June 16, 2006
Cell phone cinematographers make feature debut
[from CNN]
ROME, Italy (AP) -- The theme may be familiar but the technique is new: A standard cell phone camera to shoot an entire feature-length documentary on love and sex.
Italian filmmakers used a Nokia N90, a higher-end cell phone sold around the world, to produce the 93-minute "New Love Meetings," which they say is the first feature film to be entirely shot with such a tool.
The technique underscores what has become a fixture in today's world: The use of amateur video and cell phone cameras to immortalize moments in people's lives.
"With the widespread availability of cell phones equipped with cameras, anybody could do this," documentary co-director Marcello Mencarini said in a telephone interview from Milan. "If you want to say something nowadays, thanks to the new media, you can."
Posted by richard ting at June 16, 2006, 05:43 PM
June 13, 2006
Nokia Now Supports Flash Lite on Nearly 20 Devices
Just 15 months after Nokia announced it would license Flash Lite technology, the company now has 16 devices that will ship with Macromedia Flash Lite from Adobe as a default component and three devices that will ship with Flash Lite in specific-language versions. The Nokia devices include all 12 of the S60 3rd Edition devices the company has announced -- including the Eseries enterprise devices, the Nseries multimedia computers, the Nokia 3250 phone, and the Nokia 5500 Sport -- as well as four Series 40 phones: the Nokia 6125, Nokia 6131, Nokia 6136, and Nokia 6233 phones. Flash Lite 1.1 is the version currently shipping in S60 and Series 40 devices, and the transition to the next release of the player, Flash Lite 2, will begin in the second half of this year.
Posted by richard ting at June 13, 2006, 01:03 PM
PayPal Mobile adds first text-to-buy clients in UK
PayPal Mobile says it has signed up EMI, Twentieth Century Fox, Oxfam, Stuff and Maxim magazines as its first text-to-buy partners in the U.K. The service enables users to buy things instantly by sending specific product codes via text message. The brand will then send the object to the user's address as listed in its PayPal account. The company says it already has 10 million PayPal account holders residing in the U.K.
