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Submission + - Mobile extension to Koffeephoto photo sharing

Submitted by

Carl Conrad

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @03:47PM

Carl Conrad writes: "KoffeeWare unveils a preview version of future KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing. KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing allows KoffeePhoto users to access and share photo albums on their mobile phone. Storage is free and unlimited thanks to KoffeePhoto's unique private distributed storage technology. Photo albums are available anytime anywhere. Pictures can be viewed interactively or using full screen streamed slide-shows. The size of the screen is automatically detected in order to maximize the display and optimize the file download.

"We believe it is now the perfect time for such kind of applications as the combination of 3G/3G+ phones capable of high wireless data throughput and QVGA displays makes running photo sharing applications on mobile phones a reality." explains Carl Conrad, Marketing Manager of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

"In early development stages of KoffeePhoto photo sharing in 2005, a mobile phone based client was already an obvious milestone on our product development roadmap. While the application runs well with a GPRS/EDGE connection, 3G(UMTS)/3G+(HSDPA) or WiFi connection are recommended for an optimal user experience." adds Gilles Pommereuil, CTO of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

The functions currently implemented allow to browse photo albums.

Available as a J2ME application (a small Java mobile application), KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing can be easily installed on a wide variety of mobile phones and converging PDAs. It can be downloaded from: http://koffeephoto.com/mobile. A demo mode is included. More information on http://www.koffeephoto.com/en/index.php/koffeephot o-mobile and http://blog.koffeephoto.com./"

Submission + - What musical instrument to learn?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @03:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: I've recently watched too much Star Trek and got a kick in my ass from the "improved yourself"-theme. I've always wanted to learn a musical instrument but I never really what to learn. Anyone got a tip? It shouldn't be to large/expensive and suitable for learning it on your own. Some kind of flute perhaps?

Journal Journal: [Z80] Software time 2

Journal by Alioth on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @03:31PM

It's now coming to that time where I need to think a bit about software. With the success of getting the z88dk retargeted to run on my board, I'm thinking what needs to go into the ROM. The system portion of ROM will live in the lower 16K.

The Unix approach is very attractive - make it so all the devices can just be accessed using stdio. This will make the subsequent C programs easy to write, with a standard interface known by any C programmer. So basically, this will require:

Perens Rains on Novell's Parade 277

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @02:08PM from the umbrella-sales-up-five-percent dept.

unum15 writes "This week is Novell's Brainshare conference. They are touting the Microsoft covenant not to sue as 'good for consumers'. However, Bruce Perens decided to take this opportunity to 'rain on Novell's parade'. Perens read a statement from RMS affirming the GPLv3 would not allow companies to enter deals like this and continue to offer GPLv3 software. Perens even goes as far as to suggest this move is an exit strategy by Novell. There are also audio and pictures of the event available."

Submission + - Google tries out Pay per Action

Submitted by

conradov

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @02:01PM

conradov writes: "Google announced beta testing of its new Pay per Action AdWords model.

From the announcement:

Pay-per-action advertising is a new pricing model that allows you to pay only for completed actions that you define, such as a lead, a sale, or a pageview, after a user has clicked on your ad on a publisher's site.

It seems Google is shaking the ad market again."

Submission + - One-second GPS Tracking with Indoor Capabilities

Submitted by

Lord Satri

on Friday February 02, 2007 @10:19AM

Lord Satri writes: "When my father sent me a short french-written article about this, I though it was wrong, but Infoworld offers a short article about a new GPS chip which uses two satellite navigation services and will operate in indoor environments. From the article: "The u-blox 5 chip, which Switzerland's U-blox plans to unveil at the 3GSM World Congress event in Barcelona next month, uses two global navigation satellite services: GPS, which was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, and Europe's Galileo, the vendor said Wednesday. The technology has a tracking sensitivity of -160 dBm, which enables indoor coverage. The abbreviation dBm represents the power ratio in decibels (dB) with respect to 1 milliwatt (mW). With a power consumption of less than 50 mW, the u-blox 5 chip allows GPS-enabled mobile phones and other wireless devices to operate in difficult indoor environments, such as shopping malls and train stations." This and the upcoming much cheaper and better performance option for mobile phones and other hand-held devices will help location-based services to reach mass market."

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