Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
There’s a great post over at the 01 blog. Already put it on my shared Google Reader feed (which, just by the way, is a highly recommendable source of information ), but thought I’d also dedicate a short post on my own blog since the original post’s in German. In his post, the author Sascha […]
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Garmin nüvifone
Just in time for the Congress formerly known as 3GSM: Personal navigation products manufacturer Garmin has announced in a press release this week the nüvifone – a GPS-enabled 3.5G smartphone. Release 3rd quarter 2008. Maps and POI data preloaded for North America, Eastern and Western Europe (I always considered Austria Central Europe – hey!); spoken […]
Filed under: 3GSM, Gadgets, Garmin, Geek, Geography, Geospatial Web, Google, GPS, Mobile, Mobile World Congress, nuvifone, Technology | Leave a Comment
My thesis is keeping me away from blogging – and even reading blogs – and will most likely continue to do so until January (after which my new job will most likely keep me from blogging…), but this just has to be posted: Clever guys from Medallia figured out the access to the iPhone’s accelerometer […]
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J2ME Porting – Part II
1ft Startup has released the second part of their article on J2ME Porting: Entertaining a crowd, part 2. Testing’s the topic this time. Recommended!
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State of the Mobile Web
Great article on the W3C‘s Mobile Web Initiative Team Blog ‘MWI: Leading Mobile Web Access to Its Full Potential‘. W3C Deputy Director Philipp Hoschka compiles major facts and figures on the current state of the mobile Web. Some snippets: About 1.7 billion mobile phones (out of the approx. total of 2.7 billion) have browsing capability […]
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Google Earth Football
Another great mini-game for Google Earth! Developed by Google Earth Hacks: Google Earth Football. The game is played inside a virtual KML stadium and it makes cool use of network links and a radioFolder menu to control the game moves. (There’s also a quick run-down of how the the game works internally for the nosy […]
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If you’re a developer who gets to play around with mobile gadgets and high-end smartphones a lot (or, well, frequently enough at least – like myself) it’s easy to get excited over the stuff you can do with those things nowadays: realtime 3D graphics, integrated GPS, animated SVG user interfaces, Flash, you name it. Despite […]
Filed under: Development, FON, FONFinder, Geek, Geospatial Web, LBS, Location, Maphacking, Mashups, Phone, SMS, Technology, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment
CEO on Local Web Applications
Couldn’t agree more with this post by C. Enrique Ortiz ‘The Future of Web Applications is Local‘ (no, not in the location-based/local-search kind-of sense – though I personally believe that the future of mobile Web apps is local in that sense as well – but in the running-locally/offline kind-of sense recently made possible on the […]
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And Another Project Done…
Once again a post on my own account: Had a really nice closing event for the Creative Histories project yesterday with an interested audience and well-behaved demo hard- and software. On the photo you can see me, showing off the coolness of our orientation-sensor-driven 3D graphics UI to the press while my colleague & friend […]
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Found via mobileajax.de: the ExpertOn Group’s 10 trends in mobile business. The text is German, sorry (at least my browser was automatically directed to a german version; but you can always try the Google translation for some fun). Noteworthy: Trend 1: Social Mobile Networks (ahm.. should probably be ‘Mobile Social Networks’; or will mobile networks […]
Filed under: Business, LBS, Location, Marketing, Mashups, Mobile, Mobile Social Networks, Phone, Second Life, Technology, Web, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment
