for both consumers and businesses. Whilst the current 3G technologies are focused on downstream speed over upstream, the driving usage of the Internet is an interactive one, whereby people are becoming active in "let us play/communicate/interact" versus just "entertain me".
The Mobile Broadband war will be won on three fronts, convergence, mobility & coverage. Wireless Broadband services that meet these demands from users will prosper.
3.5G technologies such as HSDPA & HSUPA will drive adoption of mobile usage as long as there is strong competition to keep data costs to a minimum.
So with so many 3.5G networks coming online this year in Australia, Europe and the US it may just be worth waiting a few more months before succumbing to to your mobile device fetishes.
Geeksleep
June 28, 2006
For those of us in the technology industry we all know about how difficult it can be to stay awake at conferences and seminars. Well, Mark Wallace @ Walkerings has this description on Flickr photos of poor sods caught in the act….
Geeksleep: (noun) 1. the act of sleeping during a technology conference or while involved in any geek-like activity. 2. sleep performed by anyone who could be described as a geek. (verb) 1. to capture a geeksleeper on camera and post his/her picture to Flickr with the "geeksleep" tag.
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The Graphical Blogosphere
June 28, 2006
Matthew Hurst’s Blog called "Data Mining" has some interesting graphs showing part of the visual Blogosphere.
It’s an interesting start on getting some graphical representation on how the Blogosphere’s information and permalinks allow information to be filtered and disseminated throughout the Internet so effectively.
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UPDATE 30-JUN-06: Matthew has just let me know via comments that the data is not just LiveJournal, but a greater part of the Blogosphere making it even more relevant! I have corrected my entry accordingly.
MobileTV in Italy? 3 Italy has it covered.
June 15, 2006
The Mobile Lantern has a link to a map of Italy showing the extensive coverage 3 Italy has with their DVB-H mobile TV roll out.
Although it looks surprisingly extensive, they currently only have 2 devices that support the DVB-H technology (LG U900 & Samsung SGH-P910).
I’ll be interested to see how sales & usage of their service go with the World Cup on as going to their website you see straight away what they are putting most of their Marketing Euros into…
Computer games and kids……
June 3, 2006
There’s a big debate about if or if not computers games are good for kids, but check out this 5 year old using a dance mat controller playing Dance Dance Revolution……..
I bet he pulls all the chicks at the kindergarten dance! 
Want an HSDPA Notebook? – Go to Austria
May 31, 2006
I guess this shows the notebook war is heating up to new levels when you read on Engadget about companies such as Fujitsu Siemens being one of, if not the first, to release a High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) enabled Notebook. The Lifebook Q2010 will be released next month in conjunction with T-Mobile Austria.
HSDPA is an upgrade to the downstream pipe for UMTS 3G networks. Now referred to as 3.5G, it effectively pushes the real world download speeds to over 1Mb/s for the user.
3G WiFi routers for people who like to share.
May 31, 2006
Ah convergence! What a wonderful noun from the English language. Linksys (Cisco) has released this little gem in the UK to show how much they love converging with 3G.
I haven’t seen this in Australia yet, but would like to see a Mi-Mo version too.
Unfortunately it requires a Vodafone 3G PCMCIA data card instead of just putting a SIM into it, which is great if you already have one, but means more costly if you don’t.
It requires a 12V DC power supply, so I wonder if you could install that in a car…. 
Great to see this type of technology becoming more mainstream.
3G Video calling needs applications to succeed.
May 30, 2006
Many people see 3G video calling as the poor brother to high speed data within the 3G portfolio as there has been very slow momentum in user’s take up.
Companies such as Mobestar in Europe are adding cool functionality to video calling such as their mDate dating product that incorporates anonymous live voice & video calls. mDate is the first live video calling dating service that operates "pan-European" or allows inter country video calling. (Now isn’t that a Geographically Impossible Relationship!?!?)
Applications such as mDate will drive 3G video calling usage and the majority of them will come from 3rd party vendors such as Mobestar.
Considering that there are projected figures for 100m 3G subscribers in Europe by 2008, we will see more 3rd party applications driving vanilla 3G services in the near future.
Mobestar’s website www.mobestar.com
Universal Convergence 