Posted by jolt3500 on July 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The L.A. Times (via MacRumors) confirms what TiPb heard following the release of iPhone 3.1 Beta 2 — public APIs for information overlay of live video will allow “augmented reality” apps to make their way into the App Store.
Apple told Acrossair, developer of the Nearest Tube train finder, that the app will be approved [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
So plenty has already been said about this, but we’re going to weigh in too because it’s just so ridiculous. Amazon began remotely deleting books from Kindles this morning. Illegal books? Nope. Perfectly legal versions of George Orwell’s “1984″ and “Animal Farm”, purchased through Amazon.
Why? Well, apparently the publisher changed their minds about having digital [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
According to Business Insider, just 1 year later, Apple’s iTunes App Store has made the iPhone the hottest gaming platform on earth:
Apple became not only the hottest mobile platform in the world — which around 15,000 developers have made software for, and all of its major rivals have tried to replicate — but arguably the [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon is known for its ominous pet projects, but here’s one we can honestly say doesn’t have us losing any sleep: Cyborg crickets.
No, seriously, cyborg crickets. This is a good thing!
Why? Simple. When a building collapses, say from an earthquake or a terrorist bombing, survivors are often trapped in the rubble. Sometimes they’re rescued, [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Twitter’s front-end look and feel on the web has been slowly improving over the past several months. But it’s still far from ideal, missing quite a few key elements that users turn to other apps for. And Twitter, with its APIs, is fine with that. Many of those are speciality web apps (photo and video [...]
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