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.

Look out for a report from the actual launch event and more analysis in a couple of days.

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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.

In case you're wondering, Galileo will use a similar transmission standard to GPS, so you will be able to use both systems on the same hardware.

Of course 2013 is five years away, which is an eternity in the mobile electronics world. It is possible that by then GPS phones will be far more sensitive than they are now, but even so it will presumably still be an advantage to have two constellations to refer to instead of just one.

More accurate indoor satellite navigation could have implications for pedestrian navigation, for example shopping centres might include their indoor layout on navigational maps.

Whether there's a real technical need for a second satnav system is debatable, but the geopolitical need seems to be in the driving seat. Many in the European Union government (the EU are paying for Galileo) want to make themselves seem important, and present themselves as an alternative to the US on the global stage. At the moment America is the only country to operate a satellite navigation constellation, and this is why people use "GPS" and "satellite navigation" interchangably, even though GPS is just the American system.

There's also a military significance in Galileo: At present the US government may selectively distort the GPS signal in regions where they don't want the enemy to be able to use satellite navigation, but if Galileo goes online the US will have to convince the EU to co-operate in any such distortion.

And that's not all. There's a third sat nav system on the way too, the rather unfortunately-named GLONASS, which was built by the Soviet Union (later Russia) but left to rot when the money ran out. Now that Russia is on the way up again economically, the system is being restored with a target date of 2010 for global coverage. It will be compatible with Galileo and GPS, and Russia has said the system will be open to the public, so future mobile devices will have three constellations to receive signals from instead of just the current one.

Members of the Open Screen Project include all five leading handset manufacturers and several large operators as well as other technology, service and content providers.

Adobe is seeking to create a consistent run time environment (Flash intially, and later, Air) that will ease cross device and cross platform development and address technology fragmentation by allowing dynamic over the air updates.

In the short term this will not mean much for the average user. Flash Lite is already available on every S60 handset. The removal of license fees is likely to ensure that things stay this way, but more importantly is likely to increase the number of Flash enabled handsets making for a more compelling cross platform / cross device development platform. Adobe Air is also part of this announcement, but there are no specific guarantees about its inclusion on handsets.

More significant in the longer term is that this indicates the strategy than Adobe is looking to pursue for its web application platform. The concept of rich Internet applications powered by cross platform run time technologies (Silverlight, Air, JavaFX) is generally accepted as being a very important part of the future. In making the Open Screen Project and related announcement Adobe is firing one of the first shots in a battle that is  likely to become increasingly important over the next few years.

Here's the relevant extract from the Adobe website:

The Open Screen Project is dedicated to driving consistent rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. The Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences, live and on-demand across a variety of devices.

The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ -- that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes. The Open Screen Project will address potential technology fragmentation by allowing the runtime technology to be updated seamlessly over the air on mobile devices. The consistent runtime environment will provide optimal performance across a variety of operating systems and devices, and ultimately provide the best experience to consumers.

Specifically, this work will include:

• Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
• Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
• Publishing the Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
• Removing licensing fees – making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free