4/25/2005 07:45:00 AM|W|P|Tanguy De Lestré|W|P|Brusselschallenge is a game that takes place in the city-center of Brussels on the 14th and 15 th of May. Every team (2-5 players) gets a multimediatelephone with locationbased services and participates in a treasure hunt in the city-center while using all the hightech features of a mobile phone and a network. Take pictures, localise the next treasure! More info and registration on: http://www.bruxelleschallenge.be/|W|P|111437201364123432|W|P|Participate in Mobile Treasure hunt in Brussels|W|P|tanguy.delestre@gmail.com5/16/2005 09:54:00 PM|W|P| Tanguy De Lestré|W|P|Well I did particpate on Saturday and engaged wife, kids, friends in this technology adventure.
Things were sorted out nicely.
One a mobile phone one had to look at a map and find in circles the different treasures in the city. After finding the treasure, one would take an MMS picture of it and send it to the game organisor.
In terms of usabilty, the WAP server sometimes broke down, and connectin was not always there. But it was an interesting experience. Although I am probably not one of the winners, because after two hours, I sat down on a terrace...5/16/2005 09:55:00 PM|W|P| Tanguy De Lestré|W|P|Another reflexion:
Yes these things need to be organised more often, because it puts inventions in the hands of people and therefore creates a really needed innovation.4/18/2005 05:10:00 PM|W|P|Tanguy De Lestré|W|P|It seems that mobile phones are the ulitmate tool of freedom and direct expression. This has been the case in the Philipines where anti-governmental protests have used the text messaging in an intelligent way. Anti-Japanese are using it as a flame protest in China (but that's another story) Deprivation of mobile phone is the same as deprivation of freedom; This explains the ban in the jail for prisoners for the use of this tool. Or the secrecy surrounding the election of a new pope which makes that these phones are not allowed by cardinales.|W|P|111380888274906959|W|P|Thought: My mobile freedom|W|P|tanguy.delestre@gmail.com4/18/2005 08:05:00 AM|W|P|Tanguy De Lestré|W|P|Ever imagined that this RDS text based information on your radio would become more powerfull and interactive? Well imagine now that you can receive a radio channel on your mobile phone and that related content of the program is shown directly on your phone. That's the commercial anouncement made by HP, Nokia, and Infinity broadcasting in the US. "Infinity Broadcasting has anounced an interesting plan in the US to broadcast programs to mobile phones in the United States including text-based content.The service would let consumers buy stuff like tickets, ringtones, and other things from their mobiles in addition to checking dates for events and song names and titles. " Wow, this is something easy, and probably will work faster than video, as it is closely linked to the current use of a mobile handset.|W|P|111383349571771038|W|P|Mobile radio: interactive and with images!|W|P|tanguy.delestre@gmail.com4/11/2005 04:04:00 PM|W|P|Tanguy De Lestré|W|P|The -city project is to start of on 15th of April 2005. I-city project (link live on 15/4/2005 http://www.i-city.be) , a living research lab dedicated to the usage of advanced mobile applications. I-city aim is to create a multidisciplinary research lab about the use of information, communication and services, between the citizens, the cities en persons, and associations for social, economical and juridical aspects. Therefore it develops and sustains the necessary hardware and software in order to make such a multidisciplinary scientific project possible. In order to be able to try out mobile applications, a hot zone of 600 access points is currently being deployed over two cities The test users will use WLAN 802.11b technology and additionally other network technologies in the network (GPRS, UMTS, Wimax) in order to have a always-connected experience. On the user side we find a different group of test users. The Alfa-users are a first group of actively collaborating tech-savy users providing a lot of ideas. They will show their 109 selcted projects on April 15th. Beta-users are the 3800 citizens that will soon have a sponsored device (connected PDA, Tablet PC,…) and the 4200 students of the local university (extension of an existing wireless campus project http://www.phlimburg.be/laptop/index.htm ). Gamma users are enthusiastic users with their own device that will connect on a commercial basis. A call for participants is to be found on the site http://www.eivanmij.be/php/formulier.php On the application offer side we find small and large partners that want to launch an application and search for a real-life end-user validation.: what will consumers need and want, and against what cost? What do service providers and soft- and hardware vendors in wireless broadband markets need to do to be successful with future technologies? A local newspaper group , partner of I-city , is interested for example in new approaches of localising news, onto the street level and creating interactivity with the newspaper. In the middle of the wireless lab, I-city has developed a mobile platform with profiling and authorisation application, that manages the different application channels and the user profiles. Also, I-city has a structural relationship with a social behaviour department of a Flemish university (http://www.vub.ac.be/SCOM/smit/UK/index_uk.html) , that will monitor the behaviour of the users (usage of applications in terms of frequency, location, time,…) and produce these reports for the application offer side. By opening the box of creativity in mobile applications, this I-city project is really unique. I-city is a cornerstone in a non-tangible building by creating a unique living wireless lab and not replicating existing (fix internet) structures.|W|P|111322873006850048|W|P|I-city experience in Hasselt (Belgium) to kick-off|W|P|tanguy.delestre@gmail.com4/04/2005 08:29:00 AM|W|P|Tanguy De Lestré|W|P|Mobile TV: the next killer application? At the Cebit fair in Hannover, I was really impressed by the Korean mobile TV application, that uses a twisted European norm DAB (Digial Audio Broadcast) and has just added a video layer in order to beam over 100 TV channels to mobile handsets in satelite and terrestrial mode. I have started to investigate the area of mobile TV, which is actually vastly unexplored. The European ‘kick-off’ could very well be the adoption of a single standard in November 2004 by ETSI, named DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld). Other norms exist like T-DMB (Terrestiral Digial Mobile Broadcast) or proprietary ones like MediaFLO from Qualcomm. Mobile TV area is very technological/regulatory challenging as it seems to be a ‘killer application’ that will bring together the broadcast (one to many) and mobile world (one to one). Even the unlicensed Wimax world is appearing at the horizon. More to come; and what about mobile TV: is it the next killer app? Who will deliver it? Some recent news: - Latecomer France has launched TNT (terrestrial digital broadcasting) and will come out with MPEG 4 norm late 2005, enabling mobile reception of TV. http://www.tvnt.net/technologie_05.htm - Read the latest magazine of the official DVB organisation: http://www.dvb.org/documents/newsletters/DVB-SCENE_Issue_13-Final.pdf Nice Finish example of Mobile TV: http://www.finnishmobiletv.com|W|P|111253515484361628|W|P|Mobile TV: the next killer application?|W|P|tanguy.delestre@gmail.com4/12/2005 11:22:00 AM|W|P| Tanguy De Lestré|W|P|Today is Korea day at MILIA in France http://www.milia.com

Although this event was more a broadcasting one, it seems that mobile technology is becoming a bigger part of it.
See also this Samsung anouncement:
http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/April2005/1315.htm