I’ve just realised that my current mobile phone contract is up for renewal. I admit it – over the years, I’ve been a bit of network tart. I’ve been on Orange, O2 (BT Cellnet when I signed up), Vodafone, One2One… Continue Reading
Youtube has added a new feature that gives users the ability to send video from their mobile phone directly to the site. It works in the same way as flickr‘s mobile to web functionality for cameraphone images: users create a… Continue Reading
3 mobile in the UK is offering users the opportunity to make money from cameraphone videos and images. According to the website, 3 subscribers can upload their video using the short code 32323. The Guardian reports that the service, which… Continue Reading
Each day next week (20-24 March), cybersoc.com will be publishing posts by a series of special guest bloggers to help mark the one year anniversary of cybersoc.com (the blog, not the site which is 10 this year). The guest bloggers… Continue Reading
Yahoo is currently beta testing (US only) ZoneTag, a system that allows users to instantly tag cameraphone photos with locational data (example) when uploading them to flickr. Linked up to google maps or, more likely, the similar yahoo version, this… Continue Reading
A colleague of mine just pointed me towards an online video, recently produced by BBC News Interactive, exploring the theme of citizen journalism (primarily the use of cameraphone photos and video footage): Version for RealPlayer (256k) Version for WindowsMedia (256k)… Continue Reading
This week, the Chartered Institute of Journalists (in the UK) warned media organisations against encouraging people to put themselves or others at risk whilst taking photos on their camerphones: “Since the July bombs in London it has become common practice… Continue Reading
2005 was, writes Jo Twist for BBC News Online, the year of the digital citizen: "2005 was arguably the year citizens really started to do it for themselves. Raising mobiles aloft, they did not just talk and text, they snapped,… Continue Reading
Australian police have reportedly arrested and charged a man with inciting violence by SMS text message. The man, who hasn’t been named, is accused of sending text messages encouraging people to gather at two beaches in Sydney during the race… Continue Reading
Vodafone and Sky have teamed up to bring you Sky television on your mobile. Will people really sit and watch television on such a tiny screen? Well, Apple has done really well with it’s newest video enabled iPod so it… Continue Reading