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Android Radio Remote Control

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 8th, 2009

My friend and DailyWireless co-founder Don Park (twitter feed) shows how he uses a remote control application on an Android phone to wirelessly control streaming audio.

Very cool, Don!
BTW, my 90 year-old mom loves her streaming internet tabletop radio. She can’t get off the air reception, but now listens to her favorite big band, classical and [...]

10 Best Android Apps of 2008

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 1st, 2009

The Android Market is still tiny compared to the iPhone but Analysts Medialets says the top Android apps based on downloads, rating, and number of comments are a slightly limited mix of games, social networking, and audio tools.

The top Android apps based on downloads, rating, and number of comments are:

Pac-Man by Namco:
PAC-MAN is available [...]

Nokia: World’s Largest Computer Maker

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

Nokia has become the world’s largest computer maker, says Tomi T Ahonen, author of Communities Dominate Brand. And not by its sales of all phones, only by counting smartphones.
“If you accept the premise that smartphones are computers, (as Nokia calls the N-Series or as Apple calls the iPhone), then the numbers are clear, says analyist [...]

iPhone Dominates Mobile WiFi Advertising

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 22nd, 2008

AdMob’s November 2008 Mobile Metrics Report says iPhone requests grew 52% month to month, reaching a total of 359 million. This in turn gave iPhone 6.3% of total requests or 9.9% of U.S.-based requests.

Apple had an astounding 78.5 percent of the Wi-Fi activity on mobile devices for November, reports AdMob. Some 42% of [...]

Android G2 Rumors

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 22nd, 2008

Android G2 Rumors Blaze, reports PC World.
The Boy Genius Report says the new smartphone running the Open Handset Alliance (Android) operating system was rumored to be available somewhere between late February and April.
The specs for the G2 are reportedly almost the same as the G1 with some notable exceptions.

The G2 will not have a [...]

Samsung Android: 2nd Quarter

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 19th, 2008

Samsung will release its first Google phone in the second quarter of the next year via Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA, say industry insiders. The Google phone will feature the Google Map based location information service, messenger G-Talk, the G-mail application and Google Search.
Sprint organized a task force team a year ago to develop [...]

Netbook Tablets: Coming Soon

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 16th, 2008

Laptop Magazine says Intel’s new Convertible Classmate, a tablet-PC like device, will live alongside its clamshell Classmate PC (also known as the CTL 2go PC).

The Convertible Classmate will apparently make its debut at the upcoming CES in January. The convertible features a 8.9-inch swivel screen that can be operated by touch. The [...]

Netbooks Outsell iPhone

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 10th, 2008

Netbooks are now more popular than the iPhone, says the Washington Post. In recent months the form factor has become so popular sales figures are rivaling Apple’s iPhone, according to sales data.
The latest smartphone sales numbers from market researcher Gartner says 4.7 million iPhones were shipped in Q3 2008.
By comparison netbook sales numbers from [...]

Open Handset Alliance: 14 New Members

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 9th, 2008

The Open Handset Alliance announced today that 14 additional companies have joined the founding members, supporting Android as an open mobile platform. The Google-inspired Open Source Project runs T-Mobile’s G1, and soon will be on a variety of other platforms.
The new members are: AKM Semiconductor, ARM, ASUSTek, Atheros, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin, Huawei, Omron Software, Softbank, [...]

Fire Eagle: Now With Location-tagged Semantic Data

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 8th, 2008

Fire Eagle is a Yahoo!-owned service that acts as a ‘clearinghouse’ for a user’s geo location information. Other services and applications can update or access this information via the Fire Eagle API, having first obtained the user’s permission.
Fire Eagle is not a social network. It is designed to make it possible for any [...]