Microsoft’s Windows 7 gets released to manufacturing
Aw snap, one of the final hurdles on the way to October 22nd has been passed: Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 R2, too) has been released to manufacturing. A post over on The Windows Blog explains that this build (7600) underwent tons of scruntiny and tweaking before being deemed sufficient for release, and considering [...]
An App To Show You Mastercard “Priceless” Deals: Priceless.
When I first heard that Mastercard was releasing an iPhone app called “Priceless Picks,” I thought for sure it would be a lame gimmick. But I must admit, it’s actually a kind of cool gimmick.
If you’ve ever watched TV, you’ve undoubtedly seen at least a dozen of the Mastercard “Priceless” ads. You know the ones, [...]
Nokia E72 NAM clears the FCC on its way to your pocket, and your heart
Whether or not you’re a Nokia fan, a Symbian fan or a smartphone fan in general, there’s really no denying that Nokia’s E71 is one of the sexiest phones to ever hit the market at this point. It’s thin, sexy, functional, versatile and solid as a rock. When it comes to slim QWERTY handsets in [...]
The Month In Windows Mobile Apps: AIM, Skype, Crayons and Compasses [Windows Mobile Apps]
Step up your messaging, have fun with physics, watch some weird TV, find your car, call your friends, later incriminate said friends—it’s all in a day’s month’s work for Windows Mobile.
Searchme: Searchme apps have been available for other mobile platforms—iPhone, Symbian and Android—for quite a while now, only now coming to Windows Mobile in free [...]
From Tokyo: Demo of “almost finalized” augmented reality tagging app Sekai Camera (videos)
I attended the inaugural event of the AR Commons in Tokyo today, a new initiative that’s supposed to help set “standards of augmented reality as a public environment”. In other words, the symposium is an attempt to understand what augmented reality, the mixing of the real world with computer data, really is and what consequences [...]
Google Maps Location Finder Pinpoints You in Chrome and Firefox [Google Maps]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.While mobile users have been able to rely on Google Maps to pinpoint their locations for some time, starting today Google Chrome 2.0 and Mozilla FireFox 3.5 users will also be able to locate their positions from their browsers.
To use My Location for Google [...]
