Head Tracking for iPad: Glasses-Free 3D Display. Mobile Statistics, Stats & Facts 2011 Microsoft Tag has just released a neat infographic highlighting statistics on how people are using mobile phones in 2011.
I also dug up a great video that featured late last year with an array of great mobile “growth” statistics, stats and facts for 2011. The infographic shows that over 1 billion of the worlds 4+ billion mobiles phones are now smartphones, and 3 billion are SMS enabled (weirdly, 950 million mobile phones still don’t have SMS capabilities). In 2014, mobile internet usage will overtake desktop internet usage and already in 2011, more than 50% of all “local” searches are done from a mobile device. 86% of mobile users are watching TV while using a mobile phone, 200+ million (1/3 of all users) access Facebook from a mobile device and 91% of all mobile internet use is “social” related. RIP, RIM. April 28, 2011, 10:35 PM — Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), Canadian maker of the BlackBerry, on Thursday warned investors that disappointing shipments of its flagship smartphone will result in lower-than-expected earnings for the current quarter.
Wall Street reacted sensibly and predictably, with RIM shares falling as much as 17 percent (!) In extended trading to 46.90 from Thursday's closing price of 56.59. Once considered the gold standard of smartphones -- especially in the corporate sector, where jokes about the addictive "CrackBerry" were common -- the BlackBerry has seen its market share erode faster than Lindsay Lohan's acting career in recent years as first Apple's iPhone, and then devices powered by Google's Android OS, have stolen its thunder and cachet.
(Seriously, when was the last time you heard a "CrackBerry" reference?) Four years ago, the BlackBerry was the smartphone market leader. CrossPlatformMobile. Programming platforms · tools · mobile tags: With the rise of so many mobile platforms, each with a different UI, many people are looking at cross-platform toolkits.
These allow you to write a mobile app once and then deploy it to a range of mobile devices. Gigwalk Allows iPhone Owners to Stumble Into Part-Time Work. The idea of using the Internet to parse out small jobs is not new.
But a new crop of businesses has popped up that use the iPhone to help people find and perform small tasks near them. One of the most ambitious of these projects is Gigwalk, which lets anyone with an iPhone sign up to perform tasks such as photographing an intersection or documenting a restaurant using nothing more than the camera on their device. Although the tasks performed by each individual are small, the idea behind Gigwalk is to find large companies that need tasks performed that would otherwise be to costly and laborious to complete. In private beta for the last few months, the service is already being used by GPS mapping firm TomTom and restaurant listing service Menupages to crowdsource tasks that are core to their businesses. How can I put my app in front of millions of new users. Your company's own app store. Private "storefronts" let corporations outfit employees with homegrown business apps.
Revolutionary new paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets. The world's first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing.
A cheat sheet for App Store pricing. Eddie Smith on App Store prices: It might sound weird coming from a non-seller of apps, but I like seeing higher prices in the App Store.
HP: TouchPad's WebOS Threatens Android, Apple iOS. Richard Kerris, the former Apple exec, is gliding through his presentation of HP's TouchPad.
As the current VP of worldwide developer relations for WebOS, the slick software giving life to HP's latest mobile devices, Kerris is giddily running through the tablet's bells and whistles: the design, the partnerships, the apps, the engineering. But suddenly our discussion is interrupted by the sound of woodwinds, dancing up the scale. The sound is familiar. Native Apps Or Web Apps? Particle Code Wants You To Do Both. When it comes to app development for mobile devices, cross-platform implementation is the new hot thing.
Developers have long struggled with fragmentation across operating systems, when they want to just be able to create one app and blast it out on every platform imaginable. Businesses like Heroku and Appcelerator, and gaming versions like Game Closure (and many others) collectively make creating, hosting, and deploying games a more manageable endeavor. But today, a startup is launching that hopes to make development of mobile apps even easier. Palo Alto-based Particle Code is building a platform that enables mobile developers to write mobile apps and games once, deploy both HTML5 and native apps across platforms and devices — all from within a single codebase.
Tendances. Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends (Feb 2011) iPads, Android tablets and smartphones join the military. Shooting turtles or attacking enemy warplanes with game apps on an iPad is child's play compared to the apps two military contractors are planning for use with low-cost, consumer-grade tablets and smartphones.
For example, Harris, a Pentagon contractor with experience in commercial broadcast video products, is working on an app for Apple's iPad and other tablets that will allow a soldier on the ground to use touchscreen gestures to remotely move a camera aboard an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to find enemy weapons or troops, while watching what the camera sees on the tablet. The video information, combined with data about location and time, can be quickly transmitted using Harris video technology to a network manned by intelligence commanders around the globe who could make quick decisions about military targets. Mobile Megatrends 2011. Appstores.com. This is the Creepy, Super Cool Future of Smartphones & Social Networks.