Yep. Find it here. Interesting analysis of it here. It’s reminiscent of Microsoft’s Hailstorm, which bombed. It all comes down to trust, as Dave Winer points out in a perceptive essay.
Daily Archives: June 29, 2006
txts R going thrU roof
Mobile phone users in the UK sent a record 3.3 billion text messages in May, figures show.
The Big Brother TV show, the FA Cup and Champions League finals all helped boost numbers, according to the Mobile Data Association (MDA).
Person-to-person texts sent across all mobile phone networks averaged 106 million per day last month.
This figure was up 26% on May 2005 and beat the previous UK record of 3.2 billion texts sent in March.
That figure could rise higher this month due to a surge in World Cup-related messages.
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More than 120 million text messages were sent on FA Cup final day, rising to 124 million texts on Champions League final day.
A predicted 36.5 billion texts will be sent by UK mobile phone users this year – up from 32 billion in 2005, according to the MDA.
A 100 megapixel chip!
Technology Review has the story.
San Juan Capistrano, CA-based Semiconductor Technology Associates (STA) has designed the world’s highest-resolution digital camera chip, capable of holding an image composed of more than 111 million pixels. By comparison, the best consumer cameras take shots of 12 to 16 million pixels, and an average computer monitor offers about one million pixels.
The imaging chip, which is a charge-coupled device (CCD), was designed for use in telescope cameras that map stars and ever-moving objects in the solar system, says Richard Bredthauer, STA’s president. But this large-scale chip — it measures four inches square — could be useful in more fields than just astronomy, he says, including high-resolution microscopic images of proteins, military surveillance applications, and even civilian mapping projects that require detailed aerial photography.
It’s four inches square. Too big for my Hasselblad. Bah!