The Kindle Hardware Tax - O'Reilly Radar
By Marc Hedlund
[February 09, 2009]

There's a lot of news about Amazon's new Kindle 2 today, and it does look like a nice upgrade. I still don't want one, though. What I want is Kindle software. I'm hoping the early suggestions that Amazon is thinking that way prove true. I use my iPhone for ebooks all the time now. I buy through Stanza, a very...

Poll Results: What will you choose for your next smart phone? | InsideRIA
By Rich Tretola
[February 09, 2009]

The results are in and after more than 160 votes, it looks like iPhone is still the champ but Android is not far behind and Palm Pre's webOS is getting a lot of interest. To view the full poll results...

Communicating Interactive Gestures - O'Reilly FYI Blog
By Kathryn Barrett
[February 05, 2009]

Nintendo's Wii, Apple's iPhone and iPod touch have made gestural interfaces wildly popular, but have created a new set of challenges for designers who want to move beyond traditional interface design. Dan Saffer's Designing Gestural Interfaces covers the subject exhaustively, but also shows how carefully we need to look at our assumptions about the way people interact with devices. In this excerpt, Dan covers communicating interactive gestures as well as the three zones of engagement designers need to be aware of.

Popping the Hood on the iPhone Missing Manual App - Tools of Change for
By Andrew Savikas
[February 04, 2009]

Over on Teleread, Chris Meadows has a nice review of our iPhone Missing Manual app, which echoes several other reviewers (and my own personal experience with the app): How...

Google's Latitude Adds Location-Sharing to Mobile Phones - O'Reilly Radar
By Brady Forrest
[February 04, 2009]

Google has added location sharing to its suite of products. Google Latitude was launched as a Google Maps for Mobile (Symbian, Blackberry, Android, WinMo; the iPhone and iPod Touch will be coming soon) and as an iGoogle widget. It will allow you to share your location with a set group of friends. You can determine the level of your...

Setting Up Your Android Development Environment - O'Reilly FYI Blog
By Allen Noren
[February 03, 2009]

Last week I excerpted a section from Jonathan Zdziarski's iPhone SDK Application Development, and today I want to give equal time to an excerpt from the Rough Cut (still in development) version of Android Application Development, by Rick Rogers and John Lombardo.

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