Archive for August, 2009
Samsung’s Application Store launch very soon
Next 14th September, France, Italy and England will be on to discover the new Samsung’s Application Store, and Germany will have a preview of this new download platform. About 30 countries will follow soon: Asia and United States are planed but not yet scheduled. Samsung makes this one and dedicated to the Player Addict (Omnia [...]
SmartCity on BlackBerry!
Our main guidebook application, SmartCity Paris, is now available on the BlackBerry AppWorld. The BlackBerry version offers you the same functionalities as the iPhone/iPod Touch version. To get this application :
- Click on this link,
- Go to the AppWorld via your BlackBerry.
Hope you’ll enjoy it!
Before you go, get some advices
French Foreign Ministry launches an application on the AppStore. It is an “advice to traveler” app, which gives many information about the situation in a country, before you trip in. In fact, it is a service available since a long time on its website, which lists every country, and gives abundance of advices. Recently, if [...]
AppsLib : bigger applications for bigger devices
On next September 15th in Paris, Archos, the French multimedia-player builder will talk about the co-venture with Google, to make an alternative development platform for applications, already available, called AppsLib, and more specifically about their probably new tablet (before the Apple one?). So what is this new “feature”? Google Android is possibly setup not [...]
There is 1% of apps banished from Android Market
Google bans only 1% of apps for its Android Market. Against the Apple process to accept or not an application, the Google way is some kind different: Google allows the Android Market users to help decide what is in keeping with their policies. The percent banned represent approximately 60 applications. But the question is: which [...]
Webkit will come on BlackBerry
Research In Motion, the BlackBerry builder, acquired Torch Mobile, a Canadian based company, which is working on a Webkit browser called Iris. On their website, Torch Mobile announced that they will develop exclusively on the RIM platform, maybe not on the same project, but certainly on the same Webkit “template”. A good way to make [...]
OneApp : finally a solution for classical phones?
Maybe we exclusively talk about Smartphones like the best way to hand application everywhere, but there is a “little” phone market that is not “smart”. 80% of the worldwide phone market is still made of classical phones, Microsoft’s OneApp is the new system to allow everyone to have an access to « smart » apps. [...]
Advances on geolocalisation
There is another round in the fight between webapps and native apps. This time it is a good thing for the web app, because the location based service (LBS) are now available via web applications. One of them is Google Latitude, but there are few others who add that service in their web app. And [...]
Cheaper smartphone’s use?
Last year, many Smartphones users had a very bad surprise when they came back home. Not a break-in, but a shocking bill. Some of them could reach an amount over 1 000€! So last year, the EU made laws to avoid those salted bills. The roaming problem should be “smarter” this summer. The new prices [...]
Is Microsoft Office coming on iPhone?
After the Microsoft’s Office softwares on the last Nokia smartphone, Office could also become available on the Apple iPhone.
For now, Apple’s iPhone is certainly the trendiest multimedia Smartphone, and offers a great way to see your work, but not really to edit it. A real Microsoft Office tool will certainly be quite interesting for [...]
