Book Preview: Mobile Future @mocom2020

Book Preview: Mobile Future @mocom2020

The goal of our open research project Mocom 2020 is to create and share a vision of the future of mobile media and communication for the next decade. Since the start of the website Mocom2020.com we have published many profound and insightful articles from international experts and advisors.
We are overwhelmed with the positive feedback and [...]

Future Vision Video subtitled in Chinese and French

Future Vision Video subtitled in Chinese and French

Within the first week after we have published the Future Vision Video we already reached over 10.000 views on YouTube. But we also published the Video on DotSub to enable users to subtitle the video. Within a few weeks the Mocom 2020 Community subtitled the video in Chinese and French.
Thank you for your support and [...]

Evolution of Computer Capacity and Costs

Evolution of Computer Capacity and Costs

Artificial intelligence pioneer Hans Moravec made an interesting slide showing the evolution of computer power and cost, and the trajectory toward a thinking machine comparable to a human brain. “Evolution of Computer Power/Cost”.

Wikipedia: Hans Moravec (born November 30, 1948 in Austria) is a adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) of Carnegie Mellon [...]

MOCOM 2020 - Future Vision Video

MOCOM 2020 – Future Vision Video

Today Christian Magel and Monty Metzger have presented the Video of key results of the MOCOM 2020 project at Next’09. Watch the Video here.

Key Trends at CTIA Wireless 2009

Key Trends at CTIA Wireless 2009

I attended the CTIA Wireless 2009 show in Las Vegas, April 1st – 3rd, 2009. The attendance was reported to be down 10%-15% compared to last year, which was 40K. I could feel the cut back in attendance, especially on the 1st and the 3rd days of the show. There were less exhibiting booths, much [...]

Who will bring out the first eNewspaper Reader for free?

Who will bring out the first eNewspaper Reader for free?

This week Murdoch’s News Corp. annouced that they are developing a device that would be used to read newspaper content on a large screen. Murdoch says “its time consumers started paying to read Web content.”
Mobile technology could save the ailing newspaper industry, according to Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp. and one of the [...]

4G needed to avoid wireless network overload?

4G needed to avoid wireless network overload?

The surge in popularity of mobile applications and smartphones is resulting in significantly greater data consumption, which could soon push existing wireless networks to their limit.
From 2005 to 2012, mobile traffic will have increased a thousand-fold, according to a keynote address at the CTIA Wireless 2009: Mobile Life conference. A Cisco white paper predicted that [...]

Instant Speech Translation - Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP)

Instant Speech Translation – Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP)

Giving a new dimension to the internet, the Indian research arm of the US-based IT giant IBM has developed a technology that will allow users to talk to the web and create voice sites using mobile phones.
“People will talk to the web and the web will respond. The research technology is analogous to the [...]

Skype Application for iPhone

Skype Application for iPhone

Skype and Apple announced the official Skype Application at CTIA 2009.
Via Cnet.com
Months after teasing us at CES with an announcement of Skype’s native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday. We got a chance to sit down with [...]

Motorola presents iPhone rival Evoke QA4 at CTIA 2009

Motorola presents iPhone rival Evoke QA4 at CTIA 2009

Full feature phone is packed with integrated widgets, real Web browsing and IM-style messaging

Motorola today introduced Motorola Evoke QA4, a socially-inclined device with a 2.8” full touch-screen that keeps you constantly connected. Evoke supports different messaging styles with a full touch-screen QWERTY keyboard and slide out traditional keypad. Customize the home screen content with [...]