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Pandora is one of my favorite Internet services. It lets you build a customized radio station ...

Understanding is Only Human: Discover how the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Human Factors team is helping to deliver a superior user experience

Alcatel-Lucent is committed to helping operators deliver a superior user experience. One of the ways to help is to gain an intimate understanding of end-user behavior and the Bell Labs Human Factors team is one of the many groups within Alcatel-Lucent doing just that. The team is made up of Ph.D.s with an average of 15+ years professional usability experience working to:

We met Nitzan Shaer, COO of Mobivox, on the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show, where he showed us his service that can be used to make very low-cost calls (often free) around the world from your cell phone.

Powercast’s chief inventor and CEO John Shearer is pitching manufacturers on a wireless vision: a world where gadgets and devices are powered and charged without all the hassle of wires. The Powercast Wireless Power Platform includes a Power Caster and a Power Harvester. The Power Harvesters ...

ClearOne, a Salt Lake City-based company, holds a majority of the global market share in the professional audio conferencing systems category. It should come as no surprise that their conference phone products for the desktop and individuals wouldn’t include significant technology enhancements that set them apart from the “el’cheapo” ...

Prof. Tapan Parikh is a teacher, an innovator and a social entrepreneur, who currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recently named as the Humanitarian of the Year by MIT’s Tech Review. While at graduate school in Seattle, Tapan took some time off and travelled ...

We know you’re busy, so here are just the highlights of the interview I did with Doug Kaufman, CEO of ClearTXT. He talks to me about changes in the way schools communicate with their students. Really interesting stuff now that students have cell phones and other devices and can ...

Gordon Moore’s Law will remain in effect for the foreseeable future. Intel Corporation’s new 45nm Penryn microprocessor relies on a new recipe that combines the element Hafnium and metal gate technology to increase performance and significantly reduce eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks.

Cell phones are bringing a new kind of video to the world. You’ve seen them being filmed in museums or concerts: little videos done with cell phones. Zannel is working to make it easier to get those videos up to your friends. Here Adam Zbar, CEO, and Braxton Woodham, ...

Do you think Google is the best search engine for cell phones? Think again with Taptu’s Bob Last. He’s senior vice president of business development there and talks with me about search engines and how mobile phones aren’t well served by the major search engines from Yahoo, Google, or ...

Dan Sheehan, CEO and Founder of Winplus, gives us a demo of Yada, a device that hooks up to your dashboard that includes a Bluetooth headset for your cell phone. Because you never take your headset out of your car to charge it you’ll never lose it again.

I thought this was an interesting service: they teach Spanish speaking people how to speak English through the use of some unique video games that work on any cell phones. Larry Upton, principal at Edioma, shows me the service.

This is a cool service with a weird name: Utterz. At the CTIA show (mobile phone gadget show) I met Randy Corke, co-founder of the company making Utterz and we have a brief talk about it. It’s a microblogging tool that lets you call audio in from your cell ...

As more and more cellphones become Web enabled, Anurag Nigam and Manish Lachwani, co-founders of InSync Inc., believe there is a growing need for an Internet portal for mobile devices. Their San Francisco-based, self-funded startup, 411Synch enables anyone to access their favorites on the Web with one touch, keyword strokes. ...

A strikingly odd and obtuse conversation with Andrew Keen and Steve Gillmor. Steve rants on how the iPhone is changing the Universe and how Steve Jobs plans on bringing down the cell phone cartel. Keen makes plans on showing off his derriere if Hillary Clinton doesn’t win the upcoming presidential ...

During the BMC Analyst Summit in Sonoma, James Governor talks with BMC Software’s Kia Behnia about the role and benefits of strong community in the mobile device and IT management worlds. James and Kia first talk about hacking phones, esp. his HTC Hermes. They then move on to ...

Callwave makes your cell phone more useful. Here, Josh Fraser, VP of Business Development, showes us Callwave. Some things it does that caught our attention? Forwards calls to any phone. Lets you listen to voice mail while it’s being left. Lets you get your voice mail in emails, so ...

This is a killer app for your cell phone or iPhone. Why? Getting video onto your cell phone is often impossible. Many sites use Flash only, and don’t provide a format that will work on your cell phone. Well, VTap lets you search for videos like, say, “Ask a ...

Russell Morgan, chief operating officer of GroupieTunes, explains how the company uses cell phones to reach out to customers and increase the awareness for customers. Their “Mobile Community Network Enabler” platform allows, for instance, music fans to get messages and alerts from favorite groups anytime and anywhere.

There are many different mobile phones out there and almost all of them support some sort of interesting media capabilites. Rather than spending a couple bucks downloading a ringtone or wallpaper image from your cellular provider, you can use ToneThis to do it for free and with your own ...

Dr. Elliot Soloway has taught some interesting people in his classroom at the University of Michigan. How about Larry Page, co-founder of Google? Among others. He’s been named “Teacher of the Year,” but that’s not why I talked with him. What we talked about is the state of education and ...

I ran into Anurag Nigam, CEO and co-founder of IncSync recently, and got a quick demo of their 411Sync service. It’s a really easy and quick way to move any kind of information onto your cell phone without requiring any IT resources. They set up a Silicon Valley Watcher ...

Motorola is aggressively adopting mobile linux as the key operating system for its cell phones. It is launching its first North American cell phone with Linux, the new Razr V8. Tom Foremski talks with Christy Wyatt, VP Ecosystem and Market Development at Motorola about the move to Linux and if ...

Tom Foremski speaks with Diedier Diaz, SVP for Product Strategy Management at Access Systems Americas. “Access is one of the largest companies you’ve never heard about,” says Mr. Diaz. Its specialty is in creating applications for cell phones. It also acquired Palmsource, and now has the Palm OS and ...