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Artist, James Alliban and Matchbox CEO, Simon Hamilton Ritchie talk about the technology behind the Cell interactive installation

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:35:30 +0000

CELL | 3 | technology from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Artists assign people fake personalities via Kinect

admin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:41:54 +0000

Microsoft provided the hardware, while Matchbox Mobile — a Brighton-based app and mobile specialist — assisted Matsuda and Alliban in writing the code. Using the Microsoft Kinect software development kit (SDK) and openFrameworks, Matchbox mobile worked with the openFrameworks community to incorporate features like auto-tracking…

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We’re appearing at the Motodev App Summit in London next week

admin — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:59:41 +0000

We’ll be discussing Motorola Xoom, Honeycomb and application development at the Motodev App Summit in London next week. We have been creating commercial code on Android since the platform was first launched with the G1. Our experience since then has covered every major OS iteration on phones and tablets, working at every level of Android from kernel to ADK. Come and join us for this free event.

Nokia and Microsoft Form Partnership

admin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:36:50 +0000

Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft in an attempt to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Android-based devices.

The deal would see Nokia use the Windows phone operating system for its smartphones, the company said.

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Apple Leads the European Smartphone Market

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:32:53 +0000

Apple’s iPhone operating system iOS remains the most popular in Europe but is in a steady state of decline.

Statistics posted on technology website Pocket-lint.com show how iOS has lost over six per cent of the market share since January 2010. Despite this Apple retains an almost three times larger percentage of the market than Android at 44.95 per cent.

Read more here.

HP Launches First WebOS Tablet

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:15:45 +0000

Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled its first tablet computer that uses smart phone pioneer Palm’s technology on Wednesday — a skinny black gadget that the companies believe will help them catch up with Apple Inc.’s immensely popular iPad.

Jon Rubinstein, head of HP’s Palm unit, showed off the TouchPad at a media event in San Francisco. It will run the same webOS operating software as Palm’s Pre and Pixi smart phones.

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Smartphone Sales Drive Quarterly High in Market Growth

admin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:41:12 +0000

The worldwide mobile phone market grew 17.9% in the fourth quarter of 2010 (4Q10), a new quarterly high driven by smartphones.

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 401.4 million units in 4Q10 compared to 340.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009. Vendors shipped a total of 1.39 billion units on a cumulative worldwide basis in 2010, up 18.5% from the 1.17 billion units shipped in 2009.

Read full IDC press release here.

Barclaycard Announce Mobile Payment Service with Everything Everywhere

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:46:37 +0000

Orange and T-Mobile customers will soon be able to ditch their wallets by turning their mobile phone into their cash card, after Everything Everywhere, the parent company, announced a new deal with Barclaycard.

The companies will launch the UK’s first commercial contactless mobile payments service, to be rolled out by Everything Everywhere and Barclaycard by early summer – before July.

Read more here.

Google Android Becomes Second Most Popular Smartphone Operating System

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:31:42 +0000

Google’s Android operating system now has a market share of 25.5 per cent worldwide, up from 3.5 per cent in the same period a year ago, according to the latest figures from Gartner.That means the smartphone platform is now second only to Symbian, which enjoys a 36.6 per cent share, down from 44.6 per cent over the same period the previous year. It puts Google Android well ahead of rival Apple, which has a 16.7 per cent share, and Research in Motion, with a 14.8 per cent share.

More than 20.5 million Android handsets were sold in the third quarter, up from 1.4 million devices over the same period a year ago, said Gartner.

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Windows Phone 7 Connector now available for Mac

admin — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:04:46 +0000

Windows Phone 7 Connector is now available for Mac. Users can synchronise music, photos, videos and podcasts from iTunes and iPhoto to their Windows Phone 7 devices.

Download here.