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iPhone App Provides Image Recognition
Doctors Think That iPhone Makes Them Look More Professional
Apple's "Anti-Competitive" iPhone App Store Draws Developer Ire
Apple to Podcaster: No App Store for you
Podcaster Developer Uses Little-Known "Ad Hoc" Mode To Distribute Banned iPhone App
Teens View Cell Phones As Essential
Google Phone Won't Be An Immediate Game Changer
iPhone App Provides Image Recognition
Swiss company kooaba ( http://www.kooaba.net/ ) has released kooaba search, an application for visual search on the iPhone. Using kooaba's image recognition application, customers can "scan" posters of current movie releases and receive info about the releases on their iPhones.
This includes trailers, reviews, information about actors, or links to merchandising material. Every request is also saved in a history. Recognition of CD covers, DVD covers and games will be added to the service in a few months. kooaba's search service currently focuses on the German speaking market, but will be expanded to other countries in the near future.
kooaba search is now available for free at the Apple App Store.Western
Doctors Think That iPhone Makes Them Look More Professional
iphoneworld's james reports:
According to recently released survey results, around 39% of doctors think that using an iPhone while diagnosing their patients will make them seem more competent in their patients' eyes.
Around 39% of the Epocrates medical program for iPhone users said that they've received "admiration for using the "latest cool technology""
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/59w7n5
Apple's "Anti-Competitive" iPhone App Store Draws Developer Ire
Portfolio.com's Sam Gustin writes:
Apple's iPhone App Store is facing developer fury after news emerged that the company rejected a program that competes with one of Apple's own applications
The uproar mushroomed after iPhone developer Fraser Speirs announced in disgust that he would no longer write applications for the platform.
"I will never write another iPhone application for the App Store as currently constituted," Speirs wrote after news emerged that Apple had rejected a program called Podcaster, because "it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes."
For the full report visit here:
http://biz.yahoo.com/portfolio/080915/tag_www_portfolio_com_2008_5_13820.htm
Apple to Podcaster: No App Store for you
CNET's Tom Krazit reports:
Apple's App Store policies are really starting to frustrate application developers.
Over the weekend, a good old-fashioned Internet-style kerfuffle arose over Apple's decision to reject Podcaster - an iPhone application that lets people download podcasts directly to their devices without going through iTunes - from the App Store. The developer of the application said that Apple told him the application "duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes," apparently making it unfit for the App Store.
This has been a persistent question hanging over Apple's decision to vet every single iPhone and iPod Touch application sold through the App Store, the only official source of iPhone and iPod Touch applications. How will Apple choose to wield this power?....
For the full report visit here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10041572-37.html
Podcaster Developer Uses Little-Known "Ad Hoc" Mode To Distribute Banned iPhone App
ReadWriteWeb's Sarah Perez reports:
Over the weekend, a debate raged across the tech blogosphere concerning the risks involved in developing for the iPhone platform.
What prompted the debate in the first place was Apple's decision to reject an app known as the Podcaster, which would have permitted you to listen to podcasts without first downloading them in iTunes. Because the app "duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes," says Apple, they decided to reject it from inclusion in the App store.
To get around what many people consider to be an unfair ban, Alex Sokirynsky, the developer of the Podcaster app, decided to utilize a little-known feature of the iPhone/iPod Touch: "Ad Hoc App Distribution." This largely unknown feature allows any developer to distribute apps themselves, without using the App Store to do so....
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/5m4n29
Teens View Cell Phones As Essential
CNET's Marguerite Reardon reports:
Cell phones have become almost as important to American teens as the clothes they wear, according to a nationwide survey of teenagers released last week.
The wireless trade association CTIA and Harris Interactive surveyed some 2,000 teens across the country and learned that teens feel that cell phones have become a vital part of their identities. They also believe that behind clothing, they can gauge a peer's popularity or status by the phone he or she uses.....
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/5m4n29
Google Phone Won't Be An Immediate Game Changer
Reuters via InformationWeek reports:
Anyone expecting the soon- to-be-launched Google phone to change the market like Apple's iPhone has over the past year will likely be disappointed -- for now.
Industry insiders who have worked on Google's Android mobile operating system say it will struggle in the near term to match the consumer enthusiasm generated by Apple when its iPhone redefined the touch-screen phone market and greatly improved mobile Web surfing.
Instead, Google sees Android as an open-source platform for designing mobile devices, saying it will encourage innovation by allowing outside software developers to tinker with the system and create better mobile programs and services.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6mlff2
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