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Archive for the 'Applications' Category

iPhone Apps May Cost $30K

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2008

Raven Zachary, the Open Source Research Director for The 451 Group, has a cold splash of reality for anyone who thinks they have a great idea for an iPhone application. At O’Reilly Digital Media’s Inside iPhone he posted the following tough love message about Turning Ideas Into iPhone Applications:

“I have an idea for an [...]

Nokia’s Futuristic Research

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2008

Venture Beat reviews some envisioneering projects from Nokia Research Labs in Palo Alto, California. They include a bunch of next-generation technologies that are genuinely innovative, including phones that can tell us what we’re looking at and devices that morph their forms from watch to tablet to phone as needed.
Henry Tirri, senior vice president and head [...]

Vehicle Tracking Saves Money

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2008

Wireless Week says technology companies such as TeleNav and WebTech Wireless have seen a jump in revenue because of enterprise interest in using location-based services (LBS) and telematics services.
WebTech, which has headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, reported a 36% increase in year-over-year revenue through July.
Home Depot is using TeleNav Track to monitor its home [...]

Mercedes myCOMAND

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2008

At the LA Auto Show, Mercedes showed off their Web-Connected myComand, which takes on BMW’s iDrive.
One big difference is that myCOMAND is connected to the web, grabbing information wirelessly and presenting it through their own on-screen apps, explains Gizmodo.

It features:

Off-board navigation: The GPS is constantly updated, from the maps to the points of interests. [...]

T-Mobile + Yahoo OneSearch

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 20th, 2008

T-Mobile USA and Yahoo are introducing Web2go across T-Mobile’s portfolio of phones. Web2go makes it easier to view and navigate the Web with a customizable home page and a simplified experience.
With web2go, customers can create a personalized home page and visit virtually the entire Internet from their mobile phone. Yahoo! oneSearch powers mobile Internet searches, [...]

Flash Coming to Android

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 20th, 2008

Adobe has made its Flash technology compatible with the Android smartphone operating system developed by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demonstrated Flash Player 10 running on Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Android platforms — but no iPhone. But Adobe is working on it, he said.
Andy Rubin, Google’s director of mobile platforms, [...]

Wireless Flash Triggers

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 19th, 2008

I follow The Strobist, a blog about using speedlights, by photographer David Hobby. He works for the Baltimore Sun. I admired a photo of a Xohm technician shot in Baltimore without realizing he shot the picture. Here’s how it was done:

In a situation like this, shooting in manual is probably gonna make more sense than [...]

WiMAX Rapid Deployment Kits

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 18th, 2008

Alvarion today announced that it is creating WiMAX Zone Rapid Deployment Kits (RDKs) to enable quick and easy deployment of broadband services in small to medium sized emerging markets. Together with Alvarion, Intel plans to promote these RDKs at AfricaCom, a telecommunications conference (press releases).
The solution has been created in conjunction with the Intel’s World [...]

Open Street Map on iPhone

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 14th, 2008

If you are a fan of Open Street Map you will be thrilled to learn that there is now an iPhone App that allows you to record your tracks and upload them directly, says Aidworker Daily. OSMTrack is only $0.99.
OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It allows anyone to [...]

Google Voice Recognition on iPhone

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 14th, 2008

Google has created an app for the iPhone that will give the handset advanced voice recognition, reports John Markoff from the NY Times. Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, [...]