Arvind Gupta delivers again and again, with a straight forward Symbian code that autostarts a MIDlet using a Recognizer and the Push Registry.

Palm has released Traffic, an application the Treo 600/650 that provides, for a monthly fee, live traffic data and maps for 10 U.S. cities. The added value being that cameras and human inputs supplement traffic sensor data. Since the data are “humanized”, I would expect the interface to display a better sense of flows and to become a richer awareness tool. For example showing the map in terms of time instead of distance.

A rather cluttered interface…

The GSM Association and coveragemaps.com provide the GSM World Coverage map 2005. This poster illustrates the extent of GSM network coverage worldwide. It gives a sense of the level of worldwide ubiquity of GSM as the dominant global mobile communications standard.