I3A Camera Phone Image Quality Initiative Jumpstarted

Nearly two dozen leading companies from all areas of the mobile imaging eco-system have joined forces to work on Phase 2 of the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A; http://www.i3a.org) Camera Phone Image Quality (CPIQ) Initiative, the group announced today.

The overall goal of I3A's CPIQ Initiative is to remove poor image quality as the top barrier to the use and enjoyment of camera phones by consumers. The Initiative also seeks to promote growth of the camera phone imaging eco-system and to encourage consumers to take, share, print and enjoy images captured by their camera phones.

Mobile value-added services market set to grow at 50%

The mobile value-added services (MVAS) market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 50 per cent.
Thus, the revenues from MVAS (excluding person-to-person SMS) are expected to be around $348.8 million (around Rs 1,395 crore) by 2009, says a report by Boston Analytics— a knowledge process outsourcing firm.

Mobile-Phone Spending in U.S. Sets Record on IPhone

It took a computer maker and a pager company to convince Americans a mobile phone is worth paying for... U.S. customers shelled out 40 percent more for handsets last quarter than a year earlier, just as Apple Inc. put its Web-browsing iPhone on sale and Research In Motion Ltd. brought out BlackBerry e-mail phones with video features. Spending rose to a record and jumped the most since at least 2005. Americans, previously hard-pressed to pay $50 for a phone, are now more like their European and Asian counterparts and paying $300 to $400 for the top devices.

Memories are [not] made of these

Society’s increasing reliance on portable media devices for storage of personal information and mementos such as photos could end in tears. It has merged that one in five people lose their portable devices without any form of backup.

A survey has found that an entire generation of adults risks losing cherished memories forever by failing to securely back up data.

“People need to be aware that saving images and numbers without backing them up means they could be lost forever,”

Treemo Unveils Enhanced Publishing Platform for Sharing Content Across Web and Mobile Applications

The star feature of the new site is a Channel Player widget that users can embed on websites, blogs, MySpace and integrate as a Facebook application to allow for automatic publishing of photo, video, audio and textual content uploaded to Treemo.com.
Each user gets their own Treemo Channel where they program their photos, videos, audio and text and share content within the Treemo community or among personal groups. The Channel Player lets users play the latest 24 content items from their or any other Treemo Channel.
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=805138

Cellphone Photos Prove Perps' Guilt

Mr. Kipper, 27, joined a growing group of camera-phone owners who can't seem to resist capturing themselves breaking the law. "As a criminal defense attorney, it's very difficult when a client proclaims his innocence but incriminates himself by taking photos of the stolen items," says William Korman, the Boston attorney who represented Mr. Kipper.

Cellphones, which often contain personal information like contact lists and call histories, have long served as a valuable police tool in criminal investigations. But the spread of built-in cameras -- which in some newer phones can even record video -- is providing investigators with new ammunition, thanks to simple human behavior. Apparently even criminals like snapping cellphone photos of themselves.

Step by step Installation of ClickOVA on the Nokia N 70 Symbian phone

Installation of ClickOVA on your Nokia N 70

This guide is a step by step description to help you through the installation of the ClickOVA application on your Nokia N 70. ClickOVA is a mobile backup software that allows you to store your pictures, videos and contacts on www.clickova.com.

1. Launch the Internet browser of your Symbian phone

2. Enter the address m.clickova.com

3. Select "Go to"

4. The following download page of ClickOVA should appear on the screen of your mobile phone

5. Click on the link labeled “here”

6. You should see the “Security Warning” message appear

7. Select "Yes"

8. The “Install ClickOVA” confirmation screen should appear next


9. Select “Yes”

10. When the “Options” menu appear, select “Install” and press “OK”


11. You should then be asked for the location where you would like to save the application


12. Select the “Phone memory” option

13. After the installation is complete exit the browser

14. You should find the ClickOVA application in the folder labeled “My Own”


15. Highlight the ClickOVA logo and press the center button to launch the ClickOVA application




16. You will be prompted to select the default network you would like to use to connect to the internet (for example “T Mobile T-zones”)

17. You will be asked to register your phone number. Enter your phone number you would like to register using the following format (Country code + phone number, ex: 12345678900 for the US)


18. Press “Register” and wait for the confirmation message

19. You are now ready to use ClickOVA!

20. Use the “Schedule” option to set when you would like the application to automatically upload to the internet the contacts and media content saved on your mobile phone. Select one from the variety of choices you have


21. In the “Log” section you will find the list of items that were uploaded from your phone to www.clickova.com. ClickOVA gives you the opportunity to back up online the pictures and videos stored on your phone.
















22. In the “Help” section of the application you will find other useful information about ClickOVA



23. It’s that simple! Now you know everything about ClickOVA and you are ready to start enjoying your mobile life!

ClickOVA - Your Mobile Life

E-mail, Web surfing and photo-sharing, these smart phones can do it all

They are part cell phone, part laptop, and they're becoming indispensable to more and more members of the workforce.

Today's smartphones — devices that combine a phone with the schedule-keeping, contact-management and Internet capabilities of a personal digital assistant — make it easy for business travelers to leave their laptops behind, and for the rest of us to torture each other with text messages.

Some of the newest smartphones combine good looks with useful business features, thus making them good gift-giving candidates.

AFP buys stake in citizen journalism site Citizenside

Agence France-Presse (AFP) has bought a 30 per cent stake in the citizen journalism platform Scooplive, which will be renamed Citizenside.
AFP has stated that it will not take part in editorial decisions on the site, which allows users to publish and sell films and photos for commission.

"This is for us a purely commercial and technical experiment in the Web 2.0 field, to help our clients, mainly in the media field," said Pierre Louette, AFP chairman.

http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530805.php

 

Microsoft buys WebFives: mobile photo upload and sharing enhancements headed for Windows Live

“While WebFives has pioneered some great technologies, our next challenge will be to help Microsoft incorporate the best of those technologies into its already comprehensive suite of products and services.”

 http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/12/01/microsoft-buys-webfives-mobile-photo-upload-and-sharing-enhancements-headed-for-windows-live.aspx