NFC, Near Field Communication is not new technology since it has been around since early 2000.
Since today it has never been used in the consumer space apart from some niche applications.
Yesterday Alcatel-Lucent announced Tikitag. The main idea is to create a link between the on-line world with the off-line world with a simple and pragmatic [...]

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A few days ago Google has finally released a new version of the Android SDK. The version number of this new versione is 0.9 and it seems that we are slowly approaching the first official release of Version 1.0.
The post of the announcement can be read by following this link pointing to the official Google [...]

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I have been a great fan of Second Life for a very long time. A few months ago I almost quitted since it was starting to become boring and quite repetitive.
Vollee Inc., a company with offices in the United States and Israel has anounced a Second Life viewer for Symbian enabled mobile phones. This is [...]

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Mobile phones equipped with high quality cameras are getting very popular and affordable in the last few years. It is not uncommon to find 5 megapixels cameras able to produce high quality pictures and videos.
If in the past it was hard for journalist to produce content while on the move without the support of professional [...]

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Qik is a brand new service that wille let you stream live content from your mobile phone to the Internet.
Qik delivers a simple application to install on your mobile phone that will take control of your mobile phone camera and will deliver your video stream to QIK servers.
From what I can read from their web [...]

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Sometimes it happens to read some really cool idea developed by some crazy coder.
We have started to see a lot of mobile phone equipped with WiFi and lot of them are running an open Operating System like Windows Mobile or Symbian.
The idea here is quite simple but extremely powerful.
From one side you have your broadband [...]

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This post could sound like an ad for Exmocare…but it’s not true. Take a look to their pages and you’ll agree with the statement: “Being better connected with -this- (our body signals) information about ourselves and our loved ones provides the first step toward the great promise of technology that works for us - not [...]

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If you had a chance to go through the Google Android documentation you will have noticed a very interesting thing: a lot of the most interesting APIs are optional.
Having a look at this page will show you the following list of optional APIs:

Location-Based services
Media APIs
3D Graphics with OpenGL
Low-Level Hardware Access

If you have worked on some [...]

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There have been speculations around for months and at the end of day it is not a phone, it is a platform named Android.
Lot of interesting things about this.
First of all I would say this not really nothing completely revolutionary for the mobile industry. Just checking my poor memory make me think about LiMo, OpenMoko, [...]

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I have read a very interesting post at 0xDECAFBAD.
The most interesting sentence in that post is the following:
An API is an admission that you haven’t the creativity or time to build everything your website needs.
In a general sense I tend to agree to this sentence. It is true that there are plenty of web services [...]

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I have recently run into J2MEdit and I found it very interesting.
J2MEdit is a java application that should run on most mobiles providing you with a complete text editor for source code with syntax highlighting. If we would stop here there would be nothing new on the horizon.
The interesting thing about J2MEdit is that you [...]

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A few weeks ago I bought a Nabaztag and I was impressed by functionalities and possibilities of the “first second connected rabbit“.
I started playing with it and after a few days I decided to explore a little bit deeper in the services that I could run.
I came across opennab that is basically a proxy server [...]

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I noticed an interesting news on the VNUnet website titled “BitTorrent unveils consumer electronics SDK“.
If you go through the article you will find that the peer to peer software developer has released an SDK to allow integration of Torrent technology into consumer electronics device.
Well, actually not really new. There are already some devices that integrates [...]

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In the past few years all operators have started populating their mobile phone with branded applications in order to boost their data ARPU.
In the last few months they seem to be focusing on the mobile phone idle screen.
It’s quite easy to think at the mobile phone idle screen as the personal computer desktop. Actually I [...]

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