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AT&T Rolls Out Digby-Powered Mobile Commerce Software

Posted by Brodie Boyce On July - 24 - 2012 NO Comment

Digby Mobile Commerce from AT&T helps retailers create mobile websites that display rich product images and live catalogs, expands the ways they can buy from merchants and more. Digby also allows retailer to create native applications, and tap into both its mobile barcode service and the ShopAlerts service to send promotions and new product information to app users when they walk into connected stores. And the platform will give retailers detailed analytics and traffic data from websites and apps.

Digby’s platform allows retailers to develop apps for iOS, BlackBerry and Android devices. D

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Have you see Chirp? Finally a replacement for Bluetooth? ;-)

Posted by Jackson Walton On July - 21 - 2012 NO Comment

By Ewan on July 23, 2012 in Applications

The BBCs Rory Cellan-Jones has written a rather stimulating post about Chirp. It uses a shortcode broadcast via sound to broadcast images and data to smartphones that are listening.

The implications of this kind of technology could be far reaching. For instance, you could easily be pushed particular sets of data when youre on-site in a shopping mall or sports complex.

Could this finally replace the medium of Bluetooth for sending pictures to each other?

Or is this a solution looking for a problem?

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Better security for web and mobile applications

Posted by Lola Lindeman On July - 20 - 2012 NO Comment

Called RockSalt, the clever bit of code can verify that native computer programming languages comply with a particular security policy.

Presented at the ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) in Beijing, in June, RockSalt was created by Greg Morrisett, Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), two of his undergraduate students Edward Gan ’13 and Joseph Tassarotti ’13, former postdoctoral fellow Jean-Baptiste Tristan (now at Oracle), and Gang Tan of Lehigh University.

“When a user opens an external application, such as Gmail or Angry Birds, web browsers such as Google Chrome typically run the program’s code in an intermediate and safer language such as JavaScript,” says Morrisett.

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Hardly a week goes by that we’re not reading about Lawsuits regarding alleged infringement of Patents concerning technology being used in Mobile Phones and Tablets. But, we don’t see as many lawsuits being filed by camera manufacturers against smart phone and tablet manufacturers. But, that may be changing, as Japan’s Fujifilm has filed a lawsuit against Motorola Mobility in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming infringement of the following patents:

  • U.S. Patent # 6,144,763: This patent covers a method and apparatus for compression coding of image data representative of a color image, and may be related to conversion of color to monochrome.
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Video star Dailymotion relaunches white label service

Posted by Brodie Boyce On July - 15 - 2012 NO Comment

The worlds second largest video site, Dailymotion, is dramatically expanding its white label video service in an attempt to draw in more professional content companies and media creators.

Dailymotion Cloud, a system for hosting video outside of the companys main consumer platform, announced on Wednesday that it was adding a slate of new features including improved live streaming, DRM support and extra money-making services. All of these, it hopes, can make it a significant competitor to other professional video hosting services like Brightcove and Ooyala.

Cloud is aimed at offering companies, advertisers and broadcasters access to the same tools that Dailymotion itself uses to distribute video to more than 100 million monthly users.

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New US startup Ouya is about to launch an ambitious Kickstarter funding campaign in order to develop a new home console.

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An AI that can watch two-minute videos of some simple board games being played, learn the rules, and then play against human opponents has been developed by Lukasz Kaiser, a researcher at Paris Diderot University.

In the broad strokes, Kaiser’s AI is a set of subroutines that work in concert — a visual analysis system provides data to a game learning algorithm, and both are linked to an open-source game engine called Toss.

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