My Mobile Device
I’ve spent the last few months trying to decide what to do with my 3-year-old mobile phone and my 7-year-old iPAQ Pocket PC. (You’d think if I’m ldsWebguy techno-geek, I’d have newer gadgets, wouldn’t you?) They are both failing, and...Internet on Wireless Toys
Parents: Be careful that the toys you buy for your child this Christmas don’t have unlimited Internet access, or he/she could easily (an innocently) view pornography. Wireless handheld devices, such as video cell phones, iPods, iPhones, PDAs, and PlayStations...15% of US Households Have Only a Mobile Phone
According to the PEW Internet and American Life Project: “A growing number of Americans rely solely on a cell phone for their telephone service, and many more are considering giving up their landline phones.” In my post of June 14th, I reported that 11% of...
11% of US Adults Use Only Mobile Phones
According to a recent study, 11% of US adults now use only a mobile phone to place phone calls and 17% only use mobile and the Internet (VoIP). So, where is this heading? If you look at the 18-to-29-year-old group, a full third of them use only a mobile phone or the...Formats for Audio and Video on Church Web Sites
The following are the standards for all new audio and video we provide on Church sites. (Not all current media files meet these standards, but all new media we create will meet these standards.)Downloadable Audio: MP3 with an ID3 tag version of 2.3 or newer. Talks and...Getting Mobile Phones to the Developing World
In several previous posts, I’ve commented about very low-cost mobile phones for the world. If you weren’t at the Consumer Electronics Show that ended Thursday in Las Vegas, you probably didn’t see Motorola CEO Ed Zander ride onto the stage for his...Mobile Possibilities
I just read the new Gartner report “Mobile Collaboration Will Be Driven by Consumer Technologies and Behaviors.” Smart phones already have keyboards and fully functional HTML Web browsers. The price of cell phones is dropping dramatically, while at the...Uses of Broadband
Broadband is no longer about the size of your pipe, but how you use it. Now that about half of US households have broadband, the issue to think about isn’t just high-speed connection, but what value-added services can use the broadband connection to increase our...Cell Phones Don’t Raise Cancer Risk
A recent Danish study shows that cell phones don’t increase the risk of cancer. It is one of the most comprehensive studies on cell phones and cancer yet. They used data on the entire population of Denmark, and determined that neither short- nor long-term use of...Lost-cost Phones Becoming a Reality
In a previous post, I talked about a low-cost $15 phone. The GSM Association promoted development of a mobile phone costing less than $30 with a contest. Motorola won, and is now developing phones for Bangladesh, China, India and Russia. Now GSM is pushing development...4 Billion Cell Phones by 2010
In previous posts (see the-future-of-the-mobile-web and nearly-3-billion-mobile-phone-connections), I reported that projections shows that mobile phone subscribership worldwide will grow to 3 billion by 2007. That still seems on track; we have 2.6 billion now....More Europeans are Accessing the Internet by Phone
A recent study by comScore Networks across five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) and the USA showed that 29% of European Internet users regularly access the Internet from their mobile phones, while only 19% of US users do the same. The...Mobile TV Becoming Big in Asia
South Korea now has ONE MILLION mobile TV subscribers. On average, South Korean mobile TV subscribers watch about one hour of TV programming per day on their phones. Japan entered the commercial mobile TV arena in March 2006. China plans plans to have a robust mobile...How should the Church use Podcasting?
Podcasting is the distribution of audio or video files over the Internet. It is a way to provide learning programs for personal computers and mobile devices so that the audience can listen to audio or video when they want, where they want, and how they want. These...Follow on social media