Industry News: Go Swim Announces First iPhone Application
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, January 7. GO Swim today launched its first iPhone App, named, not surprisingly, “Go Swim.” The app is available for free in the iTunes store, and it delivers the best of Go Swi…
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As a great majority of the world’s young population would agree, ever since the advent of the internet new technologies, news and devices have become available, things that were even unimaginable such as an infra-red and virtual laser projection keyboard, phones with cameras, mp3s, video and internet browsing capabilities are now out there and ready to be tested.
Most of this technology is actually still unknown to some people. For instance, TiVos became popular because they can record TV programs with high quality and have a great storage capacity, which completely turns video cassette players obsolete, but there are alternative gadgets and technologies such as video capture cards or USB peripherals that can do the very same thing but without costing us a monthly rental fee.
Bluetooth and WiFi are relatively new concepts which most computer users don’t fully understand but it is used often through Laptops, PDAs and Cell phones. The fact is that users sometimes are unaware of what the technology implies and how it works, they just want to use it and know that it works. While that may be the case with most of us it is always nice to have someone to ask these type of questions when such information is needed.
Fortunately, all that is required to access a vast amount of information regarding gadgets and tech news is a computer with web access. There are several tech portals which deliver several headlines a day so the best way to keep up with them is to subscribe freely to their news and updates feed so that they can be read from one RSS Feed reader, this is the case of blogs, article sites, etc.
Tech forums are also useful when trying to get reviews or opinions about a certain gadget. For example, many people don’t know what the iphone can be “hacked”, this particular term doesn’t mean that someone will access our phone and steal our ring tones and phone numbers, what it means is that extra functionality and applications can be added to unlock or add more features. The same thing can be said of the new gaming consoles from Nintendo “Wii”, most users do not know that Wii’s controllers can be used to play games on laptops or PCs using the motion sensors they have built in and a small application.
The bottom line is, ever since the invention of the web, new technologies and gadget have emerged and they keep emerging, so it is important to keep up through constantly updated social sites, news sites, forums and blogs.
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Apple Tablet rumors evolve into Zen koans: ‘it’s a big iPhone, but it’s not a big iPhone’
Can you hear it? It’s the sound of wishful thinking, of hopeful optimism, of more Apple Tablet rumors. The competition is certainly not holding back in releasing theirs, so what’s up with Apple? According to rumor one, from an “industry source” who has seen the OS, the software is “a big iPhone, but it’s not just a big iPhone,” and it’s “pretty.” Moving on, rumor two indicates that the device …
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Things like the sweet, banana-like smell of school quizzes run off on a mimeograph machine. A Xerox or a form on a computer screen don’t give you that same warm, fuzzy feeling.
Sometimes the things you lose may not be sweet but are still the source of great memories, like Dad trapping people in the living room and bringing out the slide projector and unfurling the screen to show pictures of the family vacation to a squirming, captive audience. There’s no need for that anymore with Facebook and Picasa and Flickr and photos and videos attached to e-mail.
Still, my favorite new gadget of 2009 made it to the top of my list just because it recaptures that nostalgia and allows you to trap audiences anywhere — at other people’s homes, in co-worker’s cubicles, in the men’s room at the rest stop off the turnpike. The possibilities to annoy and bore people are endless and hilarious. The Nikon S1000pj looks like an ordinary point-and-shoot camera, but it can project still images and videos on walls anywhere. Also cool in a ’60s nostalgia way is the Fujifilm Finepix Real 30 W1 that takes 3-D pictures and displays them in 3-D instantly on its 2.8-inch screen.
$430, nikonusa.com, $600, fujifilmusa.com The Kindle DX is the biggest and best e-reader so far. Its ample, 9.7-inch screen is perfect for both pleasure reading and studying. It provides global wireless access to books, newspapers and magazines, full PDF documents, Internet access, free book samples, rotatable views, a read-out-loud option and your paper delivered electronically during the wee hours of the morning. Best of all, Amazon is selling bestselling books on all its Kindles at $9.99, a third of what they may cost in hardback, so if you do a lot of reading, it could pay for itself.
$489, amazon.com The iPhone 3GS makes the iconic device even better. The iPhone 3GS finally adds features it should have had in the beginning, like multimedia messaging, video recording, and voice dialing. It’s faster; and has better battery life. Its media features are still awe-inspiring. But it still is mediocre at best as a phone, with shaky call quality and uneven reception. AT&T is working hard, though, to improve its network.
$199 with two-year contract, AT&T stores, Best Buy, att.com It’s the first cell phone to run Google’s Android 2.0 operating system, which is a game-changer, so even though the Motorola Droid wouldn’t win a beauty contest with the iPhone, it’s a more intriguing device. It’s making up ground on the iPhone fast in terms of number of apps because of its open source approach, which allows more freedom and flexibility and creativity and ultimately will make it an even better product than the iPhone.
$199 with two-year contract, Verizon stores, Best Buy, Verizon.com Windows 7’s impressive design is a giant leap forward for Microsoft, threatening to challenge Apple. There’s a learning curb with the new taskbar and Aero Peek, but this OS is shockingly fun to use for something produced by Microsoft. It’s standard on new Microsoft computers, and my wife, who’s generally not exactly the first-adopter type, loves playing with it on her new laptop. The Toshiba Mini NB 205’s six-cell battery provides up to nine hours of unplugged power and the best keyboard of any netbook.
It has a 10.1-inch diagonal screen, an Intel atom N280 processor, 1 GB DDR 800MHz ram, upgradeable to 2 GB, 160 GB HDD storage, a memory card readers slot, 802.11 b/g wireless and 10/100 Ethernet, built in Skype, with a webcam, speaker and microphone.
$419, Best Buy, Toshiba .com The Zune HD is the first MP3 player with a tuner for HD radio, so it can stream clearer versions of local FM stations, In addition to digital only channels. It can also store and display high def video and, when placed in its dock, beam it to your TV.
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Destinator 9 GPS App Expands Across the Globe and onto the iPhone
Destinator 9 continues its expansion with releases on Android and Windows Mobile across major global markets and showcases its new iPhone solution at the CES (PRWeb Jan 10, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Intrinsyc_Software/Destinator_9_GPS_App/prweb3415044.htm
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Opinion about Fanboys?
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Don’t you find it really annoying when reviewers always say that the iphone or ipod touch is the number one product and that it beats every single mp3 or phone on the market?
and when did we get this term “Iphone killer”? Don’t get me wrong,my dad has a iphone 3g and i enjoy it very much,but when i try to compare other products with it,the iphone aways gets the highest score,even though we know that everyone is a apple fanboy and that its mostly your own opinion,but it seems like everyone thinks alike when it come to these things.For example,i tried to compare the archos 5 and the ipod touch. we all know that the archos 5 has way more features than the ipod, but yet the ipod still wins.Was it becuz of size or the app store,hell i dont know.but with all this said.can thew world please give me a list of products that can beat the iphone or ipod touch or that is on the same level of them. i need you help my good friends.
Apple has used several forms of advertising and marketing campaigns aimed directly at the younger users in ways which draws them in to an “Apple Community.”
An example of this marketing scheme would be the excessive use of the lower-case letter “i”. This used to stand for internet, but after Apple’s extravagant use of it on almost every other product, it has lost its power and meaning.
iPod
iPhone
iMac
iPod Touch
iPod Shuffle
The list goes on.
Essentially, anything now branded with the lower-case letter “i” with the product title following on, results in the consumer knowing immediately which company the product belongs to. Apple.
This has had a very strong impact on the way people perceive their products. The fact that so many were developed by the same company with the same name gives the impression that everything works seamlessly with each other, creating a good image and more importantly, customer loyalty.
Although sometimes this loyalty has been shown to go a bit too far on occasions.
Why does it happen? I don’t know. But it is certain for a fact that Apple, more than any other company, has created a cult in which its members live. It’s like a new society, especially for the Apple products.
If you’d like to read more, feel free to follow the link below provided by the BBC journalists.
Touch DJ : the first DJ MP3 iPhone app in the world
When Firefox 3 was launched on 17 June, the free web browser generated 8,002,530 unique downloads in a day. It’s a hugely impressive figure that constituted a new Guinness world record, albeit in a category that didn’t previously exist.
For the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Firefox, successfully encouraging so many users to download the new browser on day one was a canny way to grab headlines. But the release of Firefox 3 also marked the moment in which the cultural shift away from Microsoft’s browser Internet Explorer finally went mainstream.
Internet Explorer (IE) has been bundled with Windows since 1995. By 1999, it had become the world’s most widely used web browser, a position it has held ever since. At its peak in early 2003, IE achieved a staggering 95% usage share, leaving its onetime bitter rival Netscape Navigator as nothing more than a forgotten cyber-casualty.
But since July 2003, the level of IE’s dominance has steadily declined. Figures for June 2008 indicate that its market share is now at 73%, compared to 19% for Firefox and 6% for Safari, which is the native browser on Apple Macs and the iPhone (all other browsers have a share of less than 1% each).
Microsoft had become complacent. The first iteration of IE6 was launched in August 2001 and wasn’t replaced by a full IE release for over five years. The debut of the much-hyped IE7 in October 2006 failed to have an impact on IE’s overall market share. Indeed, by that point, Firefox – which was first released in November 2004 – had highlighted just how archaic IE’s interface was.
With its inclusion of tabbed browsing, integrated search box and – thanks to its open source architecture – the option for users to customise it with over 5000 third-party add-ons, Firefox quickly became the technophile’s browser of choice.
In contrast, the muted response that met the release of IE7 offers some clues as to why IE no longer enjoys the ubiquity it once had. Beyond incorporating some of the features that were the catalyst for many users switching to Firefox in the first place, IE7 offered little innovation.
Curiously, IE did have the opportunity to introduce tabbed browsing years before Safari and Firefox popularised it. NetCaptor, an alternative IE interface that was first released in January 1998, incorporated tabs at the bottom of the browser.
If a user wanted to have multiple pages open at once, they were able to use this neat solution as opposed to having to open numerous windows. It was, and remains, an elegant solution but one that IE belatedly embraced only after other browsers highlighted its usefulness.
But IE7’s limitations are more than just anecdotal. Its lack of standards compliancy means that it fails the Web Standards Project’s Acid2 test, which identifies flaws in web browsers: any browser that follows the World Wide Web Consortium HTML and CSS 2.0 specifications will pass. The test is based on whether a somewhat startled-looking smiley face is displayed correctly.
In October 2005, Apple’s Safari was the first browser to make the grade, something that Firefox, Opera and others have also since done. IE remains the only major browser that’s not Acid2 compliant, forcing web developers to insert conditional code to compensate for the differences between IE and other browsers.
Internet Explorer 8, which has been available to download in Beta since March and is expected to be officially released in 2009, comes at a critical moment in IE’s history. Microsoft’s IE development team have already confirmed that it is Acid2 compliant. It also has integrated developer tools, meaning that HTML, CSS and JavaScript debugging can take place directly from the browser.
A feature called Activities assists copying and pasting between web pages, while WebSlices will allow users to subscribe to a specific element of a web page, which can then be viewed from the Favourites bar (think Mac OS X’s Dashboard).
There are some well considered security touches, from safer mash-ups to domain highlighting, which automatically highlights a site’s owning domain to help users identify attempts at phishing. Handily, IE8 will also offer a Firefox-style crash recovery mechanism: if the browser crashes, any web pages being viewed will be salvaged when the browser is restarted.
But, given Microsoft’s closed-source approach to software development, what IE8 won’t do is reflect the open and adaptable nature of Firefox, which users are able to pimp with everything from blog editors to PicLens’ 3D wall.
IE remains couched in old web thinking. As long as that continues to be the case, it’ll risk losing yet more users to Firefox, whose market share has increased from 14% to 21% over the last two years. What began as a cool alternative for in-the-know webheads may be on its way to beating one of the world’s largest corporations at its own game.
To read the original article, visit the Zeta Blog.
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Harvard Business Review Launches New Magazine and Website Designs
BOSTON—-Harvard Business Review, the leading magazine of management thought and practice, has unveiled a comprehensive new design of its print edition with its January-February 2010 issue, now available on newsstands.
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What are the best ways to promote iPhone Apps?
It’s a big question, but I’ll accept the most helpful answer.
You may like to suggest review sites that you know are effective, or describe ways of making effective free or “LITE” editions of full featured apps without breaching the “Feature Limited” guidelines.
Thanks.
Actually it’s easier market apps by offering free “lite” versions and full edition of the same.
People tend to buy full versions after discovering how good are the free ones, but I would suggest keep them apart one from the other.
There is nothing more annoying that offer a fully featured version that eventually reverts to lite unless it’s too good to miss it.
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