Google’s Sergey Brin estimated that “iPhone users do 30 times as many mobile web searches as users of other devices,” reports Search Engine Watch. Google anticipates search volume will increase as the iPhone and other sophisticated devices encourage mobile search.
As Search Engine Watch explains, “Mobile phones offer less space for mobile advertising. That’s offset by [...]
Picture Phoning [via Engadget] says Walkers have swallowed RFID pills for science:
Researchers at Radboud University in The Netherlands were able to monitor the body temperature of participants at the world’s largest marching event using RFID technology. Volunteer participants in the annual Four Days Marches of Nijmegen swallowed an RFID-based temperature sensor that measured their [...]
Venture Beat notes that a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near Los Angeles this morning. It choked phone calls, not Twitter, says C/Net.
Well before the information was anywhere on the major news outlets, tweets (Twitter messages) were flowing in at a rapid clip. I say again, events such as this showcase the power of [...]
With open source firmware an ordinary Wi-Fi router can get a new brain. You can create a wireless distribution system (WDS) or a mesh network, run a VPN or VoIP server, manage a hotspot RADIUS server, manage bandwidth use per protocol, control traffic shaping and other features.
DD-WRT (wiki and Wikipedia) is among the most popular, [...]
Today Amimon, Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony announced the formation of the WHDI working group with the goal of establishing the WHDI standard for Wireless HDTV connections. The group’s intention is to complete the new standard in 2008.
WHDI operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band (FAQ) to enable robust wireless delivery of “uncompressed” HD video [...]
In the pointless rumor department, MacDailyNews says an Apple tablet could be coming this October.
Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS.
Sounds like a wish list.
Michael Harrington has his own; We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For [...]
The $250 CherryPal C-100, new “green” PC, consumes only 2 watts of power, compared with the 100 watts of some desktops. It is designed for “cloud computing“.
For software, the device ships with the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, Apple iTunes, a CherryPal-branded media player and instant messaging client. The computer’s OS, open source Debian Linux, is inaccessible [...]
It’s all about the mobile phone. That’s the message to advertisers clamoring to reach teens, because that’s where they’re spending their time, reports C/Net. What’s more, teens wield an estimated $200 billion annually in discretionary spending.
Fuse, a marketing agency based in Vermont, talked in recent weeks to senior technology executives from companies such as Sony, [...]
South Korea’s SK Telecom and U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel are in preliminary talks to form a strategic partnership to develop new handsets and services, says the Wall Street Journal.
The companies have discussed the idea of SK Telecom making a minority investment in Sprint, but they aren’t discussing an outright merger, according to the story. [...]
Last Friday, OpenMoko launched its highly anticipated FreeRunner smartphone, a Linux-based handset that’s completely open in both hardware and software last week. This week, developers are getting their first hands-on (Google News).
Half the requests for the OpenMoko are from universities, who use the device in embedded-design and open source programming courses, says Information Week.
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