Pixie Hunt is a mobile location based game from Microsoft making a debut at next weeks Where 2.0 conference . Various teams armed with a Cingular phone, a GPS puck and a Flickr account will compete. As the term  "scavenger hunt" imples, the goal is  to photograph certain tasks such as " a man in a scarf" and upload the pictures to Flickr along with the software's geo tagging functionality. The team with the hightest score wins, explains the O'Reilly Radar.

As World Cup 2006 kicked off today, Mobhappy - that essential source of all things goodie and mobile, reported on a fun and inventive group mobile blogging project taking place courtesy of some German firemen. Essentially, any shots or video captured while on duty, will be shared on a collective blog and also made available on Flickr. Sounds cool doesn't it? 

PDX.cn is a leading Chinese mobile content portal started by Marcus Xiang, Jack Wang and Dirk Ye in 2004. Today, the company boasts over 100,000 mobloggers from an active community of two million users and continues to fucus its strategy on handheld created content. Pacific Epoch interviewed the founders for their thoughts on the mobile blogging community in China, its business models and limiting factors.

Nokia announced today that future S60 Symbian phones wil feature an open source browser. Incorporating Apple's technolgy and  developed under a generous BSD licence, the browser opens up many venues for developes small and large alike to hop on board. So far, response from the community has been overly positive as our snag from the Comeks photostream shows.

World Cup 2006 in Germany this summer will feaure mobizines by Refresh Mobile . Subscribers in the UK and other countries will be able to contribute latest news images and commentary directly from their phones while receiving content back in the form of special mobile zines or "mobizines." For a small fee, the phones will download the latest editions and subscribers will be able to interact with content as it arrives. All input will be generated via mobile devices making it a "first" for mobile blogging and sports.

Ever since cell devices first appeared people have been crying foul over the radiation levels associated with them and possilbe health risks. Although no firm linkage to cancer or other ill effects has been established people (including me) do pounce on such listing when they are released. CNET , recently published this list with the ever popular Motorola Slvr V6 topping. Happy reading!

Bandwidth or lack of, is one of the biggest hurdles to mobile blogging - especially as faster networks and multimedia capable phones keep coming online. Fractus, the Spanish based aerial components firm has created a new 3D based antenna which greatly enhances a phones signal optimization. Called BandXpand the technology is available to providers and designers today.

Helio charges ahead with MySpace and Facebook access on it's trendy new phones, Mobispine allows MMS and SMS like posting with mimimal costs while new products are solving J2ME limitations which hinder the "killer" phone app. Yes, says MIT Technology Review - it's a great time to be a mobile blogger. As more people obtain multimedia capable phones, it's only natural to edit and upload digital information directly from them, bypassing the computer and phone lines in the process.

Saw this on Textually.org and it's posted here for viewing pleasure only! Phonies are cell phone mascots created by Frank Skyes. Essentially a stuffed animal glued to your phone, it helped his sister distinguish her "real" mobile from all the toys her kids spread across the house.  People commented on the new accessory so the "phonie" was born! Textually filed this under "silly" and we don't even have a category for it so enjoy! A phone accessory for ultra trendy bloggers perhaps.

Nokia released a new S60 podcasting application a few days ago but upon trial it seems the application is more of an aggregator than an actual encoder and uploader says Engadget.  Still, others see it as a step in the right direction. Early views indicate the ability to preview and bookmark podcasts and share them over bluetooth.