Proximity Interactive Networks Inc. (“PIN”) is an out-of-home media company which is committed to delivering high value services to mobile devices. Our services focus on the delivery of mobile media and mobile content to mobile devices and cell phones. By focusing on the converging demands of digital marketing and outdoor advertising our services can accommodate interactive media, mobile media, digital content and mobile content. Our services bring enhanced value to outdoor advertising or outdoor media campaigns, as well as, other out-of-home mobile needs. By continuing to acquire and develop ‘best-in-class’ hardware and software PIN will continue to enhance and operate its mobile network which provides interactive proximity services for mobile devices. Its premiere interactive network is PinSpot.

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Régine Debatty (BE/DE) studied Classics in Belgium and England, worked as a teacher of Latin and ancient Greek, then moved to media, working as a documentary director for the Belgian national TV, as a reporter for the radio Onda Cero in Spain then as a consultant for the MEDIA programme of the European Commission in Italy.

She’s now a full-time blogger, a new media art curator and she writes about the intersection between art, design and technology on we-make-money-not-art.com as well as on design and art magazines such as Art Review (UK). She also speaks at conferences and festivals about artists, hackers and interaction designers (mis)use of technology.

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UMBRELLA.net is a project exploring transitory or ad-hoc networks and their potential for causing sudden, striking, and unexpected connections between people in public and urban space. The project focuses on the theme of “networks of coincidence”, or how shared, yet disconnected activities can be harnessed into collective experiences. UMBRELLA.net examines how the haphazard and unpredictable patterns of weather and crowd formation can act as an impetus to examine coincidence of need networks. In particular, when umbrellas are opened and closed in public space. The project will attempt to highlight these informal relationships by creating a system of ad-hoc network nodes that can spontaneously form and dissipate based on weather conditions.

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AirG is the global leader in powering mobile communities and wireless social networking. AirG’s mobile community has more than 15 million unique users worldwide and is interconnected to more than 85 mobile operators and media companies globally including Sprint Nextel, AT&T (Cingular), Rogers, TELUS, Virgin Mobile, Orange, Boost Mobile, Vodafone and MTV Asia. With more than 2 billion users worldwide, the mobile phone has proven to be a viable platform for bringing mobile users together in interactive communities, and with multiple access points including voice, video, SMS, MMS, WAP, Java, BREW and i-mode, AirG’s community solutions are commercially available across every wireless technology.

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using a phone with Bluetooth, you can create a phonebook contact and write a message, eg. ‘Hello, you’ve been bluejacked’, in the ‘Name’ field. Then you can search for other phones with Bluetooth and send that phonebook contact to them. On their phone, a message will popup saying “‘Hello, you’ve been bluejacked’ has just been received by Bluetooth” or something along those lines. For most ‘victims’ they will have no idea as to how the message appeared on their phone. So, personalised messages like ‘I like your pink top’ and the startled expressions that result is where the fun really starts.

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Send messages for free and meet people with your mobile phone

Today, with MobiLuck you can already:
* Detect all nearby Bluetooth devices. Your cell phone rings or vibrates when it finds one.
* Send messages and photos for free to friends or strangers with no need of their phone numbers.
* Hear when you receive a Bluetooth message and reply to the sender!
* Send your profile and receive profiles from other MobiLuckers including their photo.

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The Jabberwocky application allows individuals to view the ebb and flow of their urban landscape in truly unique ways. Image a device that could display some measure of “familiarity” of people and places. How might such a device be used?

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