EyeSpyFX is pleased to announce that Jamba will distribute PhoneStreamFX.

PhoneStreamFX is a Java application for mobile phones that enables streaming webcams to be viewed from around the world. Using an associated peice of software “EyeSpyFX WebCam” you can set up your own webcam at home and view it via Phone StreamFX. In addition if you have a Logitech Sphere or a Creative Live Motion webcamera you can control the pan tilt  function of the cam using your phone. Phone StreamFX is an example of PC and webcam and phone convergence.

Jamster (web and WAP: www.jamster.com) is a world leading provider of digital entertainment able to reach 1 in 6 consumers around the globe. With a wide offering of mobile products and services available directly via mobile phones, Jamster connects people with their passions in 35 countries on five continents and in 23 languages. Jamster offers its customers anytime and anywhere branded popular content from around the world including The Simpsons and The Simple Life, the latest content from major media companies, including chart-topping music from top music labels, mobile games from renowned game developers, and original content made exclusively for mobile phones. Jamster is a joint venture between News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A) and VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN) and headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, and Berlin, Germany

EyeSpyFX have launched the ultimate Java application for your mobile phone for Twittering.

The new app can read friends and public timelines and allows you to update your timeline. It is easy to use and designed to suit most Java phones.

Widsets is a Nokia project. “WidSets represents a first step in mobilizing the Internet vision of Nokia” Widsets was launched in October 2006. Widsets is a system where mini applications called widgets can be made and managed. The idea Widsets is that if a fully functional Java environment is provided high end Web 2.0 style apps can be made to work.

This is a powerful idea. And it looks great.

BUT

It is a bit closed, a little like a walled garden. Every widget is ultimately under the control of widsets. If they dont like you maybe they will turn you off. Some web 2.0 developers may not like that possibility.

On the up side Widsets is good for phone users. One of the features that widsets uses is a data traffic manager, so you can see how much data traffic bills you are running up. Also if you want your phone to have lots of high end java apps it is nice that within the widsets concept they are all orgainised in one place. However, if the main differentiator between widsets and just downloading apps individually is the data traffic manager feature…it may not be quete enough. I wonder if that dilemma is one of those situations where a well designed and orgainised environment is competing with a free, but slightly crazy environment.

Mobot offers a system (not released yet) that allows you to take a snap and send it to mobot. Mobot then sends you back relevant information. “Relevant” is maybe a bit strong, information which advertisers pay to have sent back, is perhaps closer to the truth. Pretty cool nonetheless.

Sun have released a new version of Java called JavaFX (hey, I wonder where they got that FX idea!). The mobile version is the first FX edition. The mobile OS stakes seem to be heating up nicely. The main deal here is its open. JavaFX will sit on a version of Linux for mobile. That contrasts with other mobile systems such as Symbian, OSX (mac) and Windows Mobile. This is all good news for EyeSpyFX and our Java based mobile phone webcam streaming product Phone-StreamFX

Is this important? YES! What is at stake here is the market for Mobile OS. Microsoft dominate PC OS’s. Mobile is a new opportunity, new land!

Check out JavaFx Mobile from Sun here

Also see Jonathan Schwartz’s (Sun CEO) blog and his entry about JavaFX here.

Putting adverts on mobile devices is at last here. http://www.admob.com/

Admob are offering a service that allows you to embed adverts into WAP pages…a bit like the google adsense scheme except for Mobile. If it does that it is certainly a major landmark in the development of the mobile web.

We are going to try it out and will report back.

Try out the new web browser from China. They already have 80 million downloads! It features a rather cool user interface that allows you to use a gesture with your mouse to go back or jump from tab to tab. Great fun.

Rumour has it that Google has invested $1m with Maxthon. My question is…what happens next?

http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/celebrity-collage.php

This web site uses a picture of yourself that you upload to it to find a celebrity who you look like. Good trick. Try it.

We count the downloads of PhoneStreamFX and the Installs on types of phone. In the last 100 days 5000 people installed Phone StreamFX. Here are the top five Phone-StreamFX phone types.

1. SonyEricsson K750i
2. Nokia 6230i
3. Motorola L6
4. SonyEricsson K700i
5. Nokia 3220

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Some businesses find that a telephone answering service plan can be a way to localizing their phone answering service. Not all companies can get every employee their own phone, so an answering service can be a good way to help out with phone calls, and a call center service lets you outsource your needs.

Aikon is a web site which reviews all thinks to do with Nokia Phones. (Aikon is NOKIA spelt backwards) They wrote a nice review of Phone StreamFX software recently.

http://www.aikon.ch/7650/

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