On Message with Ben Gross

Robin Jewsbury of Refresh Mobile posted a video showing the growth of their content sharing service EyeMags according to their Google Analytics data.

The Mobile Internet IS different - there seems to be a band of usage across Europe through the middle east, India and into Asia. Although usage is high in the US it [...]

GrandCentral Mobile launched earlier this week. GrandCentral provides a single phone number for managing a set of phone services. The services has VoIP services, such as forwarding, simultaneous ring, custom rings, call management features, and many options for managing voicemail both over the phone and through the web. The new mobile service allows users to [...]

The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) 2007 will be held from May 14th through 16th 2007 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. User-centric identity is one of the main themes although the workshop covers identity broadly. Details and proposed sessions typically appear on the workshop site close to the event. The workshop is [...]

CHI 2007, will be held from April 28th through May 3rd, 2007 in San Jose, California. The annual conference on Computer-Human Interaction is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI). The conference is a mixture researchers, practitioners, educators, and students from academia, industry, and government. The [...]

During last week’s Web 2.0 Expo, Nokia released a series of widgets and a web run-time for the Series 60 platform. The web run-time is an instance of WebKit, which is also the rendering engine for the Nokia S60 browser as well as Apple’s Safari and the Linux browser Konqueror.
The widgets are similar to Apple [...]

Jott is a transcription service designed to let you take notes and send email from your mobile phone. The default interaction with the service is relatively straightforward. You dial a tollfree number and record a message that is then transcribed and sent to you in as an email or text message along with an mp3 [...]

Both Wired.com and Read/WriteWeb recently interviewed Scott MacGregor, the lead engineer for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Last week, the Mozilla foundation made release candidate 1 available for the upcoming Thunderbird 2.0 client. The final version is expected at the end of April. The Wired.com article focuses on the advantages of desktop email clients over [...]

The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) invites participation in the CEAS Live Spam Challenge. Participants will compete in filtering a live 24-hour e-mail stream delivered using standard protocols (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3). All types of anti-spam technology are welcome including servers, appliances, proxies and personal filters. Participants will be allowed to use any network resource [...]