Looking for a shortcut to get full-screen anti-aliasing for your iPhone game? It might not be the optimal solution for your needs, but if you’re rushing to get something out and need to cut some corners, then this excerpt on supersampling from Philip Rideout’s iPhone 3D Programming is for you. Read more.
The App Store has exposed incumbents in the mobile industry to the same sort of asymmetric competition that has reshaped the media industry over the past decade. Developers are responding in droves to the economic incentives that lower barriers to entry create, as well as the fact that the App Store has generated $1 billion in royalty payments in just a few years.
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iPhone economics and lower barriers to entry – The power of the App Store is defined by more than direct revenue.
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My new O’Reilly book about iPhone user experience – Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps – hits bookshelves in the next few days (the ebook is already available). I thought it’d be fun to share a few of the book’s big-picture design ideas here. For instance, choose a personality for your app.
iSatphone pro hands on Inmarsat’s global satellite phone that we got wind of earlier this year has now become available by various satellite phone providers, Satworx being one of them and is also appearing on eBay . Their $495 price tag for the the iSatPhone Pro seems steep at first, but if you’re operating an adventure travel business, disaster-readiness operations or just visiting remote locations then this handset is an invaluable investment. A monthly fee of $19.95 will give you 75 cents per minute talk time. Satworx says that is cheaper than competing satellite phone company plans by 65%.
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iSatPhone Pro gone global
BlackBerry Storm 3 leaked image Research in Motion is rumored to be working on a touch screen phone hybrid that also includes a slider style keyboard, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal and our previous reports dubbing the device the BlackBerry Storm 3 . Those familiar with the new hardware claim it is not unlike Apple’s iPhone and boasts many similar technical feats, possibly similar to RIM’s patents from 2008
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More details leaked on RIM touch-based slider hybrid
iPhone 3gs and iPhone 4, should you upgrade? With all of the pandemonium surrounding the iPhone 4 , the question surrounding Apple’s new masterpiece is: should I upgrade? The decision right now fueled by the excitement of innovation and hype is to do so, but if you take a step back and think, it may not be as clear as you had imagined
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iPhone 4: Should you upgrade?
HTC Aria Android 2.1 phone headed to AT&T June 20 Up until now, if you were looking at Android phones, but in on an AT&T contract your choices were pretty slim. You could go for the Motorola Backflip , or a reincarnation of Dell’s Mini 3, the Dell Aero . Today the Aria enters the Android line expanding AT&T’s offerings with another mid-level phone.
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$130 HTC Aria gets Android 2.1, on AT&T June 20
iPhone 4 smartphone Photo: Robert Scoble Best Buy is getting in on the iPhone 4 groove by announcing their pre-sale which begins tomorrow. That’s June 15th, which so happens to be the same day you can pre-order from Apple. iPhone 4 deliveries are set for June 24th. These dates are the same that Apple announced, so no big surprise here. Best Buy is eager to remind everyone in case they some how forgot in that time gap between reading about the iPhone 4’s features, watching hands-on iPhone 4 videos, voting for the iPhone 4 as the best thing ever, and having iPhone 4 dreams at night. Here’ s a snippet from their press release to show just how excited they are: “Offering the iPhone 4 to consumers is just the latest example of how Best Buy Mobile has become the place to go for the best smartphones.
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Best Buy joining Apple in iPhone 4 pre-orders tomorrow
It’s very rare to see the major competitors in a giant industry sit down and openly discuss where the market is moving. It’s like when they got Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to chat in front of a live audience. Well, the same thing has happened with Canada’s telecom firms. Over at the Canadian Telecom Summit earlier this week, a panel was moderated by Iain Marlow of the Globe.
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Carriers discuss unlocking phones at Canadian Telecom Summit
At the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC last week, I enjoyed a rambunctious interview-turned-rambling-conversation with Marc Smith, a social network sociologist who founded and managed the Community Technologies Group at Microsoft and is currently the Chief Social Scientist at the Connected Action Consulting Group . This wasn’t the first time I’d communicated with Marc; we’d corresponded via email more than two years ago about AURA, a social shopping app he was working on at Microsoft which I was writing about in my thesis on emerging uses of social media for environmental governance. So it was a great pleasure to finally meet Marc in person (and lemme tell you – his gregariousness makes an in-person encounter more than worthwhile).
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Marc Smith and democratizing our understanding of position, position, position
Given the incessant demands on his time, I was fortunate to snag a whole thirty minutes with Jimmy Wales at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC on Thursday, June 3rd. And in those thirty minutes, I decided to explore Wikipedia not as a tool for enabling democracy, but as a model of emergent and adaptive governance, i.e.
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Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, and the Personal Democracy Forum
Airlines have made great technological leaps in recent years, allowing passengers to check in from home or download boarding passes on their smartphones. But if you’ve ever been stranded at an airport during a raging thunderstorm, chances are you will end up standing in a long line watching a gate agent typing furiously on an outdated computer.
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Airlines Work to Catch Up to the Digital Age
“Agence France-Presse reports” … in a story republished by Yahoo reports today that Nokia will soon release a battery charger p owered by the energy generated from riding a bicycle: The charger, which can be fitted into any Nokia phone with a 2 mm charger jack, uses a dynamo to generate electricity from the movement of the wheels, Nokia said in a statement: “Bicycles are the most widespread means of transport in many markets around the world, so this is just one more benefit to be gained from an activity people are already doing,” Alex Lambeek, Vice President at Nokia, said in the statement. The price of the charger kit, which also includes a holder for securing the phone to the bicycle, will vary according to market, but in countries like Kenya, where the product was introduced on Thursday, it would be around 15 euros (18.43 dollars), a Nokia spokesman told AFP. . .
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Bike device to keep 2-wheeled mobile mobs charged
Full text (pdf) of the speech held by Neelie Kroes, ( press releases ) European Commissioner for Digital agenda at 2nd Annual Internet of Things Conference Brussels, 1st June 2010. Our citizens may not always want to use the technology in all the ways that is possible
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Bringing European values to the Internet of Things
Researchers at the Center for Future Civic Media are making freely available maps of the Gulf oil spill. Their work has had a great influence on how the public not only perceives this ongoing environmental disaster but also how the public perceives the value of releasing maps into the public domain
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Grassroots mapping of the Gulf oil spill
Report on session on “Mobile Phone as a Tool for Reporting” at the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Santiago, Chile starting off the discussion with the question of whether SMS is useful for reporters. SMS can be particularly useful when combined with other media. Many community radio stations in Haiti have used SMS to effectively provide a feedback mechanism from the general population.
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Mobile phone as a tool of reporting
In a demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, a special MIT forum of the Center for Future Civic Media connected to citizen journalists and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the limits of governmental authority. Moderator Ethan Zuckerman @EthanZ wonders if these new digital forms are fundamentally liberating, providing users access to public spaces they might otherwise be denied.
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Civic media in difficult places
Kiwi U-Powered Solar Charger How many times have you been on the go, out the door, and then found that your cell phone battery is at one bar? Or on a ride only to realize you forgot to charge your iPod or any other mobile device
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Kiwi U-Powered charger provides greenish solar power
iPhone 4g to be available in white As the last six months have progressed, the world of Apple has been almost totally dominated by the iPhone 4G and its rumors (with the exception of the magical iPad of course). The rumors have ranged from screen resolution , to front-facing cameras, and now the newest one concerns the aesthetics of the device.
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iPhone 4G to be available in white