Jul 06 2010
A while ago a friend told me about a company called SimpleGeo that develops a geodata infrastructure. It is a bit difficult to understand exactly what it does, but the blog is interesting, and the founders’ biographies are also worth a look.
The infrastructure itself appears to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Apr 24 2010
Sometimes Google Maps gets it incorrect… The Mysterious Google Town of Argleton, Lancashire, England.
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Mar 11 2010
Last week I installed the latest version of Skype on my Windows mobile PDA. The effect of this was that I upgraded from version 2.x to 3.0. My main motivation for doing this was that version 3.0 supports file transfers. I thought that this could be useful for when I am travelling and I take photos with my PDA that I want to share immediately with friends. Sending files via Skype has the advantage that everything is fully encrypted end-to-end, so it does not matter if the WiFi connection is not encrypted.
I had some difficulty obtaining the latest CAB files. Unfortunately, Skype has decided to stop supporting Windows Mobile according to Why can’t I download Skype Lite or Skype for Windows phones?. That is a real pity :(
The currently supported mobile devices are listed in Skype on your mobile. However, many of these versions are crippled so that they do not allow you to make voice calls using the telephone network. I guess that it would be too much of a loss to the network operators :o
Luckily, you can still download the CAB file directly from Skype’s website using the following URL: http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-winmobile-cab
If any readers of this blog are unable to obtain a copy of the CAB file, then let me know and I will share my copy ;)
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Feb 22 2010
The Irish Times has an interesting article about popular iPhone applications: App-solutely fabulous.
I do not use an iPhone, so I do not know how usefule these applications really are :)
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Feb 19 2010
There has been a lot of media coverage of Nokia‘s MeeGo announcement this week. The best summary article I read was Nokia and Intel team up on Smartphone development.
I am quite surprised by this development! I would have thought that Nokia would have been better-off to adopt Android!
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Feb 13 2010
Google announced its latest offering during the week. It is called Buzz, and it represents Google’s entry in social networking (again).
More opinions of Buzz are contained in Google takes on Facebook and Twitter with network site and Google Buzz – Gmail mod for the Tweetbook set.
I think that it looks like a good idea, and it should certainly appeal to people who already use Google’s other services.
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Jan 31 2010
Hacker pilfers browser GPS location via router attack
Even if it is a month late :)
Oh – and Happy New Year while I am posting :D
Dec 05 2009
The Irish Times has finally launched a mobile edition of its website! It is about time! Previously, I had to get all of my national news from RTE when I was using my PDA!
I read the news on it last night, and I thought that it rendered very well.
You can read more about it in ‘The Irish Times’ on your mobile, and you can view it here: m.irishtimes.com.
It is interesting, but not surprising, that The Irish Times chose not to use a .mobi domain.
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Nov 29 2009
I read yesterday that an Irish company called Cauwill Technologies won the Best Emerging Company category in the 2009 Seedcorn Business Competition. For more about the winners see Intertradeireland Seedcorn Competition Announces Winners.
Cauwill Technologies develop GPS based solutions for use with LBSs.
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Oct 27 2009
A friend recently made me aware of a new child locating service called num8 by a company called Lok8u. The service is delivered using a child-friendly watch that contains a GPS receiver, and it uses Google Maps to display the child’s location.
The Lok8u website claims:
Now available.. the world’s first GPS locator that locates your child…not just the device.
And…
num8 is the world’s first GPS locator device that has been specifically designed with children in mind.
I am wary of these claims… For example, I think that Wherify would dispute these claims (if it was still operating)!
Wherify Wireless Watches
I am sure that there are many others also!
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