Archive for February, 2007
3DConnexion SpaceNavigator
Finally a worthy alternative to the good old mouse in the age of Google Earth and Second Life? Found at the Google Earth Blog: The 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator 3D mouse!
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Yet another one of my growing bullet lists – updated over time to provide you with the most up-to-date information My personal overview of GPS-enabled mobile phones on the market: HTC Advantage. Almost a UMPC with Win Mobile 5, a 624MHz processor and QWERTY keyboard. UMTS/HSDPA, WiFi and GPS built-in. Also known as the T-Mobile […]
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When I recently searched for different combinations and permutations of the words ‘ajax’, ‘framework’, ‘library’, ‘comparison’, ‘matrix’, etc. Google didn’t really return anything that made me particularly happy. For that reason (and because I need a place to store my personal notes): here comes my own incomplete list of AJAX frameworks! This post is going […]
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Virtual World Advertising
There’s an article on TechCrunch two days ago about Google’s acquisition of in-game advertising company Adscape Media, who specialize in delivering live advertisment in 3D video games. The interesting part is the last sentence… This is an interesting development considering Google’s acquisition of Sketchup and suspected virtual world in the works. Looks as if Google […]
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WikiVienna in the Media
WikiVienna is one of the projects I’m currently involved with. Essentially, the project combines image-based 3D reconstruction and the “location based social application” concept to create a collaborative multimedia information system for the city of Vienna. (Sounds strange enough?) Even though we have just started a few weeks ago, we’ve already received quite a bit […]
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Second Life in J2ME
Just a quick note: Comverse will be demoing a J2ME client for 2ndLife at 3GSM in Barcelona next week, as Reuter’s Second Life News Center reports. Apparently, the work was started well before the open-sourcing of the 2nd Life client.
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smart2go Available
Just a few days after Google’s release of the GPS-enabled Google Maps for Windows Mobile, Nokia announced today that it will make the smart2go navigation and mapping software available as a free download. According to the original press release, the set release date for S60 and Windows Mobile 5.0 is in two days (this Saturday, […]
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Wii News Channel
Nintendo has added geo-browsing for news articles to the Wii! Lots of videos can already be found on YouTube – like this one, for example: Some more screenshots can be found e.g. on Gizmodo.
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Google Maps for Windows Mobile
Google has released a Windows Mobile version of Google Maps for Mobile yesterday! Look, feel and speed are just as you’d expect, giving an excellent overall user experience. The best part: the application supports devices with built-in GPS, which makes it a lot more useful on gadgets like my FujitsuSiemens PocketLoox N560. As expected, using […]
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MIDlet Signing by Mihai Preda
Mihai Preda has a great article on MIDlet Signing featured on this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists. Check it out to learn about the ugly details of how MIDlet signing works and why no-one is doing it – unless there’s a really good reason (like e.g. getting access to the Nokia 3220′s otherwise restricted Fun […]
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