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Five AR Apps to Watch For

Five augmented-reality apps that reflect where this hot technology is going.READ»

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Augmented Reality Is Both a Fad and the Future -- Here's Why

Why layering data on top of smartphones and computer screens is both a fad and the future. READ»

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Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Digital Music From Mobile Pandora, Sony's iTunes Rival

Digital music turned the recording industry upside down several times already, and given the amazing rate of change it's going to keep evolving dramatically. A couple of news items today point to how this evolution will mean we ...READ»

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GOODGUIDE   |  Comment

GoodGuide iPhone App Scans Bar Codes for Environmental and Health Ratings

When I first learned about GoodGuide last March, I was excited at the prospect of a Web site that lets consumers get detailed environmental, health, and social info on more than 50,000 products and companies. Then came the obligatory ...READ»

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The Google Phone Is Coming to Change the Game

[Update: Could the Google phone be a data only, VoIP-driven device, rather than a standard phone? TechCrunch has a source that thinks so, and suggests that AT&T is already bidding to provide data services. (If you can't beat 'em, ...READ»

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ADMOB   |  2 comments

Video Ads on iPhone Will Punish Multiplayer Gamers

AdMob is planning special video advertisements for iPhones that play like movie clips before an app launches. In other words: time to go offline before you fire up that app. (Below, an ad for an EA game plays before a Tapulous app ...READ»

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PALM   |  5 comments

Why the Times Is Wrong to Be Bearish on Palm

The New York Times doubts Palm's comeback in light of recent Android buzz. But Palm isn't competing with Android--at least not yet."Both phones got good reviews for being easy to use and great for Web browsing," the Times says, but ...READ»

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Droid's Week One Sales Impress, but Is Android OS the Real Winner?

Motorola's Droid smartphone got serious chunk of press coverage when it launched a few weeks back, and no wonder--it's possibly Motorola's one and only chance for a comeback. But how well did it sell? Flurry did the hard number ...READ»

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Apple Reforms App Approval as Facebook Developer Vows "Never Again"

Just a day after being publicly excoriated by an influential developer, Apple has introduced new tweaks to its App Store approval process to make it more friendly to submissions. Joe Hewitt, developer of Facebook for iPhone and an ...READ»

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Firefighter 360 Augmented Reality Game--It's Hot!

Firefighter 360 is a cool (or should that be sizzling?) augmented reality game for the iPhone 3GS. The goal is simple: You need to douse the blazes that just happen to be appearing on whatever street you are standing on (as viewed ...READ»

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APPS   |  1 comment

Blackberry and Palm Apps Getting Better, but Not Fast Enough

Even as Apple celebrates the release of its 100,000th app--and that cash machine it calls the app store--Palm and RIM are running fast to catch up, and woo developers to their platforms. Earlier this week, Palm introduced a Web-based ...READ»

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APPLE   |  1 comment

What Happens If Apple Grows Too Fast?

CNBC is predicting that Apple may top Microsoft as computing's most valuable firm. But that kind of success might be self-defeating. As CNBC rightly acknowledges, Apple has a long way to go before it can dethrone Redmond, but ...READ»

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VERIZON   |  5 comments

iPhone-Loving Verizon Drops Another Lump of Coal Into AT&T's Stocking

As the rumors about Verizon getting the iPhone continue to swirl around Cellville, here's another little nugget of conjecture for us all to bask in. Behold the latest holiday ad for Verizon. The creatives have taken us to the ...READ»

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IPHONE   |  Comment

Is Mobile Rickrolling the First Step in an iPhone Virus Outbreak?

The first iPhone worm is spreading around Australia, changing users' wallpaper to a picture of '80s pop star Rick Astley, the mobile version of getting Rickrolled. It's mostly harmless, but is it a signal that virus makers will soon ...READ»

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New "iPhone Nano" Might Not Be an iPhone at All

Apple may be building a miniature iPhone, with a waterproof, ultra-durable capacitive touchscreen, iLounge is reporting. Or is it a giant iPod Nano? The new device, a leaked image of which appears above courtesy of iLounge, would ...READ»

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You Are Now Entering the Touchscreen Smartphone Era

Touchscreen smartphones are the thing in the U.S. this year, with sales growing so rapidly it would give the Ares I-X a run for its money. And next year the pace of the change is going to be even faster. Welcome to the touchscreen ...READ»

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LEARNING   |  Comment

Can Smart.fm's iPhone App Really Teach You Brain Anatomy?

Dozens of to-do apps and voice recorders have allowed the iPhone to serve as a safety net for all the things that slip through our brains, forgotten. But can an iPhone app really help you remember? The creators of a new iPhone ...READ»

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iPhone Poised to Snap Up More Business Users?

The iPhone may or may not be a success in China, but some analysis just out suggests it's actually doing pretty well in the enterprise environment. It may even more than triple its market share compared to last year. When you think ...READ»

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Chinese iPhone Looks Poised to Fail

At Apple's all-night iPhone launch party in Beijing, there were none of the day-long lines seen in New York, London, or Paris. According to the Financial Times, the Chinese iteration of the iPhone, which went on sale on October 30, ...READ»

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Put Your Phone Down: Augmented Reality Is Overblown

While Layar pushes forward with augmented reality apps and Nokia finds ways to embed AR cameras in our clothing, the rest of us wait breathlessly for a world in which our maps and data are overlaid on what we see, a world in which our ...READ»

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iPhone Beating E-Readers at Their Own Game?

With the iPhone still the hottest smartphone, there's much speculation about how its future will pan out. For some the money's on gaming, but new research from Flurry is surprisingly different: eBook apps are overtaking games in the ...READ»

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LAYAR   |  Comment

Layar Gets Fresh Funding, Promises Multiple Realities

Layar, the augmented reality app that lets you see where stimulus money is being spent, among other things, has just gotten a fresh $1 million cash infusion from European investors. The Dutch company, which makes iPhone and Android ...READ»

Droid: Almost Not Worth Writing About
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Droid: Almost Not Worth Writing About

If you're curious about Verizon's new Droid, don't be. Don't even read this post. Just go hibernate, and dream that by spring Verizon will have a better Android option. Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. It's not that the ...READ»

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GOOGLE   |  9 comments

The iPhone's Cool, but Android 2.0's Convenience May Blow It Away

Everyone loves the iPhone--today. It does two things extremely well: calling and email. To date, no other device can top it. But by this time next year, that may not be enough. And Android will be waiting in the wings. Google and ...READ»

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APPLE   |  3 comments

Apple's Tablet Apps Will Live and Die by One Nerdy Thing

For an Apple Tablet to be a hit, it will have to be more than a big-screen iPhone. And the difference between a lithe, touch-based Mac and a giant, lame iPhone comes down to one crucial nerd-factor: memory management. Memory ...READ»

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