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Jour : 28 avril 2011

  • SmartPhones: Creating new markets for Video games

    As a game device, the iPhone has revolutionized the market, according to BBC NEWS the iPhone and the iPod Touch boasted 30 million users usurping Nintendo’s DS or Sony’s PSP at a similar point in their lives. iPhone was set to become the dominant gaming platform because of the strength of the App Store, however…

  • Starbucks: Facilitate your payment, have a unique experience!

    As one of its major corporate values, innovation, Starbucks has just launched the online payment for Iphone and Blackberry. The Starbucks M-payment application comes meanwhile the NFC technologies (as Iphone 5) are launched in the mass market.   Through the Smartphone and after recharging the Starbucks account, the customer ca n pay his order. As…

  • Withings measures your blood pressure!

    Withings, the French company now offers a pressure meter that can be connected to IOS systems, such as iphone, iPad, and iPod touch, with a regular online follow up. Nowadays, about 25% of the worldwide population suffers from blood hyper pressure. Since several years, the medical staff advises the pressure individual measurement, yet this is…

  • An office in your pocket: the smartphone

    Most  people look for Smartphone’s applications to distract their minds from work and to relax, however, this is a luxury that not everyone can afford. For those who need to stay in touch with their office wherever they go, here are some very interesting tools: Yammer: Imagine a Twitter that only can be read by…

  • SMS… What is that?

    During the last years, the mobile phone users have changed their behaviour and the way to send information to other people. Ten years ago, the mobile operator clients only had two main options to exchange information: they could call each other by phone or just send a SMS. As you know, this situation is completely…

  • ANTENNAS. ARE THEY REALLY DANGEROUS?

    Since the global telecommunications companies began installing antennas all around the world to provide their services, it has been a lot of controversy in the different societies because of the possible negative externalities that these kinds of devices could cause in the population.   A lot of people think that these machines are the main…

  • Google doc on Android

    Google is offering, since April 28th, an “official”  Android  application for its services of on-line office automation. Soberly baptized Docs, the program allows you to visualize or to edit your documents stored in Google Docs. Once installed, the application – only available in English at the moment – downloads at once the list of all…

  • Kinetically Charged Cell Phone

    Nowadays, cell phone is almost become an indispensable part of human life. Many people referred their cell phone as their organ. However, one of the cell phone limitations is its limited battery life. It need to be recharged often, the recharging must be done via an adapter and then plug it into the power outlet…