[LINK] Mobiles

[Tom Worthington]

At 4/23/2004 03:37 PM, you wrote:
>>This week on ABC Radio National's investigative documentary program 
>>Background Briefing ... Mutating Mobiles ...

The streaming audio is at 
<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/mod/bbing_25042004_2856.ram> and 
transcript will be out Thursday at 
<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/default.htm>.

This was one of the few Background Briefings where I didn't have the urge 
to throw the radio out the window. There was a lot of hype, but also the 
sense of people discovering new things to do with the technology. However, 
I suspect we are in for a repeat of history with worries over viruses, Spam 
and censorship on intelligent mobile phones.

One the positive side I don't expect my ANU web design students will have 
much difficulty designing web pages for mobile phones 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/2004/wd/index.html#udf>. I hope they then go on to 
write software to do this automatically.

ps: Has anyone seen a web terminal for a mobile phone? This would be like 
the ICL OPD/Telecom Computerphone) 
<http://www.interface1.net/zx/clones/icl_opd.html>, Minitel 
<http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/07/14/cx_al_0714tentech.html>, or Audrey 
<http://www.cnn.com/2000/CAREER/goodgadgetry/12/27/audrey/>, but use a 
mobile phone for its network interface. Mobile phone users are used to 
sub-QVGA screens and numeric keyboards, so even a VGA screen and 
sub-notebook keyboard would look like luxury to them.



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