Destination: Mobile

Bluetrain Mobile lets you easily create beautiful mobile sites for your business. Destination: Mobile is run by BlueTrain Conductors to deliver daily top stories on mobile.

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"Marketers and advertisers have to do a better job of thinking about how their multi-channel campaigns will be seen and interacted with. Mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, micro-tablets, etc.) give people the ability to access the web at any time and through a number of different ways. It’s critical to ensure a positive and consistent experience no matter how your prospect might be accessing and engaging with your brand or organization. Offering mobile-optimized experiences for your ads’ mobile audience will increase the effectiveness of your ads and directly impact your results." - Nate Teplow (at Bluetrain Mobile Main Station)

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Excited train guy, New York!

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New Device Converts Sign Language to Audible Speech

Students at the University of Houston designed a device called MyVoice, which uses a video camera to capture a person’s sign language movements. It also contains a small video monitor, a microphone and a speaker. Software processes the images and determines what was said, and then translates the word or phrase into speech, which is transmitted through an electronic voice.

It also works backward, capturing a person’s spoken words and projecting the appropriate hand sign onto the monitor. Students sampled a database of images to train their software to recognize the hand signs, according to a UH news release. The team used between 200 and 300 images per sign.

(via Video Device Reads American Sign Language and Translates It Into Audible English | Popular Science)

[cnet]

Is this Facebook phone likely?

A slick Facebook phone concept has surfaced but it’s of dubious usefulness.

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State of the News Media 2012 - Pew Research Center

This year’s study also includes special reports on the impact of mobile technology and social media on news. Those reports, which feature new survey data, finds that rather than replacing media consumption on digital devices, people who go mobile are getting news on all their devices. They also appear to be getting it more often, and reading for longer periods of time. For example, about a third, 34%, of desktop/laptop news consumers now also get news on a smartphone. About a quarter, 27%, of smartphone news consumers also get news on a tablet. These digital news omnivores are also a large percentage of the smart phone/tablet population. And most of those individuals (78%) still get news on the desktop or laptop as well.

A PEJ survey of more than 3,000 adults also finds that the reputation or brand of a news organization, a very traditional idea, is the most important factor in determining where consumers go for news, and that is even truer on mobile devices than on laptops or desktops. Indeed, despite the explosion in social media use through the likes of Facebook and Twitter, recommendations from friends are not a major factor yet in steering news consumption.

In the post-PC present, we have news up the ying, exploding out of all our devices like volcanic magma. But the Pew verbiage about who profits misses an essential point — typified by the ‘news consumption’ viewpoint they still espouse — we have moved away from audience-centered media to experience-centered media. The experience is what matters, so that’s why the value shifts to the tools we use to use information shaped by the news form factor. Using information is not equivalent to ‘consuming media’, but the media companies don’t get it.

The new media folks desperately want to write for some hypothetical audience, one they can find the center of. They are like border collies, wired to herd sheep and frantic if they can’t find any.

Read the full report.

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Twitter earning more from mobile than Web, CEO Costolo says.

(via latimes.com)

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Predicting Phone Tech: A Flat Screen With Pop-Up Buttons

The seemingly limitless possibilities of what smartphones can do are in part a function of their flat glass screens. Unconstrained by the presence of physical terrain, the glass panel can become a map, a keyboard, a gaming interface, etc. Buttons — visual ones — come and go as an app’s designer pleases.

But what if actual buttons — 3-dimensional protuberances — could rise out of the flatness of your smartphone and then vanish without a trace? Smartphones (and pretty much any other flat-screened device) could retain their visual flexibility, and then gain some haptic abilities. You could text on a tactile keyboard, and then go right back to swiping through your Twitter feed.

This is the premise of a new touchscreen technology from Tactus Technologies, which had its first public demonstration of its Tactile Layer component this week in Boston.

Read more. [Image: Tactus Technologies]

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The media center startup Boxee is launching a new service called Cloudee, the company announced today. Currently in invite-only beta, it will let its users share personal videos with their close circle of family and friends. (via Boxee’s Cloudee Lets Users Share Personal Videos Privately)

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How the ‘all-new’ Foursquare is using big data to figure out what you’ll crave next

On Facebook, you’re the sum of all your interactions and photos with others; but on Foursquare, location and detecting patterns are key. Foursquare today released a completely revamped mobile app for iOS and Android that takes years of data mining and algorithm refinement and stuffs it into a tiny blue-green app. 

[8bitfuture]

Intel demonstrates an ultrabook wirelessly charging a smartphone.

The demonstration shows a smartphone able to be charged by being placed next to a modified Acer Aspire laptop. When in proximity, a notification pops up on the phone to let you know charging is in progress.

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New 3D imagery for Google Earth for mobile (by Google)

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Facebook takes on Apple and Google with HTML 5 / web app App Center

Facebook today announced the App Center, a new place to find apps — but not just Facebook apps like FarmVille. The App Center includes both free and paid Facebook apps, as well as HTML 5 apps that exist within the Facebook app itself.

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Web traffic from tablet computers is growing 10 times faster than smartphone traffic (via Adobe: Web Traffic From Tablets Growing Faster Than Smartphones)

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