The Benefits of QR Codes « Mobile News Authority. QR codes are a kind of two dimensional matrix barcode that need special QR barcode readers, though the latest camera phones are also able to decode them.
Though they were created some time ago, it is only very recently that they have started being more commonly used and are likely to become even more popular in the near future. This is because QR codes offer more advantages than linear barcodes and their capacity to store more data makes them more sought after. Some of the advantages include: The present technology requires the downloading of an app to make this possible, but with new research these will come preloaded in mobile phones. Numerous apps available to read QR codes – There are tens of apps that help to read QR codes on mobile phones, with some specific ones available exclusively for the Blackberry, iPhone and other smart phones.
Best Augmented Reality Apps For iPhone and iOS. Are you ready for the Internet of Things? Mobile Government. Mobile technology is changing the way people find and use information and services.
How does government interact with the public in this anytime, anywhere world? This Making Mobile Gov Project is helping agencies work together to make a more open, innovative government to meet 21st century citizen expectations. We are starting by helping you discover information and make the case for mobile in your agency. Next, we want you to join in and discuss the challenges to mobile gov. Third, we will have a dialogue with people in government, industry, nonprofits, and the general public on how to design this mobile future. Based on your input, we’ll launch a community-generated wiki with tools to help you build and implement a mobile strategy for your agency and to share resources among agencies. Mobile has been called transformative for healthcare, commerce, development and education. Microdata Tutorial. What is Microdata?
Microdata is a way of embedding machine-readable information in your web page. More specifically, it's a way of instructing a machine how to extract information that already exists in your web page. Why would you want to do this? There are lots of reasons. Here a few possible ones: There are many ways in which making information easier for a machine to discover and read can potentially be useful. How do I use Microdata? Basic usage of microdata is extremely simple, and requires only two attributes, itemscope and itemprop. itemscope itemscope is a binary attribute. How the ‘internet of things’ could radically change local government. Mobile apps are reshaping government services and operations.
In beeld: het internet 'van de dingen' ‘World’s first location-aware digital newspaper’ Future Of Mobile. Smarter Task-Transfers Use Mobile Cameras - Smarter Strategies. Posted on Friday Jun 24th 2011 by R. Colin Johnson. Filed under: Cloud Computing How many times have you found a Web page on your smartphone that you want open on your desktop computer? Or perhaps you were viewing your destination on Google Maps and want to transfer that to your smartphone. Using an experimental app called Deep Shot, you can do these things by merely aiming your smartphone's camera at your computer. Deep Shot was developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Google for a paper presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's conference on Computer-Human Interaction.
The app works by taking a photo of your computer's screen, and, using pattern recognition algorithms, it ascertains what program you are currently running and the document you have open. Google's Deep Shot, developed with MIT, transfers tasks from the desktop to a smartphone, or vice versa, by merely pointing the phone's camera at the PC screen. Do not look to download the app just yet. NSW State Election 2011 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Web 3.0 Could Lead to E-Government That Anticipates Citizens’ Needs. “Web 3.0” is an IT buzzword that’s appearing with greater frequency among the state and local government IT community.
Explanations differ as to what it means in terms of implementation, but the overarching concept is “machine-to-machine” communication on the Internet. This means that in a growing number of instances, software applications — not the human end-users — will evaluate the usefulness of Web page content, online data and sensor information. Where Web 2.0 was about users contributing data manually and interacting with one another regarding that data, Web 3.0 is focused on applications that search on behalf of users for data that’s likely to be of interest. For instance, imagine Person A reveals his favorite recording artists on his Facebook account. Person B becomes a Facebook friend of Person A and later listens to one of those recording artists on Internet radio website Pandora.com.
Mechelen eerste Belgische stad met iPhone app - Datanews. De stad Mechelen heeft als eerste stad in België een eigen iPhone app, waardoor iPhone-gebruikers nieuwsberichten en kalenderitems van de stad via hun smartphone kunnen raadplegen.
De lancering past volgens schepen Kristl Strubbe (Open Vld) in het kader van het ‘Mobile Internet ICT’-beleid van de stad. "De iPhone blijkt enorm populair, en de gebruikers ervan zijn bovendien de meest actieve in het downloaden van toepassingen of apps. Op termijn worden er applicaties voor alle smartphones en mobile internetgebruikers gelanceerd", zegt ze. De app ondersteunt ook pushberichten, nuttig bij crisiscommunicatie. Documentary Film - Web 3.0 - by Kate Ray.