Archive for March, 2007
RSS and blog for your mobile
Thursday, March 8th, 2007A lot of new mobile applications are being launched target at the roughly ~ 1 billion Java capable mobile phone in the world. One RSS and blogs that are now very common place on the “non-mobile” web are now moving to the mobile phones. There have been some attempts at this earlier, and Sony Ericsson even bundles good mobile blog application and RSS-application with some of their phones today.
One of the companies targeting this is Mobispine, that provides a high-quality Java based mobile client for image and video blogging, as well as consuming your favourite RSS-feeds, and it works with most Java capable phones on the market.
Google and Yahoo are also starting to target this area, with Microsoft not too far behind, and the main driver behind many of these applications is to capture an quickly emerging mobile ad market.
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Sweden proposes too allow military (FRA) to monitor Internet traffic
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007The Swedish equalivent of NSA (called FRA), is proposed to be allowed to do monitoring of all Internet traffic to and from Sweden. This has raised some criticism and hopefully the proposed law will not pass. However the head of the FRA has publicity in media announced that this is widely misunderstood, because they only want to listen in on the “suspicious foreign types” (translated quote), not the good old honest Swedes.
No more net neutrality or flate-rate Internet?
Monday, March 5th, 2007More and more of the ISP/Telecommunications operators in Europe are starting to talk about the need to charge for content downloads on the Internet.
This is primarly due to Web-TV services like, YouTube, Google Video or Joost that stream video over the Internet, so why are they raising these claims? I already pay for the bandwidth I have/use! So now all of a sudden they want to charge extra for the same bandwidth!