By: Stephen Joos

The future of technology can look pretty bleak at times (see Hot Dog Microwave), but there are some great feats being accomplished solving many issues that we face. Take a new cell phone developed by former teacher at a school for the blind and a professor from Tsukuba University of Technology. The cell phone assists people with sight and hearing difficulties by allowing them to communicate through vibrations. After entering a message on the braile keypad, the phone sends out vibrations at a specific rate, representing Braille symbols to create a message. The founders hope for a broad adoption of this technology, as messages can be easily broadcasted out to the blind. This seems like a great idea, as municipalities are looking to make intersections safer. A message (delivered through Bluetooth) alerting someone when it is safe to cross, seems to be one avenue.

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By: Stephen Joos
Cuba announced today that they are opening up mobile phone service to the general public. This seems to be the first step in expanding freedoms to the island’s residents and openness of communication with the outside world. Previously, cell phone service was limited to government officials or people working for [...]

By: Chris Brubaker

 
In this two part series, I’m going to talk about two key problems in the SMS (text messaging) industry affecting growth and innovation; spam and shady business practices.

Spam
Let’s first start out with some numbers. In 2006, 800 million spam text messages were sent, in 2007 that number increased to 1.1 [...]

By: Chris Brubaker
Searching the Internet, we all do it every day. Whether you’re looking for real estate or a Betty Crocker cookie recipe, the best (only) way to find things on the Internet is to search… Who wants to type in www anyways? I use Firefox as my default browser, and love using [...]

By: Stephen Joos
As many of you know, in late 2007 we launched HouseAds, a Google like bidding model for real estate advertising on the mobile phone and HouseFront.com. We weren’t too sure how Real Estate Professionals would take to this new model as most advertising programs required contracts, monthly fees, and minimum ad spends, [...]

By: HouseFront Team
Just as the title says, we’d like to wish everyone a HappyHouseFrontHoliday. Think about it, pulling up to Aunt Jenn’s house whipping out your cell phone and texting the address to ‘HOUSE’ or 46873. Bam, the next thing you know is you’ve got more info than you know what to do with. [...]