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Android Apps, Alive!

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 22nd, 2008

Besides mobile voice communications, what do you get with a $179, G-1 phone? Lots of free stuff! Check out the winners in Google’s Developer Challenge. Here are PC World’s 15 favorite applications and Read/Write Web’s top ten.

There are already over 50 apps available at the Android Market. The applications include multimedia, location-based tools, barcode [...]

NPR Captions Election Coverage

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 22nd, 2008

National Public Radio’s “Election 2008” coverage will offer nine hours of live streaming and multimedia capabilities on November 4, from 8:00PM to 5:00AM (ET). The network will have reporters positioned with the campaigns and in more than two dozen sites around the country.

NPR’s coverage of the general election will include live streaming, blogging, interactive [...]

iPhone: Money Machine

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 22nd, 2008

Less than two years after saying it would enter the business, Apple now says it is the third-biggest maker of cellphones in the world by revenue, after Nokia and Samsung. And it sold more phones than Research In Motion, the maker of the iconic BlackBerry, says the NY Times.
Apple sold 6.9 million 3G iPhones in [...]

Clearwire: Show Us the Money

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2008

It’s not “show friends.” It’s show *business*.
– Jerry Macquire

Ben Wolff, CEO of Clearwire, recently told USA Today that by the end of 2009, WiMax will be available to 60 million to 80 million US consumers and by 2010 they expect 140 million will be able to get the signal.
Sprint’s Xohm mobile broadband service [...]

Open Warfare: Android Vrs Symbian

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2008

Google said today that it has released the code behind the Android operating system as open source, a day before the Android-based T-Mobile G1 phone is scheduled to go on sale.

The Open Handset Alliance includes some 34-members including phone manufacturers like HTC, Motorola, Samsung, LG Electronics and recently Kyocera and carriers like T-Mobile, Sprint [...]

DeviceScape: Seamless VoIP Handsets

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 20th, 2008

Today Devicescape announced its Devicescape Easy Wi-Fi for Handsets solution will enable Fujitsu to provide enterprise-level security and roaming access using the Fujitsu F1100 Smartphone.
Devicescape software maintains a WiFi connection on different access points automatically. The Fujitsu F1100 is distributed by NTT DoCoMo, a leading Japanese telecom operator, and is aimed at enterprise [...]

Motorola’s Android: 2nd Quarter 09

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 20th, 2008

Motorola has been showing spec sheets and images of their Android phone to carriers around the world in the past two months, says Business Week, and is likely to introduce the handset in the U.S. sometime in the second quarter of 2009.
It takes some of the design cues from Motorola’s Krave ZN4 (right), the [...]

Downmarket Mobile Streaming

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 17th, 2008

Qik, the mobile live streaming service, is now available on mass market Java ME phones. Java 2 Micro Edition (aka J2ME), is often used for creating games for cell phones, and can be emulated on a PC during the development stage

Qik is now live in alpha on the following phones.
Nokia S40 Phones:

Nokia 5300

Nokia 6300

Nokia [...]

WhereCampPDX Unconference

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 17th, 2008

WhereCampPDX, a free conference focusing on all things geographical, is being held at the Souk office center in the Old Town neighborhood of Portland, Oregon on Oct 17-18.
It’s an unconference, modeled after O’Reilly’s WhereCamp and planned by the participants. Everyone gathers together, plans sessions, and have break-outs. It kicks-off with an art opening [...]

G1 Reviews

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 16th, 2008

On Oct. 22, T-Mobile and Google bring out the G1, the first hand-held computer that’s in the same class as Apple’s iPhone. Just days after going on pre-sale the G1 sold out, which sent T-Mobile scrambling to place more orders.
The amount of units pre-sold is reported to be around 1.5 million. It took 74 [...]