Open Mobile Map

Watch this week’s Windows Phone View as we wrap-up all this week’s good and bad inside the world of Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform. In today’s show we begin by talking about the launch of the Nokia Lumia 710. We later cover why we know that T-Mobile will be the first US Carrier to sell it. In our week’s coverage we go through Adam’s recent Xbox LIVE game review and Dan Webster’s Window’s Phone App Round-up. We then talk about the possibility of NFC on current Windows Phone handsets, and we end the good section with some talk about Windows Phone Towers instead of phones. In the Bad section we talk about how Piracy is affecting the Windows Phone Marketplace, and why this can pose a security threat to current Windows Phone users. All this and more after the break.

The Connected States of America illustrates the emerging communities based on the social interactions through the use of anonymized mobile phone data. Investigating the interaction network of people reveals interesting facets on how people utilize space. Cities attract their citizens from all walks of life, from nearby and from distant areas across the country. This constant flux of people commuting, migrating, and travelling across the country establishes connections which are dominated by large cities. The social connections woven across the United States can be used to define communities, where the glue that holds a community together is a stronger relationship with other members of the same community compared to members of other communities. Naturally, one can ask whether the communities defined purely by social interactions coincide with the administrative boundaries, for example state boundaries? Remarkably, this is not always the case! See senseable.mit.edu for more visualizations and information. Team MIT senseable city lab Carlo Ratti group director Franscesco Calabrese project leader Dominik Dahlem Xiaoji Chen ATT Labs - Research Alexandre Gerber DeDe Paul Christoper Rath James Rowland

The Connected States of America illustrates the emerging communities based on the social interactions through the use of anonymized mobile phone data. Investigating the interaction network of people reveals interesting facets on how people utilize space. Cities attract their citizens from all walks of life, from nearby and from distant areas across the country. This constant flux of people commuting, migrating, and travelling across the country establishes connections which are dominated by large cities. The social connections woven across the United States can be used to define communities, where the glue that holds a community together is a stronger relationship with other members of the same community compared to members of other communities. Naturally, one can ask whether the communities defined purely by social interactions coincide with the administrative boundaries, for example state boundaries? Remarkably, this is not always the case! See senseable.mit.edu for more visualizations and information. Team MIT senseable city lab Carlo Ratti group director Franscesco Calabrese project leader Dominik Dahlem Xiaoji Chen ATT Labs - Research Alexandre Gerber DeDe Paul Christoper Rath James Rowland