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It’s clear that accurate mapping on the go is one of the best things about this smartphone revolution, as I would literally be lost without services like Google Maps on my phone. Still, the one big hole is when you get in doors and while Google and others are trying to tackle this issue, Nokia…
Yesterday we talked about top apps for the NOOK Color and today we’ll focus on games. As you can imagine, being an ebook centric device, B&N’s tablet is not about high-end games with 3D graphics. Rather I see it as a casual gaming device with some fun titles you can play over and over again.…
We’ve already talked about liquid lens technology in the past. The company that promised to use it in the camera phones, Varioptic, has been sold to French Parrot S.A. and the new entity called Optilux emerged in the process. While Parrot will use this technology in industrial, medical and other consumer applications – Optilux, formed…
Myriad Group is in discussions with “leading companies in the automotive industry” to extend Android to the connected car. The company wants to use its Alien Dalvik virtual machine, which enables the majority of Android apps to run unmodified on a much wider range of platforms and devices. According to Myriad’s CTO Benoit Schillings, the…
Remember AR.Drone, that sexy-lookin’ quadricopter we’ve first seen at last year’s CES? Thus fur it was an iPhone thing only, but not anymore. Nope, Parrot (which makes the AR.Drone) hasn’t unveiled its own application for other platforms — rather we’re talking about a home-made project that allows Symbian^3 device owners (i.e. those of you with…
If you saw the Apple iPad 2 and wanted to wait to see Microsoft’s response, you may have to wait a long time. A report out of Businessweek suggests that a true Microsoft iPad competitor won’t hit the market until the back-to-school time in 2012. Yowza. We already know that Microsoft’s tablet strategy is Windows…
The Apple iPhone is great and all but it has had a severe lack of robotic tanks … until now, that is. The TankBot is a small, robotic tank that can use an iPhone app to control it. It will supposedly use the accelerometer controls to direct the tank and it will even let you…
CES 2011 saw Android on virtually any type of device you could think of. From the obvious smartphones and tablets to car tech, Android has exploded in every direction, but many believe the introduction of the Verizon iPhone, and the OS’ increasing fragmentation, will lead to a slowdown in growth for Google’s mobile operating system…
Believe it or not, one of the most popular app genres for all mobile phones has got to be novelty apps. Mobile phone users just can’t help but to download apps that allow them to turn their phone into a lightsaber, record audio to be played back as an annoying parrot, or share your fascination…
I bet you Jesus always got five bars, even on AT&T. Deep in London’s financial quarter, St. Lawrence Jewry is modernizing its old “Plow Monday” ceremony (which would involve blessing farming equipment for the new week of work) in order to bless parishioners’ laptops and smartphones for their own, albeit less arduous, labour. Someone warned…