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- Is Apple Going to Support Augmented Reality, After All?
- The cranky elves that run the iPhone App Store may be warming up after all to the emerging field of Augmented Reality AR. AR app makers, who are building sci-fi-like interfaces for viewing data about the physical world on top of the mobile phone's camera, were beginning to feel...
- News items 2009-10-14
- From Facebook to Apple: How to Fix the iPhone App Store
- The Apple iPhone App Store has been a lightning rod for criticism and controversy: a race to the bottom for app prices, FCC investigations, and strange app bannings just to start. It's gotten so bad that Apple VP Phil Schiller has been doing damage control. Now an important figure has...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Augmented Reality App Shows Recovery.gov Funding Near You
- Want to see who got part of the hundreds of billions of dollars in Recovery.gov funds near you? Now you can point your iPhone 3Gs or Android phone in any direction and see the closest recipients, thanks to the publication of the official data set onto the...
- News items 2009-10-27
- RobotVision: A Bing-powered iPhone Augmented Reality Browser
- Bing Local Search has some interesting features you won't find in Google, so the prospect of seeing Bing listings appear on top of your iPhone's camera viewer when you point at a restaurant or business is intriguing. That's what forthcoming iPhone app RobotVision offers - and it displays a view...
- News items 2009-08-28
- Google Names 30 Best Mobile Apps for Android
- Wrapping up a six month-long challenge to mobile developers, Google has announced a string of winners of their second Android Developers Challenge ADC. From games and social networking apps to productivity and privacy tools, the cream of the ADC 2 crop includes an...
- News items 2009-11-30
- The Wall Has Fallen: 3 Augmented Reality Apps Now Live in iPhone App Store
- First Paris Metro, then Yelp, now London Buses. The newest is even selling database layers through in-app purchase. It's been widely reported that the API required to display Augmented Reality AR layers of data on top of the camera view of a non-jailbroken iPhone 3Gs would not be publicly exposed...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Augmented Reality: 5 Barriers to a Web That's Everywhere
- Fifty years after its invention by the British Royal Navy for use by fighter pilots, the technology of layering information on top of our naked view of the world may cross over the line between science fiction and mass consumer experience as soon as next month. It's widely believed...
- News items 2009-08-26
- The Best iPhone Navigation App: TeleNav vs. Navigon vs. TomTom [Battlemodo]
- Copy this whole post to another site I'm happy to report that the leading car navigation apps for the iPhone work surprisingly well. Not only that, but for the next week, there's a clear choice for best app. Until August 31st, Navigon MobileNavigator will cost $70. In my testing, it...
- News items 2009-08-24
- Google Angers Mobile App Developers
- Google's developer evangelist, Vic Gundotra, may have alienated his key constituency, mobile application developers, by claiming that mobile phone users will end up getting their apps from Web browsers rather than from app stores operated by the likes of Apple, Nokia, Palm, and Research in Motion. Many, many applications...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- BlackBerry's App World comes of age online
- Finally, a polished Web gateway to BlackBerry App World.(Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)No matter how much you enjoy perusing BlackBerry apps with your device in-hand, it's a likely bet you'd rather browse on the big screen when you're sitting in front of your computer. RIM, following Apple's iTunes App Store...
- News items 2009-08-18
- Apple rejects iPhone app for containing "iPhone" in title
- You can use the word if it's descriptive, but not if it says what it does. Or something. The peculiar behaviour of Apple's App Store reviewers continues Tales from the Twilight Zone of the iPhone App Store, pt 946: Apple has rejected an ebook submitted by Macworld because...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Apple App Store Vs. Android Vs. BlackBerry Vs. Ovi Vs….
- While Vic Gundotra, Google's developer evangelist, argues that mobile applications will be sold through Web browsers rather than app stores controlled by handset makers, most mobile apps today are sold through app stores. Microsoft Windows Mobile for which there is no app store at this point aside,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Stalqer mobile social app finds friends in new ways
- Stalqer locates even friends who don't use the service.(Credit: Stalqer)The developers of the iPhone app GasBag, which helps iPhone users find the cheapest gas for your car, are working on a new mobile friend locator service, Stalqer. This clever and aptly named service has two technologies that are unique, as...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Battle Of The Augmented Reality Apps: Urbanspoon, Layar, Wikitude, WhereMark & More
- There seems to be an explosion of "real-time" search engines on the PC. The space is very new, still fairly open and in my opinion the tools and sites are not yet all that useful. Almost exactly the same can be said of "augmented reality" AR in mobile. From almost...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Google's free navigation app could drive out premium services
- Google's rumored free turn-by-turn navigation app is a reality--the web services giant confirmed the launch of Google Maps Navigation Beta for its new Android 2.0 operating system, issued in conjunction with Motorola's forthcoming Droid smartphone. According to Google, the mobile app boasts all the familiar bells and...
- News items 2009-10-28
- The App Store Hype Gets a Dose of Reality
- TechCrunch submits: by Jason Kincaid On Sunday, developer Rick Strom wrote a blog posted titled “The Incredible App Store Hype“, in which he detailed some of the revenue stats he was seeing from the Apple iPhone AAPL applications that he had released (some of which rank on the...
- External links 2009-05-26
- GreenBeat Call for Submissions: Got a Smart Grid Killer App?
- Renovating the power grid requires big ideas from start-ups, major technology companies, manufacturers, and university labs. Innovations will range from technologies that increase the grid's capabilities and efficiency, to new business models that will bring the Smart Grid into fruition. The GreenBeat 2009 Innovation Competition is seeking the best ideas...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Smartphones Get Killer App
- A killer application has finally emerged that should allow smartphones to overtake conventional PCs and laptops as the computing device of choice: it's called augmented reality, and as absurd as that sounds, that's exactly what it is. Mobile applications consultant Tomi Ahonen wrote on his...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Apple Wants to Patent Augmented Reality
- Back in June, my colleague Michael Hickins called augmented reality the "killer app" of the cell phone and mentioned two companies, Layar and Mobilizy. There's just one problem. An Apple patent getting press this week could mean that such vendors might have to get permission to do what they do,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Apple Buys Augmented Reality Vendor
- Apple's acquisition of Placebase isn't about replacing Google, but about adding the next killer app, augmented reality functionality, to its iPhone. by Michael Hickins
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
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