Archive for April, 2010

Ted Talk with Steven Wolfram

In this Ted Talk by Steven Wolfram is in part to “Wolfram Alpha”, Mathematica, and other …
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram | Alpha, the author of A New Kind of Science, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Full bio and more links

Bluetooth-SIK released new specifications for Bluetooth 4.0

Yesterday announced the Bluetooth SIK that the development of Bluetooth 4.0 are almost completed. The specifications will be announced before 30 June 2010.

What began years ago with a joint venture of a few companies such as Toshiba, has now grown into a great community. The Bluetooth-SIK has today about 9000 members.

The basic advantage of Bluetooth 4.0 is to:
* Higher reach
* Energy-savings

The use in for example Vienna mobile devices e.g. Smartphones, laptops, headsets, but will take a little longer. It is estimated that will not come before the end of 2010 more likely to move to 2011, the first devices on the market

Here you can read the press release.

iPad makes 0.03% of worldwide Internet traffic!

NetApplications announced today that the iPad 0.03% of total web traffic makes. To date, sold approximately 500,000 iPad’s.
For comparison:
* 0.51% traffic from the iPhone
* 0.04% from the BlackBerry
* 0.07% of Android and Windows Mobile
You can find here the full article.

60,000 Android phones, like Nexus One, are sold daily and activated.

This is a number times 60,000 phones a day. Who would have expected to have been published as yet last year, on average “only” about 2000 Apps in the market in the month. They are about 22 million a year.  Now we are at about 9000 (March) and in April alone already 4955.
Reads more here.

9000 new apps in the Android Market

In March 9000 new apps in the Android market have been published. The market success of the Android phone can not stay longer!

Here you will find some statistics for Android

http://www.androlib.com/appstats.aspx

iPhone SDK 4.0 released

Today, Apple released the new beta of the SDK from the iPhone. It is version 4.0.
In the iPhone DevCenter you will find this the download.
New in Version 4.0

  • Multitasking
  • IAd
  • Over 1,500 new APIs

What all is new, can be found here

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