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Tag: mobile
Verizon Wireless is opening up its cellular network to any device or application that meets the “minimal technical standard” to run on its network. That means pretty much any CDMA device or application, even ones that are not officially offered by Verizon.
telepocalypse at work
After reading comments and looking at the overall architecture view of the framework, I decided to investigate the android.location API a little more closely. The first item is interesting because it would allow you to conserve battery life and, I assume, toggle between (free) GPS positionning and perhaps (not so free) cell-tower triangulation. The second item is where the interesting stuff can happen. Imagine an application that knows the location of all your friends and the location of their favorite spots along with the permission associated to all those locations. When you are moving around the mobile application on the device could register some intents (by obtaining specific lat/long information from a dedicated server) to alert you of interesting places but also of nearby friends.
africa has m-banking. what will it take to stop the silly waste in the us, with ever-increasing branch networks, and the financial infrastructure based around 19th century notions? hopefully the recession will put an end to it.
The trick is that Google doesn’t claim that Android is a Java platform, although it can run some programs written with the Java language and against some derived version of the Java class library. Sun could prevent this if they had a patent on the standard class library, but they don’t and, even if they did, I strongly doubt it would be enforceable since Android doesn’t claim to be compatible (and in fact, could very well claim that their subset/superset is an innovation on the existing patent and challenge Sun’s position).
sucks to be sun right about now. they should have listened to the ASF.
Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal
sweet indeed.
You sign up for the service with your skills and focus, take a GPS reading and then just hang out. If you are looking for someone for 3 hours to man a cash register, you just send the request and within minutes, you have a list of people available.
3 of the top 5 devices in the US are Smartphones (BlackBerry and Blackjack), South Africa and Indonesia are both in the top 5 markets.
i like the term cloudbook, a few gigs of flash, and everything else online. that would make for a cheap, light, robust laptop with long battery life. since a computer without internet is useless, sign me up!
I spent a half hour speed-dialing Google’s new phone directory service, 800-GOOG-411. The verdict? Google’s speech-recognition and geo-mapping algorithms outperformed Verizon and AT&T’s humans this afternoon.
tomorrow’s pages will make today’s browsers run unacceptably slow (because neither processors nor browsers will become much faster, while page complexity will increase).
how can a single threaded application like web site parsing be made to run efficiently on 10s of cores?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 