TheFeature closing

"Now is the time for us to step back, and let the conversation and community move forward on its own. It’s been a great ride, and we’re glad that everyone could join us. So, would the last one out please turn off the lights..."

TheFeature is dead now, what a sad thing to hear. It's one of the best mobile industry sources I referred to for the marketing work. There are many interesting and important insights, especially my personal favorites, user experience topics. I've archived quiet many of them but always thought to refer back to the site when necessary. Now its gone forever.

It also reminds me how good things in the cyber world can just disappear forever and how important it is to find a good archive system/mechanism.

Some good links for comments of the closing

www.corante.com/mooreslore/archives/cat_cellular.html
darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack

Mobhappy

You can also find their footprints here:
Peggy Anne Salz,






Mark Frauenfelder







Mike Masnick








David Pescovitz







Steve Wallage







Carlo Longino







Howard Rheingold
Should be quiet easy to locate him since his "smart mob" is a hot selling book around the world.

Biometric mouse squeaks through tests

Biometric mouse squeaks through tests: "Biometric mouse squeaks through tests

Review Stick it in your family, album!

By BIOS editorial staff: 星期二 28 六月 2005, 13:02
PEOPLE OFTEN forget passwords, but not their index fingers. American Power Conversion's Biometric Mouse Password Manager is an optical mouse with a built-in fingerprint scanner that takes the place of conventional passwords, allowing you to log on to your computers and favourite Web sites with the swipe of a finger - goodbye passwords!"


** Interesting perspective of the application..

Motorola to Acquire Sendo R&D Team and IP Portfolio | Wireless News - Wireless IQ

Motorola to Acquire Sendo R&D Team and IP Portfolio | Wireless News - Wireless IQ: "Motorola to Acquire Sendo R&D Team and IP Portfoli"

Many people say that this year is a year for mobile phone manufacturers to re-shuffule. We heard quiet many news about this lately. From end of last year, there were mergers between TCL and Alcatel. Unfortunatelly, Alcatel announced to shut off their mobile phone business and sold out all their shares to TCL early this year. We also noticed that Moto has acquired Korean's mobile phone mfg Pantec & Quiritel. Israli mobile phone mfg Emblaze had acquired Innostream, another Korean mfg.

This year just happened was the merger between Benq & Siemens, later has been in the phone business for many years and once had gained 17% market share. We also heard that Soustec in China has gone bankcrupt.

Today is another blow that Moto bought off Sendo R&D team.

So.. it seems mid size or even small size mobile phone manufacturers are having really tough year now.