Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Finding your way around a museum — or a mall or airpor... — is about to be as simple as using the GPS on your phone.
As of Aug. 1, the Royal BC Museum in Victoria will becom ...

Here’s a nice example. On one morning, I was walking t... via the underground pass, and I noticed a new Disney pos...
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Stitch. Notice the eyes a ...

The growing popularity of connected devices – especial... tablet computer, the iPad – are starting to change the... media. And with sales of these devices expected to be a ... otherwise lackluster holiday shopping season, everyone, ...
The Nielsen

ZXing ("Zebra Crossing")¶
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, m ...

New Ofcom research reveals the extent to which the UK ha... to smartphones, with people confessing to using them eve... dining table to the bathroom and bedroom.
Over a quarter of adults (27 per cent) and almost half o ...
Most (59 per cent) have acquir

We’re in the middle of a significant change in how peo... services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and ... exploding.
People should be able to use digital services wherever t ...
Here’s how government services have been responding to ...

Dickens London Trails is an iPhone app that enables user... London as characters from Dickens’ fiction would have.... through the streets of London on a series of unexpected ... encounters. You also discover more about Dickens’ even...
Your guides

Frost Ajax Library Logo The Frost Ajax library is a tool... development on constrained browsers, such as micro brows... phones or gaming consoles. It is intended to abstract th... the XMLHttpRequest object (XHR) or an equivalent ActiveX... therefore m

While mobile phones have become commonplace, mobile Inte... lagged. In 2011, for instance, mobile Internet adoption ... compared to 54% in Europe. We’ve been working to bette... nature and root causes of this dynamic. Earlier this yea... with iHub R

A recent iome survey into the social impact of mobile ph... the UK’s deep rooted emotional bond with handheld devi... mobile phones a vital role in our social lives. Almost a... respondents (31 per cent) confirmed they would feel “c...
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If you have read my earlier posts, you must have seen th...
Today I have discovered that Fukuchi Kentaro, who is an ...
I have put a page on my server for you to use the functi ...
This is a demonstration of calling the page:
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Google just released Google Currents (what's up with the... supposed to be "kind of" like Flipboard, except that it ...
Google also released an update to Google Maps some weeks ...
Google, here is the problem: If you cannot make the UI o ...

Molly is a framework for the rapid development of inform... portals targeted at mobile internet devices. The framewo... “batteries included” philosophy, featuring a wide va... applications and connectors to common and standards-base... including t

'Intrusion' warning over mini projectors
Mini projector
Mini projectors have been under development for a number ...
A miniature projector small enough to fit into a mobile ...
The projector, developed by the company 3M, is around 4c ...

New phone features 'baffle users'
Children using mobile phones, BBC
Setting up a new mobile phone is no longer child's play.
The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users ...
... ore new services if the technology was easier to set up.

Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC.
WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

With your help, we're creating a comprehensive database ... towers, cell phone signal strength readings, and Wi-Fi a... the world. Our goal is to become the global authority on...

The Gift of the Gab?: A Design OrientedSociology of Youn...
Full text Full text available on the Publisher sitePubl ...
Source Computer Supported Cooperative Work archive
Volume 12 , Issue 3 (2003) table of contents
... e, University of Surrey, Guild

If you talk to enough people at the Finnish mobile start... point it occurs to you that the company it most resemble...
Sailfish, Jolla insists, will become a legitimate altern ...
“China… is the most dynamic smartphone market—it†...
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Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone ... and get instant directions from your current location to... world? It's kind of foggy for me, too.
In fact, I'm so used to relying on my smartphone that I ...
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I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

adding images into QR Codes

Summly's user interface is state-of-the-art with no butt... minimalist approach.. Press anywhere on a summary to rev... 'Summflower' which allows for sharing of summaries as su... saving of favourite summaries for offline viewing. Swipe... full articl

Clear is hands-down worth picking up if you’re interes... and have any need for a simple list-making-and-completin... beyond its immediate worth, I think that it could signal...
It’s roughly five years into the multitouch revolution ...
I think tha

Get talking with Go!Messenger, a free voice and video ch... available on PSP.
Go!Messenger lets you keep in touch with friends for fre ...
The full service launched February 29, 2008, and all you ...
Developed in partnership with BT, one of the world's l

WURFL = Wireless Universal Resource File
The WURFL is an "ambitious" configuration file that cont ...

The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a sn... called to account by a US Senator.
Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it t ...
Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everyth ...
Carrier IQ said its software helped d

Some of the threats for the coming year are lower-tech -... stickers placed over the QR codes used by firms to allow...
QR codes typically appear on posters. Once scanned with ...
Train stations, for example, use QR codes to allow passe ...
But cybercr