Cor’ what a night, Thought Den had their first Bluetooth and phone gig on Friday the 4th of July up at the RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music) in the Whitworth Gallery and we came away with at least 120 phone numbers! I’d like to pretend we didn’t ask but I’m afraid we needed too, just look at my photo…

We were handling a specific artist’s piece tasked with making everyone’s phone in the gallery ring with the same ring-tone at points though the evening. Our stand was set-up in the gallery’s front entrance to take advantage of anyone with their phone on them.  As soon as they were through the doors they were Bluetoot’d out a regal Trumpet solo to their device(s) and then asked to set it as a ring-tone and leave it on the loudest setting they could handle!

It was then we started grabbing numbers… (more…)

What a busy digital week it’s been, there’s been posts from blogs and newspaper articles covering everything exciting in the pervasive and online world.

A lot more mobile technology news stories are beginning to hit the news in comparison with straight internet related interest reads and so this week I’m mostly rounding up any great/bad news that’s affecting the Happy Package’s further development.

Mobile Vouchers for greasy hands

Apparently South Korea isn’t the only place where (more…)

Anyone wanna’ know what’s been lighting our fires recently? I know we’ve been posting on Happy Packages, Bournemouth and a sunny day on the beach, but there’s been a few interesting moments been happening outside our bubble too.

Money in your Mobile

First up is some news I’m following very closely regarding payment of services from your Mobile Phone. It seems that Mobile Banking team, Monitise, are working with the Carphone Warehouse to develop a secure money application on your phone which you can use to check balances, view transactions and transfer money.

Judging by the amount of phones my house-mate’s lost (more…)

Anti VJ on YouTube

What else can we say, apart from when Anti VJ had a play in the Pervasive Studio it was a bit amazing. Our videos show a small example of what they’re doing, but check out (more…)

The ongoing debate about the relevance of QR codes takes an interesting turn it seems…an article on moconews details the results published by The Sun relating to The Sun’s campaign to promote the use of QR codes among it’s readership - interesting reading for all, in particular us at Thought Den and Mobile Pie who are contemplating using this technology in their MediaSandbox commission. Watch this space… READ FULL MOCO ARTICLE