http://www.wirelessroundup.com Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:53:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This years Pemberton Music Festival will feature a mobile web site exclusive to Rogers and Fido customers in Canada. The site features an up-to-date schedule and stage information, artist biographies, ringtones,  local information such as direct "click-to-call" taxi firms and shuttle bus booking, and driving directions from your current location. To complement ... http://www.wirelessroundup.com/2008/07/25/pemberton-festival-mobile-edition/ As initially announced by Ted Rogers back in April, that the iPhone will be coming to Rogers, it has also now emerged on the Rogers and Apple websites, that it will also be available on Fido. Fido has been known to be slacking in the ability to roll out decent handsets, ... http://www.wirelessroundup.com/2008/06/12/iphone-3g-to-come-to-rogers-and-fido/ UBIK, a Volantis owned company, has now gone into Open Beta with its tool to create mobile web sites. Tagged "Get Mobile Now", it allows users to create full mobile web sites using their interactive interface. With lots of templates styles to choose from, all the user has to do is ... http://www.wirelessroundup.com/2008/06/10/ubik-open-beta-vs-sitemobi/ There has been a lot of hype around location based services recently, and their potential benefits to the users through the exploitation of the fact that the user is mobile, and hence has a location. Last week at MoMo, the topic was LBS, and an excellent presentation was given by Alcatel ... http://www.wirelessroundup.com/2008/05/21/micro-location-based-services/ The "Watch & Play: New ways to interact with video" session had some interesting product demonstrations. The two that impressed me the most are from the companies Animoto and OverlayTV. Animoto allows users to upload photos in order to have automatically created a movie. They choose the order, request emphasis on ... http://www.wirelessroundup.com/2008/03/29/ice08-where-is-video-going/ The first keynote and panel session that I attended at ICE08 called "Flash Forward: New Canadian Media", was moderated by Raja Khanna (GlassBOX Television), and featured panelists David UK (Heavy.com), Pary Bell (CanWest Digital Media), and Michael Hennessy (TELUS). It was noted that Canadian carriers are the limiting factor when ... http://www.wirelessroundup.com/2008/03/29/ice08-canadian-carriers-are-learning/ Last week saw the launch of Wireless Box Office on the Rogers portal in Canada in collaboration with Live Nation. The service is available to all Rogers Subscribers. If you purchase your tickets through your mobile, you will also be given VIP treatment and own entrance to skip the line ... http://www.wirelessroundup.com/2008/03/29/rogers-and-live-nation-wireless-box-office/ After attending ICE08 (Interactive Content Exchange) conference in Toronto, it has become clear that the majority of people in the New Media industry feel that Canada seriously lags behind the rest of the commercialised world. It ultimately comes down to the fact that the Canadian carriers are not "open" to ... http://www.wirelessroundup.com/2008/03/28/ice-08-canadian-carriers-the-limiting-factor/ I will be attending ICE08 in Toronto for the next few days. I expect to be blogging on the latest developments in mobile and new media in Canada. So watch this space... About the conference The conference component of ICE is the exchange of ideas in interactive media. Participants will share and ... http://www.wirelessroundup.com/2008/03/26/attending-ice08-toronto/ Just found this excellent plugin for Firefox. http://www.piclens.com It even works on Flock! Now, lets see if it will make it in Firefox for mobile plugins.ShareThis http://www.wirelessroundup.com/2008/03/14/piclens-not-mobile-related-but-who-cares/