Apps & Services: Phone 2 Directions (p2dir)
by Jenny Chowdhury
What happens if you get so lost that you don’t even know what street you’re on, and you can’t get a signal or GPS connection with your device? In that case, p2dir might be your best solution.
Dr. Moshe Yudkowsky, president of speech technology consulting company Disaggregate, is working on p2dir, a system that lets you [...] Apps & Services: WHERE Developer Contest
by Jenny Chowdhury
You could build a widget on the WHERE platform and get it distributed to the masses. Here are the details.
WHERE, a location-based platform for mobile devices, is hosting their second developer contest. The call for work reads: “Build something cool on the WHERE platform, and you can win cash and major distribution opportunities.”
The grand [...] Apps & Services: Useful tools and tips for the Nseries traveler
by Jenny Chowdhury
Getting ready to take off for vacation or business travel? Check out these applications for easy ways to enhance your journey.
DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides
http://www.mobisystems.com/platform.html?c=16
DK Eyewitness Travel puts out mobile travel guides for some of the most popular European cities. The guides are organized by the 10 best of what to see, buy, [...] On the Go: Mobile Music Workshop 2008
by Jenny Chowdhury
Get ready for the 5th Mobile Music Workshop, coming May 13-15 to Vienna, Austria.
This installment of the annual international festival will bring together artists, programmers, musicians and everyone in between to explore the potential of mobile music. The attendees will share ideas about combining locative media, ubiquitous computing and music access in an urban atmosphere.
As [...] Apps & Services: Q&A with Power Cart creator Mouna Andraos
by Jenny Chowdhury
Find out more about what the Power Cart is, how it works and the thinking behind new DIY energy projects.
Mouna Andraos (http://missmoun.com/) is a Canadian New Media Artist who just finished a year-long residency at Eyebeam, a well-known center for arts and technology in New York City. Andraos spent much of her time at Eyebeam [...] On the Go: Rotterdam hosts The Mobile City
by Jenny Chowdhury
On February 27-28, Rotterdam welcomes The Mobile City, a conference about locative and mobile media and its relationship to the urban environment. Find out more about the event and how to get involved.
The Mobile City will bring together urban professionals (architects, designers, planners), media designers and academics to discuss the question, “What happens to urban [...] On the Go: Nic Fulton and the Mobile Journalism Toolkit
by Jenny Chowdhury
Thanks to a collaboration between Reuters and Nokia, journalists have been using the N95 around the world, from the Edinburgh TV Festival to the US campaign trail. Learn more about the project from Nic Fulton, chief scientist of Reuters Media Division.
“Reuters’ main mission is to inform the world,” Fulton stated. To that end, one of [...] Apps & Services: Zurfer
by Jenny Chowdhury
Looking for a faster, smarter way to view Flickr photos on your mobile device? Zurfer is your answer.
Created by Yahoo! Research Berkeley, Zurfer’s most promoted feature is its location-based photo feed. But it also offers a much more intuitive interface for viewing Flickr photos than Flickr’s own mobile site (although Flickr and Zurfer are both [...] Apps & Services: Q&A with Trigr creator Summer Bedard
by Jenny Chowdhury
Find out more about what Trigr is, how it works and the thinking behind this new approach to moblogging.
A look at most anyone’s moblog will yield the same conclusion: moblogs are generally far removed from the actual lives that they’re intended to document.
Enter Trigr, a life streaming application that pushes users to capture ordinary moments [...] | 
