Archive for: applications

Recognizr Android App Uses Facial Recognition To Identify People

A company called The Astonishing Tribe are in the process of developing an application for the Google Android person, that will tell you who someone is by you pointing your mobile phone at them.The application prototype uses a 3D model to recognize facial features, it then searches its server to find a match, once a [...]

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Daimler’s Smart Drive kit for iPhone gives you big buttons, a dent in your wallet

If you’re one of the trendy hipsters driving a Smart Fortwo, here’s another way of pimping up your ride: Daimler has announced a Q2 2010 launch for its Smart Drive kit for the iPhone. As pictured above, the kit consists of a cradle for handsfree communication plus charging, and an app that “combines all the [...]

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Verizon launches FiOS Mobile Remote app for Droid and Imagio

Controlling your TV from your phone isn’t a new concept, but Verizon just made it a bit sexier. Verizon FiOS owners this week can nab a new FiOS Mobile Remote app for their Motorola Droid or HTC Imagio. The application emulates regular remote buttons, but also tosses in an icon-based favorites view of channels, in [...]

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Nokia Feel app suggests activities based on your emotional state (video)

Still feeling an overabundance of nervous energy over this morning’s big announcement? (No, the other one.) Well, then, Nokia has just the thing for you, in the form of a little app called Feel. Simply tell your handset how you’re, well, feeling, and it gives you suggestions as to how you might best use the [...]

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Twitter for BlackBerry launches in private beta, we check it out

Well aware that 140-character-loving BlackBerry owners don’t have the largest selection of Twitter applications, RIM’s given up on leaving the task to third party developers and created its own. Released today in a private beta, the app aims to take advantage of the platform’s push technology and better integrate Twitter into your message lists. Sure, [...]

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Apple said to be using FairPlay DRM for iBookstore

Well, it looks like anyone hoping that books on Apple’s iBookstore would be as DRM-free as music is on iTunes may be in for a bit of disappointment, as the Los Angeles Times is now reporting that Apple will be making its own FairPlay digital rights management available to any book publishers that wish to [...]

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BlackBerry Application Suite leaks, ready to corrupt a perfectly good WinMo phone

We’d figured that RIM’s ambitious (if not questionable) project to port the juiciest morsels of BlackBerry OS to a virtual machine running atop Windows Mobile was abandoned long ago, and for all we know, it has — but the half-baked remnants of the undertaking are finally available thanks to the good folks at xda-developers. BlackBerry [...]

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KDE 4.4 ‘Caikaku’ released, complete with netbook trimmings

KDE might not be on the radar of everyone that jumped into the Linux game with Ubuntu, but that might change a bit with the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.4 (a.k.a “Caikaku”), which looks to add considerably more than some tweaks and a bit of polish. That includes a range of built-in social network [...]

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Unearthed Microsoft emails reveal reaction to iTunes launch, make us giddy for MWC

It’s a funny thing, really. iTunes has somehow managed to become the world’s largest seller of music in just seven years, yet it’s easily one of the buggiest, most resource intensive and altogether unlikable pieces of software to ever come from the labs of Cupertino. From Microsoft’s perspective, however, they’re really just interested in the [...]

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Adobe got 7 million iPhone and iPod touch download requests for Flash in December

A touch of history might be appropriate here. Back in March 2008, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen proudly proclaimed that his team was about to start coding a Flash player for the iPhone, only for his company to promptly backtrack on those words a day later. Then, about this time last year, Apple and Adobe again [...]

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