Allvoices.com lets Citizen Journalists Share Events in Gaza with the World via Cell phones

Allvoices.com has set up a page called The Events in Gaza, tinyurl.com/97v9go - to which citizen journalists can contribute via their cell phones.

Erik Sundelof of Allvoices says, 'The whole world is turning their heads to events in Gaza. The effects will be long lasting in the region as well as around the world. Ultimately this will cause suffering to a lot of innocent people on both sides in the area around Gaza. I believe it is time for us to open a dialogue about these events and what they mean to us as a global society. '

The ubiquitous availability of web-accessible camera phones has increased the incidents of direct reporting from event eyewitnesses. The recent events in Mumbai and now the Middle East have proven this, and we now know the best resources come from inside the story.

[via PR Inside]

Magnetic Detachable lenses

Spotted on engadget, magnetic, detachable lenses for the iPhone.

LG launches a Video Phone Watch

LG Electronics has unveiled its state of the art mobile – a 3G watch phone that makes video calls. The Sun reports.

The watch has a touchscreen for use with dialling, with an integrated speaker and camera allowing you to make video calls over a high speed internet connection.

You can also listen to MP3s on the LG watch phone plus it transforms text to speech and recognises voices.

LG has confirmed the watch phone will be available in Europe next year.

Nikon Releases myPicturetown iPhone App

Nikon has launched a iPhone app called my Picturetown, enabling users to access and use Nikon’s photo storage and sharing site, my Picturetown. slashphone reports.

Nikon’s photo storage and sharing site, my Picturetown, developed as a service to allow photographers to enjoy their photos anywhere and anytime, allows for the upload of photos from cameras or computers as well as the browsing and viewing of uploaded photos from computers and cellular telephones.

i.TV application for the iPhone released with new updates

The i.TV unveiled a new application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The users can use this application to remotely program their DVR, view their favorite television shows and variety of videos from their iPhone and now they can even purchase a movie ticket through this application. mobiletor reports.

The i.TV application will now offer the users to view full length of television shows, movie trailers, YouTube videos and other videos too.

The i.TV application for the iPhone is available in US and Canada at the App Store for free.

Friends at funeral snap photos of deceased

Have people lost their sense of propriety with the advancement of technology? The Electric New paper, Singapore reports on how people are taking pictures of the deceased in open caskets or of victims at the scene of accidents.

Movie studio launches iPhone app to promote new film "The Spirit"

Lionsgate and digital media company Big Stage Entertainment have launched an iPhone app to promote the movie.

Users can upload their photo, shake the iPhone and star in scenes from the film.

According to MediaWeek, "marketing of the app is viral through social networks. Big Stage sent a newsletter item out to "tens of thousands of its members, who visit the site to create avatars and such."

Celebrity Photo Application For iPhone

Treemo Labs has released another iPhone application, this time focusing on videos and photos of celebrities. Seelebrity is being promoted as a do-it-yourself paparazzi application that lets users upload and share photos and videos of celebrities. The application also features a rating system, chat and exclusive video footage.

[via The Washington Post]

EC unveils mobile TV guidelines

The European Commission has published a set of mobile TV guidelines that hopefully will accelerate the roll out of mobile TV service across Europe.

The EC said it had identified the main principles which EU regulators and governments should follow when authorising operators to provide mobile TV services, including that frequencies made available for mobile TV should be withdrawn if the service has not started within a reasonable period of time. Regulators should keep the authorisation process open to all industry players and create conditions which encourage cooperation between telecoms operators and broadcasters. Also, DVB-H based mobile TV services in every EU country should work together.

[Mobile News via FierceMobile]

The iPhone's camera jumping up in the Flickr ratings

In the list of Flickr's most popular cameras (compiled from the metadata attached to any photos that upload to the popular site), our favorite cell phone is climbing up the ranks.

[via TUAW]

A fifth of teens send nude pics on phones

A survey of hundreds of American teenagers claims that one in five of them have sent pictures of themselves partially clothed by text. Metro Boston News reports.

And twice as many claim to have sent explicit SMS messages from their cell phones, according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, whose survey was carried out jointly with cosmogirl.com.

Although they conceded that there was high risk of embarrassment, or a risk of disappointing their family, more than a fifth of those teenagers surveyed said sending nude pictures of themselves and sexually explicit messages was “no big deal.”

Babelgum launches free video to mobile

Free video to mobile phones became reality on Wednesday in cell phone-crazy Italy, where Vodafone users with certain late-generation smart phones can now watch video content from Internet TV operator Babelgum, free of data charges. Cellular >News reports.

The Italian launch will be followed by the rollout in Britain on Thursday, with other countries, including the United States, to follow, Babelgum said.

The Babelgum-Vodafone alliance will offer Babelgum's content free with no additional data charges to Vodafone clients with an iPhone 3G, Nokia N95 or 6210, and will eventually be supported by advertising.

The world’s first music video shot entirely on an iPhone

Shot entirely on a jailbroken iPhone 3G using Cycorder.

[GoShone via MacPlus]

Playboy's new mobile reality mobisodes

Starting today, Playboy is offering downloadable "mobisodes" –- mobile-based video shorts -– that show three interns hard at work. The shorts, filmed last summer in and around Playboy’s New York office on Fifth Avenue in midtown, are free.

[via USA Today]

LiveStation's demo of live TV on your iPhone

Matteo Berlucci, chief executive of LiveStation, demonstrated for The Guardian the new live TV streaming app developed for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

It's release is dependent on approval from Apple, because LiveStation won't release the app into the wild and so have to wait for the blessing to sell, or give away, the app in the iTunes App Store.

A likely outcome is that Apple approve the app, but only for use on wifi networks rather than over data networks, just as with YouTube and the iPlayer, and so not breach the SDK condition of "unduly burdening network capacity or bandwidth.

Click here for full hour long interview.

Flickr Adds Video Playback to Mobile Site

Yahoo-owned Flickr on Friday rolled out a revamped mobile Web site that now allows users to play Flickr videos on their phones. PCMag reports.

Flickr added video capability to m.flickr.com in April, and while users could upload short videos from their cell phones, they could not actually watch them from their mobile devices.

The offering has been available in beta to select iPhone users since October and was opened to all iPhone and iPod Touch users on Friday. Support for additional handsets with streaming capabilities will be added in the coming weeks, Flickr said.

Bild turns to the public for photos

Bild, the largest newspaper in Germany, is looking to expand - and not by hiring anyone.

Bild has partnered with the German discount grocery chain Lidl to sell a basic digital camera in a bid to recruit a legion of citizen journalists to contribute images to its coverage.

[via IHT]

Magazine cover shot by camera phone

The cover of the latest issue of South Africa's Vodaworld magazine has been shot using a commercially available 8.1 megapixel camera phone, the Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot. “The resolution of camera phones has reached the level where they're no longer gimmicky; they're real cameras,” says Andrew October, editor of the title.

[via BizCommunity]

Amazon launches iPhone app

It's becoming a full time job to keep up with all the amazing new iPhone apps. Here's another one worthy of note from Amazon.com

According to The New York Times, Amazon.com is offering a new iPhone app today called Amazon Mobile with an unusual feature, still experimental.

The feature, Amazon Remembers, is a tool lets users take a photograph of any product they see in the real world. The photos are then uploaded to Amazon and turned over to the far-flung freelance workers in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program, who will try to match them with products for sale on Amazon.com. The results will not be instantaneous (between 5 minutes and 24 hours, the company says), but the idea is to entice consumers to buy products from Amazon instead of its offline rivals.

According to ZDNet, "the new iPhone app also features the ability to search, compare prices, read reviews and make purchases. You also have access to your existing cart, wish lists, payment and shipping options, order history, one-click settings, and Amazon Prime benefits."

MySpace Sets Video for Mobile

MySpace plans to announce Wednesday that users who access the site via certain mobile devices now will be able to watch video there, too. The move makes MySpace the first social network to enable mobile video streaming.

[via the WSJ and News.com ]

Old Booth

Back to the past with Old Booth, a new iPhone app.

Have you ever wondered what you'd have looked like in another era? How about your friends?

Be a lady from 20s or a funky hairy hippie. Now you can turn into in the fastest way ever.

Just choose picture from your library or take new one with iPhone camera. Move, scale or rotate your images. You can also flip the picture and for a perfect result, adjust brightness. Less then minute and you are done. Picture is automatically saved in Camera Roll for further use.

Video Allegedly Shows India Terror Arrest

Grainy cell-phone video obtained by CBSNews shows the moments before police in Mumbai arrested the only living suspect in the 60-hour terror rampage that began last Wednesday and eventually left at least 170 people dead.

Joost gets back on our radar with iPhone app

Friday, Joost released an iPhone app that lets users stream and watch any of Joost's 46,000-plus videos for free. News.com reports with a rave review.

Say what you will about Joost's library of content, the concept behind this app is fantastic. The ability to stream a movie, TV show, or other piece of video content on the go is great. I know the technology is nothing revolutionary--after all the iPhone has had a YouTube app, complete with streaming video, since the device launched. Even given that, when you load up Men in Black on Joost, it just feels like a whole different ballgame. This isn't a video of a dog on a skateboard anymore.

This is real, Hollywood-produced content, delivered to your phone, for free.