Connect to Desktop with your Mobile!

Remote Desktop for Mobiles gives you the unique ability to connect to your desktop computer through the mobile phone and interact with it remotely. Along with the remote desktop that you can view on the phone display in real time, you can execute mouse and keyboard commands using the phone's joystick or buttons. Besides, the Java client for usual Web browsers allows remote accessing from any other computers with various Web browsers and OS without installation of additional software.

Using Remote Desktop for Mobiles, you can send and receive mail, browse the Internet, edit a document in a word processor, copy, cut, paste files or folders and do hundreds of other things that you typically do behind your home or office computer. The intuitively transparent interface, simple navigation and the list of commonly used options fully compensate for the inconveniences of mobiles. On top of all this is the strong encryption algorithm that guarantees the highest level of data transfer protection.

Track your city with Mobile Tags!

Mobotag, developed by Marta Lwin reveals the hidden layers of a city through an active exchange of location based media and text messages via the cellphone. This brings in a new era of collaborative phone tagging of the city. Part virtual graffiti, part walking tour, "mobotag" creates a spontaneous and easy way for tagging a neighborhood via the cellphone. Send and view messages, images, videos and sounds and see art, read stories, and watch a hidden layer of the city reveal itself.

By sending a text message to "mobotag", with your city location, you begin an interactive tour of a neighborhood. Using a unique geocoding feature, "mobotag" tells you what other messages exist in your local area. In the near future "mobotag" will also feature art projects including "flyHere," a mobile phone audio installation featuring native bird calls; "bugBytes," collectible graphical bugs originating at major telecoms around NYC; and "lookHere," a written work in short form by a native NY writer.

A Million Dollar Home Page!

Here goes a news, which albeit a little old, proves the fact that innovation springs when one is faced with unusual circumstances, questionable challenges and stretched targets. The way Tew made money from his Million Dollar Home Page never fails to inspire me as it is a perfect example of changing the rules of the market with a dash of creativity and conviction.

Now here is the desi version! http://www.lakhpatipage.com

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A 21 year old boy, Alex Tew from UK has made $900,000 selling pixels on his homepage!

He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university.

The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100.

He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release. That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites. So far they have bought up 911,800 pixels. Tew's home page now looks like an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-colored confetti of ads.

"All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account," Tew told Reuters from his home in Wiltshire, southwest England. "I've treated myself to a car. I've only just passed my driving test so I've bought myself a little black mini."

The site features testimonials from advertisers, some of whom bought spots as a lark, only to discover that they were receiving actual valuable Web hits for a fraction of the cost of traditional Internet advertising.

Meanwhile Tew has had to juggle running the site with his first term at university, where he is studying business. "It's been quite a difficulty trying to balance going to lectures and doing the site," he said. But he may not have to study for long. Job offers have been coming in from Internet companies impressed by a young man who managed to figure out an original way to make money online. "I didn't expect it to happen like that," Tew said. "To have the job offers and approaches from investors -- the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still in a state of disbelief. ******

Web Activated Telephony!

Jajah deals about web activated telephony. It follows a similar concept of hyperlinking the phone numbers on the websites as the way an email is highlighted. A person has to just click the number to make a call. Now, they have integrated it with FireFox as a plug-in. Also, Jajah promises net based calling from India to any phone. Interesting, isn't it?

Bluetooth Based Video Broadcasting!

Guess MobileVideoNet is trying to creat the next YouTube on mobiles..

MobileVideoNet is a new platform dealing with video, public space and mobile phones. Founded in January 2005 and since researching, producing and offering a new medium by simple means: 3GP video.

Most of the new generation mobile phones are equiped with a videocamera, internet and wireless communication technology: bluetooth. Large groups of people nowadays own such a hightech mobile phone and are now able to shoot and share photo- and videofiles.

Videos can be offered to everyone with a mobile phone with bluetooth on it. This way the network of passersby become a dynamic gallery free of charge. Passersby at a certain designated area get offered and can watch videos on their mobile phone.

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Teen Buzz and Teenager Repellent!!

Teenager Repellent?

Ever heard of it? Mosquito is launched as a is a teenager repellent - an ultrasonic device that emits a sound only audible to teenagers. Click here to read about the details!

In the Company's own words:

"The Mosquito ultrasonic teenage deterrent is the solution to the eternal problem of unwanted gatherings of youths and teenagers in shopping malls and around shops. The presence of these teenagers discourages genuine shoppers and customers’ from coming into your shop, affecting your turnover and profits. Anti social behaviour has become the biggest threat to private property over the last decade and there has been no effective deterrent until now.

It seems that there is a very real medical phenomenon known as presbycusis or age related hearing loss which, according to The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, "begins after the age of 20 but is usually significant only in persons over 65". It first affects the highest frequencies (18 to 20 kHz) notably in those who have turned 20 years of age". It is possible to generate a high frequency sound that is audible only to teenagers."

Now comes the most interesting part!!
Teen Buzz!

Well some of our smart teens have recorded the ultra-high sound - audible only to under-20s- onto their cell phones, and are now receiving calls and text messages in class - without teachers having the faintest idea of what is going on.They call it Teen Buzz, and it's spreading it from phone to phone via text messages and Bluetooth. Seems like a new market is blooming in there!

Future of Ringtones....????

Its time for a new concept called Alert tones. Several wireless operators are expected to introduce musical "alert tones" -- a snippet of a song lasting between two and five seconds, that users can assign to play when they receive incoming text messages and voice mail, similar to a ringtone.

Endtone seeks to replace the beeping that occurs when a call has been dropped, concluded or otherwise disconnected with a musical alert.

PhoneBites, has a service called Razz that enables phone users to insert audio clips into active conversations, outgoing messages and voice mail. Well, is there a limit to personalization?

Want to show who is calling?

What if people could see who you are talking to, or at least get an idea? Would you love to wear your heart on your sleeve? Well, here comes the answer! DotDotDot is a wearable display that connects to your mobile phone and is triggered by your communication. Dotdotdot connects to your phone over bluetooth. designing animations requires a java application. Once you've saved the animations to your friends numbers, then all you have to do is call.

Skype Over Mobile!

SoonR Talk empowers you to make Skype calls all over the world from your mobile phone. The User is no longer tied to thePC. Its a great application which conferences you and your buddy using Skype and requires the SoonR client on the desktop and a data plan on the mobile. International calling is never this economical!

Also check SoonR Desktop, which enables a user to remotely access his desktop through his mobile. What more, it works even when your PC is off! Interesting application, isn't it?

Interactive Advertising!

DAEM Interactive is a software company based in Barcelona which develops "augmented reality" technologies for camera-phones which include an image recognition platform focused on mobile marketing and advertisement campaigns. Their technology identifies advertisements photographed by users and sends back related multimedia contents.

Brands and advertising agencies get to boost their marketing campaigns and promotions without having to make special developments or changes, maximizing their budget. And for users, it's as easy as taking a picture. Users can interact with brands in a non intrusive way, where and when they want to, by simply pointing their cameraphones at an ad (magazine or billboard) and clicking. Then, they can MMS the content to the DAEM server and DAEM software enables them to interact directly with the information and access the contents they are looking for.

Well, the service is based on an intersting concept, yet it needs to mature in the offering. Can this offering be enhanced to offer details just by pointing the mobile over the Ad? Can it host interactive polling, commenting and messaging? Looks like its a long way to go!

Integration of Telecom and Textile via Bluetooth

Mobeeline is an emotional mobile service based on wearable technology. The basic focus of this service lies in stimulating people's emotions with an interaction between mobile and wearable technology, and to develop a social network service between friends.

The main goal is to create a wearable Bluetooth accessory that can receive data from a mobile phone. For example, let us assume that there are two mobile phone users. One user can send operative directions to the other's clothes as the user wants. Without the two users having to meet, they can share their feelings and emotions by sending signals to each other's clothes. Using our service, they will be changed the colors of each others garments, certain patterns or they can send emoticons to LEDs on the garment.

Check out Mobeeline for further details!


Well, the question still remains, do I want to wear my heart (rather my friend's feelings) on the sleeve?

Mobile Visual Search!

Imagine how simple it would be if you just take a picture of something with your Mobile and search it via Internet. It would take the search engine and online shopping to the next level and enhance the comfort factor in our life.

Check out what Nevenvision and Mobot got to say over this.

Much like the Photo2Search project being developed by Microsoft Research Asia, a new cameraphone-based image recognition service called "Search By Camera!" is promising to help consumers acquire info on products by simply snapping a picture while shopping.