(image source) A recent report by Berg Insight says GPS-enabled handset shipments will reach 560 million units in 2012: According to a new research report by Berg Insight, global shipments of GPS-enabled handsets is expected to grow from 175 million units in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.2 percent to reach…

Foto source Last Monday Jan. 21 I attended the 4th meeting of the Dutch Mobile Monday branch in Amsterdam. The turnout was huge: an estimated 300+ people gathered in De Rode Hoed. The meeting was well-organized, the crowd mixed, and the atmosphere friendly. The topic of the day was Location – LBS – GPS –…

http://www.placeme.hum.aau.dk/conf2008/ The aim of this international conference to be held in Aalborg, Denmark from 12th – 14th November 2008 is to bring together researchers who investigate space, mediated discourse and embodied interaction from different perspectives. The conference will highlight interdisciplinary research that explores how embodied and virtual social actors communicate, interact and coordinate their activities…

Picturephoning has a very brief entry about one of the new gizmos presented in Las Vegas, about which Martijn has already blogged. It’s a pair of glasses that enable you to watch a movie played on the iPod, cell phone or Zune projected inside the glasses. Why do I find this interesting? First of all…

Under the sinister heading “Prisoners ‘to be chipped like dogs’”, The Independent has a well-balanced article about a plan issued by – amongst others – the British Ministry of Justice to put RFID chips under the skin of prisoners. The plan is meant to lessen the burden on the overcrowded penitentiary system in the UK.…

  Great “Sinterklaas” gift: the first pamphlet in the series Architecture and Situated Technologies Pamphlet is available now at Lulu (free download pdf 8.5 MB; $15 for the paper version). About the 48-page pamphlet: The Situated Technologies Pamphlet series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How is our experience of the city and the choices…

(Via Textually.org) Ghosts are trapped in the machines of Perth, and they need your help! With the aid of your mobile phone as your communication device with the ghosts, you’ll uncover clues and solve puzzles to help unravel the mystery of who the ghosts are and why they were so cruelly imprisoned, all the while…

Quote from we make money not art: Daily walks between home, work and leisure are recompiled into a “pain-map” which is fetched from GoogleMaps servers with automated scripts. The map keeps tracks of the wireless networks along the route, but also of the wearer’s détours when entering a very dense network place.The technique, which the…

Bit of a cynical post on Panzerfaust (in Dutch…) about the Architectuur 2.0 symposium last friday November 9. Another post (again in Dutch) on Architectenwerk. Although I wasn’t there so cannot really judge, questioning the role of new technologies on the practice and discipline of architecture and urban planning appears to have been absent. Which…

Guest writer Colin Kloecker on The Where Blog has an interesting post about the interaction between virtual and urban environments, which bears an uncanny resemblance to our proposal for The Mobile City conference. I guess we’re on the right track..:-). He concludes by asking: So all of this speculation begs the question: in this media-rich…