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Worldwide Facebook Mobile Usage Up 300% In Last 12 Months

INSIDE FACEBOOK — Today at the Nokia World conference in Stuttgart, Facebook’s Director of Mobile, Henri Moissinac, announced that Facebook’s worldwide mobile audience just crossed 65 million active users. To put that in perspective, that’s nearly 25% of all of Facebook’s total worldwide reach – and four times as many people using Facebook Mobile than [...]


iPhone AR: Augmented ID from TAT

In the future, people will point phones at you to check your interwebs while you speak. Notable about the video, and others, is the emphasis on the corporeal identity – face recognition, real-time video of people – seems to continue the anchorage of online identities to literal pictorial and video evidence. Facebook is a good [...]


Vodafone App Store

Vodafone have announced the launch on their app store by year end in Britain, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. They’ll concentrate on apps for Symbian devices initally People will be able to buy apps and have them charged on their phone bill It’s a 70/30 revenue split between the developer and [...]


The Nokia App Store is Coming

And it’s called Ovi.


The future of mobile – it ain’t all that flash

If you come to this event expecting to hear anything about mobile Flash I don’t think we have very much about it. Not that it’s not a technology that’s in play, but it’s just not something – it’s not open. It doesn’t allow development of services very easily. It’s not in deployment by individuals or [...]


Gmail mobile client gets offline support

A 2.0 release that includes offline support for J2ME and Blackberry. Includes email account switching between Gmail and Google Apps accounts. Introducing Gmail for mobile 2.0


Kindle vs iPhone

Forbes reports that e-reader Stanza for the iPhone has been downloaded 395,000 times, and is still serving 5,000 a day. The Kindle is expected to sell 378,000 this year. The Alley Insider lists a number of reasons why the content and the iPhone hardware will limit the threat to the Kindle, like battery life, screen [...]


Demo of Clutter from Maemo 5

“One of the most significant additions in Maemo 5 is the Clutter library, which facilitates rapid development of rich graphical user interfaces. Support for Clutter on top of OpenGL ES 2.0 will enable developers to completely redefine the Maemo user experience. Clutter provides a scene-graph system and frame-based animation engine for displaying and manipulating graphical [...]


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