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2010년 9월 28일 화요일
4 Ways to Attend Meetings On Your iPad
When Apple's iPad launched in April, it was marketed primarily as a consumer device for reading, playing games and viewing media. But as the tablet computer's popularity has grown, so too has its usefulness in other arenas, including business.
One of the many business needs met by the 900-app strong "Business" category in the App Store is the ability to attend online meetings. The device is particularly well-suited to attending meetings on the go, with its large screen for viewing the presentation and microphone and speakers for VoIP-based discussions.
2010년 9월 27일 월요일
Apple TV Preparing to Ship, Apps on the Way?
Steve Jobs promised the second-generation Apple TV, announced at the last Apple event, would ship within four weeks. This being the fourth week, it’s not surprising to see reports appearing citing charges to credit cards, which suggests shipments are imminent.
Just a fifth the size of the previous model, the new Apple TV dispenses with a 160GB mechanical drive and Pentium CPU, in favor of a rumored 16GB of flash and the Apple A4. It will also be running iOS, but is not currently capable of accessing the App Store.
However, Steve Jobs did tell Businessweek that “when the time is right, Apple could open an App Store for the TV.” That careful non-confirmation has recently been buttressed by an obscure profile at LinkedIn. As reported by MacRumors, the profile describes the position of an intern as an “Apple TV Apps Engineer.”
Perhaps the inevitable jailbreaking of the new Apple TV will turn up evidence of software hooks for the App Store, but even if it doesn’t, new functionality includes Netflix streaming, at least for U.S., and now Canadian subscribers. Additionally, AirPlay will allow computer and iOS device owners to stream music, photos, and video to the new Apple TV.
Sensor Networks Top Social Networks for Big Data
With the firehose of information enabled by Facebook, Twitter, location-based services, and other forms of social media, the era of Big Data is upon us. However, outside of the consumer world, the stakes are much higher: While advertisers and consumers are focused on monetizing sites that have hundreds of millions of users for a few pennies each, the ubiquity of connectivity and the growth of sensors has opened up a larger storehouse of information that will not only help businesses profit, but will also boost safety and enable environmental benefits.
For example, a Boeing jet generates 10 terabytes of information per engine every 30 minutes of flight, according to Stephen Brobst, the CTO of Teradata. So for a single six-hour, cross-country flight from New York to Los Angeles on a twin-engine Boeing 737 — the plane used by many carriers on this route — the total amount of data generated would be a massive 240 terabytes of data. There are about 28,537 commercial flights in the sky in the United States on any given day. Using only commercial flights, a day’s worth of sensor data quickly climbs into the petabyte scale — for a single day. Multiply that by weeks, months and years, and the scale of sensor data gets massive.
The iPad and the Rise of the Keyboard Case
The slow trickle that will become a flood has begun, as Keyboard cases for Apple’s iPad begin to appear here and there alongside more traditional offerings. The idea is simple: build a Bluetooth keyboard right into a case designed to protect and carry the iPad, and you’ve got yourself a total netbook replacement in a single, svelte package. It’s a watershed moment for the iPad, and for tablets in general.
The First Crop
The ClamCase was one of the first out of the gate with the concept, but they haven’t been able to make the leap to actually producing units yet. ClamCase’s creators have pegged Fall 2010 as the timeframe for actually shipping the hard-shell keyboard case, but no concrete details have emerged.
Two other more recent competitors look poised to beat them out the gate in terms of putting devices into the hands of actual consumers. The first is the Sena Keyboard Folio, a high-end leather option retailing for $149.99 ($129.99 if you pre-order), and the second is the very similar Kensington KeyFolio, which trades real leather for faux, and retails for much less at $99.99. Neither has actually come to market, but both are available for pre-order.
Target to Sell iPads Starting October
Target will soon become the neighborhood electronics store with the addition of all six models of the Apple iPad in stores. The models will start at $499 (the same pricing as Apple’s online and brick and mortar stores) and will join the Kindle at the nation’s second-largest discount chain. The move to sell iPads is good for both Apple and Target, as the exposure to the devices will be significant given the chain’s foot traffic.
The retail giant will handle the entire iPad line, consisting of 16, 32 and 64GB versions of both the Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/ 3G models. Executives have pointed out that the tablets from Apple are elegible for Target’s 5 percent discount for store credit-card holders, making them cheaper than buying elsewhere. The appearance of the iPad and the Kindle in Target is good exposure to technology products for the average Joe who might never see them otherwise. The vast majority of the population has never seen these gadgets in person, and they’re often best appreciated when tried in the hand; gadgets can intimidate some folks by their very nature, so having them in a familiar setting may be just the ticket to get registers to ring.
http://jkontherun.com/2010/09/24/target-to-sell-ipads-starting-october/
The New Apple Model: Cheap Player, Expensive Remote
What’s the real price of admission for the new Apple TV? How about $300 U.S., give or take, not the $99 it says on the box? That’s factoring in the cost of the entry-level iPod touch, which is the least Apple is hoping you’ll be buying in addition to its new living room media player. They say marijuana is a gateway drug; meet Apple’s new innocuous gateway gadget.
The key to Apple TV’s addictive potential? Another recently introduced Apple product, albeit one that’s harder to put a price tag on. It’s AirPlay, the re-imagined AirTunes successor that allows Apple’s iOS devices (as of version 4.2, due in November) to stream video or audio content to the Apple TV, and therefore, to your connected home stereo or television.
Consumers Like Mobile "Crapware," Says New Study
Pre-loaded mobile applications - the so-called "junk" apps (aka "crapware") that come pre-installed on mobile handsets - aren't as despised as you might think. At least that's the finding of a new study of American consumers by iGR Research. The market strategy consultancy discovered that pre-installed applications actually factor into the buying decisions of smartphone owners, even more so than those available for download from a mobile application store. And worse, the majority of consumers actually like them.
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As someone who's personally frustrated by the "un-deleteable" mobile applications that came pre-loaded on our household's new Android phone, everything about this study rubs me the wrong way. Don't believe the hype, it says, pre-loaded applications matter to consumers.
The company also notes that jailbreaking is not a widespread phenomenon. Only 5% of the survey respondents reported they had jailbroken or unlocked their phones, two terms referring to different types of hacks that allow users to have more control over their devices. It uses this statistic as proof of how little everyday consumers care about the restrictions placed on their phones.
3 Ways WiMax Will Affect Mobile App Development
WiMax promises faster speeds for a variety of mobile devices. With those faster speeds comes a number of impacts for the end user.
Engadget did a test this week in San Francisco to show just how fast we are talking about.
This series on wireless standards is brought to you by Intel.
Fast, huh?
Get a Clue: What do People Remember About Your Site?
You've invested good money in your web design, but do you know what your customers actually remember about your site? Clue, a new tool from Bay Area interaction design and design strategy firm ZURB, lets you create a 5-second interactive memory test that you can use to test what people remember about your product. The tool is available for free and you don't even have to log in to use it.
In a 5-second test, you get to see a website for 5 seconds and then you have to enter up to five things you remember about the screenshot you just saw. These tests are pretty common in usability studies and ZURB isn't the first company to offer a web-based version of this. FiveSecondTest.com, for example, offers more features than Clue, but it's also a paid service and you have to upload your own screenshots while Clue takes care of this for you.
With Clue, ZURB focused on making the creating of these test as easy to use as possible. To get started, you just have to enter the URL of the site you want to test. Clue will take a screenshot of the site and return a link that you can then give to your test subjects. As ZURB's lead marketer Dmitry Dragilev told us, the tool is mainly aimed at small businesses and mom and pop stores, as well as designers who want to quickly test an idea. Given that you can't password-protect your test results, though, you probably don't want to use it for confidential tests.
Children's Fantasy Novel Engages Readers with Augmented Reality
Writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi is the author of several young adult fantasy novels, including the popular series The Spiderwick Chronicles. Earlier this week, his latest book, The Search for WondLa hit bookshelves in U.S., and within it featured an interactive augmented reality experience readers could unlock using their Web browsers. The book, published by Simon & Schuster, is one of the first of its kind and could be a glimpse into how kids will enjoy reading in the future.
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The novel features special emblems on three of its pages which can be used to unlock the augmented reality experience. By holding the emblems infront of their webcam, readers will see a somewhat-interactive 3D map that helps them picture the world of the novel. Animations and sounds play automatically as the experience guides the user around the map.
"The publishing industry is moving rapidly into the digital age," says DiTerlizzi. "I see the integrated use of AR as an ideal bridge, enhancing what readers love best about story and narrative while tapping innovation and imagination, to bring forth entirely new experiences associated with the book."
2010년 9월 20일 월요일
An iPad App that Stays in Sync with Your TV
The days when TV viewers did nothing else while watching their favorite shows are long over. Instead, many viewers now multitask while watching TV and browse the Internet on their laptops, iPads and smartphones. Now, a new iPad app from ABC (iTunes link) wants to bridge this gap and turns the iPad into an interactive companion to the TV network's new "My Generation" series (a fake documentary) that will make its debut next week. The app uses the iPad's microphone to listen for audio cues from the TV and then displays relevant interactive content as every episode progresses.
While this is currently just an experiment focused on one show, it's not hard to image that TV networks could turn to similar apps for all of their programming.
The free My Generation Sync app will give users the ability to interact with the show by taking quizzes, for example. Viewers will also be able to access behind the scenes footage and bios of the show's characters. In addition, the app will also allow them to connect with other fans in real-time.
An App that Listens to Your TV
The app was developed on top of Nielsen's Media-Sync technology and uses the iPad's microphone to sync up with the show by listening for audio cues embedded in the show. Thanks to this, the app will also work when you are watching a time-delayed version of the show on your DVR, for example. The app will also display a limit set of information when it isn't synced with the show. For the full experience, though, users will need to use the app in parallel with the show.
Overall, this looks like a very interesting experiment. Even though it is currently limited to just one show, it will be interesting to see if other networks will launch similar apps. These apps will allow TV networks to draw viewers deeper into the show, while also getting them to focus more on ads (the networks have to make money after all). At the same time, this will also give the networks new analytics and a better idea of who their viewers are.
Will You Use these Apps?
Can you see yourself using apps like this? Do you want your iPad to stay in sync with the show you watch, or will you continue browsing the Web while watching the show instead of waiting for interactive content to show up on your iPad?
Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs
At today’'s roundtable, I started with a presentation on blue sky opportunities in cloud computing based on our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing (TLCC) research. I took the audience through five cloud-based business ideas, discussed why they are relevant and pointed them to the sources I derived those ideas from.
For you, readers, here they are:
1. Cloud-based collaboration among bio-medical researchers around large volumes of data
Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, CTO of Harvard Medical School discussed this idea with me recently. There is a tremendous amount of data sitting at various pockets that bio-medical researchers are trying to collaborate around. The data needs modeling, processing, visualization, etc. – all activities in the domain of computer science, not bio-medical sciences. There is also need for researchers at various institutes to collaborate around this data and models, all problems that point towards a cloud-based solution. An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. From cancer research to genomics, wide arrays of research areas are looking forward to your innovation.
2. Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval
Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. pointed me to the vast masses of paper archives sitting at law firms, waiting to be digitized, and archived in meaningful ways along with efficient retrieval capabilities. Law firms are looking for cloud solutions that include security, disaster recovery, and other goodies.
3. Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies
Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Now, let us say you are an enterprise that has rolled out a rather extensive private cloud, and all your divisions and business units are using it freely. How do you keep track of who is using how much of the resources? How do you account for the charge backs to the business units or functional areas? This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution.
4. Cloud-based flexible pricing solution for telecom vendors
Jim Dunlap, CIO of Alaska Telecom discussed with me the increasingly serious problem that telecom vendors are facing due to bandwidth consumption skyrocketing. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services.
But to keep up with the rate at which bandwidth consumption is scaling, telecom vendors almost certainly will need to adopt a variable pricing model, such that they can charge based on consumption, just as they charge for voice services. The utility industry charges based on how much energy or water is consumed, but the telecom industry assumes unlimited data usage for a fixed fee. Jim’'s interview with me (coming shortly) sheds light on why this will change, and how the infrastructure needs to adapt.
5. Cloud integration services around specific vendors
The Social Layer: Good for Google Apps but Not So Much for the Rest of Us
The enterprise community has been talking about the "social layer," for almost a year. It's the SaaS services such as Salesforce.com, Socialtext and Socialcast that have popularized the concept. Now the practice is entering a new phase.
The enterprise activity stream from SaaS services is flowing into consumer services such as Seesmic and Facebook. And now Google is looking at the social layer as the focal component of a service reportedly called Google Me that will surface activity across all Google products, including Google Apps.
The activity streams that surface information in the enterprise create a social layer that is valuable for the purposes of doing business. The activity stream in this context is a social aggregator. It works. In fact it woks far better than engaging in a pure social context.
The enterprise has always been averse to the concept of using social technologies. It stems from a concern that people should be working not using Twitter or other services to chat about the day. But the social aggregator is a different beast. Activity streams that surface information can help people do their work better, be smarter and more engaged.
The inverse is true for consumer grade social platforms. In the consumer world, the concept of the social aggregator has its passionate advocates but mainstream acceptance has been elusive. On the flip side, services such as Twitter do quite well as they provide what Fred Wilson calls "social intent." Twitter offers people a way to engage in a social context.
With Android in Hand, AT&T CEO Gushes About the Cloud
We ran across an interview excerpt with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson that will run in the Sunday print edition of the Dallas Morning News.
There are two interesting takeaways from the interview:
First, AT&T is taking a deep interest in the cloud. Stephenson talks about the networking deals it is winning by providing infrastructure to major cloud computing services.
And second, Stephenson spent the interview showing off the Android-powered Samsung Captivate he's currently using.
Here's what Stephenson had to say about cloud computng:
"A classic case would be Royal Dutch Shell, a big multinational company, and they have hundreds of thousands of people around the globe, and a lot of these big companies manage their own networking capabilities. They came to us and said, 'This stuff is changing fast, it's moving fast. Would you just take this and all of our people and just manage it for us?' We won that bid. We did the same thing with IBM. IBM's global network capability, we took thousands of their people onto our payroll, took over managing all of their networks, and bam, we do it much, much more efficiently.
2010년 9월 17일 금요일
iPhone Continues Losing Market Share to Android
Not even the iPhone 4 could stem the tide of Android, at least according to the latest rolling average for U.S. smartphone market share from analytics firm comScore.
, from 12 to 17 percent. In contrast, Apple, RIM, and Microsoft all saw decreases, 1.3, 1.8, and 2.2 points respectively, while beleaguered Palm somehow managed to remain flat.
2010년 9월 16일 목요일
Sensor Networks Top Social Networks for Big Data
With the firehose of information enabled by Facebook, Twitter, location-based services, and other forms of social media, the era of Big Data is upon us. However, outside of the consumer world, the stakes are much higher: While advertisers and consumers are focused on monetizing sites that have hundreds of millions of users for a few pennies each, the ubiquity of connectivity and the growth of sensors has opened up a larger storehouse of information that will not only help businesses profit, but will also boost safety and enable environmental benefits.
For example, a Boeing jet generates 10 terabytes of information per engine every 30 minutes of flight, according to Stephen Brobst, the CTO of Teradata. So for a single six-hour, cross-country flight from New York to Los Angeles on a twin-engine Boeing 737 — the plane used by many carriers on this route — the total amount of data generated would be a massive 240 terabytes of data. There are about 28,537 commercial flights in the sky in the United States on any given day. Using only commercial flights, a day’s worth of sensor data quickly climbs into the petabyte scale — for a single day. Multiply that by weeks, months and years, and the scale of sensor data gets massive.
Encoding: Cloud & Mobile Make a Perfect Match for Video
http://gigaom.com/2010/09/09/encoding-cloud-mobile-make-a-perfect-match-for-video/
Cloud and mobile computing represent two of the biggest technology trends today, with each pushing processing closer to the edge. Within the traditional data center infrastructure, we see the gravitational pull of public and private clouds. With desktop and laptop computing, we are gravitating to superphones in the palms of our hands. This shift to data stored in the cloud and accessed on handsets opens the gates to new market opportunities, including one we profiled in the past on hosted video encoding. In short, making video that is the optimal size for streaming and fits the display for all kinds of devices is tricky, so hosting that capability in the cloud is a no-brainer for many market segments.
Today, Denver-based Encoding.com announced a suite of “Mobile Made Easy” video presets which make the propagation of video content across mobile devices a simple click-and-go process for publishers, further solidifying the matchmaking of cloud and mobile. The company has consolidated the necessary settings for publishers to deliver video to a range of mobile devices including iPhone/iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and popular Samsung and Nokia phones. Where it used to take time to work through device specifications, supported audio and video formats, bit rates and screen sizes, customers can now click by device platform, bypassing the low-level video settings.
HP Buys ArcSight to Bring Security to the Cloud
Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy security software maker ArcSight for $1.5 billion in cash, as the computer giant tries to expand the range of services it offers corporate clients. Cupertino, Calif.-based ArcSight’s products are used by corporations and government agencies to detect suspicious activity on their networks. The purchase price represents a 24-percent premium to the software company’s trading price before the offer was made.
Analysts said the acquisition of ArcSight is part of HP’s move to offer more value-added services to corporations who are trusting an increasing amount of data to the cloud, whether it’s a cloud the company itself operates or one run by a number of SaaS providers. As VMWare CEO Paul Maritz said recently, this move places an increasing strain on security systems as data flows out of the corporate network and onto a variety of third-party platforms and mobile devices. In HP’s news release about the deal, HP VP Bill Veghte said “the perimeter of today’s enterprise is porous.”
What Happens to Nokia When Cheap Android Phones Arrive?
Nokia today introduced the new C3 Touch and Type handset, a relatively inexpensive S40 handset offering a touchscreen display and connectivity features often relegated to smartphones. Alcatel last week announced an even cheaper touchscreen handset with similar features, but the device runs the Google Android 2.1 operating system. With Symbian^3 and MeeGo, Nokia is clearly shunning the idea of going with Android for its future phones, but what happens when competing Android devices challenge Nokia’s dominance of the feature phone market?
It’s easy to say that comparing a top-notch hardware maker like Nokia to a budget brand like Alcatel isn’t comparing apples to apples. From the standpoint of overall quality and expertise of design, Nokia wins hands down, and the new C3 has a premium quality to it. However, I wonder if it will matter when inexpensive, “good enough” hardware running the Android operating system comes to market, just as Alcatel’s OT-980 will next month for €99 ($129 U.S.) on a pay as you go contract. By comparison, the impressive C3 will cost €145 in the fourth quarter of 2010. Both feature 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, memory card slots and touch displays.
The point here isn’t to say that the OT-980 will outsell the new C3; it certainly won’t, as Nokia’s global presence is sure to get the C3 in the hands of people all around the world. But the OT-980 is just one infantry soldier in the Android army onslaught that’s mustering for battle.
The number of Android devices sold by 2014 is expected to rival that of Nokia’s Symbian platform according to Gartner, and while the pundits and analysts can often be wrong, the consumer won’t care. The general public will see a cheaper outlay for comparable hardware, smartphone-like connectivity, and an app store. I’m still here at Nokia World feeling more positive about the overall strategy that Nokia has put forth, but the consumer side of me is concerned. Am I just being paranoid, or should Nokia worry about their longtime dominance in the lower end of the market?
Put Windows on Your iPhone or iPad With Parallels Mobile
Parallels Desktop 6 recently launched, and we were all over that with a review. Today, Parallels Mobile is live for the iPad/ iPhone/ iPod touch. Parallels Mobile lets you access any virtual machine running on your Mac with Parallels Desktop 6 over Wi-Fi or 3G. The app is free for the taking, but you need the desktop program for it to be of any use. The Parallels Mobile connection takes place using the Parallels server, with login required using the credentials used to register Parallels Desktop 6.
Accessing remote desktop sessions from the iPad has been possible since day one with apps such as LogMeIn Ignition. I’ve been using Parallels Mobile for a solid day, and the draw is that no other app is required. You already have Parallels Desktop 6, and working with the free Mobile version, the two work together to make the connection happen. Parallels Mobile does a good job using the iPad touchscreen to full effect, even while accessing Windows 7 as reviewed.
Internet Founder Tim Berners-Lee Details 4 Concerns About Future of Mobile Web (Nokia World 2010)
This morning at Nokia World 2010 in London, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, widely known as the inventor of the Web, addressed the audience in a keynote speech where he spoke about the future of mobile technology, including both the positive impacts it brings as well as the areas of concern. After encouraging developers to build for the Web, so as to deliver applications that work on all types of devices, even the ones that haven't been invented yet, he then proceeded to detail areas which need addressing, specifically privacy, accountability, network neutrality and the 80% of the world that doesn't have access to the World Wide Web.
The Mobile Web Today: Location is Just "Tip of the Iceberg"
Berners-Lee began his keynote by discussing the improvements we've seen in technology in recent years, most notably the ability of our devices to be location-aware. However, he says, "location-awareness is just the tip of the iceberg." Devices already know so much about you: your geographical position, which way is up, which direction you're headed, etc., but future devices may know more than this. For example, they may know about your medical information and your physical state. Perhaps they could tell when you're excited by measuring heart rate increases, he said.
Nokia and Intuit Announce Partnership for Mobile Marketing Services
At Nokia World 2010 in London, Nokia's EVP of Mobile Phones, Mary McDowell, brought Intuit's Global Business Division president Alex Lintner on stage for an announcement regarding a new partnership between the two companies. The partnership is a strategic alliance for a first-of-its-kind service designed to help small business owners around the world increase revenues through a mobile marketing service offering. This service will include a combination of offers, advertising and location-based features that will direct customers to where they can find products to buy in their own neighborhoods.
According to McDowell, the partnership will increase foot traffic to small businesses that adopt the service by at least 10%.
Specifics about how the technology will be implemented and distributed were not delved into in any detail, but at one point McDowell referred to this suite of services as an "app." The app will connect businesses to potential customers over multiple channels, including social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, as well as SMS and email. Location-based services will also play a role, which will be tied into Nokia's Ovi Maps, something that McDowell said will be an important part of the new offering.
Now Any iPhone App Can Be an Augmented Reality Browser
Augmented reality (AR) is a fast-growing trend for mobile application developers, but few tools exist that make including the emerging technology in an app quick and easy. Many popular brands have published content on various mobile AR browsers, but it's not too surprising that they might want to include the technology in their own apps. Layar, the most widely used mobile AR browser, is looking to fulfill this need with the release of Layar Player - a few lines of code iPhone developers can use to embed full AR Layar content in their apps.
Popular high-end vendors like metaio and Total Immersion offer licensed SDKs that can be used to develop full-blown applications from the ground up, but some brands may want a simpler solution to add some AR flare to an existing app. Just as the popular app RedLaser offers embeddable barcode scanning (as used by Target and other brands), Layar now lets iPhone app developers include AR layer browsing directly within their apps. Oh, and it's free.
By dropping a few lines of code in an existing iPhone app, developers can fully embed their Layar content layers within their own apps. Layar likens the ease of use to embedding a YouTube video on a web page. For AR content developers with layers published on Layar, they can now include this AR view directly in their own apps.
The ease of use Layar Player provides is an attractive solution for brands that may not want to dive in head-first into augmented reality with a full-blown app. Target, for example, which implemented RedLaser's barcode scanning SDK, could similarly use Layar Player to let app users find store locations in an AR view.
2010년 9월 13일 월요일
Android Will Be Number 2 Mobile Operating System Worldwide by Year-End
Research analysts at Gartner have forecasted that Google's Android mobile operating system (OS) will become the second largest platform in terms of market share by year-end 2010. Symbian, however, will remain number one. Garner also notes that by 2014, the end of the forecast period for this latest market research report, Android will vie for the top spot against Nokia's Symbian OS.
Yes, Android is officially on the path to world domination.
Here in the U.S., much of the tech news is centered on the smartphone battle between Apple's iPhone and Android. But on the global stage, the top mobile players are Nokia's Symbian, Android, Research in Motion (makers of Blackberry smartphones), then iOS, the operating system that powers the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Principal analyst Roberta Cozza at Gartner noted that recent and upcoming launches of new smartphone operating systems including iOS4, Blackberry OS 6, Symbian 3 and 4 and Windows Phone 7, will help maintain the current trend of heavy growth in the smartphone sector, but her firm believes that market share worldwide will still revolve around the four key providers mentioned above.
The reason these companies have maintained, and likely will continue to maintain, their top spots involves a number of factors, most notably the support they have from communications service providers and developers, as well as their strong brand awareness with both enterprise and consumer customers.
Google Instant Search Inspires Mashups Across the Web
People are still getting used to Google Instant Search, the format that displays search results as you type. But the idea has captivated developers and inspired a growing number of search engines that let you preview the results without having to press enter.
You can now try Instant Search for Twitter, Flickr or iTunes, or just head to the new site Instantise to find links to 16 instant search apps inspired by Google's innovation last week.
Why do developers love instant search
This App Recommender Would Like to Use Your Location
The Software Engineering Lab at Münster University of Applied Sciences in Germany has released an interesting Android app discovery tool as part of a research project on context-aware mobile systems.
Appazaar learns which applications you find interesting by tracking your application usage and comparing you to other people with similar interests, much like Apple's Genius does in the App Store. It also takes your real-time location into account.
"Android users are mobile people and often change their location," researcher Matthias Böhmer wrote in an email. "With their location they also change their activity, for instance from working at the office to chilling at the beach. Appazaar uses that to optimize its recommendations! Surely you agree that you require apps for productivity at work and games and music apps for relaxing at the beach."
Like other app discovery tools, appazaar makes recommendations based on users' interests and the apps they've previously downloaded. But it also uses context - time and location - to serve up suggested apps. "A use that has never been in a specific context before receives recommendations on what other users have used in a similar context before," the researchers wrote in a paper that will be presented at an upcoming international conference on recommendation engines in Barcelona. In downtown Portland? Try the PDX Food Cart Finder.
A Fail Whale For the Rest of Us: Social.DownorNot.com
Netherlands-based website monitoring company WatchMouse has created a public website dedicated to measuring performance at social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Del.icio.us, Digg, Xanga and Flickr.
WatchMouse also release uptime statistics for the top 20 social sites for the month of August. The leaders were Orkut, which had no downtime, Flickr with just four minutes of downtime, Del.icio.us with 12 minutes of downtime and the gaming site hi5 with 32 minutes of downtime.
Digg was in the bottom five with 15 hours and 35 minutes (2.16%) downtime due to issues with its relaunch. Other relatively poor performers included MySpace with a day, seven hours and 27 minutes of downtime (4.36%) and YouTube with a day, five hours and 18 minutes or 4.07% downtime.
Twitter was only down for an hour and 16 minutes total all month, tied with LinkedIn and Yelp.
Uptime for the top 20 social networking sites monitored by WatchMouse:
2010년 9월 9일 목요일
How to Get Android Notifications on Your Computer Desktop (Mac, Linux or Windows)
Do you want to be notified of Android notifications like calls, text messages, low battery alerts and more when you're on your computer? An open source mobile application called "Android Notifier" does this by connecting your mobile phone's notification system to the notification system on your computer. The desktop application currently works on Mac only, via the popular notification app, Growl. The project's developer says the Linux port will arrive "soon" and he's looking for volunteers who will connect the app to Windows systems as well.
But he needn't bother. We came across another application called the "Android-Notifier-Desktop" which offers a multi-platform desktop client for the above mobile app to the overlooked Linux and Windows users.
iPhone Apps Overtaking Songs in Total Downloads
There's an interesting chart making its way around the Net this morning comparing the number of iTunes app downloads to the total downloads of songs. The surprising reveal is that it shows apps are being downloaded much more rapidly than songs. In only 2.2 years, the iTunes App Store has reached the same total downloads as the iTunes Music Store did after five years. And before the year is out, the two curves on the chart will be around the same height - 13 billion downloads each.
Why is this happening? Why are apps becoming more popular than music?
More Apps Downloaded Than Songs by Year-End
The original chart was posted on Asymco's website, home to a hybrid industry analysis advisory and app development firm. Assuming the data the firm has collected is accurate (they say it comes from statements made by Apple representatives), Apple customers will have downloaded more iPhone/iPod/iPad apps than songs sometime in the near future, either by year end or just a few weeks later.
Jailbreakers: Do Not Update to iOS 4.1
Apple has released the latest version of its operating system for the iPhone and iPod Touch, iOS 4.1 today. The update was announced last week at Apple's fall event and brings a number of new features and bug fixes.
While the latest version of iOS offers some nifty features like HDR photos and Apple's brand new Game Center, those behind the latest jailbreaks warn that updating will cause you to lose your jailbreak.
For those of you with a standard, non-jailbroken phone, update away. The new iOS fixes the proximity sensor bug, which allowed touchscreen input when you were talking on your phone, as well as Bluetooth connectivity issues. It also takes care of iPhone 3G users that updated to iOS 4.0 and found their phones suddenly unusably slow.
As for new features, iOS 4.1 introduces HDR, or "high dynamic range" photos, a new Game Center, the ability to upload HD video of WiFi, and TV show downloads directly from the phone.
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