Start-on-boot MIDlet

Arvind Gupta delivers again and again, with a straight forward Symbian code that autostarts a MIDlet using a Recognizer and the Push Registry.

Traffic Awareness Tool

Palm has released Traffic, an application the Treo 600/650 that provides, for a monthly fee, live traffic data and maps for 10 U.S. cities. The added value being that cameras and human inputs supplement traffic sensor data. Since the data are “humanized”, I would expect the interface to display a better sense of flows and to become a richer awareness tool. For example showing the map in terms of time instead of distance.

A rather cluttered interface…

GSM World Coverage 2005

The GSM Association and coveragemaps.com provide the GSM World Coverage map 2005. This poster illustrates the extent of GSM network coverage worldwide. It gives a sense of the level of worldwide ubiquity of GSM as the dominant global mobile communications standard.