Cell Phone

The Price of Fame? About $750 - O'Reilly Broadcast

By Kurt Cagle

I spent about an hour yesterday morning on the phone (at Canada's rather obscene cell phone rates) speaking with an "editor" for Continental Who's Who. The pitch is pretty typical (and I had an idea what was going on, so I decided to follow through with it) - you get an email congratulating you on being selected for inclusion in the Who's Who directory of "famous people", please send in the email in order to confirm your selection.

[Publish Date: January 08, 2009]

The King is Dead, Long Live the King - O'Reilly Radar

By Mike Loukides

I've been resisting the temptation to write about Android. But after reading some of the blogs about Android netbooks, I can't keep quiet. Aside from being a Really Cool Idea, I don't have a lot to say about netbooks themselves. I've got an Android phone (thanks, Google), and I like it, and it would be nice to see the operating system move from the cell phone world onto other hardware. Netbooks are a logical step. But what's the next step after netbooks? How long will it be before we see

[Publish Date: June 10, 2009]

Hello, Android, Second Edition--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf: Introducing ...

Raleigh, NC—Watch out, iPhone. Here comes Android. Android combines the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members. The result is a mobile ...

[Publish Date: November 17, 2009]

Location Awareness for the Defense and Intelligence Communities: Where 2.0 ...

By Sean Maday

Every hardware and software solution being developed to catalog, warehouse, and display geospatially relevant information likely has a pertinent military or intelligence application. From location aware cell phone applications to geostacking and immersive imagery, the defense and intelligence communities may be viable secondary and tertiary markets for established corporate and consumer products.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Authoring Challenges in a Multiplatform World: O'Reilly Tools of Change for ...

By Scott Meyers

How should authors approach their task, given that what they produce may or may not appear in printed form, may or may not have color available, may or may not be able to display dynamic content, may or may not have Internet access available, and may be viewed on devices ranging from widescreen monitors to cell phones -- unless it's consumed as audio?

[Publish Date: February 09, 2009]

Where 2.0 Preview - Building the SENSEable City - O'Reilly Radar

By James Turner

A lot of information we have about cities comes through direct and intentioned observation and study, but could a lot of the time and expense spent on this research be garnered just as well by mining the data that citizens generate in their day-to-day lives through cell phone traffic and internet usage? That's one of the questions that Andrea Vaccari, a research associate at the MIT SENSEable City Lab, is trying to find out. Andrea will be speaking at the Where 2.0 Conference in May on the research that the SENSEable City Project is doing.

[Publish Date: April 16, 2009]

Hello, Android--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf: Introducing Google's Mobile ...

--> Raleigh, NC—Android offers a compelling, fresh take on mobile applications. It blends the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members such...

[Publish Date: January 26, 2009]

Geo-Blogging with the Google Earth API - InsideRIA

By Andrew Trice

The concept Geo-tagging data is not new. With GPS and cellular-network based geolocation available nearly everywhere, geographic information is showing up everywhere that it is applicable; cell phones, web sites, rss feeds, etc... It is the backbone of the "geoweb". There are numerous programs for geo-tagging your data, and you can even geotag your pictures from your iPhone, if you so choose. With the Google Earth API, you can take this information and publish it on an interactive globe for the entire web to see.

[Publish Date: January 08, 2009]