I’ve written more about this over at TheNextWeb but I just thought I’d share this video with you here. I shot it last Friday when I went to visit the University of Salford’s Acoustic Research Labs to see the work they’re doing on building a ‘Global Sound Map’ in a project called Sound Around You.
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Last month I wrote about how probably the best blog for mobile industry news, Mobile Industry Review, was shifting to a subscription model priced at £12,000 per year and aimed squarely at corporations. Suddenly all the great video content and entreatingly-written analysis that I enjoyed so much was to be gone.
Things haven’t turned out quite [...]

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Vodafone, the biggest mobile network in the UK, yesterday launched what appears to be a ginormous hint that they’ll be carrying the new version of the iPhone this summer. http://portal.beta.vodafone.com/ points to a Vodafone-branded RSS reader service perfectly formatted for the iPhone.
At first I was skeptical. Looking at the portal on the iPhone [...]

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AudioBoo has caught the imagination of a lot of people in the month since its launch. The ability to upload audio in podcast form straight from your phone to the internet is very powerful and I wrote a couple of excited pieces about it when I first signed up (here and here).
The Guardian has legitimised [...]

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Mobile phones have come a long way in the past five years. From the basic communications devices of yore, they have evolved into what Nokia calls “Multimedia Computers” capable of web access, good quality photos, live video broadcasting and much, much, more. There is, however, a chink in the smartphone’s armour. Something that seems to [...]

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Last night saw the latest meeting of Manchester’s Social Media Cafe. We kicked off with a talk from Mario Cacciotolo of Someone Once Told Me who traveled up from London to tell us about how his cult site came about. Mario also took some photos for a ‘Manchester Week’ on Someone Once Told Me. Many [...]

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Edinburgh’s most excitable blogger, Ewan Spence, posted an enthusiastic piece on All About Symbian this morning suggesting that it really would be a good idea if Nokia released a netbook. His argument is that a Nokia netbook would give the company’s range of Ovi-branded web services the boost they need to achieve mainstream adoption.
There’s no [...]

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This week much has been made of Google’s new Latitude service that allows you to share your current location with your Gmail contacts using the latest version of Google Maps For Mobile. While there has been a lot of hype (such as ReadWriteWeb’s piece here) it’s a simple but useful service that probably won’t gain [...]

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One of the most frequently requested features for Apple’s iPhone is Multimedia Messaging (MMS). Seeing as practically every phone in the past five years has had the ability to send and receive photos and other media attached to a text message the lack of this functionality in the supposedly high-end iPhone has always seemed strange. [...]

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When T-Mobile’s G1 phone was unveiled earlier this year one of the things that caught many people’s eyes was the barcode reader app available for it. Developed by Big In Japan, ShopSavvy allows users to scan the barcode of any product and instantly get price comparison information for it displayed on their phone. This allows [...]

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