http://blog.landspurg.net Technology, wireless, games...and more..... Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:47:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've been quite silent the past monthes, because one of the big project was the launch of our iPhone app, iWebwag! iWebwag is a full widget engine for iPhone, with a very powerfull RSS reader and sharing capacities trough email or Tweeter. Go to our app page description to have ... http://blog.landspurg.net/webwagmobilewidgetstweeter/ This is a translation of an article published in French, on the Korben.info websiteI've been contacted yesterday by the guy who have hacked Twitter. His pseudo his Hacker Croll (here is the initial reference to Hacker Croll, but in French) and explained to me that he was able to access ... http://blog.landspurg.net/twitter-hacked/ Flurry, an early developer of mobile mail client for J2me seems to be reborn as a great analytic tools. This tool is available for four platforms: J2ME, iPhone, Android and Blackberry.I've tested the J2me and iPhone version, and it's one of the best tool I've found so far. Before, I've ... http://blog.landspurg.net/know-all-about-your-app-flurry-analytics/ We just announced a few days ago a very exciting things: widgets are coming to your PNDs: Webwag Drives the First Widgets into cars and portable navigation devices.This is interesting as a stand alone news, but also in the Webwag vision of a converging world where you can access to ... http://blog.landspurg.net/webwag-widgetize-pnds-2/ Incredible video from FaberNovel and Orange, or mobile activity during one day: the 21 of June. This day is very populare in france, because it's the day where everybody is playing music around streets in Paris and all around the country. So Orange recorded all mobile activity during this day, and ... http://blog.landspurg.net/incredible-visualisation-of-mobile-datas/ Waow, what a big year, with several new platforms (Androïd, iPhone, JavaFX) , the move of Symbian to OpenSource?Everybody these days is talking only of OpenOS (which in fact are not so open, but anyway) and the reborn of mobile applications.So what happens to j2me, which is still the most ... http://blog.landspurg.net/what-future-for-j2me/ I've played a little bit this week end with the iPhone SDK, which is good on some point, but a nightmare on others. Maybe I'll do a post on this topic later on, but my main point know is to help others on how to do self signed application ... http://blog.landspurg.net/complete-howto-list-to-create-self-signed-application-on-iphone21/ Ok, may be I am a little bit too enthousiate, but really, we are happy with our first realease of V2 Beta.Features include:A new dashboard, with a "grid layout", with a cool reflection effectA lot of otpimized function (I'll go in details later on)But also, plenty of cool widgets to ... http://blog.landspurg.net/webwag-v20-mobile-beta-the-best-mobile-widget-engine-ever/ Just got my 3G iphone: a 100€ deal for a 16G one thanks to Orange incredible offer (and I still keep my old one!). Nice object, but screen look not as good as first generation, and I am encoutering a lot of random crash.... But the AppStore is a very ... http://blog.landspurg.net/got-my-3g-iphone/ Webwag've got a new CEO, Stephane Labrunie, coming for IPlay, that's the first news. The second one is some snapshots of the new incoming V2 version: Creating widget is still incredibely simple: a few XML lines, a little bit of JavaScript, and you have your mobile widget ... http://blog.landspurg.net/snapshots-of-incoming-webwag-mobile-v2-version/ Two very intersting news last week:Adobe creating the OpenScreen project , aiming to reove some licensing restriction on Flash and Flashlite format, giving access to some Flash porting API...The spirit is of course to be able to deliver Flash on much more device than today. I am still amazed by ... http://blog.landspurg.net/flashlite-the-beginning-or-the-end/ Interested in creating mobile widgets? Just check our latest tutorial on how to simply create and deploy mobile widgets using Webwga platform using standard and easy to learn technologies, like XML and JavaScript.Yes, Webwag is since some monthes compliant with JavaScript (in fact a subset of JavaScript), but this make ... http://blog.landspurg.net/mobile-widgets-a-comprehensible-tutorial/ Congratulation to Vollee, who displayed for the first time some videos of what they are doing secretely since several years: a great technology to easily deploy any desktop game to mobile, using video streaming. As you can see, it's not only a direct transcoding of the desktop stream to a mobile ... http://blog.landspurg.net/secondlife-on-mobile/ Discovered this website - devicefragmentation.info through Jason Delport's Mobile Observation blog Higly interesting paper on fragmentaitons issues, and on different way to solve them! And like Jason, I like the way Dimath Rajapkse categorize the various technique used: I think I've experimented all the techniques since I am in mobile industry, from the ... http://blog.landspurg.net/devicefragmentationinfo/ Yes, take a look at this post from our corporate blog: Have you always wanted to work in a company that is at the heart of Mobile and Web 2.0 technologies? Are you a motivated and talented Web developer? Is JavaScript your first language and AJAX definitely not a cleaning product ... http://blog.landspurg.net/we-are-looking-for-great-developpers/ Parallel Kingdom is a new (and far from being released) GPS game based on Android platform. Since a long time locaion based games have been explored, but up to now none really succed to capture enough attraction, mostly because they required poeple to move to play the game which requires ... http://blog.landspurg.net/a-nice-and-innovative-gps-based-game/ Big week for Webwag! After the yesterday announce that Webwag was finalist of the GlobalMobileAwards, we just announce today our new iPhone version. You saw a video some time ago, but now this version is live: just point your browser to http://iphone.webwag.com (or http://webwag.com with your iPhone) and you'll have ... http://blog.landspurg.net/webwag-latest-news-iphoneipod-touch-and-v2/ Webwag has been selected as a finalist in the "Best Infotainment portal" at the Global Mobile Awards. The final of this famouse competition will take place during the next 3Gsm, in barcelona, in February...More on the offical Webwag blogAnd the globalmobileawards site http://blog.landspurg.net/webwag-finalist-at-the-global-mobile-awards/ This iRiver unit presented during the last CES looks great. There is even a touchscreen that serve as a remote controller, but you can display much more info on it: RSS feed, weather, video, etc... Sounds a great widget platform, for your digital life...Through multiroom (in French) http://blog.landspurg.net/widgets-everywhere-next-episode/ Finally, we had a chance yesterday to access to Yahoo!Go 3.0 SDK. As a frequent reader of this blog, you should know that Widgets is a favorite topic, so I was curious and excited about achivement of Yahoo!Go 3.0 and his SDK. The home screen is really good, looks great. Very ... http://blog.landspurg.net/what-is-really-yahoogo-30-sdk/