Beginners Guide to Five Fingers – The good lads over at BirthdayShoes.com put together an interesting presentation on VFFs and barefoot running. It’s fairly concise and nicely designed so I’ll excuse the fact that “free ebooks” are pretty dumb generally.
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Beginner’s guide to barefoot running
The source code for the ten-year old Symbian platform will be completely open source and available for free starting Thursday. The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history, claims the Symbian Foundation.
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Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free
The American Museum of Natural History has comes up with their own iPhone and iPod Touch app known as DINOSAURS: American Museum of Natural History Collections. It allows users the ability to see 800 images of the Museum’s archives, as well information on the dinosaur digs and the creatures themselves. This app is available for free
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The Amercian Museum of Natural History App
Samsung has decided to make a surprise for everyone and earlier today added a new cellphone to their website, also known as Samsung T139 Mayon. It can be considered a medium-level cellphone that comes with dual displays for conference calls, and an HTML browser for the internet experience. The T139 Mayon supports aGPS, Java applications, and comes with a speakerphone.
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Samsung T139 Mayon
We’ve been seeing a lot of an in-the-works device from RIM sporting both a full physical QWERTY keyboard and a clicking touchscreen, code-named the BlackBerry Magnum or Dakota . TD analyst Chris Umiatowski has it on good word that there will be a BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) that has those features as well as an optical trackpad
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Upcoming BlackBerry Packing Both Trackpad and SurePress Screen?
If you’ve grown bored of using any number of your human senses to tell when someone’s within ten feet of you, then it’s probably time to start trying to convince everyone around you to buy one of these $20 proximity sensing shirts. Powered by three AAA batteries stuffed into a hidden pocket inside the shirt, the large decal will emit radar-like waves when nobody’s nearby and then lock on and start flashing when someone else wearing the same shirt gets to within about ten feet. You may ask yourself why someone would buy something like this
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Proximity sensing shirts light up within ten feet of each other
Apple launched the iPad exactly 1 week ago today , and although they said it wasn’t going to be shipping for another 60 days, they were nice enough to post a new version of the iPhone SDK (3.2) so that developers can start working on their new higher definition versions of iFart. Inside that SDK there just so happens to be some information about the next iPhone. Codenamed N89, the next iPhone has support for 720p video recording and version 3.1 of the AVC codec according to the MediaValidator.plist file that stores what types of media a device can handle
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Next iPhone found in new SDK, codenamed N89, has support for 720p video recording
I just finished reporting on Nokia’s Ovi Labs Racing , and if that game were available for the iPad, this would be the peripheral that you need. This iDraft, a concept model from designer Micheal Greenberg, definitely looks like “the” accessory to have for racing games
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iDrift for iPad racing games, if any
O2 has announced that Azzurri Communications, a leading independent managed service provider has become a strategic partner. Azzurri will help to deliver services to customers as part of 02’s Centre of Excellence programme.
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O2UK and Azzurri create strategic relationship
One of the major points the iPad, nook, and other e-book readers have on the Kindle is their touchability. Sure, you don’t need it to read books, but it’s nice if you like interacting with things
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Amazon snaps up touchscreen company – Kindle Touch coming soon?
Not only does Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team (or SAHDMT for short) does have one of the greatest names I’ve heard a video game developer ever have, but they also have combined the fun of kicking a soccer ball around with the fun of brutally murdering zombies. With that in mind, and my years of killing virtual zombies, I decided to take their flagship title, Pro Zombie Soccer , for a spin
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Hands-On Preview: Pro Zombie Soccer for iPhone (with Video)
During ARM’s Q4 2009 and full year 2009 earnings call today ( 22 page transcript ), ARM CEO Warren East showed a sneak peak of the company’s roadmap for 2010 and the bit that stuck out for us mobile phone geeks was the ARM Eagle. Based on the same ARM v7 architecture that the Cortex A8 and Cortex A9 share, the Eagle is said to take ARM’s application processors “onto yet another level of high performance”. We’ve yet to see any Cortex A9 powered devices hit the market yet, and while Will did get a chance to play with some early A9 powered NVIDIA Tegra 2 tablets , they were far from final
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ARM Eagle: You thought the Cortex A8 and A9 was fast? Wait until you see the Eagle flying!
Vodafone UK has launched a new online business centre, which brings information on its full range of mobile, fixed and unified communications offerings together in one place – as part of the business pages on vodafone ( NYSE: VOD ).co.uk. To make it even easier for business customers and partners, the new site has also been redesigned so that it is segmented according to three types of customer: small business, medium and large business and public sector. Every section has the same consistent design, which should ensure quick and intuitive navigation for customers – however, the small business section has been the focus of the first phase of the business site’s development.
Vodafone UK has announced that its Vodafone ( NYSE: VOD ) Secure Remote Access solution has been awarded the CESG Claims Tested Mark (CCTM) certificate by CESG, which is the information assurance arm of GCHQ. For those of you that aren’t familiar with GCHQ, they are the boffins behind intelligence in the UK – so an OK from them is a BIG OK! Vodafone UK has become the first UK mobile operator to receive the CCTM mark, which verifies the claims companies make for their security solutions for data confidentiality, integrity and availability in the modern government IT environment. The CCTM certificate means that UK public sector organisations, including those in local authorities, the National Health Service, education, criminal justice, policing, Central Government and the Ministry of Defence, can now recognise Vodafone Secure Remote Access v2.8 as a solution that has had independent assurance testing, under CESG governance. Vodafone Secure Remote Access helps organisations to protect their networks, devices and data – principally by ensuring staff comply with IT security policies when away from the office
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Vodafone is first UK Operator to be awarded Government quality mark for remote worker security solution
LG is probably feeling good right now, now that their devices have official 4G certification in Japan. Right now, LG, the South Korean company isn’t releasing a 4G handset just yet, but they will be releasing a 4G compatible modem. In the meantime, NTT Docomo, Japan’s biggest cell phone carrier, will probably have their 4G line through the country by December.
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LG first to bring 4G to Japan
Anyone that regularly reads IntoMobile will know that I think the Groovemaker range of Apps are awesome – sitting in a perfect niche between recreational music, and professional music production – they are kinda like the guitar hero of mobile music production, but there’s real productivity in here too – it’s no game! Recently, IK Multimedia, the creators of Groovemaker, released ‘Groovemaker Reggae’ – I’m now writing down my thoughts on the App, having used it quite extensively! More after the jump… Download, loading, and opening tracks Groovemaker isn’t the smallest of apps, but then again it’s got an fair amount of file-weight since it includes lots of really high-quality apps. I used iTunes on the Mac and then synced the iPhone as the fastest route to getting Apps installed.
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Usage review: Groovemaker Reggae for iPhone/iPod Touch
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s Cseries and Xseries rang of devices was discovered by Aleksi Moisio, writing for Finnish news site Digitoday, way back in July of last year . We all know about the Xseries, such as the X6, the first Nokia smartphone with a capactivie touch screen, and the Nokia X3, a lesser known, but highly important music phone for emerging economies. They were announced back in early September 2009
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Photos: Nokia C5 leaks [2.2 inch screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, Symbian powered]
One of the juicy tidbits that found its way into the latest Nexus One update was the synchronization of starred items in Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Maps between mobile and desktop. Happily, Google is offering this update to all Android users in Google Maps for Mobile 3.4. If you’ve used GMail at all, you’ll be familiar with the concept of starring – it’s basically a flag that lets you access items later quickly.
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Star Syncing Comes to Google Maps on Android
AT&T ( NYSE: T ) has just announced a new mobile app developer contest that is offering a sizable $40,000 prize pool for developers that enter the contest. The AT&T Open Call – Apps For All! contest is a re-imagining of the Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards, so if you’ve dabbled in that contest, you’ll be familiar with this contest.
The only thing keeping your Nexus One from laying the smack-down on Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL )’s iPhone is this small software update that Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) and T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) are sending over-the-air (OTA). Packed inside an update no more than a couple dozen megabytes lies the power to enable multi-touch pinch zooming on your N1
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Force update your Nexus One with multi-touch pinch zooming
Along with the figure skating, ice hockey and snowboarding, another event will compete for attention at the Winter Olympics in Canada this month. A Canadian company has created what it calls the “largest thought-controlled computing installation.” It’s an experiment that lets visitors to the Olympics use their brainwaves to control the lights at three major landmarks in Canada, including Niagara Falls.
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Winter Olympics to Demo Thought-Controlled Lighting
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s Ovi Maps with free navigation has been downloaded over 1.4 million times in only 7 days. As of 31 January 2010 the top five countries downloading the new version of Ovi Maps were: China, Italy, UK, Germany and Spain. The top five most popular Nokia devices installing the download were: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia N97, Nokia 5230 and Nokia E72
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Brief: Nokia Ovi Maps with free navigation reaches 1.4 million downloads in 1 week