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Terrestrica - Location Triggered service for Windows Mobile phones with GPS - released --  |
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We have tried it and it requires GPS location fix before launching. Not good! We would prefer ability to set location by hand too - in case you are indoors, trying to plan travel or at an airport etc. It is nice though that they have chosen Windows Mobile as their first platform...
More information from the vendor follows.
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Terrestrica enables people and companies to create multimedia geolocation points and guides via Web application and to distribute that content to Mobile devices.
Croatives Inc. today it is launching beta release of Terrestrica � Location Triggered service for Mobiles with GPS with a possibility of creating multimedia geolocation points and guides and interesting business model based on �On location Mobile Advertising� which allow users to make Revenue from their geo-content. Terrestrica is completely Free for use.
The inspiration for Terrestrica came from a parent project called Mobycon which was started in 2008 thrilled by potential of location based services and products. Mobycon is a platform, tool and network for creating and handling location based services and products. Mobycon has many possible implementations. The problem was how to show the world what cool stuff you can do on Mobycon platform? The answer was: �Let's make one cool product based on Mobycon.� Terrestrica was born.
Terrestrica combine the Web, Mobile and GPS on innovative,cool and useful way, enabling users to create and manage creative geo-location content and also make revenue from it.The content is triggered by user location or by selecting the specific location on the map inside Terrestrica Mobile App.
Terrestrica enables Advertisers to advertise on any available locations points entered by users. Revenue from advertising is sharing between geo-content owner (user) and Terrestrica.
Terrestrica is in Beta and support Mobile phones with Windows Mobile and GPS. Windows Mobile is chosen as first platform because of its big market share as well as market demand for high quality geo-location Apps. Support for other Mobile platforms such as Android and iPhone are in development and coming soon.
Those interested in learning more about Terrestrica can visit www.terrestrica.com.
Credit: Sinisa Necko (submitted through news submission form).
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Nvidia cozies up to Microsoft - Tegra coming to Zune HD, Windows Mobile 7 and Windows CE smartbooks? -- |
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It is pathetic, that Microsoft has released an app for iPhone claiming that rationale behind it was: Windows Mobile phones do not have enough graphic power. Clearly in the era of mobile gaming with graphics power of regular gaming consoles, having strong hardware acceleration is essential (apart from having support for industry-standard OpenGL ES 2.0 instead of Microsoft-proprietary Direct3D)...
(on photo above: booth person from Nvidia team at Mobile World Congress - posing especially for us)
So what is going on? It looks like Nvidia cannot yet confirm that Zune HD will be using their chips - because Microsoft has not confirmed it yet - but they already now are badmouthing Google Android and cozying up to Microsoft:
Mike Rayfield, general manager for Nvidia's mobile business unit, said Nvidia preferred Microsoft's Windows CE over Android because of CE's maturity. He said Android currently has a rough user interface.
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Windows CE also has a "low memory footprint and a good collection of apps," Rayfield said.
He said Nvidia is also improving Tegra for use on Windows Mobile, a close variant of Windows CE, for ARM-based smartphones.
To learn more, visit original source of this story about Nvidia and Microsoft.
Commentary: we remember seeing during Mobile World Congress representatives of Nvidia who were giving away leaflets about future smartphones with Windows CE logo on it. Clearly it was long-year Nvidia'a target to gain Microsoft mobility for their mobile graphics chips and it looks like they will succeed in this endeavor in the end.
See also: our video-interview with Nvidia.
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At last: Microsoft incentivizes employees to use Windows Mobile phones! -- |
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We were annoyed when we have seen at various places Microsoft employees using phones not powered by Windows Mobile and latest move of Microsoft might change it slighlty:
Recently Microsoft has fired few thousand people to show off, that they are implementing some cost reductions too. Now, as a further step, Microsoft has decided not to pay back for cellular data plans of their employees if they don't use Windows Mobile phones! Since some data plans are bound to RIM BlackBerry usage or to iPhone usage or to Palm Pre usage - clearly it was silly that Microsoft was indirectly sponsoring these devices that are competitive to Windows Mobile.
We know of many more cases where Microsoft employees and Microsoft partners are using and promoting smartphones that are in direct competition to Windows Mobile - like iPhone and Google Android - but this is a wholly different fairytale that we will not discuss here. Here the topic is: Microsoft at last is putting in place some real (financial!) incentive to foster usage of Windows Mobile phones among their employees.
Finally let us not forget about dog food:
To say that a company "eats its own dog food" means that it uses the products that it makes. "Dogfooding" is a means of conveying the company's confidence in its own products.
Too often we can see companies that are selling some products or services, but are running their mission-critical stuff not on their own products.
Finally we hope, that situation where Microsoft is releasing mobile software for iPhone only, without even releasing any version for Windows Mobile - as it happened here and here - will not happen again...
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We Are Together for Windows Mobile released -- |
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Another program for Windows Mobile from JGUI!
More info from the developer follows.
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New program: We Are Together (for Windows phones) allows you to exchange your Calendar, Task, Contact with your friend or workmate. None new things to learn. Just select your item, and give the friend's phone number.
More: www.jgui.net/wat/
Of course both phones have to use We Are Together program. But it's free for one day. You can send to your friend the link of setup file, he/she will download, install, and receive your Calendar, or Task, or Contact item, immediately and free.
For security reasons, you can set if you want to get new items from everybody, who uses We Are Together program,
or only from someone in your Contacts, or only from one defined (selected) number.
It's done in this program general settings dialog:
Technically, this program uses ordinary SMS text messages to exchange items.
So you don't need to set a special wireless mode, or afraid about extra costs.
Credit: JGUI (submitted over news submission form).
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LG unveils their flagship smartphone - LG GM730 - and it is powered by Windows Mobile ! -- |
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Apart from rather boring touch-screen-less GW550 powered by Windows Mobile standard, LG has just unveiled also their flagship smartphone and we are very happy to inform you, that it is powered by Windows Mobile!
The LG-GM730 is LG�s new flagship smartphone, which is the result of a strategic partnership with Microsoft. The combination of the Microsoft�s Windows Mobile 6.1 with LG�s S-Class User Interface provides easier access to the powerful smartphone�s myriad features including easy to use e-mail and organization tools. The slim, 11.9 mm LG-GM730 is the first of several smartphones that LG will release in Asia this year.
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The LG-GM730 will be available globally, with its initial launch in Asia this July. The LG-GM730�s launch coincides with the opening of LG Application Store, which expand the capabilities of LG�s smartphones.
To learn more, visit original source of this story about new flagship smartphone from LG - at LG's website.
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