Unconventional Use Of Your Mobile Phone Accelerometer

Accelerometers are not new technology since they have been around in several devices. Apple MacBook just to make one well known example. Since the launch of the iPhone it seems that every mobile phone manufacturer has gone wild with this technology. You can also find one in the Nokia N95 and Nokia has recently released […]

Streaming Video Right From Your Phone With QIK

Qik is a brand new service that wille let you stream live content from your mobile phone to the Internet. Qik delivers a simple application to install on your mobile phone that will take control of your mobile phone camera and will deliver your video stream to QIK servers. From what I can read from […]

Did You Notice That The iPhone Has A Fantastic Web Browser? Google Did!

There is a great article on the New York Times that reveals the fact that Google has noticed that traffic to their sites coming from iPhone has surged during the last holidays period. You can read the original article by clicking here. I think there a lot of interesting things in this article. First one: […]

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 […]

Where Are You?

I think that the question “Where are you?” is the first sentence pronounced by most people when making phone calls to a mobile phone. I am sure that pretty much anyone has desired to give fake answers to that question. Something like “I am queuing at the post office” instead of revealing that you are […]

Netwo Meeting in Rome – Mobile Internet

Last Friday I had the opportunity to join the Netwo founders in Rome to talk about Mobile Internet. I used a small presentation as a guideline for my talk. For those interested you will find it below. I’m sorry, it is in Italian but it will not be very difficult to go through it since […]

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 Android SDK Released

As promised Google has released the Android SDK. I am just downloading them and will give them a try tonight. P.S. The Eclipse plugin is great

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 havenâ€™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 […]

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