Archive for February, 2008
February 29, 2008
It was recently announced that consumers will be able to access Encyclopaedia Britannica through their iPhones. This means that as long as you have your iPhone, you will no longer be caught unaware and can look up pertinent facts about almost any subject quickly and efficiently.
The iPhone-optimized site offers full-text searching, thousands of high-resolution thumbnails that expand to full-size images, and page layouts optimized for cell phone bandwidth. The entire database is said to be fully searchable and hot-linked in a method similar to Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Web editions.
In case you want to find out more about accessing the Encyclopaedia Britannica on your iPhone, feel free to follow our Source Link below.
February 29, 2008
Remember the cool iBand video we picked earlier that featured two iPhones jamming with a DS? We’re letting you know that we’ve identified the one of the other applications that was used in that clip: Drummer by developer MooTheCow.
As the homebrew’s name implies, running it turns your iPhone into a veritable mobile drum set. MooTheCow notes that Drummer currently carries these features:
- A 15 sample Drum Pad for your iPhone / iPod Touch.
- Multi-touch. Up to 5 pads can be pressed at once.
- Animated pads illuminate at your touch.
- Play along to all your MP3s.
- Change between drumkits at the touch of a button.
- The following kits come pre-installed: Rock, Dance, Jazz 1 and 2, and Electro.
- Drumkits are fully expandable to allow you to add your own samples (see below).
The app is currently in the Beta phase, so anybody out there hoping to grab their a copy for their own jam sessions will have to wait. That said, we’ve picked up a video of Drummer in a solo act, to give you a better idea of how it handles. Drop by again in case we receive word of a public release. You may also want to visit MooTheCow’s site via the source link for additional details.
February 29, 2008
Cisco, Dell and others have seen lumpy customer demand, but the folks that are producing those volatile sales patterns–CIOs–are moderately optimistic and expect solid technology spending in 2008, according to a survey by UBS.In its survey, UBS noted that:
Our CIO survey–completed in February–points toward surprisingly solid IT spending growth in ‘08. While we remain cautious […]
February 29, 2008
Software as a service is about to approach a crossroads in a few years and at issue is whether it becomes a dominant business model or a feature that becomes just another way for a vendor to deliver an application.
To Salesforce.com and NetSuite SaaS is clearly the dominant business model–or at least will be in […]
February 29, 2008
Matthias Huber wrote in to tell us about his new iChinese system that helps you learn your characters. iChinese uses the iPhone’s touch-based interface to teach users how to write the characters on-screen.
It’s available by adding the http://ichinese.de/repo repository to Installer.app. I don’t speak Chinese. I don’t write chinese (although I’m very fond of chinese food). I wouldn’t know an ideogram if I tripped on one, so if you give this a try and have an informed view on how useful it is, let us know in the comments.
via http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/28/learn-your-ideograms-with-ichinese/
February 29, 2008
Web designers and enthusiasts are likely already familiar with Dave Shea, the Canadian web designer behind the css Zen Garden and other standards-based web projects. If you’re not familiar with him from that angle, you may recognize his Chalkwork series of icons which has just had a set of iPhone & iPod touch icons added to it.
While most of his work comes with a well-deserved price tag, this set is available free of charge. It contains 29 well-designed icons, including the default applications and some select third-party apps. The download includes a selection of Dock and Wallpaper images as well. You’ll need a jailbroken iPhone/touch to use them and the set comes with instructions for manual and SummerBoard installations.
iPhone/iPod touch owners (and anyone else who wants to) can download the free icon set at mezzoblue.
vi a http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/28/dave-sheas-new-iphone-ipod-touch-theme/
February 29, 2008
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Dell: Still a work in progress; Sees conservative IT spending
Heather Clancy: Dell intensifies its green strategy with a pledge … and “greener” Windows Server 2008 offering
David Morgenstern: Living a bare drive lifestyle
Jason O’Grady: Nicewear: SmartSleep
Phil Wainewright: Has Microsoft solved the ad spend conundrum?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: “Vista Capable” logo - what went wrong? […]
February 29, 2008
Life is just so tightly scripted for the technology bigwigs. Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat down with News.com and wouldn’t stray far from the Google Health script. Granted, Schmidt was talking at the HIMSS health conference, but give us a little something.
Sure, Schmidt’s Google Health thing is interesting, but not THAT interesting.
The takeaway: CEO interviews […]
February 29, 2008
Dell’s fourth quarter results fell short of expectations Thursday and the company “will continue to incur costs as it realigns its business to improve growth and profitability.” Meanwhile, Dell said future results “could be adversely impacted by more conservative spending by its customers.”
Simply put, Dell is still a work in progress and it’s unclear when […]
February 28, 2008
Sprint Nextel had a net loss of $29.5 billion, suspended its dividend and drew down its credit line for “financial flexibility.” Meanwhile, Sprint has jumped into the wireless price war fray with its own $99.99 a month all-you-can-eat wireless plan. Sprint’s woes wouldn’t be a big deal if the company wasn’t a key cog in […]
February 28, 2008
Accenture Technology Labs’ “Digital Pen and Paper Mobile Workforce Prototype” (DPPMWP) (Okay, who’s responsible for our acronyms? Anyone? Anyone?) is one of many sales force automation tools we’ve developed over the years. It uses a digital pen (for input) and a cell phone (for communication and output). It works like this:
The sales rep fills out […]
February 28, 2008
Salesforce.com reported strong fiscal fourth quarter results and indicated that it is notching some wins against the large software vendors. Why are things falling in line for Salesforce.com?
First the numbers, Salesforce.com reported fourth quarter earnings of 6 cents a share on revenue of $216.9 million, up 50 percent from a year ago. For the year, […]
February 28, 2008
Apple has dropped some serious hints that its iPhone strategy will at least be tweaked–mostly in ways that will court business users.
First up, Apple has sent invitations for the launch of the iPhone SDK next week and as David Morgenstern notes the device will have “some exciting new enterprise features.” Meanwhile, Tim Cook presented at […]
February 28, 2008
Dell reports it fiscal fourth quarter earnings on Thursday and analysts aren’t expecting too much, but there should be a few key indicators of whether the company’s new initiatives–courting enterprise buyers with a simplified IT message, using better designs and retail partnerships to win back consumers and a bevy of software investments–are taking hold.
According to […]
