http://blog.landspurg.net Technology, wireless, games...and more..... Mon, 05 May 2008 08:03:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ From Techrunch: http://blog.landspurg.net/web20-outsourcing-humour/ A great piece of reading  (discovered through AboutMobility weblog): CTO Handbook — How to care for and feed your CTO He defined three types of CTO:The Technical Founder - the person that wrote the code that got the company off the ground. Has sweated to give the alpha/beta/product life and as a ... http://blog.landspurg.net/cto-handbook-%e2%80%94-how-to-care-for-and-feed-your-cto/ According to Techcrunch, Yahoo is the latest entrant in the mobile widget race. Basically, the "big" part of Yahoo!Go 3.0 is the support of widget, and the availability of an SDK for developpers.So it will be interesting to see this. Yahoo!Go was already huge and slow, so let's hope that ... http://blog.landspurg.net/yahoo-opens-his-mobile-widget-sdk/ Last week was "LeWeb3" week, with several interesting announces around widgets. First, Goojet, the last entrant in that space announced his beta at the event.Orange also showed an iPhone version of there own portal, BubbleTop, and a preview of their mobile client. Nice UI but not yet available....Also, some first ... http://blog.landspurg.net/mobile-widget-roundup/ Would it make sense for Google to provide an Androïd version for the iPhone? Of course, not the complete stack, but just the development framework. Most of the people and especially developers don't really care about the full stack, but about the interesting part which is of the development framework, ... http://blog.landspurg.net/android-and-the-iphone/ Not the announce of the year, but very useful API when you want to draw a graph very quickly: Google Chart APIThe only annoying thing: no way to autoscale datas, and no input from a data file......Through C.Enrique Blog and Google Code BlogIdentificateurs Technorati : google, chart http://blog.landspurg.net/google-chart-api/ Might be already old news for some of you, but I've forgot to put it on my blog, so here it is: we have released Webwag V1 version. The official news is here: Webwag mobile V1 release, API is open! Here is a non exhaustive list of new features you will ... http://blog.landspurg.net/webwag-mobile-v1-announced/ Just played with these two great apps, showing the potential of the iPhone and especially the multitouch screen and the accelerators.The first one is in fact a multi touch demo, quite simple, from cedsoft: it allows to play with a satellite picture and zoom it, move it and rotate it. ... http://blog.landspurg.net/two-extraordinay-iphone-apps/ Yes, I've got two of them. Less than one month old, fully unlocked, 1.1.1 software...See it on eBay: iPhone 8GB unlocked http://blog.landspurg.net/selling-my-new-iphone-unlocked/   Congrat to FredBrunnel, who just released one of the first app for Android: TwitterDroidAs Fred said, not very usefull while there is no real handset yet, but interesting anyway. Fred, one suggestion: share with us (developers) your though on developping on Androïd...Identificateurs Technorati : androïd, java http://blog.landspurg.net/twitterdroid-public-alpha/