Forbes.com: Six Mobile Innovations That Will Change Your Life

• Mobile payment
• Mobile presence
• Ubiquitous computing
• Ubiquitous media
• Health applications
• People (and object) tracking

Via Mobile Technology Weblog

PC Magazine: Mobile Internet Usage Climbs, User Base Too

Not surprisingly, the number of subscribers accessing the Internet via mobile phones is growing. But analysts also say that users, once hooked, are also using the mobile ‘Net more frequently, accessing the mobile versions of popular Internet sites.

To put on the fridge… cool :-)

Via Semapedia.org. They also talk about “Code Tattoo” (remember)

Also two “must read” post on All About Mobile Life: Why Short Codes if you have the URL, SMS, Text, Phone Numbers etc.? and QR code based travel information service and Kaywa’s new SMS Services

Translations of a resource will often have slightly different contents in terms of the semantics of what is said, so I’d give them different ids.

in atom syntax mailing list

Billboards that Talk to Phones (pdf)

Via The Pondering Primate

Earlier today when looking for new shorts I bump into this 2D code on an Adidas short…
They are everywhere :-)

Just when we were talking about it… thanks Marco:

Mobile Link Discovery Specs

These days a lot of web sites have mobile optimized webpages and usually publishers use different URLs for them. For example, Google has its mobile version of homepage at http://www.google.com/xhtml (instead of http://www.google.com/).
Usually publishers (Google in this case) uses techniques to dispatch mobile devices to its mobile version by looking up User-Agent string. This works fine when you make mobile webpage that only links to web pages under your control.
However, this might cause a problem linking to external sites from mobile optimized web pages. We can’t make sure the target URL has mobile optimized page or not. Mobile Link Discovery tag solves this problem.

<link
rel=”alternate”
media=”handheld”
type=”application/xhtml+xml”
href=”http://yoursite.example.com/mobile” />

What?
W3C Webinar: “Mobile Web Design”
When?
Wednesday, July 26 2006
12am Paris – 11am London – 6am Boston
Duration: 1h

Designing Web sites that are usable, accessible and elegant has its challenges – but add digital products to the mix and it’s a whole, new ball game. The variety of screen sizes, devices, and operating platforms alone can be overwhelming.

This presentation takes a look at where we’re at, where we’re headed, and how to best extend an existing or planned Web site to handheld devices with minimal repurposing of code, content, and images. Discover the elements of forward thinking design needed to maintain consistency, regardless of where and how users access your content.

Invited Speaker: Cameron Moll from cameronmoll.com: Free W3C webinar: “Mobile Web Design”

Say hi to Johnny on Pasta and Vinegar

Spime on WIkipedia

Also to know more about QR Code and if you read french, you can go on Le blog Gadget which has a pretty good introduction on QR Code