Archive for the ‘Mobile Tech’ Category

Update For 5/29

May 25, 2007

Watch list:

NUAN STLD CHB VCLK GME USU DCEL JNS EWZ CTV EWS OVTI GLBL MEDX BTU CREE TASR ANR GTI PDLI CROX FCX ACI THE HERO NVTL RSH

Fired:

CHB CROX EWZ GLBL GT GTI NUAN ONXX ( I am switching to the ones that fired since that seems more meaningful than reporting the holds )

Great day, stocks did pretty much as hoped … I think I am looking forward to next week. I also managed to take a huge step forward in building a city wide wireless mesh system today. That should be fun.

Have a good holiday!

Wifi and the new internet

March 18, 2007

Free, frictionless communications and SuperDistribution

ScanScout Inc. and YuMe Networks Inc. pick out key words spoken in video clips and then use these to match ads to the clips.

Some talk here…

 http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/03/superdistributi.html

Cash in Your Phone

March 18, 2007

What keeps anybody from starting a cash card? You give me the money, I issue you a card that draws the money from the account. Don’t have to be a bank or a credit card company.

What keeps me from selling cash for you to install in your mobile phone?

Maps with an overlay of the mobile phones in an area show the density of people and their movement. An over lay of a city shows where everybody is and how they are moving about. The Economist even brings up the idea that countries interested in tourism can see which countries visitors spend the day lying on the beach and which ones are in town spending money. Then advertise more in the countries with the higher spenders. M.I.T. appears to have the lead in this technology and is testing it in Rome.

The phone is becoming:

Credit card, carries your cash, your identity, security, ability to make contact, music, access to the WEB and all it’s knowledge so we will say knowledge base, locater (of you or who you are looking for), civic planner……