Here's an image from a trip to London, correctly addressed by Ovi Share and correctly mapped:

Is there a way to display all media from a trip overlaid on a larger map? If so, please forgive my naiveity and share the info!

Steve Litchfield

This isn't surprising, given the move to easy access on mobile versions of many of the big Web 2.0 sites, as well as a general feeling in web circles that your data should be accessible no matter where you are, no matter what device you're on. Any social network launching today that decides to target mobile will be welcome, but unless it has a strong back end accessible from both a desktop PC and perhaps even existing services (such as Twitter), then it's not going to get a lot of traction, fancy Location Based Services, geo-tagging pictures and 'where are my friends right now' features notwithstanding.

More at MoCoNews.

The Sony Ericsson W960 is a great looking smartphone with plenty of top-notch features to offer. However, the user interface and touch implementation make it difficult to get around, and frustrating to use.

...the flash is either on, or it is off. There is also no 'auto' setting, which makes things ever more frustrating, as it takes a minimum of 6 clicks to toggle the flash on or off.

One of the key features of the W960 is the Walkman music player interface, 8GB of internal storage, and dedicated, touch-sensitive media playback keys. Given that, I found it odd that the handset requires an additional adapter to use 3.5mm headphones. The Walkman music player application is certainly full of eye candy, and offers the ability to browse through your music by artist, album, playlists (created on the PC or device), and mood. I was very disappointed to not see the 'genre' option listed, as that's how I typically listen to my music.

The full review is at Mobile Burn.

I'm still VERY wary about those light up keypad legends - didn't Nokia learn ANYTHING from the horrible white on silver labelling system on the N82?? What happens when you take the N78 outdoors into the sunlight? Shudder.

We're very excited about this. Russell Beattie and Mike Rowehl are both very talented mobile gurus and they'll be joining the dotMobi team to help us do cool things with their technology. We did this deal because Mowser fits really well into lots of our current projects.
James Pearce

This is great news - Miker and I got pinged by a surprising number of people and companies interested in Mowser, but we went with dotMobi because they were first, enthusiastic, and we felt they would provide a good home for our work. While we didn't get rich on the deal by any stretch, I've been able to pay off a bunch of debts (and not worry about stuff like rent and food) which has been a huge load off my mind.
Russ Beattie

They're already hooked up with folks looking to go mobile and in a unique position to offer the service without the hurdles Russ and I had in reaching motivated site owners. Like we discussed at the last Mobile Monday in Silicon Valley, one of the most important aspects of planning out a mobile business is to have the right partnerships in place to give you a strong market channel.
Mike Rowehl

Congrats all round, nice to have a happy ending for the end of the week.

I'm still not convinced that all this is going to automatically lead to an increase in advertising on the handset - this is still a relatively young media, and arguably traditional methods don;t translate well to new media. Advertising on TV can run up to 8 minutes in an hour on broadcast, but move these to online services such as Hulu (American broadcaster NBC's TV online), and they are finding people an stomach at most around 90 seconds an hour (a 30 second pre-roll advert and one advert in the middle of the show). Predictions of ad money rolling into these services is still premature.

More at IT Pro and Juniper Research.

Probably the best highlight is the very short reply to the question of Nokia's regard to the American market...

What about] the U.S?
The US will change dramatically over the next few years...The days of the ‘walled garden’ are numbered, I think everyone knows that. How fast it will happen, who knows?

The full text is over on MoCoNews.