Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobile: 06/14/10

2010년 6월 14일 월요일

HTC EVO 4G performance capped at 30fps

EVO 4G capped to 30fps
The super spec’ed HTC EVO 4G has been taking a bit of a beating lately — what with its woeful battery performance and exaggerated sales claims — but this latest report falls on the far side of peculiar.

Droid Xtreme (or X, or Shadow, or whatever it’s called) caught on camera yet again.

Man – is Motorola just giving out new, unannounced handsets to everyone they see carrying a camera? Between the Droid Xtreme, and the Droid 2, the number of leaks is starting to get silly.

iOS 4 Is Going To Up The Ante For Location-Based Startups

Yesterday, Robert Scoble wrote a post about “Foursquare’s Yelp problem.” It’s an interesting read, with some good thoughts about how Foursquare can withstand feature-copying from a much larger rival. He asked for my thoughts, so I figured I’d jot some down here. Most importantly, his post got me thinking about the next phase of location, which I think we’re just about to enter.

Apple Increasing Platform Opacity and Kicking Out Competitors with iAd

Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC this year struck me as being particularly unkind to third-party media and analysis sources, and maybe that’s because he’s bitter about the whole Gizmodo iPhone 4 scoop/theft thing that went on. One thing he definitely made clear, he wants statistics coming from vetted sources, not from just any mobile market research firm.

Pursuant to that goal, Apple recently changed the terms of its developer agreement to keep out third-party analytics companies like Flurry who regularly produce reports on

iPhone Dev Sessions: Finding Your Way With MapKit

Looking for directions on how to create a simple map within an application can be challenging. Sometimes the simplest of typos or a missed step in the process can become very frustrating. Many of the examples start with a finished solution and attempt to explain the code after it was written. This walkthrough, from the first step, will attempt to dissect each challenge one by one in an effort to allow the reader to pick and choose which antidotes are applicable to their particular situation.

What Does the iPad Mean For Online Video?

Within two years, the number of hours people spend viewing online video will easily surpass the time they spend watching television. There's no doubt that online video has enjoyed stratospheric growth of late, but despite that success, the technical underpinning by which video is delivered into your browser hasn't really developed much since the 1990s. Back then, watching a video on the Web meant squinting at a postage stamp-sized low-res player with very jerky video.

How iPhone 4 Could Change Augmented Reality

When Apple announced iOS 4.0 earlier this year, some additions to the SDK (software development kit) caught the attention of augmented reality (AR) developers - specifically, open access to the phone's camera APIs. But with the introduction of the new hardware in the iPhone 4 made this past Monday, the possibilities for AR on the popular smartphone have skyrocketed. Today I had the opportunity to chat about the device's impact on AR with Stefan Misslinger, lead iPhone developer for metaio, one of the leading AR companies and makers of the mobile AR browser junaio.

Mobile Apps to Hit $32 Billion in Five Years

Juniper Research asserts, in a study published today, that revenue from mobile applications will grow $22 billion in the next five years.

"The combined revenues from apps funded by pay-per-download (PPD), value-added services (VAS, including freemium and subscription) and advertising is expected to rise from just under $10 billion in 2009 to $32 billion in 2015."

Richard MacManus Talks Real-Time Web With ABC News(Video)

Richard MacManus of Read Write Web Discusses the Real-Time Web with Dan Patterson of ABC News. from ABC News Radio on Vimeo.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/richard_macmanus_talks_real-time_web_with_abc_news.php

Majority of Tech Experts Think Work Will Be Cloud-Based by 2020, Finds Pew Research Center

The majority of technology experts responding to a recent Pew Research Center survey believe that cloud computing will be more dominant than the desktop by the end of the decade. Undertaken by the Pew Research Center and Elon University as part of the Future of the Internet survey, the report looks at the future of cloud computing based on the opinions of almost 900 experts in the industry.

Google's New OS Will Offer Remote Desktop Capabilities

Google's upcoming Chrome operating system - a new OS that will, according to the search giant, arrive on netbook computers sometime later this year - is also going to offer a feature Google engineers have dubbed, unofficially, "chromoting." What's chromoting, you ask? It's remotely accessing your PC applications via the browser. Or, in other words, it's a remote desktop app for your new cloud computer.

Military-Grade Augmented Reality Could Redefine Modern Warfare

When explaining the concept of augmented reality to someone who has never heard of it, I find myself going through a series of common real-life and pop-culture examples to help them understand. Aside from explaining that the "1st and Ten Line" in football games and the computer vision of the Terminator are indeed forms of augmented reality, I often use examples from the military - the fighter pilot heads-up-display, for example - as well. In fact, the military has played a significant role in the early development of AR, and one company is attempting to make sure it is a large factor in the future of the technology as well.