Turn Your Mobile Phone In A Mobile WiFi Access Point. Sometimes it happens to read some really cool idea developed by some crazy coder. We have started to see a lot of mobile phone equipped with WiFi and lot of them are running an open Operating System like Windows Mobile or Symbian. The idea here is quite simple but extremely powerful. From one side you […]
De-mystifying the technology of emotion This post could sound like an ad for Exmocare…but it’s not true. Take a look to their pages and you’ll agree with the statement: “Being better connected with -this- (our body signals) information about ourselves and our loved ones provides the first step toward the great promise of technology that works for us – […]
Google Android Optional APIs If you had a chance to go through the Google Android documentation you will have noticed a very interesting thing: a lot of the most interesting APIs are optional. Having a look at this page will show you the following list of optional APIs: Location-Based services Media APIs 3D Graphics with OpenGL Low-Level Hardware Access […]
Google, It's A Platform Not A Mobile Phone There have been speculations around for months and at the end of day it is not a phone, it is a platform named Android. Lot of interesting things about this. First of all I would say this not really nothing completely revolutionary for the mobile industry. Just checking my poor memory make me think about […]
APIs, Are They An Admission Of Failure? I have read a very interesting post at 0xDECAFBAD. The most interesting sentence in that post is the following: An API is an admission that you haven’t the creativity or time to build everything your website needs. In a general sense I tend to agree to this sentence. It is true that there are plenty […]
J2MEdit, A Very Interesting Approach I have recently run into J2MEdit and I found it very interesting. J2MEdit is a java application that should run on most mobiles providing you with a complete text editor for source code with syntax highlighting. If we would stop here there would be nothing new on the horizon. The interesting thing about J2MEdit is […]
My Nabaztag Is Yelling Jaiku Updates A few weeks ago I bought a Nabaztag and I was impressed by functionalities and possibilities of the “first second connected rabbit“. I started playing with it and after a few days I decided to explore a little bit deeper in the services that I could run. I came across opennab that is basically a […]
Mobile BitTorrent I noticed an interesting news on the VNUnet website titled “BitTorrent unveils consumer electronics SDK“. If you go through the article you will find that the peer to peer software developer has released an SDK to allow integration of Torrent technology into consumer electronics device. Well, actually not really new. There are already some devices […]
The Fight for the Idle Screen In the past few years all operators have started populating their mobile phone with branded applications in order to boost their data ARPU. In the last few months they seem to be focusing on the mobile phone idle screen. It’s quite easy to think at the mobile phone idle screen as the personal computer desktop. […]
Augmented GPS In the next few months we will a lot of new mobile phones coming to the market with integrated GPS functionality. At the same time you can observe a lot of new applications like smart2go and AmazeGPS lining up with TomTom Navigator, Route66 and similar. These are all great applications. They have pretty much the […]