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Re: How to run Android on your Nokia N810 easy

Markus — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:19:03 -0000

I flashed my N810 to Diablo to make a clean start.

Then I downloaded "android.img.bz2" and "android-installer.deb" to my clean device. When I try to install "android-installer.deb" it just says "Unable to install android-installer".

What am I doing wrong?

Re: Say Caller’s Name on S60 phones

Markus — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:53:45 -0000

Yes, that's a nice feature. I use it too on my E61. Only that it sounds silly. The voice American and cannot pronounce German names.

Re: PageRank question

Markus — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:18:36 -0000

My start page stayed at Page Rank 4, where it is for quite a long time. But it was a small shock when it dropped from 5.

Generally Page Rank seems to be less related to search results and web traffic today. Some even think that internally Google doesn't use this value anymore and keeps it only to distract SEOs.

What always helps are backlinks, but not from blogs. They often use rel:nofollow in their links so that Google doesn't count them for Page Rank.

Re: VoIP on the Apple iPod Touch

Markus — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:58:07 -0000

I'd say that Jajah works on the iPod touch. You just have to type in the number of the phone next to you. ;)

Re: Michael Robertson launches AjaxWindows

Markus — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:22:37 -0000

Funny website, but not the "first online operating system". There was already http://www.mygoya.de/ https://www.youos.com/ http://eyeos.org/ and others.

You can find an overview at:
http://franticindustries.com/blog/2006/12/21/bi...

Re: Why Jajah launched Jajah Buttons today

Markus — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:34:47 -0000

Haha!

Jajah copies Sitòfono to bring up their webite traffic.

;)

M.

Re: Jajah, YES headset

Markus — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:44:18 -0000

In fact I also appreciate Jajah's move since I always prefer pure play VoIP over callback solutions. Japan's reality is our future and in few years we will see VoIP over mobile data connections everywhere.

The latest strategic report from Informa Telecoms & Media called “Future Mobile Broadband: Revenue Opportunities for HSPA to LTE, EV-DO to UMB & WiMAX” suggests that mobile broadband is set to explode. According to Informa’s researchers, mobile broadband will represent close to half of total mobile service revenues in 2012. Revenues from mobile broadband services will generate more than $400 billion globally by 2012.

Or to put in other words, sooner or later carriers WILL become dumb pipes - for VoIP and other applications. Truphone is already counting on that with their latest 3G optimized client. VoIP over HSDPA sounds great, and for laptop use we even get flatrates in Germany. Jajah knows that and prepares in Japan.

Re: SIP to Skype Calls from Fring

Markus — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:27:03 -0000

Did they really call SIP to Skype?

I don't really know. He only said "we call the X-Lite now", but then we heard a Skype ring. Why didn't he say "we at Fring built a bridge from SIP to Skype"? I mean, that would be a real news.

I saw the video two times and now I am a little bit confused. Calling Skype from SIP would be a great feature. Even better would be to get Skype calls on my SIP ATA.

Re: A problem of expectations

Markus — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:58:17 -0000

Isn't the 3Skypephone using the iSkoot software? At least iSkoot's website says so.

http://www.iskoot.com/pressreleases/prnetwork_1...

„CAMBRIDGE, MA – October 30, 2007 – iSkoot today announced that it has been selected by Skype to help power the 3 Skypephone – the first ever mass-market Skype-enabled mobile handset. ...“

This means that Skype calls from the 3Skypephone aren't 3G VoIP calls. They are GSM calls from the phone to the 3-iSkoot server, which then cannels them over the internet to Skype. The data connection is only used to show the presence of the Skype buddies.

So the bad voice quality is not because of unreliable 3G coverage but because of the low sound quality of the GSM codecs. But still it`s a nifty solution to guarantee Skype coverage everywhere.

That's also why their FAQ list (http://www.3skypephone.com/english/faq.html) says:

Q: Will it work on 2G, 2.5G& 3G networks?
A: Wherever you have coverage in the UK, Skype will work. If you can make a normal voice call, you will be able to make a Skype Call.

Re: Another Subscriber Count drop

Markus — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:07:31 -0000

My Feedburner subscriber number has dropped by 33 per cent since yesterday. Who knows what that means?

Re: The Cubic Experience

Markus — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:44:55 -0000

Great review that will help me to make my own for a German magazine.

Re: Doof, a service about having fun

Markus — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:26:51 -0000

What a stupid name for a website!

In German doof means stupid, daft, dumb, foolish, silly, ...

Who would choose such a name for his company?

Re: I was right, Iotum received investment funding

Markus — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:46:07 -0000

Thumbs up to you! I thought the same when I read the news this morning: Luca was right. :)

Re: New year, clean theme

Markus — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:34:36 -0000

Is this a theme? It's just black on white!

My own website looks like this before the CSS is loaded. Quite frugal. I think some more colors to separate the different spaces of your site are allowed.

Techcrunch's style is also quite frugal, but at least the separate the page's head with colors from the body. I like that.

Re: SIPphone becomes Gizmo5

Markus — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:51:17 -0000

I think that's a good move. Although I wonder what Gizmo5 stands for.

Re: Funny predictions for 2008… from the blogosphere

Markus — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:29:56 -0000

You are so right! It's astonishing.

Just minutes ago I wrote a blog post called "Worldwide free calls through a security breach". If there were people on the moon, we could probably call them for free with this solution. If only it wasn't illegal. ;)

Re: VoIP in 2008 will be integrated and web-based

Markus — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:30:46 -0000

I would love to see that too, although I would probably get even more funny phone calls from Senegal and other far away countries through my website.

Re: VoIP services compared: Jajah Direct, Mobivox, RebTel, Talkster, WifiMobile

Markus — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:12:11 -0000

Great review! Thanks a lot. VoIP blogging is sometimes so fast that it just copies press releases and people forget to also check out if the services really work.

Re: Are Web 2.0 Services Capital Intensive?

Markus — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:13:40 -0000

Maybe you should pass more time in Silicon Valley or move the entire company there. That's where the networks are. Unfortunately we Europeans are not so much in the VC's focus.

The hottest startup is now Qik, ran by an Indian in Silicon Valley. The development is being done in Russia, as Bhaskar Roy told me at the Mobile World Congress. The VCs are competing to do their second round of funding.

One even called me to tell it to Bhaskar in Barcelona.

Re: How to Prioritize my Emails

Markus — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:28:21 -0000

#4) Write less blog posts and answer more emails.

;)

Re: Truphone acquires Sim4Travel and takes directly on MaxRoam

Markus — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:53:45 -0000

Is this really such a big news?

Truphone's technological sibling Wifimobile did the same already in January (http://www.webitpr.com/release_detail.asp?Relea...) and nobody seemed to care. The two companies are involved in a funny race for the latest features and ideas.

A 3rd competitor, Vyke, does the same kind of VoIP on Nokia phones and also bought a big company with his stock money.

Re: Truphone 4.0 is out

Markus — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:01:33 -0000

I also predicted this move in an article for IP Convergence TV, but 3 months before you. :)

Read the story here:

http://www.goebel.net/technews/2008/05/finally-...

Re: Switched back to a Nokia E61

Markus — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:16:38 -0000

I also love the E61 and use it everyday for nearly everything. I love to write emails on it since they keyboard is great and the mobile use (which I advert in the signature) allows me to keep the messages short. The Google feedreader is great on it and allows me to browse hundreds of news in an hour. Of course only in Wifi areas since I am a penny pincher.

Re: Truphone 4.0 is out

Markus — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:48:45 -0000

That's great to know, because I was worried I knew too much. ;)

Re: Truphone to release an IM client for the iPhone?

Markus — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:39:17 -0000

It's time for Truphone to finally come out of the closet. Yet one year ago they presented their iPhone prototype.

Re: Google, Web 2.0 and the Lack of Innovation

Markus — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:39:40 -0000

The worst thing is that I can't use GMail for Symbian S60 since I changed to "always use SSL" at GMail. But there is help: The new Nokia Email service works great with GMail and SSL. It's now my prefered software since GMail for Symbian S60 became unusable.

Re: Mobile VoIP and White Label, the Next Big Thing

Markus — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:36:46 -0000

Fring already does it. They partner with 500 companies, many of them give their customers a Fring software preconfigured with their access data to download. I would call that whitelabel, since the customer's relationship is with the VoIP company not with Fring. A Fring business developer explained me this model last week in an interview.

Re: Nokia Email vs Gmail for S60: Smackdown

Markus — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:23:47 -0000

The biggest advantage I see in Nokia's solution: It works with SSL for GMail.

Re: Easymobile mk2 - the return of Stelios

Markus — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:14:16 -0000

I spoke in Berlin to serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of the airline easyJet and other successful low cost product ventures. It was during a press conference about the launch of easyHotel.com, which wants to open 10 budget hotels across Germany over the next four years. But much more interesting I found what we talked aside: His mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) easyMobile will come back and offer free cell phone calls, sponsored by advertising.

Until not long ago there already was another easyMobile, planned as pan European MVNO. The Danish operator TDC had licensed the brand from Stelios' easyGroup but things didn't turn out so well. TDC got bought and changed their business strategy which made Stelios retract the brandname. In just 48 hours the German branch changed its name into callmobile. „You always have to be cautious that the franchisees don't damage your established brand name“, Stelios said today.

Now he is planning to start a new MVNO under the name of easyMobile early next year. „The MVNOs brought the cell phone costs down but until now nobody offers completely free phone calls“, he said to me today. „People are used to pay for mobile communication and still cannot imagine that it could be free like televison.“ Therefore he is looking for the right partner to start a free phone calls MVNO, sponsored by advertising. A similar approach we already know from Blyk, a UK based start-up by the former president of Nokia Corporation, Pekka Ala-Pietilä, which is due to launch this summer.

Before every phone call Stelios wants to play an advertising message, which is not necessarily an easy business model, he admits. „To found a cheap MVNO is easy“, he says „but the trick is on the advertising side“. In his plans the advertising should be location based, at least on city level, and requires a lot of personalization. „A person that every thursday night orders at Pizza Hut could be played a Domino's advertising“, he jokes. But to use all the personal data that's necessary for such a service the new easyMobile needs ample permissions from its customers. „People are aware that they give away their data in exchange for free phone calls“, Stelios dismisses any doubts.

Actually he is looking for the right advertising partner to provide the necessary technology and data. He even asked me for a recommendation. When I mentioned Google/Doubleclick he said „yes, but Google today is very much into everything.“

Re: Truphone take step towards global service

Markus — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:12:52 -0000

You can use your GrandCentral number with Truphone already. That's the smallest problem. Just type in your Truphone number as one of the forward numbers. I already did that months ago.

Re: Scoble has a productivity problem

Markus — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:46:45 -0000

Bob is right and your post is are far too long for the few things that I could learn from it. I nearly subscribed to your RSS feed for this blog, but again I didn't. Please don't bother with your train of thought, just the results please. The reason why I don't use Twitter is that the knowledge has not yet settled. Too much communication and to few beef.

Re: Scoble has a productivity problem

Markus — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:50:10 -0000

I don't want to see your cemetery photos nor does the age of a cameraman matter to me. Please stay focused on technology!

These new social media make the people bring up so much noise, simply because it's technically possible. I see no difference in Twitter or Friendfeed.

Please no more tagging, hyperlinks and additional information! I am missing the good old technology magazines on paper, because they didn't have distracting hyperlinks which always give me the feeling to miss something.

I hope they still exist.

Re: Android Is Live On Internet Tablets

Markus — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:24:10 -0000