July 15, 2009
News to Us: Call-a-Tree, Morphing Phones, Cross Reality, iPhone Concert, and More
The Tree Museum in the Bronx: The Talk of the Town [The New Yorker]
A public work of conceptual art in the Bronx called the Tree Museum consists of trees tagged with phone numbers. Call the number and get historic info about this tree, the neighborhood, and larger environmental issues related to the exhibition.
Smartphone Satisfaction Numbers [eMarketer]
The iPhone is leading the pack by all measures, but BlackBerry is putting up a fight. The two devices are way in front of other smartphones even in terms of usage numbers.
Download This [trendcentral]
TrendCentral picks out three popular apps for the iPhone 3GS:
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Getting Noticed in Apple's iPhone App Store [WSJ]
A look at what it takes to actually succeed on the app store such as promoting your product through social networks and bloggers, understanding your market (in terms of age, and geography), and leveraging advertising power.
Meet the Mobile Phones of Tomorrow [PC World]
A compilation of innovation and patents that might affect the way phones evolve and their functionality. Top: Morph by Nokia, a nanotechnology based phone that actually cleans itself and can be reshaped at will.
Cross Reality: When Sensor Networks Meet Virtual Reality [ReadWriteWeb]
MIT expects that mobile devices will play an important role in future Cross Reality applications, think SecondLife -style virtual world layered on top of the real world. The lab has already begun to experiment in this area, with a Star Trek-inspired device it calls a Tricorder and a newer device called the "Ubicorder" that provide a real time interface to sensor data.
Google Voice Goes Mobile [NYTimes]
The invite-only service from Google is offering a stand alone application for Android and BlackBerry users. The app allows calls directly from the phone as well as SMS and marks another milestone in the history of VoIP.
WhitePages.com Turns To Users To Build Up Listings; The Plan For A ‘Connectory’ [mocoNews]
WhitePages is opening up, allowing users to submit their personal info to their database. Already, the site lets people send text messages for free and those who create listings may soon have access to advanced voice mail accounts. Some additional functionality will be based on technology acquired via the company’s purchase of voice services startup Snapvine a year ago.
Obama’s Ghana Speech Highlights Delivered Live via SMS [Mobile Marketer]
Live speech highlights were sent via SMS to Africans and international/non-US residents in both French and English. Recipients could also respond with the chance of being featuring on the US government's site.
3,700 Tweets And 480,000 Characters Later, There Will Be An Original Novel On Twitter [TechCrunch]
Matt Stewart was unable to find a publisher for his " The French Revolution" novel, so he is now tweeting the book 140 characters at a time.
iPhone Musicians Invited to Perform Live with Indie Legends Good Night, States [engadget]
People who create beats with the Noise.io app, a synthesizer for iPhone, are invited to plug their iPhones/iPods into the sound system and jam with indie rockers Good Night, States at Mr. Small's in Pittsburgh this Friday.
Wow, the iPhone is Now the Most Popular Camera on Flickr [hey, it's noah]
According to Flicker's camera graph, the iPhone was momentarily the number one camera on Flickr, inching ahead of the Canon EOS. The sharp spike likely coincided with the launch of iPhone 3GS with its much-improved 3 megapixel camera.
