Archive for September, 2009
Some news about Maps Player on Nokia’s Ovi SDK
On last Nokia World’s fair, which took place in Stuttgart on 2 & 3 September, developers talked about the update of the Maps Player. It is a 3D map with all the 2.0 functionally that we should need, and the devs announced this features will come in the Ovi SDK. Some publishers were shown in [...]
The donut has come
Android 1.6 SDK is available for developers. But what is the news in it? The main new feature is the “quick search” function, located at the top of the screen. It gives users an easy access to Google Web searches, even without opening the mobile browsers. But the very interesting thing is the use in [...]
A network to rule them all
Social networks are locomotives of Web 2.0, where activity is entirely to user’s responsibility, on sites that allow commenting, add scraps of pages about stuffs. Centrl is an aggregator of social networks (Facebook, MySpace, iGoogle, Friendster, Ning, Hi5, Bebo, Orkut, iTime, or Sonico), as a social network client well-organized, always available: there is now a [...]
Smartphones, best GPS devices?
Smartphones will bypass the PND market share! That is what the website iSuppli believes. And this prediction is based on real facts, and what the actual stream is going to be. Actually, there are 114 millions PND (Personal Navigation Device), but just 57.8 millions Smartphones. But Smartphones are on the way to all get GPS [...]
The Android Market is growing well
AndroLib, a website which refers the applications available on the Google Android Market, indicates that there is at least 10,000 apps in it. They admit that they cannot “scan” the Market entirely. But it is a good information about the growth of this application store and about its health. It is about 4 times more [...]
The “20 minutes” French paper talks about us!
A French free paper called « 20 minutes » talks about us this morning! You can read : “the new application developed by Travel Guides Gallimard wants to distinguish itself by its quality”. We made our applications with so much attention, and it is a pleasure to see that our work paid! It is [...]
In France, Apple gets the podium first place
However in the world, Nokia, Samsung and LG monopolize the top three in the order. But in France, the second place is deserved to Apple, and the first to Samsung. An atypical country isn’t it? Some reasons can explain this situation: France is the only country who broke the sole rights between Apple and the [...]
80$ per person to a paid application
Appsfire conducted a survey on 1,200 users of its service. The survey gives some good information. First, more than 1500 applications have been downloaded by 1200 users. It is an average of 65 apps per iPhone/iPod Touch. The second most important information is that each device gets an amount of $80 of paid applications downloaded. [...]
Some news about Android market update
Google decided to update its Android Market, to help users to do a best research in the market. So, now they will see charts with “top paid”, “top free”, and the news, called “just in”. And, at least, Google chose to add some screenshots from developers, to let users making reviews, to give their opinion. [...]
Augmented Reality, useful for travel?
Imagine our application Clisson Valley, with some augmented reality in it. A great thing isn’t it? Audioguides, videos and why not interactive informations when you see a castle, or a winegrave. Is it the future of travel apps? Or is it just a new gadget that is not a major change for your mobile?
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