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Just Another Mobile Phone Blog: How To Get A Symbian Certificate

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This is a short video, no voice, just guidance, on how to get a certificate for Symbian mobile phones. You need one of these to combine with a signing tool so that you can sign applications and then they can be installed onto the phone.

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January 31st, 2010 | Author: admin

Posted in Other Phones, iPhone, iPhone Articles, iPhone Hacks, iPhone News, iPhone Resources

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eBay Mobile - i use this on iphone

Now eBay buyers and sellers have The World's Online Marketplace at their fingertips, wherever they go. The new eBay application for the iPhone is specially designed to run natively on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Using a streamlined interface that's as elegant as it is practical, eBay members can search, bid, and check their activity on the go. Buyers can sneak in that last-minute bid on a hard-to-find item, sellers can check on their sales, and everyone can act on time-sensitive information on the spot without a computer. eBay is now open for business anytime, anywhere on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION:

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Tags: lifestyle , shopping , ebay , auction

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NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news: This Week's Media and Tech News Wrap-Up

NYConvergence

This week,  NYConvergence learned about new mobile apps at Mobile Monday and about business models at the SIIA Information Industry Summit.  We also saw some new video companies present at the first NY Video Meetup of 2010. 

In other digital-media technology news this week:

• The MTA began a new texting program for LIRR riders

• eMusic signed a deal with Warner Music Group
• Apple's iPad was announced and AT&T promised better 3G in NYC for it
  
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iPhone turned fashion assistant, great apps for every style

Every fashion app you will ever need or want is right here, thanks to the Independent and their digging. We took which ones we thought would be best for the mobile iPhone carrying fashionista, have a look and decide for yourself.

Our first app is a bit of a “simulation”, have you ever wanted to go shopping at the hottest boutiques on the famous Oxford Street in the heart of London? For just $1.99 you can with the Shop View apps. A 3D tour of the shops and with links to their Twitter feeds and websites you get to enjoy the special sales like you really are right there.

Seventeen Magazine's Seventeen Fashion Finder app lets you shop for designer items, share them with friends, and even see what the stars are choosing. This one is free.

Want instructions and new patterns for crocheting? Maybe? Oh come on just try the ForgetMeKnit Lite app it's free.

For instant outfit approval, the Love It or Lose it app lets you send three pictures of an outfit, from wherever you are, to your friends or the apps online community for their you look hot approval before you buy.

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Diary of an iPhone Developer: The iPad

It's finally here! The new iPad is almost exactly what the rumor mill has been churning up for months but somehow seeing the thing officially announced still makes my jaw drop a little. Why? Because it opens up some new opportunities for iPhone developers without making them jump through a lot of hoops.

For starters, it runs iPhone apps out of the box. It's true that apps built for the 320-by-480-pixel iPhone 3.5-inch screen might look a little funky on the iPad's 9.7-inch lush 1024-by-768-pixel display. But this was a great move on Apple's part to avoid alienating 100,000+ mobile apps for release. Much in the way the Classic layer did for OS X and Rosetta did for the switch to Intel architecture, this was a logical way to bridge the transition while developers update their apps for the larger display.

Apple released the new 3.2 SDK beta to general developers today. I'm still in the process of downloading the whopping 2GB update (by comparison, the newest Android SDK is only 20MB) but a glance at the 3.2 API differences are, unsurprisingly, very iPad-oriented. A great number of additions are for text layout, which is great for e-book content; E-Ink won't hold a candle to this puppy as the new APIs should make the iPad perfect for displaying content exactly as it is in its print counterpart. Also, a lot of robust movie playback features have been added as well as a brand new class called "UIGestureRecognizer" which, as the name implies, expands upon the already stellar touch input libraries.

The new SDK makes it easy to create distinct iPhone and iPad UIs over the same app and features a new iPad Simulator that helps you debug and view your UI before you can even get your hands on the device. The SDK also includes APIs to allow developers to utilize external displays attached to an iPad.

Am I disappointed the iPad doesn't run desktop OS X? Sure, it would have been interesting to run Photoshop on an iPad, but the choice to go with an augmented iPhone OS was clear: The iPhone has one of the best best mobile OS's out there and the iPad is very much a mobile device. It is truly a computer built for consumption rather than creation. Still, it will be interesting to see the sorts of "creation" style apps that developers will come up with. I expect that the painting app we saw demoed at the announcement, "Brushes," is just the beginning.

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One Technology That Will Rock 2010 (Update #1)

Thanks to the TechCrunch post titled: Ten Technologies That Will Rock 2010, I've been able to quickly construct a derivative post that condenses the ten item list down to a Single Technology That Will Rock 2010 :-)

Sticking with the TechCrunch layout, here is why all roads simply lead to Linked Data come 2010 and beyond:

1. The Tablet: a new form factor addition re. Internet and Web application hosts which is just another way of saying: Linked Data will be accessible from Tablet applications.
2. Geo: GPS chips are now standard features of mobile phones, so geolocation is increasingly becoming a necessary feature for any killer app. Thus, GeoSpatial Linked Data and GeopSpatial Queries are going to be a critical success factor for any endeavor that seeks to engage mobile applications developers and ultimately their end-users. Basiacally, you want to be able to perform Esoteric Search from these devices of the form: Find Vendors of a Camcorder (e.g., with a Zoom Factor: Weight Ratio of X) within a 2km Radius of my current location. Or how many items from my WishList are available from a Vendor within a 2km radius of my current location. Conversely, provide Vendors with the ability to spot potential Customers within a 2km of a given "clicks & mortar" location (e.g. BestBuy store).
3. Realtime Search: Rich Structured Profiles that leverage standards such as FOAF and FOAF+SSL will enable Highly Personalized Realtime Search (HPRS) without compromisng privacy. Tecnically, this is about WebIDs securely bound to X.509 Certificates, providing access to verifiable and highly navigable Personal Profile Data Spaces that also double as personal search index entry points.
4. Chrome OS: Just another operating system for exploiting the burgeoning Web of Linked Data
5. HTML5: Courtesy of RDFa, just another mechanism for exposing Linked Data by making HTML+RDFa a bona fide markup for metadata (i.e., format for describing real world objects via their attribute-value graphs)
6. Mobile Video: Simplifies the production and sharing of Video annotations (comments, reviews etc.) en route to creating rich Linked Discourse Data Spaces.
7. Augmented Reality: Ditto
8. Mobile Transactions: As per points 1&2 above, Vendor Discovery and Transaction Conusmation will increasingly be driven by high SDQ applications. The "Funnel Effect" (more choices based on individual preferences) will be a critical success factor for any one operating in the Mobile Transaction realm. Note, without Linked Data you cannot deliver scalable solutions that handle the combined requirements of: SDQ, "Funnel Effect", and Mobile Device form factor, will simply maginify the importance of Web accessible Linked Data.
9. Android: An additional platform for items 1-8; basically, 2010 isn't going to be an iPhone only zone. Personally, this reminds me of a battle from the past i.e., Microsoft vs Apple, re. desktop computing dominance. Google has studied history very well :-)
10. Social CRM: this is simply about applying points 1-9 alongide the construction of Linked Data from eCRM Data Spaces.

As I've stated in the past (across a variety of mediums), you cannot build applications that have long term value without addressing the following issues:

1. Data Item or Object Identity
2. Data Structure -- Data Models
3. Data Representation -- Data Model Entity & Relationships Representation mechanism (as delivered by metadata oriented markup)
4. Data Storage -- Database Management Systems
5. Data Access -- Data Access Protocols
6. Data Presentation -- How you present Views and Reports from Structured Data Sources
7. Data Security -- Data Access Policies

The items above basically showcase the very essence of the HTTP URI abstraction that drives HTTP based Linked Data; which is also the basic payload unit that underlies REST.

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Bliss, is a technology and design company focusing on the development of mobile, tablet, web and desktop applications.

Our team is made of people with accurate knowledge and results on Design, Usability and Web/Mobile based Software.

We work with passion for creating something new and cool. Our goal is to find out ways to make your life like a bliss.

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"Real" OS X Apps on the iPad, Are You Crazy ?!?!?

I'm posting this from my iPhone, so I can't be bothered to name names, but trust me when I tell you, there are a lot of people criticising Apple for basing the iPad off the iPhone OS, rather than making it capable of running Macintosh applications by using a touch-enabled version of the version of OS X that runs on Mac desktops and laptops. I understand the impulse, but these people are either crazy, or they just aren't thinking things through.

Let's get one thing out of the way right up front. There is just no damn way to profitably sell a device that matches the price, performance and portability of the iPad that also runs existing Mac apps. This will change in the future, but it's just not something that can happen this year.

There are many reasons for this, but it really starts with the fact that modern Macs use Intel CPUs and Intel CPUs just aren't as power efficient for a given level of performance as the ARM CPU in the iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices. So, an iPad that runs existing Mac apps would have to have an Intel CPU, and so would have shorter battery-life, which hurts portability.This could be compensated for with a larger battery, but a larger battery would be heavier, which hurts portability and add expense which would already be higher, because intel CPUs cost more than ARM CPUs.

So on the hardware side, price and weight are two strikes against an iPad that runs Mac apps, but that is only half the problem. The bigger problem is software.Mac apps are built to be run on fairly powerful computers that are capable of multitasking and which people use a mouse and keyboard to interact with. There are a few implications of this.

First, there is a good chance that existing OS X apps, designed to run on powerful hardware, would be both slow and power hungry on an iPad becuase acceptable performance and efficiency on a iMac or MacBook could be completely unacceptable on an iPad. This is on top of the inherent power-efficiency disadvantages of compatible hardware.

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Disruptive Demographics: Global Aging, Technology & Innovation

Complementing Laurie Orlovs Aging In Place Technology Watch and Dick Strouds Mobile apps for Baby Boomers, Joseph Coughlin has a new blog:

Disruptive Demographics: Global Aging, Technology & Innovation

Insights on the impact of aging and technological change on innovations in society, business and government.

Dr. Coughlin heads up MIT AgeLab.  He also puts on a great show when presenting at conferences and seminars.  Heres one I had something to do with:

While on a private day-long consult for a major pharma company and their marketing agency, I met Dr. Joseph Coughlin, founding Director of the MIT AgeLab The numbers-cruncher wore a very conservative, gray suit, the academic a dark pinstripe and loud bow tie, and the ad guy a mock turtleneck and over-the-top orangey sport coat. We were straight from central casting.

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