Archive for the ‘Mobile Technology’ Category
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Android for the people
Android for the people
Originally uploaded by ante10peThere’s nothing like the mall at Christmastime. Especially when that mall is on LONG ISLAND.
Saw this huuuuge advert hanging from the ceiling of Roosevelt Field shopping mall. There’s the little Android dude in the lower left hand banner of the banner. Is there a comparable iPhone app?
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Twilio – Voice Application Platform
I’m not sure how long it’s been around for, but I just came across an exciting new service called Twilio.
I think it’s easiest to think of it as glue between a voice call and a server-side application. So I call up an assigned, and my called is ‘handled’ by a script written in TwiML (Twilio’s [...] -
Review(?): Ocarina iPhone app
Even though it’s been out for more than a year now, I’ve resisted the urge to buy an iPhone (this hasn’t been easy), but I recently had the opportunity to borrow one from work for a couple of weeks to get a better, longitudinal feel for how it works as an everyday phone (as opposed [...] -
Review: Kinoma Play Mobile Media Browser
I’ve had the chance to spend some time fiddling with the new Kinoma Play Mobile Media Browser, and I’m pretty blown away. This product delivers on the promise of being a mobile media powerhouse to the maximum extent that any device with a 2.5″ screen clunking along on a 2.5G network can deliver a “powerful” [...]
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LifeComm – All Vital Signs Positive for Health-Based MVNO Service?
Qualcomm is backing a health-based MVNO called LifeComm which will is set to be launched some time in September (link to post on Engadget Mobile).
There’s tons of exciting work being done using mobiles to tackle health-related problems in thedeveloping world (Technology, Health and Development is a great resource for news on this), but there are plenty of people [...] -
Using Twitter to Support Making Eco-Conscious Decisions
Kermit the frog once said “It’s not easy being green.”
While he was, of course, referring to having green skin, the same adage holds true today, though the meaning of green has changed since then. If the zeitgeist of our time is not “being green,” then I don’t know what it is. More than ever, individuals [...] -
Our Parents Wrote Letters
A friend of mine, Jake, recently brought up a very interesting point about our parents and their use of cell phones, specifically in the context of contacting us (their children). He hypothesized that perhaps the reason that our parents seem to call us more than we would like, is that they have no idea what [...]
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Feeling Blue
I finally got some …. and found that, sadly, it wasn’t really all that it’s cracked up to be.
It was the perfect setup: a gorgeous day, a long weekend ahead of me. There, on the corner of Wabash Avenue and Lake Street, I was finally presented with an opportunity … and I excitedly Accepted it. [...] -
Dashwire is a solid mobile synch solution
Dashwire is a free service that seamlessly synchs content between your mobile phone and the web. You download a little app to your handset and sign up for a (password-protected) account on their website, and after a really smooth setup/installation process on your device, and about an hour of initial synching time, it just works. It handles [...]
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Test post from iPod Touch app
This is just a test to see whether I can post to this blog from an iPod touch Wordpress app.
