Ive caught his eye as a student with an ambitious prototype phone.
The characters in Joan Silber's first collection of short stories, IN MY OTHER LIFE (Sarabande, cloth, $21.95; paper, $13.95), are almost all New Yorkers, but not the self-absorbed, ambitious, cell-phone-toting kind.
The increased predominance of mobile devices not to mention our clingy dependence on them—has sparked a boom of ambitious apps for phones and tablets that are case studies for storytelling in the "digital age". .
Except for certain details (no Google searches, no email, no cell phones), ambitious fiction from 20 years ago (Doug Coupland's Generation X, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Martin Amis's Time's Arrow) is in no way dated, and the sensibility and style of Joan Didion's books from even 20 years before that seem plausibly circa-2012".
Movie tickets are just the first of a long line of products that could be offered over mobile phones, according to ambitious plans by Ericsson and regional phone companies.
This week Comcast, America's biggest cable firm, announced an ambitious plan to offer phone service to all subscribers by the end of 2006.
However, we think what we are announcing — the Open Handset Alliance and Android — is more significant and ambitious than a single phone.
And for you strident mobile camera nerds, the 1020 is said to sport optical image stabilization, a feature that didn't even make it into the phone's ambitious (and chubby) ancestor.
Enter Windows 8, Microsoft's ambitious move to unite phones, computers and tablets.
And as we hear it, Google initially had even more ambitious plans for the Nexus phones — how does a $99 unlocked Android phone sound?
