MSN Direct

Last week I've informed about "Seven application for mobile devices" in drugs pills.
The article describes several software where there is MSN Direct, a widget that allows to download data by MSN network offering a best user experience.

According to Brad Lidner in Download Squad, it is a"preview version" a fancy word to say beta version.

With MSN Direct it is possible download data using Wi Fi, 3G or EDGE but unfortunately it is available just for 15 devices (see http://phone.msndirect.com/phone/phonefinder.html).

MSN Direct is a service available for navigation devices, mobile devices, stazioni metereologiche e smart watch.

Through mobile devices is possible to see News, Entertainment, money and sport.


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A little abstract how works the technology world... Silverlight, Flash, DoubleClick, Android, Google..
http://www.sys-con.com/read/514470.htm

Silverlight 2.0. release. Interestings link for mobile
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/4068.aspx

We like Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=13863

Seven Windows Mobile applications: mDigger, Skype, Opera Mini, WorldMate, Pim Backup, MSN Direct, Pocket Digital Clock.
http://www.cio.com/article/195800/Seven_Fantastic_Free_Windows_Mobile_Apps/1

Silverlight 1.0 for Mobile
http://bink.nu/news/silverlight-1-0-for-mobile.aspx

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Yahoo announced the upcoming release of Yahoo One Place a mobile CMS, that allow Yahoo to create a similar version of del.icio.us for mobile
http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/03/yahoos_oneplace_1.html

iPhone and Flash a difficult understanding..
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/05/steve_jobs_pans_flash_on_the_iphone.html

Mobile advertising, a worth place
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=77832

Jason Bigler's 2 cent. A DoubleClick vice president opinion on mobile advertising
http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztech/mobile-net-hamstrung/2008/03/03/1204402367650.html

Brad Becker, Nokia e Silverlight.
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/08/video-interview-with-brad-becker-talking-about-silverlight-for-nokias-lineup-demo-included.html

Long and short of mobile video
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628601

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Google Android: fresh grass for the new generations

Dan Morril said that Android could be used on mobile device different from a phone, at the “O’Relly ETech conference on emerging technology”.

The GOOGLE OS could be also installed on iPhone but it has some little security problems.
According to Morril those are unimportant problems if compared to the advantage that the system offers. The system is also young and will be updated.

Google want to release safe and easy applications getting the better from the AJAX technology.

I am very nosy to know what the system offer and in part I am worry about the power of GOOGLE.

Mobile phones are the most important medium for the users and teenagers love them.
The new generations are also offish from the old model as IBM, Microsoft.. and the new open source culture is a rich soil where grow the new grass.

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Spider web strategy

Assumption
Just for case I thought that 1 + 1 is equal to 2
I shared my opinion in the net.
But Now I am more sure
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You can have happy users when the expectation are low and you have an high quality product. (software+design).

If the expectation are high and the product is ALWAYS a good quality product you will have devoted users.

See the slides....

If what I said is true, then:

• Brilliant web services +
• a good operative system +
• a new platform +
• price reduction of the software to be more precise all free =
  

the bornt of the new software monopolist ?


Ladies and Gentleman
Google.

See this article to know more.

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Who is evil?

Look even the colours are the same...
What I think on this topics I wrote here... Anyway I think that today the scenario is different from some years ago.
Microsoft organization is slow and heavy and I think it is not a problem for monopoly.
Google, instead, is the information holder, and could be sun or rain for advertiser and other net professional.

There is also another think that has upseted me and other Italian professional.
Google has not paid tax in Italy for 50 million of euro and any newspaper has reported this news except “Il Giornale”as Luca Lani has said in his blog.

I mean it is not just because Google dosn’t pay tax but because he has the don’t be evil slogan.

Sound a little bit doubled-faced

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Furniture exhibition 2008

I tried to search with GOOGLE blog search "mobile" + "design" I thought to find someone to read but unfortunately there were 54000 results.

I repeated my search with only Italian language. Google gave me 5000 results but most of the result were inherent to "furniture" (in Italian "mobile").

Unfortunately that shows that our country is overdue on new media technologies.


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