Research In Motion officially announced the BlackBerry Storm today, RIM’s first touchscreen cell phone, designed to compete with the iPhone. Engadget, Phone Scoop and Crackberry have reviews. Verizon Wireless will carry the device as well as Vodafone - so no WiFi.
New developer tools from RIM include a BlackBerry Java Development Environment and desktop [...]
Maritime Communications/Land Mobile (MCLM) has entered into an exclusive relationship with Spectrum Bridge to list their VHF spectrum portfolio on SpecEx, an online marketplace for spectrum.
Spectrum Bridge, a privately held Florida company, is creating a real-time online marketplace for radio spectrum. The Company says their online clearinghouse will enable a mass market for [...]
You’re looking at the BlackBerry Application Center, says TechCrunch. It’s RIM’s answer to Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market.
The Application Center is set to debut with the BlackBerry Storm software version 4.7. RIM has created its own store, says the Boy Genius Report.
The BlackBerry Application Center features:
The Application Center will be [...]
Rick Turoczy’s Oregon-centric Silicon Florist is a must read in these parts. West Coast cities (Seattle, Portland, Bay Area and San Diego) have always been hot beds of mobile development.
But Portland has a large base of Open Source developers (Linus Torvalds lives here), and it has Intel’s largest workforce (some 17,000 people). Soon the [...]
Motorola today announced a new in-vehicle/fixed mount mobile computer. The new VC6096 mobile computer provides wireless voice and data capabilities for transportation and logistics providers.
The unit’s digital and analog ports can interact with the vehicle’s engine management computer (usually called Electronic Control Unit, or ECU), onboard machinery, or any type of sensor. It runs [...]
Nokia’s “Apple iPhone killer” touch-screen phone is expected to be unveiled today. Nokia’s “Tube” will feature a sleeker design than the T-Mobile G1 device and is expected to be packed with a variety of services and applications supplied by Nokia.
Analysts say the market has been waiting for Nokia to respond to Apple for 18 [...]
Chipmaker Broadcom, announced today that it will add Wi-Fi positioning to its portfolio of services. Broadcom will integrate, deploy and offer the Wi-Fi Positioning System developed by Skyhook Wireless which determines position by trianglulatng nearby cell towers rather than satellite-based GPS.
Their Assisted-GPS Server tracks satellites and provides GPS position data, eliminating the time [...]
Mark Gorton, founder of the Open Planning Project says city congestion can be solved relatively easily with web-enabled phones. His Internet-based transit networking system groups riders together based on starting locations and destinations. It’s an idea Gorton calls “Smart Para-Transit”.
“Currently you have lots of people making very similar trips in private automobiles. Now, [...]
We are drawn by desire - a chance at good living, yet we are consciously or unconsciously aware that the world is suffering for our success. — Edward Burtynsky
The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container [...]
Google has announced a new version of its Google Maps for Mobile software that includes support for Street View, as well as walking directions and reviews of businesses. Google said the new version is faster too.
Street View provides a ground-level, driver’s-eye view of the world. Now pedestrians can use it, too — at least on [...]
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