by Chris | Jan 29, 2008 | Applications, Development, Mobile
Google is running fast forward with the Mobile-Handset-Operating-System, called android, they are developing with the joint forces of the Open Handset Mobile Alliance. To attract the creativity of developers worldwide, they started a competition – or as Google...
by Chris | Jan 18, 2008 | Applications, Applications, Development, Development, Hardware, Mobile, Web
The people at Skyhook Wireless really did a smart job with their Wi-Fi Positioning System: They just use the highly distributed public and private Wi-Fi infrastructure of everyone as reference points for their location tracking. So basically every WiFi-enabled device...
by Chris | Jan 16, 2008 | Applications, Applications, Applications, Development, Development, Development, Mac, Mobile, Web
The cooperation with Apple in terms of iPhone and iPod touch also effects the Mac now: Today, Skyhook Wireless released their Loki 2.0 Firefox toolbar for Mac OS X and Windows XP. Now it’s possible to check the own location with Loki – if there are enogh...
by Chris | Jan 16, 2008 | Applications, Development, Development, Development, Hardware, Mac, Mobile, Web
Steve Jobs presented a new feature of the iPhone – and also the iPod touch. Especially the iPod touch transforms into a new category of devices by adding location based services: By cooperating with Skyhook Wireless it is possible to get the own location by...
by Chris | Dec 1, 2007 | Hardware, Mobile
Great to see, that T-Mobile can listen to the complains of their customers. At the start of the holiday season the big "magenta" touched up the iPhone-rates in Germany: You don’t find any EDGE-bandwidth throttling in the rate description. Finally, the...
by Chris | Nov 25, 2007 | Development, Hardware, Mobile
It really looked that easy: Apple picks one exclusive mobile network operator, negotiates a data flat fee fort he iPhone customers and makes money out of hardware sales and mobile spendings of the iPhone customers. And by the way Apple creates an iPhone-hype for the...