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World's smallest cellphone jammer looks like a pack of cigsSometimes you just want to drown out the noise around you — starting with cellphones. While cellphones are great communication devices, people who go overboard, spilling their life stories out loud in public tend to become annoying. Silence them with the world's smallest cellphone jammer.Disguised as a pack of cigarettes, the so-called "

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World's smallest cellphone jammer looks like a pack of cigsSometimes you just want to drown out the noise around you — starting with cellphones. While cellphones are great communication devices, people who go overboard, spilling their life stories out loud in public tend to become annoying. Silence them with the world's smallest cellphone jammer.Disguised as a pack of cigarettes, the so-called "

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Mio introduces GPS driver recorderfrom NaviGadget by Dave Rubert2 people liked this   Mio just introduced a GPS driver recorder in Taiwan, a gadget similar to a black box for cars that records a driver’s exact position along with video and audio.The device attaches to your windshield, near the top, so it’s out of your sight, and faces out so it can record all the action with its wide angle lens.

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Sandisk, Sony, and Nikon propose 500MBps memory card with more than 2TB capacityfrom Engadget by Thomas Ricker39 people liked thisWhile the CompactFlash Association scoots along at a maximum transfer rate of 167MB per second under its just released CF6.0 specification, Sandisk, Sony, and Nikon are already looking to the future. The trio have just officially proposed a new memory card format that

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Silicon Hive bringing photographic differentiation to phonesfrom (title unknown) by Paul WorthingtonAn Eindhoven, The Netherlands-based company says it will bring “unrivaled image and video capturing experience to smart phones” by combining imaging algorithms with parallel processing architectures.Rapid introduction of new camera features requires upgrading application processors with software

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Millennial Media Report Shows Android Continuing To Take Overfrom  by Aaron GingrichMillennial Media has released their Mobile Mix for October, and at first sight, the results are fairly impressive. Before diving in, though, it’s important to note that the statistics are based on ad clicks, rather than a population sample. However, that doesn’t mean they don’t help express the overall trends, so

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Gartner: Android Share Jumps To 25.5 Percent, Now Second Most Popular OS Worldwidefrom TechCrunch by Leena Rao1 person liked thisGartner’s third quarter smartphone data is out today and it looks like Android is continuing its assault on iOS devices. According to the latest report, Android accounted for 25.5 percent of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the No. 2 operating system, rising from a

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Tablet Computers vs. Smartphones: Which Is the GIS Tool of the Future?October 20, 2010By: Eric GakstatterAlthough tablet computers have been around for more than a decade, without a doubt, 2010 is the Year of the Tablet Computer. Interestingly enough, 2010 is arguably the Year of the Smartphone. Which one will come out on top?Most authors would tease the reader and have the audience read the

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The True Size of Africafrom geo2web.com by geo2webKai Krause illustrates how big Africa really is by cramming the shapes of other countries into it — a lot of other countries. Why do you people hate Mercator so much? Via MetaFilter

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Mobile nav usage up 57% to 44 millionOct 18, 2010According to a new Berg Insight report, the number of mobile subscribers using a turn-by-turn navigation service or application on their handset increased by 57% between H1-2009 and H1-2010 to reach 44 million worldwide. The global subscriber base is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.1% to reach 195 million users in

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best GPS digital camerafrom NaviGadget by ajkurt1 person liked thisSince we can not stop sharing about our whereabouts and what we are doing, we need to connect instantly and stay connected always.Facebook, twitter, foursquare and so on, let us announce the world all the great stuff we are doing, amazing stuff that we have seen.Just like our phones got smarter, so did our cameras. Especially with

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Sony opens Android developer site for Google TV devicesfrom Engadget by Nilay PatelThere's not much there at the moment, but Sony's just opened a new Android developer site for its Google TV devices -- a possible hint that Sony's offerings will have some unique and different features from the Logitech Revue. Our interest is definitely piqued -- we'll let you know everything that happens during

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Internet Explorer falls below 50 percent global marketshare, Chrome usage triplesfrom Engadget by Tim Stevens100+ people liked thisOh, IE, it pains us to do this to you. You who once so mightily won in the battle against Netscape Navigator now seem to be losing your war against a battalion of upstarts, relatively fresh faces like Firefox and Chrome. According to StatCounter, IE's global usage

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STATS: Android neck-and-neck with iPhone in new buyer surveyfrom EuroDroid by Gary C1 person liked thisA survey by renowned survey supplier ChangeWave shows how Android is rapidly catching iPhone in terms of smartphone mindshare, with future-phone-buyers now as likely to buy Android as one of Apple’s fashionable handsets.The below chart shows a massive swing from iPhone to Android over the last

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US TopoTopographic Maps for the NationMark NewellUS Topo is the next generation of topographic maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Arranged in the familiar 7.5-minute quadrangle format, digital US Topo maps are designed to look and feel (and perform) like the traditional paper topographic maps for which the USGS is so well known. In contrast to paper-based maps, US Topo maps provide

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ComScore: Google's Android surpasses Microsoft in US smartphone market sharefrom Engadget by Darren Murph34 people liked thisConsidering that Steve Ballmer himself said that Microsoft "missed a cycle" in the smartphone sales universe, we guess it's not too shocking to see Android leap past Windows Mobile and Friends in ComScore's latest US smartphone report. If you'll recall, we saw back in July 

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My TracksMy Tracks allows you to record GPS tracks and view live statistics,such as time, speed, distance, and elevation, whilst hiking, biking or running. The application includes the option to export your tracks to Google Spreadsheets and visualise them on Google My Maps.My Tracks also allows you to view the elevation profile of a track by time or distance, create waypoints on your track and

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Seems like an interesting topic to me... generally if my credit or value of privacy has altered as a result of the sort of nonsense noted below, I would would swear out a crimal complaint on Google. If a Google employee rampages through my email, Google Voice or other data for no justifiable reason I expect a lot more from the company than simply terminating them. There needs to be criminal

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Localytics: More Than 20 Percent Of iPhone 3GS Owners Still Have To Upgrade To iOS 4from TechCrunch by Erick SchonfeldIn the smartphone world, it is generally a good thing to keep everyone on the latest operating systems by pushing out upgrades. To the extent that iPhone or Android can get their installed base of users on the latest and greatest OS, the more those users can enjoy new apps built

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gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.0 releasedfrom Slashgeo1 person liked thisgvSIG Mini development team is proud to announce the release of the stable version gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.gvSIG Mini is an open source project (GNU/GPL) aimed at Java and Android mobile phones. Released version is 1.0.0 for Android. This version offers, among other features, the ability of a direct download of maps from the

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A Massive War Is Approaching As The Tablet Market Cannot Sustain Six Separate Platformsfrom TechCrunch by Matt Burns1 person liked thisCan you hear that? It’s the sound of war. Better choose your side soon, too. The tablet wars are going to get nasty.Apple’s army is prepped, already backed by over 3 million zealous iPad owners. But the Google Android horde is quickly banding together and will

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Google: Android 2.2 'not designed' for the tablet form factorfrom Engadget by Darren Murph31 people liked thisHello, obvious! Anyone who has actually used an Android-based tablet for any length of time would probably tell you that the experience is far from optimal. It works, sure, but it doesn't take a CSC major to understand that Google's existing builds of Android were crafted for smartphones

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Android, iOS to surpass BlackBerry in OS share by 2011Both Android and iOS will have overtaken the BlackBerry for market share within the next year, Gartner predicted on Friday. It saw Google overtaking RIM's BlackBerry this year for the second-place spot, but by 2011 expected both Android and the iPhone to have outrun the BlackBerry in 2011. Android will have extended its lead over iOS by

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The USGS New EarthExplorerfrom geo2web.com by geo2webNew EarthExplorerThe United States Geological Survey are using Google Maps to display a large number of data sets that can be downloaded from USGS. The data available to download fits in to three main broad categories; Aerial Photography, Map Products and Satellite Products.The map lets you explore the available data for a specific location.

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Piper Jaffray: Android Army's Victory Over iPhone Inevitable [Digital Daily]from All Things Digital by John PaczkowskiThe battle for dominance in the smartphone market will shake out in the next five years and when it’s finished, Google (GOOG), not Apple (AAPL), will emerge the victor. That’s the outlook from Piper Jaffray which sees Google’s Android OS aggressively capturing market share in the

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Piper Jaffray: Android Army's Victory Over iPhone Inevitable [Digital Daily]from All Things Digital by John PaczkowskiThe battle for dominance in the smartphone market will shake out in the next five years and when it’s finished, Google (GOOG), not Apple (AAPL), will emerge the victor. That’s the outlook from Piper Jaffray which sees Google’s Android OS aggressively capturing market share in the

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Android’s Mobile Web Consumption Share In The US Is Surging, iOS Share Droppingfrom TechCrunch by Robin Wauters5 people liked thisMedia measurement and Web analytics company Quantcast has some interesting numbers on mobile browsing in the United States, and it’s preparing to release some of those statistics, across vendors. Earlier today, the company put up a teaser blog post, showing two graphs,

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SD Association vows breakthrough 300MBps SD card speedsfrom Electronista | The Macintosh News NetworkFollowing an announcement from Toshiba at IFA yesterday that it has developed SDHC memory cards based on the new UHS-1 standard, the SD Association today outlined its plans for its forthcoming SD 4.0 standard. The breakthrough means that SD 4.0 can support real-time HD video playback, whether from

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Toshiba outs record-setting SDHC memory cardsfrom Electronista | The Macintosh News NetworkToshiba has revealed new SDHC memory cards with the Ultra High Speed I (UHS-I) standard that enables them to reach maximum data read rates of 95MBps and write speeds of 80MBps. This makes them the fastest SDHC UHS-I memory cards in the world. The cards can thus far only use these speeds in USB 3.0 readers,

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Tagging Technologies: Free Bookfrom geo2web.com by geo2webBack in May 2010, The Edinburgh College of Art ran a workshop to explore the publics apprehension fortagging technologies. It was very successful and provided insights in to the fears and concerns around RFID and the tagging of objects and people.The day was organised in such a way as to allow participants to take part in semi-structured

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Sandy Bridge tests show Intel video beating dedicated GPUsIntel's Sandy Bridge processor architecture has had a first real test that shows a rare upset in graphics. Living up to claims of much faster integrated graphics, a quad-core 3.1GHz Core i5 2400 successfully outran AMD's Radeon HD 5450 dedicated video card in a series of AnandTech gaming benchmarks. The feat is an achievement for Intel,

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Garmin recalls 1.25 million nuvi GPS units over battery firefrom Electronista | The Macintosh News NetworkGarmin issued a voluntary recall for about 1.25 million nüvi navigation devices on Wednesday. The request was due to the potential to catch fires, which is the result of the combination of a battery manufactured by a third party and a specific circuit board design. Nearly 800,000 of the

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On the case some of you might be interested in IsWhere Video

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QStarz QTracker for real time GPS trackingfrom NaviGadget by Tim RobbinsQStarz finally comes out with a real time GPS tracking device. It is called QTracker and is still in sample phase. But we’re hoping we’ll get our own sample pretty soon. The idea is you put a SIM card (pre-paid recommended) in this device and dial this number from your personal cell phone and receive a text message back with

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Vlingo bows to Google Voice Actions, makes Android version free of chargefrom Engadget by Sean Hollister16 people liked thisWhen Google Navigation hit the scene, it sounded the death knell for paid GPS on Android, so you can imagine the doom and gloom at Vlingo HQ last week when Google released the similar Voice Actions for free. As it turns out, however, Vlingo's not going to give up that easily

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March 31, 2009Using Google Earth OfflineOne of Google Earth's speed features also has the benefit of enabling the application's use when Internet is not available. The key is the Google Earth cache file which stores imagery and other data locally on your hard drive. This speeds up your experience even when you have broadband Internet, but it also is the secret to offline GE use.By using the GE

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The World’s Population by Latitude and Longitudefrom geo2web.com by geo2webKeir Clarke points to this interesting infographic by Bill Rankin that plots the Earth’s population by latitude and longitude. A certain amount of this has to do with available land area — i.e., where the continents are. (I’ve taken the liberty of rearranging the graphic to go wide rather than tall.)

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Gartner and IDC agree: the Android invasion's accelerating around the worldfrom Engadget by Vlad Savov29 people liked thisLast quarter we reported on some pretty stellar growth numbers for Android in the global smartphone marketplace. Back then, Google's OS had a 9.6 percent slice of the pie, but today that's ballooned to a robust 17.2 percent, meaning that in terms of end-user sales over the

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MAPPS Asks Congress to Revise Legislation Limiting Use of "Geolocation Information”MAPPS, the national association of private sector geospatial firms, has sent a letter opposing proposed legislative language that would limit the use of "precise geolocation information". The association said that a draft bill, proposed to be introduced by Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA), chairman of the House

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New York Times July 28, 2010, 12:33 PMWhy Don’t More Cameras Offer GPS?By RIK FAIRLIEI’ve seen a lot of new point-and-shoot cameras over the past couple of weeks as camera makers announce their new summer lineups. A few have demonstrated solid new improvements that should deliver better photos. But one feature that I had been hoping to see — a built-in GPS receiver for geo-tagging photos — wasn’t

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Feature StoryMicrosoft Hohm Joins Forces With Blue Line Innovations to Help Consumers Track Energy Use Down to the Minute and the DollarReal-time power data monitor uses cloud to provide online, personalized energy- and money-saving recommendations via your Hohm profile.REDMOND, Wash. — July 27, 2010 — Tracking your energy use and saving money just got easier today. Microsoft and Blue Line

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Feature StoryMicrosoft Hohm Joins Forces With Blue Line Innovations to Help Consumers Track Energy Use Down to the Minute and the DollarReal-time power data monitor uses cloud to provide online, personalized energy- and money-saving recommendations via your Hohm profile.REDMOND, Wash. — July 27, 2010 — Tracking your energy use and saving money just got easier today. Microsoft and Blue Line

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A quick PSA on “dots” versus “pixels” in LCDs21 CommentsShareby Devin Coldewey on July 21, 2010These days, when you go to look up the specs on a new camera or camcorder, one of the first things you check out is the LCD. But as often as not, you’ll be hit with an unfamiliar number: some huge quantity of “dots.” Most people aren’t familiar with this metric, as it is a slightly technical one — which

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iPhone DSLR: the next generationfrom Engadget by Donald Melanson6 people liked thisEverything you know about awkwardly attaching SLR lenses to iPhones is wrong. This is how you do it. What started out as a quick and less-than-perfect mod of OWLE's Bubo iPhone mount by one Jeremy Salvador (pictured above) has turned into a collaboration between production company Vid-Atlantic and OWLE itself on a

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Millennial Media: Apple OS Grows By 36 Percent In June, Android Up By 23 Percentfrom TechCrunch by Leena Rao2 people liked thisMobile ad network Millennial Media, which claims that its network reaches 82 percent of 72 million mobile web users in the U.S., is reporting that globally, Apple OS requests are up by 36 percent in June, after dropping 33 percent in May.Android requests continued to rise

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An 8 Segment Model to Analyze Smartphone Market, Consumers and Handsetsfrom Communities Dominate Brands by Tomi T Ahonen4 people liked thisI've been doing some nasty blogs recently, very negative vibes. I wanted to do something positive for now, especially to celebrate our 1 millionth page view on this blog today. And as I've been doing so much of the segmentation thinking in mobile over the

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Nokia Divests MetaCartafrom Phone Scoop - Latest News by Eric M. ZemanNokia announced that it has divested MetaCarta to U.S.-based Qbase Holdings. Nokia will keep MetaCarta's geographic intelligence tech, which Nokia will use in its search and location services. Nokia had acquired MetaCarta in April 2010.

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ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMapfrom James Fee GIS Blog by James Fee1 person liked thisMarten Hogeweg has a great overview on the new ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap.For a while, ArcGIS users have been able to use the OpenStreetMap (OSM) content as a basemapin ArcGIS Desktop or in web applications thanks to a republishing of this content through ArcGIS Online. After the earthquakes, we have

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Rayqual adapters bring Leica, Nikon, and Canon lenses to Sony's NEX camerasfrom Engadget by Donald Melanson23 people liked thisSony's new NEX-3 and NEX-5 cameras may have a few limitations when it comes to their UI, but it looks like they won't be hurting for lens options -- Japan's Rayqual has announced that it'll be offering a series of lens adapters for the cameras starting next month. Those

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Nokia lowers outlook due to Android, iPhoneBy Electronista StaffNokia today lived up to predictions by warning that its spring quarter's results would be disappointing. The company expects its net sales to fall near or below the bottom of its $8.3 billion minimum target as the "competitive environment" in high-end phones has forced it to ship fewer phones. Gross profit margins have also been hurt

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Nokia N8 Surprises Yet Again With Bluetooth Mice Compatibilityfrom The Nokia Blog by Mark GuimA new discovery for the Nokia N8 opens up some cool possibilities. FoneArena published a video showing a bluetooth mouse controlling the N8. I think this could be really useful in the living room while the device is connected to a big-screen TV for movies or at the office for giving presentations. Take a

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Camera shipments hint at 9 million iPhone 4s per quarterAsia Optical may have given away Apple's iPhone 4 production plans with statements about its own. The lens maker's chairman Robert Lai said his company is supplying about three million of the phone's front-facing VGA cameras every month since it began manufacturing in May. While production may change, the estimate would give Apple at least

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Thursday, June 10. 2010ArcGIS 10 Download: June 21 (partner) or 28 (public)"ESRI says ArcGIS 10 available for partner download on 6/21/2010, public download on 6/28/2010..."- @MT_AppGeo (at ESRI-Boston [Danvers] at an ESRI Developer Network Event)

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Garmin-ASUS Nuvifone A10 Android smartphoneTera | May 4, 2010 | no commentsGarmin  and Asus have officially unveiled the Garmin-Asus A10 Android smartphone.  The GPS smart navigator is built on Google Android platform. It is equipped with a 3.2-inch touchscreen display with resolution HVGA (320×480 pixels), a 5-megapixel autofocus camera, e-compass, accelerometer, and a 1500 mAh rechargeable

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Library of Congress to Support Geospatial Data Preservationfrom got geoint? by USGIFThe Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution that serves as the “research arm” for Congress. The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for

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Speck PortPack Shoulder Bag Review–Spare and Efficientfrom Mobilewhack.com by Steve AndersonSometimes, the problem with mobile gear carrying cases is that they can carry a whole lot more than mobile gear.  And this can, in turn, pose a serious problem with organizational issues.  It’s hard to keep all your stuff straight when your mobile bag can carry tons of papers and a few books and a large

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ABI Expects 43% CAGR for Mobile Nav Until 2015A new report by ABI Research indicates that handset-based navigation shipments are expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 43% over the next five years, rising from 30 million in 2010 to 181 million in 2015. According to telematics and navigation practice director Dominique Bonte, “The handset navigation boom is largely driven by

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Android sells 100,000 smartphones per day, what does that mean?from Communities Dominate Brands by Tomi T AhonenSo right after I finished my Q1 total smartphone market review, Google came out with the statement that they now sell 100,000 smartphones per day. There are 61 models of Android handsets by 21 branded manufacturers (including Google itself with its Nexus One as one Android handset model

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Yahoo Turns to Nokia/NAVTEQ for Mapsfrom geo2web.com by geo2webEngadget reports Nokia and Yahoo have announced a strategic partnership that includes Yahoo using Nokia’s NAVTEQ for maps and navigation. Of the major online map providers, it’s safe to say that Yahoo has been lagging the furthest behind. Engadget quotes ever-tactful Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz as saying “that Yahoo had ‘lost its focus on

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Entelligence: Is Android fragmented or is this the new rate of innovation?By Michael Gartenberg  posted May 22nd 2010 8:21PMI've written in the past about my concern that the Android platform is fragmenting much like desktop Linux has over the years, and the potential for the platform to turn into a patchwork of devices and vendor specific modifications that bear little relationship with each

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WebM's royalty-free HTML5 video raises patent issuesGoogle, Mozilla, Opera may be in trouble with WebMupdated 03:00 pm EDT, Wed May 19, 2010The new WebM codec shown at the analysis. Although pitched as a royalty-free HTML5 video standard using a combination of VP8 video and Ogg Vorbis, x264 developer Jason Garrett-Glaser notes that some of the implementations in the now Google-supported format

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Invasion of the Market Share Snatchers: BlackBerry Losing Share to Android? [Digital Daily]from All Things Digital by John PaczkowskiResearch in Motion’s BlackBerry is the leading smartphone brand in the United States thanks to its vast core demographic of enterprise power users. But as the smartphone evolves into the standard for the broader consumer market, RIM (RIMM) may see that lead eroded

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Adobe shows Flash running on Android 2.2ElectronistaAdobe in a new video demo (see below) has shown not only Flash 10.1 for mobile but a teaser of the next version of Android. The plugin now appears to run smoothly on a Nexus Oneand can handle most common use cases for Flash, including 3D, gaming, video and simply dynamic web content. Adobe's Ryan Stewart also explained some of how certain

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Yahoo’s Director Of Geo Engineering Locates The Exitfrom TechCrunch by MG Siegler1 person liked thisYahoo has seen etter days. I can’t remember when, but they’ve seen them. And today seems like a particularly bad one.We just reported about Jonathan Trevor, one of the key figures behind Yahoo Pipes and YQL, is leaving the company for Polyvore. And now we have another one to report. Gary Gale, the

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Smart phone sales boom, Android and Apple prove themselves as prominent playersfrom Mobilewhack.com by JeffWhen you think of smartphone sales who do you think are the two players that are really coming to light? Sure,Nokia and RIM are making strides with their ridiculously high sales numbers but Apple, with their iPhone, and Google’s Android operating system are really pulling their

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Not all time is created equally.... Left: UTC Time from Android Market FREE,  Red time is the Nexus One internal clock time off by 12+/- seconds from UTC, Blue time is Internet Clock timeCenter Upper: National Standard UTC Time from http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0/javaCenter Lower: free Blog widget that is off by a couple of seconds... almost UTC... Right: UTC time on Oregon 400 via Trip

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Nokia - canary in the mine?   Nokia might have really blown it?Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila said the company's management is fully supported by the board in focusing on offering services and slowly shying away from hardware, according to a Thursday report. Nokia has began offering Internet services that include musicdownloads, e-mail and maps. A chief executive at the company admits there is

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Android equally split between three versions - ElectronistaOnly third of Android phones up to dateLess than a third of Android phones are using the most recent version of the OS, Google has revealed in its latest platform versions data. About 32.4 percent are using Android 2.1, but an even larger 37.2 percent are still using Android 1.5. Another 29.4 percent are still using Android 1.6, and

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Great blog and informed responses... H.264 Is A Codec; Flash Is A Platform.  One Can Not Kill Off The OtherDan Rayburn | Monday May 3, 2010 | 11:17 AM | Comments (8)Over the weekend I read another few dozen articles on the whole Apple and Adobe debate and probably read through a thousand comments. Some of the posts I read were really good, but far too many people are comparing codecs (H.264, VP8)

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gvSIG Mini is a free viewer  of free aceess maps based on tiles (OpenStreetMap, YahooMaps, Microsoft Bing, ...), with a WMS, WMS-C client, address and POI search, routes, hybrid location and many more things.Main FeaturesMultiple Map Layers (satellite images and standard maps).Low bandwidth usage and offline usageMaps downloaderSupport for WMS and WMS-C layersLayer configuration downloaderAddress

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Flickr - one way is the highway?Back in 2006 when Flickr's geotagging first was starting, I discovered that if you geotag your images using Flickr or actually other tags as well, on simple export none of this content that I added was passed back.  Essentially all "my" metadata was captured by Flickr?  FYI... Rev Dan Catt said...[disclaimer: I work for Flickr :) ]Just thought I'd add a note. If

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Internet Explorer drops below 60% web sharefrom Electronista | The Macintosh News Network1 person liked thisInternet Explorer has dropped below a 60 percent share of web traffic for the first time, Net Applications found in its latest study. Microsoft's browser dropped to 59.95 percent of web use in April after Google Chrome leapt half a point ahead to 6.73 percent in the same timeframe. Firefox

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NaviGaget: cerevellum GPS for bikes and rear view cameraThe Cerevellum, which is a medical term for the brain, is a prototype GPS for bikes. Its main feature is the rear view camera it integrates so you’ll always know what’s happening on the road behind you – which is really valuable for people on their bikes. It seems like an ideal gadget for the city cyclist who can not only see what happens

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World's biggest computer makers if we include smartphones? Nokia, HP, Apple..from Communities Dominate Brands by Tomi T AhonenA little over a year ago I wrote my blog here where we did probably the world's first calculation of total computer shipment numbers on the assumption that a smartphone could be counted as a computer. Not surprisingly many crucified us here for blasphemy, that a smartphone

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Nokia N8 goes official: 12 megapixels, Symbian^3, shipping in Q3from Engadget by Darren Murph39 people liked thisAnd just like that, it's official. We heard back at CTIA that Nokia's N8 would see an official reveal during April, and just a few short days after surfacing in Russia, that very smartphone has indeed been announced over in Espoo. There's not much here we didn't know about -- it'll be

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Here's how to install Android on your iPhone 2Gfrom Engadget by Sean Hollister100+ people liked thisLast week, planetbeing claimed he'd ported Android to the iPhone. This week, Android A Lot says you can, too. If you've got an original iPhone 2G handy, there's now a 68-step guide that can walk you through the entire process. In a nutshell, you'll use iPhone Explorer to copy over the Android files

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Giving Up ArcGIS Server for Google Maps?21APR/104As mentioned in a previous post I have been converting Union County's Community Mapperapplication from ArcGIS Server to the Google Maps API.Do I have anything against an ArcGIS Server solution? Not at all. ArcGIS Server still takes up a lot of room in my tool chest. I just wanted to freshen up the look and feel of a stale application and take a

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Nokia ships 21.5m smart devices, outpaced by AppleBy Electronista StaffNokia this morning claimed a minor return to form with an upturn in its phone business, especially smartphones. It shipped a much larger 21.5 million "converged devices," which includes both its smartphones and the Booklet 3G, in the first quarter of the year. The tally is a 57 percent jump from a year ago and is estimated to

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Android ported to iPhone?from Engadget by Sean Hollister100+ people liked thisIf you're a diehard iPhone user waiting for a similarly-gorgeous Android phone before you jump ship, you could spend time pining for a new HTC or Dell. Then again, the Droid you've been looking for might be right under your nose. Intrepid Linux fan planetbeing claims to have ported a debug version of Android to the

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Google already testing Android 2.2Logs posted late yesterday show that Google is actively testing Android 2.2. Better known as Froyo (frozen yogurt), the future release is showing up in web logs from those visiting sites. More than one source for Android and Mealso claims to know of the testing directly.What 2.2 will entail hasn't been discussed by Google, but it should have a number of important

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See How Gartner Rates Smartphone PlatformsBy Susan NunziataDulaney also discussed iPhone OS 4.0, while acknowledging that Apple has supplied only a limited amount of information about the upgraded devices, due in June or July.Until v. 4.0, Apple has resisted opening up the device's background processing in order to avoid risking battery life, according to Dulaney. With 4.0, "they created modules

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RouteScout is a Win XP and Win7 tool for easy geotagged collection of imagery, video, audio notes, and other metadata following methods and content based on a decade of use in the DoS. RouteScout is in two parts, software that integrates ground imagery into FalconView and TalonView as well as allowing mission planning and routing integration between Garmin Nuvi, Oregon, and Colorado personal

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14 Apr 10 2011 iPhone Coming with an 8MP Sony Photo Camera?We all know that the iPhone 4G will be released in the next few months but if you want to fast-forward, here is some juicy rumor for you. It seems that the 2011 iPhone will come with something new, an 8MP photo camera courtesy of Sony.According to The Street, Apple has chosen Sony as supplier of 8MP camera modules for the 2011 iPhone.

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Feel-goodroid: Nexus One is in the black, 60K Android devices activated per dayfrom Engadget by Chris ZieglerWe'd heard a couple times that the Nexus One was selling at a mere trickle, but what we haven't heard is whether the phones that have sold are enough to generate a profit for Google -- and on its earnings call today, the company claimed for the first time that its superphone is indeed in

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Future Apple Products?from Mobilewhack.com by Paul B

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LEADING COMPANIES FORM MHL CONSORTIUM TO ADVANCE STANDARD FOR WIRED MOBILE CONNECTIVITYSUNNYVALE, Calif., April 14, 2010,– Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KSE: 005930, LSE-GDR: SMSN), Silicon Image, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIMG), Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) and Toshiba Corporation (TSE:6502) today announced the formation of the MHL™ (Mobile High-Definition Link) Consortium to

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Given the recent sour Apple attit-dude regarding Adobe and its Flash, this has got to be of interest?  Nokia remains dominate in the world-wide market for feature phones as well as smart phones. They too have experimented with tablets and origami-phones. The Nokia N900 is one of those Finnish experiments that IMHO is offered up to generate social design?  Hosting Chrome into it is quite an

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A rather interesting set of commentary on Apple's agression on Adobie, HTC, and others... if you can not beat them litigate?iPhone in Memoriam: A History from its Peak Moment of Success. But who copied whom?from Communities Dominate Brands by Tomi T AhonenI have seen enough of the numbers - as I reported before, the Christmas sales were brutal for the iPhone, the first sign of major trouble. The

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Android Market gets 9,000 new apps in March, world domination can't be far behindfrom Engadget by Vladislav Savov42 people liked thisWanna know what exponential growth looks like? Try following Android's progress over the past few months and you'll be treated to plenty of rapidly ascending charts. This latest one from AndroLib is no different, illustrating as it does the ever-increasing influx of

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Application Downloads Pick Up Pace after Smartphone Sales SoarMobile Applications Market Data | The Mobile ConsumerSINGAPORE - April 5, 2010Contact: Christine GallenContact PRwww.abiresearch.comABI Research expects 2010 to be a big year for mobile application downloads, with just under 6 billion mobile applications forecast to be downloaded, up from an estimated 2.4 billion in 2009. The rapid

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A really neet meeting of mobile-place gypsies. Apparently this year around 1200 were paid guests. Indeed how far have we come spatially in the years since?So a couple of the more interesting observations might include:Michael Jones, Google’s Chief Technology Advocate. He didn’t unveil anything new, but had some impressive statistics:• Google Earth has been installed by over 600 million people•

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Repeat After Me: The Rival to the Blackberry is NOT the iPhonefrom Communities Dominate Brands by Tomi T AhonenMOBILE PHONE FINAL MARKET SHARES 2009So, now we have the final numbers. And it looks like this for the top 10 biggest mobile phone handset makers for 2009. Note that these numbers (including last year's market shares) have been adjusted for the unlicensed ie pirated phones, so note, '

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UK firm Coda Research Consultancyforecasts that in the U.S. alone mobile handset data traffic will grow from 8 petabytes/month this year to 327 petabytes/month in 2015. That amounts to a 117 percent compound annual growth rate.A lot of that data will come in the form of mobile Web browsing, with the biggest contributor expected to be mobile video. By 2015, mobile video will account for 68.5

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Appcelerator.com - Mobile Developer Survey March 2010When Appcelerator initially surveyed its developer base prior to Apple‟s announcement in January, interest in the platform was overwhelmingly high. At that time, 90% of developers said they were very interested in building an iPad app within the year. Fast forward two months to an updated developer poll taken March 23 - March 25 and we see

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Android doing a Tap-Dance on iPhone By Jean Crumrine and Paul CartonChangeWave March 31, 2010ChangeWave’s latest consumer smart phone survey shows the Google (GOOG) Android mobile operating system is continuing to have a massive and transformational impact on the smart phone market.The March 9-23 survey of 4,040 consumers provides an up-close look at the meteoric rise of the Android OS and the

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EETimesLONDON — Global shipments of GPS-enabled GSM/WCDMA handsets increased 92 percent in 2009 to 150 million units, according to analysis firm Berg Insight AB (Gothenburg, Sweden). With growth set to continue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38.7 percent, shipments are forecasted to reach 770 million units in 2014.Adoption of GPS technology in mobile phones started in the smartphone

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North American smart phone shipments to exceed 65 million units in 2010- Android will grow strongly but RIM will retain its market leadership positionPalo Alto, Singapore and Reading (UK) – Wednesday, 17 March 2010For immediate release  The North American smart phone market is forecast to grow 38% year on year in 2010Android device shipments in North America will grow quickly, surpassing 12.3

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Nokia allowing the community to vote on a handset designfrom Mobilewhack.com by JeffNokia is at it again with their unique marketing techniques. This time they have opened up what they are calling the Design by Community. This website allows you to move various sliders to create your ideal handset. Once done you can submit the design to Nokia and they will presumably take what the community wants

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Google may have to find another name for its flagship Android device, the Nexus One. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has reportedly rejected Google's application for the name Nexus One.Nexus One Trademark a No GoWireless Week 3/18/2010The USPTO said in a filing that an Oregon company, Integra Telecom, owns the "Nexus" trademark and Google's smartphone might lead to confusion. A

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Google Awarded Location PatentMarch 17, 2010  By: Janice Partyka GPSWorldGoogle was awarded a killer patent for the use of location information in advertising. The search giant can leverage the patent to control the use of location information in ads, one of the most targeted and hence, lucrative, parameters of mobile and web-based advertising. The patent covers all the good stuff: using location

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