Google’s contribution of some “lunch money” to Clearwire is officially to promote openness; however, it’s widely believed that it made the investment to ensure that Clearwire adopts its Android open-source mobile platform technology, as Google sorely needed a major carrier to seriously commit to Android. Clearwire said in a statement that it "will support Google's Android operating system software in its future voice and data devices that it provides to its retail customers." This is known as “pay to play;” it is a path well trodden by IBM and Microsoft in the “good old days,” i.e., each in its hey day.

Google also said it “will provide search and applications to the network's users, and will work with Clearwire to offer additional services and applications”. According to Google, “this will include jointly creating an open Internet protocol to work with mobile broadband devices (including Android-powered devices) and implementing other open network practices and policies.”

Meanwhile, Microsoft has claimed that it is no longer interested in a transaction with Yahoo, supposedly because of Yahoo’s entangling alliance with Google, while it seems that the two-week experiment of Yahoo using Google’s AdSense network for selling ads is not likely to be continued. Perhaps Yahoo just used Google as a stalking horse to get Microsoft off its own back. Perhaps Steve Ballmer got too much pushback from his own people, and found a graceful way out of a transaction that was ego-based, but was not going to bring value to Microsoft's shareholders to justify the lofty price. Bill Gates publicly backed his stance.

So, to sum up, competition is alive and well in techland, with each of Google and Microsoft continuing to try and grab as much of the other’s territory as it can, and both of them are on a hell bent for leather land grab for their [un]fair piece of the wide open spaces of mobile technology.

The implications of Google's and Microsoft's actions will not be apparent for some time, and meantime, investors and IT managers have many decisions to make. Full-employment for analysts is guaranteed for the foreseeable future, as investors and Enterprises consider the complex choices to make.

(Hat’s off to Michael Gartenberg, Vice President and Research Director of JupiterResearch for his insightful discussion with me on these topics; the foregoing is my opinion, however, and most certainly doesn’t bind either Michael or JupiterResearch).

Voglio un nuovo smartphone!!!

e a quanto pare il neo free runner arriverà tra meno di 1 mese... possibile che i migliori acquisti coincidano sempre con la fine della scuola? e vai!!!

Well, there are a few platforms that you might be interested to play around with, if you have an interest for embedded systems, and especially the mobile platform. Here it goes:

MobiSy: Rich Applications for your Mobile.

OpenMoko: An open development kit - Imagine having a phone with everything unlocked, and nothing beyond the realm of control by code. That's what OpenMoko grants you. It's a fabulous kit for folks who want to go beyond developing apps for Java or Symbian, or Windows Mobile.

Android: Well known. Enough said.

Bug Labs: Custom-build your pieces. I found this a few days ago, and am absolutely floored. The beauty about this kit is that its not restricted to mobile handsets. Its almost the lego of the electronics world.

Mango Technologies: Mobile Application Framework. A Bangalore based company. Related note: Check out Mophun, a mobile gaming application Framework.

Flashlite: When this thing gets mainstream from adobe, we better watch out for some deadly applications.

QTopia from Trolltech, an application platform and User Interface Layer for Linux powered devices - handhelds, and the likes.

So why am I mentioning all this? If a Luxury handset manufacturer in Bangalore has gotten funded $2Million, what are the next set of pieces which will have to fall in place?

No último mês de Abril, diversas pistas sobre esta estratégia surgiram na mídia especializada em tecnologia, tais como o lançamento de um kit de desenvolvimento para os discos BluRay que permitirá ao iPhone acessar e controlar determinados aspectos dessas mídias físicas, por meio de uma conexão de rede sem fio com os aparelhos BluRay. Também surgiram indícios de que a Apple planeja o lançamento de um programa de controle remoto universal para o iPhone, permitindo-lhe controlar diversos equipamentos domésticos, entre eles, o AppleTV e os próprios Macs. Portanto a plataforma iPhone não se reduz apenas a um meio de processar informações, mas também de controlar o mundo ao seu redor, levando a crer em uma realidade na qual existirá um equipamento tão pessoal para cada um quanto a própria carteira de identidade.

O mais surpreendente deste conjunto todo é que apenas uma única empresa ou grupo parece ter conseguido embarcar sozinho em um campo que promete ser um cruzeiro marítimo pelo Caribe para desenvolvedores de equipamentos e programas. Dentre todas as empresas, a Apple possui uma característica singular entre os diversos fabricantes de equipamentos eletrônicos e de informática, que é ter controle tanto sobre o hardware quanto o software de suas criações. Mas ainda assim, muito poucas empresas parecem conseguir vislumbrar o horizonte que se abre diante de seus olhos. Com exceção da Google.

A Google, quase no mesmo período do lançamento do iPhone, apresentou a plataforma Android, que nada mais é do que um conjunto de parâmetros para a criação de um sistema e de programas para dispositivos móveis, baseados em diversos projetos de código livre, como o Linux e o Java. Porém quase um ano depois, a plataforma Android se restringe a uma quantidade limitada de projetos em empresas de equipamentos telefónicos celulares, com medo da concorrência do iPhone. Ou seja, pelo lado dessas empresas, não existe uma preocupação em integrar esses equipamentos com outros equipamentos, criando uma sinergia entre eles. Crêem apenas que a sedução da mágica das telas sensíveis ao toque bastará por si só para garantir a sobrevivência das suas vendas, sem o desenvolvimento de uma utilidade prática para essa tecnologia que eleve a experiência dos seus usuários para um novo patamar de possibilidades e descobertas. O que é uma pena, pois com a estagnação da Microsoft e a timidez da Sony em criar coisas novas, apenas as soluções de código livre parecem capazes de, ao médio prazo, embarcar neste cruzeiro. Isso se houver um apoio mais amplo de fabricantes de equipamentos eletrônicos e de informática a um projeto de código livre consistente. Porém com o estágio atual de desenvolvimento dessas soluções para a nova plataforma, somente quando o cruzeiro estiver no meio do caminho é que haverá possibilidades de uma alternativa viável embarcar na viagem. Então neste momento, a Apple já será amigo íntimo do capitão e de toda a tripulação e passageiros, além de desfrutar de quase todas as mordomias sozinho.

fonte: http://www.dicas-l.com.br/filosofiadigital/filosofiadigital_20080505.php

The deal with ClearWire is a complex transaction with an alpha-soup list of investor firms participating including Comcast, Intel, Google, and cable operator Bright House Networks. Why are these firms interested ? Intel needs a new chip wave now that Centrino is everywhere already. Plus Intel has been investing in WiMAX chip development as the next evolution of the WiFi enabled chip. Google is the preferred search provider on ClearWire WiMAX devices and its Android platform will find a big network partner. Comcast and Bright House are looking for a way to expand into high speed mobile services and wireless broadband - now that AT&T and Verizon are beginning to erode cable market share with their own high speed TV offerings and innovative quad-play bundling of wireless, wireline, TV and internet. Essentially bundling is the new mantra for getting customers and cable providers need a wireless channel partner to cover this one missing piece in the cable package.

With this WiMAX deal, Sprint has one less thing to worry as it was coming from low cash liquidity position and needed money to launch a 4G offering - it got its wish fulfilled by getting some partners with big pockets to invest in its nascent 4G endeavour. Now it can go back to focusing or investing in its core CDMA business and in time make it attractive enough to sell to interested parties, eg Deutsche Telekom at a good price. Sprint Xohm service, its WiMAX trial launch service, is all but dead or in essence, will be merged into ClearWire. Sprint is taking a non-operating role in ClearWire and is talking about having ClearWire manage itself independently with separate wireless assets and separate management structure.

Well - the ClearWire deal looks interesting on the face of it and Sprint does have one less thing to worry about now that its WiMAX / 4G path is clear. But in reality, the challenges remain. With an alpha-soup combination of ClearWire investors, this firm will be chauffeured by multiple backers with sometimes varying agendas. Historically speaking, such complex deals have a high failure rate. Plus it remains to be seen if Sprint core CDMA service ends up competing with its WiMAX offering. We think success of ClearWire depends on letting it be a truly independent company with dedicated management and letting it compete openly.

In any case, WiMAX got a new lease on life. Now with this announcement, it will trigger a chain reaction and network equipment vendors like Nortel, Samsung, AirSpan, Lucent etc will make hay by selling WiMAX equipment. Intel will sell chips for WiMAX - PCs with WiMAX-enabled chips will be hot. More PC software will be sold.  Google gets a mobile momentum on next generation wireless network. Cable firms have a high speed mobile partner. Nokia and other device makers will sell high end WiMAX phones. Consumers get truly personal mobile broadband everywhere, on their cellphones and laptops. They can potentially ditch their wired DSL or cable modems and replace it with wireless broadband. Everybody is happy at the end of the day. Lets see if this theory works or not. Regardless, the ClearWire announcement may trigger a larger WiMAX adoption in other developed countries. So far WiMAX growth story was limited to developing countries in Asia, Sprint announcement is a big boost to this technology in the western hemisphere.

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Aiko was first introduced in 2007 at the Ontario Science Center and Hobby Show and stole attention as one of the first human-look a like android robot to use dynamic and and hardware software together, to try and mimic human behaviours. (source:www.projectaiko.com)

More info at the official Aiko site here: Project Aiko

Contámos com a ajuda dos orientadores e do Benjamin Junior para decidir que áreas devem ser focadas com mais detalhe nesta fase, tendo sido discutidos diversos aspectos, com especial destaque para as soluções adoptadas no protótipo, avaliando o que deve ser modificado e o que pode ser reutilizado.

A este respeito, foi decidido que a forma utilizada pela nossa aplicação na comunicação com o servidor é uma opção válida, possibilitando perfeitamente uma migração futura para algo baseado em webservices (que assegurariam o suporte para um eventual elevado número de utilizadores, bem como a necessária camada de segurança para a informação transmitida e armazenada). Estaremos atentos a novidades acerca dos métodos de envio via POST (actualmente utilizado o URL para envio de informação), mas continuaremos a fazer uso de ficheiros XML, criados no servidor, para a leitura.

Isto significa que, relativamente ao módulo anterior, é eliminado um dos quatro grupos de desenvolvimento (3º Grupo - Comunicação). Como tal, existem agora recursos humanos para o desenvolvimento de um pequeno e simples website, que inicialmente optámos por remeter à fase de manutenção e suporte (dada a grande incerteza acerca dos avanços que seriam conseguidos). Este website assegurará os meios para que um utilizador efectue o seu registo (sendo esta a única forma de criar uma conta Moods), obtendo um nome de utilizador (ID_Moods) e escolhendo uma palavra passe, que serão utilizados no Android para a validação desse utilizador. Adicionalmente, o website pretende garantir todas as funcionalidades que se encontram presentes no Android (manter uma lista de contactos, alterar o estado, inserir uma descrição para o estado, etc.).

Este website será considerado como um dispositivo Android, fazendo uso das mesmas funções para atingir os mesmos objectivos. Serão ainda desenvolvidas soluções para que todo o processo funcione de forma assíncrona, sendo a informação armazenada na BD Web considerada o ponto central. Estes processos farão parte do 4º Grupo de desenvolvimento (Servidor Web). Serão desenvolvidas ainda funções adicionais para suportar múltiplos utilizadores Moods (o protótipo estava limitado a dois utilizadores).

Relativamente à aplicação presente no Android, serão modificados alguns aspectos funcionais para melhorar a interacção com o utilizador, nomeadamente no que diz respeito a tempos de espera, na comunicação com o servidor. Serão assegurados métodos para garantir que alterações efectuadas no dispositivo (por exemplo, a alteração dos dados de um contacto) sejam reflectidas na BD Web, para que esta possa servir como backup de toda a informação. De forma idêntica ao que acontece do lado Web, será adicionado o suporte para múltiplos utilizadores Moods.

O novo modelo para o registo de um utilizador Moods obriga à criação de um novo item, no menu das preferências da aplicação (para que o utilizador se possa autenticar). Esta alteração encontra-se reflectida na nova versão do Mapa de Navegação, apresentada no final deste post.

Os novos ecrãs a criar exigirão um continuado desenvolvimento da componente de interface, sendo que alguns dos ecrãs existentes necessitarão de ser também modificados, em virtude das novas funcionalidades a acrescentar. Para além disso pretendemos acrescentar animações em alguns dos elementos, e ainda animações na transição entre ecrãs; este segundo item já havia sido investigado durante a fase anterior, ainda sem resultados positivos.

O suporte para múltiplos utilizadores, a área de registo do Website e a autenticação no cliente Android, são objectivos que pretendemos cumprir até ao final da próxima semana. Nessa altura serão definidas novas metas, consoante o trabalho que for possível desenvolver em conjunto com estes objectivos primários.

Este "segundo protótipo" será apresentado durante a cerimónia de inauguração do laboratório do Sapo, no dia 21 de Maio.

Por fim, apresentamos o Mapa de Navegação revisto, actualizado e demarcado cromaticamente nas áreas que serão desenvolvidas durante este módulo (nota: a pré-instalação não se encontra incluída, pois nenhum dos seus componentes será desenvolvido nesta fase):

Mapa de Navegação - Versão 3 - Instalação

Mapa de Navegação - Versão 3 - Funcionamento

E ainda o modelo da BD ligeiramente revisto, com suporte para algumas funcionalidades novas (evita a transferência de informação desnecessária para o Android, e possibilita ordenar a lista de estados pelos que são usados com maior frequência):

Base de Dados - Versão 5

Lo so che forse sono in ritardo e che avrei dovuto postare questo video tempo fa, ma ultimamente sto sbavando sempre di più per gli smartPhone opensource e sono indeciso se prenderne uno usato su ebay e installarci sopra Opie, oppure aspettare qualche mese (e mettere i soldi da parte) per comperarmi il mio amato e ricercatissimo Neo Free Runner! :D
Vedremo cosa ci riserverà il futuro...

Speriamo bene...

Empezar a programar, o hacerlo en un sistema desconocido, supone siempre una curva de aprendizaje inicialmente muy empinada, durante la cual la tarea más importante es lo que se suele denominar "asimilar conceptos": aprender las nociones básicas y entender cómo estas se relacionan entre sí. Aprender algo es sobre todo ver cómo un concepto nuevo se relaciona con otros conceptos ya conocidos, y establecer estas relaciones es la parte más elusiva del proceso.

A cualquier programador con un poco de experiencia le resulta difícil ver (o recordar) qué red de conceptos básicos tuvo que tejer en sus inicios para aprender los fundamentos de un lenguaje o entorno, y por ese motivo en ocasiones los programadores veteranos encuentran difícil instruir a los más inexpertos.

Dejar constancia de los problemas encontrados, las dudas resueltas y los errores cometidos en el proceso de aprendizaje resulta útil no sólo para consolidar lo aprendido sino también para mostrar a otros el trayecto recorrido, de forma que puedan evitar caminos sin salida o vueltas innecesarias. Aprender de los errores propios es útil, pero aprender de los ajenos es menos doloroso.

Sirva todo esto de justificación para una serie de artículos en los que, con la torpeza propia del novato, iré contando el proceso de desarrollo del plugin de Ipoki para Android, cuya primera y básica versión ya está casi acabada.

Immaginate le potenzialità dal punto dell'advertising..... ;)

Via: Engadget

First up, a panel on the Mobile Platform 2.0 – Establishing the Personalized Video.Music and Communications Experience, moderated by Sharon Wienbar, managing director at Scale Venture Partners, was an Apple love fest.The panel featured speakers from Nokia Interactive (Jeremy Wright, global director of mobile brand strategy) and Motorola (John Hallman, manager of market development for video and mobile television) as well as reps from Universal Music Group (Julie Lee, vp, biz dev) and AOL (Jai Jaisimha, vp of mobile technology and product development). Also present was Rick Doherty, co-founder/director of The Envisioneering Group.

Panelists both praised the iPhone for the fact that “it just works” – and the fact that if it doesn’t, Apple’s customer service will replace it, no questions asked. The 3G phones will kick up the game a big notch, but Wienbar noted that Apple’s 25-year old problem is delivering on time after an announcement.

Mobile phones are also huge in developing nations in Asia and Africa, although the features of an iPhone are not useful for these users. Over time, Hallman said, Nokia and Motorola will look at iPhone features, just as Apple will look at what works in Africa and Asia.

Panelists all concurred that the disruption of iPhone is positive for the industry, even as new features such as the touch-screen moves onto center stage.“That’s what we need - competition and the freedom to compete,” said Wright,pointing to progressive de-regulation. “Everyone has opportunity in the wake of the iPhone,” said Doherty. “We’ll see a flood of applications.” Wienbar agreed that the developer environment is “very fertile.” Currently, because Java- or Brew-enabled handsets are not heterogeneous, Apple has the biggest footprint with 5 million users – and thus the most fertile ground for developers.

And Google’s Android? Will this take advantage of the door opened by Apple? Jaisimha stressed the importance of platform heterogeneity. “Google Android isa placeholder, not a finished toolkit,” said Doherty. More important, said panelists, is that Google and Apple have awakened developers that handsets are “it” [as in, the "it" platform for development], whether Apple or not.

The panelists also talked about LBS (location-based services), which they recognized is in its earliest days in the U.S. market. Although the conversation first turned to privacy concerns (Wright reported that in the U.K., the carriers must seek permissions from users), the focus quickly changed to a discussion of LBS’ biggest competition in the U.S. market: the automotive navigational system. If you’ve got a GPS in you car – and in the U.S. (especially in L.A.), you’re always in your car, why do you need it with your cell phone?

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If you're interested in an early review copy and have Android programming experience, send me a direct message on Twitter (@commonsguy). I'm looking for a half-dozen people who can give me feedback on what's in the book now, both for tactical fixes I can roll out before it goes to print, and bigger changes that I'll put in the next version.

The book (http://commonsware.com/Android/) will be available in print and in ebook form (PDF and Kindle). The ebooks will be through the CommonsWare Warescription program, which I'll yammer on about in an upcoming blog post. Right now, let's just say that the Warescription, for a bit more than the cost of a print book, will give you tons more material. In particular, ebooks will get updated every month or so, versus every 9-18 months for print editions.

Second-gen iPhone: 3G, GPS, only slightly thicker

This is great news for mobile map-based application developers but don't count on the API being as slick and open as Android's. Given Apple's approach so far, they'll still withhold the vital functionality to get your app really humming.

Why do I say that?

Well for example, Apple's SDK doesn't allow applications to run in the background. That means death to any Pocket Journey app that would run on an iPhone as the audio/video would be killed along with your application as soon as someone called. Apple says this is for security reasons, but we know it's due to Apple's "control freakish" corporate nature. Happily for us, Android solved this challenge through their Service API.

Seems like Apple wants to step back to the dark ages of the Palm OS which can only handle single-threaded tasks as well

Glaringly unfathomable technical mechanics aside...they're trying to build a robot that can walk up and down stairs.

By they I mean London's Shadow Robot Company.  Yeah, "Shadow Robot" is what I said.  I know. Their website is here.

I found them on this coolio site called Android World. Scope.

Luckily I was pointed to the solution myself by an experienced Android programmer in Guatemala by the username of cadlg (thanks again!). If you want to see the official Google Android example though, look at Android's APIDemos' custom LabelView example.

So here we go. We'll use the same code as tutorial 4.1 to keep this simple.

Setting Up Your Custom Class's XML Resource Files

We'll only review the code for the TextOnlyButton as it's identical in concept to the ImageOnlyButton.

First we'll create a new file in /res/values called attrs.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

<declare-styleable name="TextOnlyButton">

<attr name="textColorNotFocused" format="integer"/>
<attr name="textColorFocused" format="integer"/>

</declare-styleable>

</resources>

As you see, we first declared a 'styleable' with the name of our custom Class. Two attributes were then added to contain the values of our focused & unfocused text colors. By default, attributes have values of String, but in our case, we needed integers to represent the resource id's we'll declare in our colors.xml file. You can also declare formats such as "boolean" & others if that suits the requirements of your own project.

Next, we declare values for these custom attributes in our layout's XML file: tutorial4.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

xmlns:pj="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.pocketjourney.tutorials"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="10px">

<com.pocketjourney.view.TextOnlyButton

android:id="@+id/text_only_button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="5px"
style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
android:text="Text Button"
pj:textColorNotFocused="@drawable/white"
pj:textColorFocused="@drawable/android_orange"/>

</LinearLayout>

Referring to our new attributes is actually a two step process. First we declared a new namespace (in our case called 'pj' as short for PocketJourney) in the parent layout of our custom class:

xmlns:pj="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.pocketjourney.tutorials"

Next we specified the values of our new attributes in the XML usage of our TextOnlyButton:

pj:textColorNotFocused="@drawable/white"
pj:textColorFocused="@drawable/android_orange"

Now you can see why we specified our format="integer". Our custom attributes point to the resource id's of colors specified in our colors.xml file.

Retrieving Custom Attributes During Class Instantiation

Since our Activity has many constructors, we delegate the attribute parsing to an init() method to keep our code clean.

int notFocusedTextColor, focusedTextColor;

private void init(AttributeSet attrs) {

Resources.StyledAttributes a = getContext().obtainStyledAttributes(attrs,R.styleable.TextOnlyButton);
notFocusedTextColor = a.getColor(R.styleable.TextOnlyButton_textColorNotFocused, 0xFF000000);
focusedTextColor = a.getColor(R.styleable.TextOnlyButton_textColorFocused, 0xFF000000);

}

By now you've undoubtedly seen the AttributeSet that is always passed into an Activity. Well now you get to use it. First we obtain the StyledAttributes instance by requesting just the StyledAttributes for our custom Class. Next, we call the getColor() and pass two variables: the name of the attribute we want along with a default value in case the user did not specify one.

Take note of our styled attribute's name as it's a combination of our custom class's name and the attribute we specified in the attrs.xml file (e.g. TextOnlyButton_textColorNotFocused).

And That's It

You can now readily pass your own custom attributes and keep your View variables cleanly enclosed in your XML files. You can download the source to see for yourself. Just look at Tutorial #4.

Prior Tutorials

Tutorial 1: Transparent Panel (Linear Layout) On MapView (Google Map)
Tutorial 2: “Hit” testing on a View (MapView)
Tutorial 3: Custom Media Streaming with MediaPlayer
Tutorial 4.1: Image and Text-Only Buttons

We will create these two new Button extensions as shown:

Step 1: Override drawBackground()

This step shows the beauty of proper Object-Oriented programming. Because Google's Android draws the background button image in a separate method, all we need do is override that method and then not call its parent.

public void onDrawBackground(Canvas canvas) {

// Override this method & do nothing. This prevents the parent.onDrawBackground(canvas)
// from drawing the button's background.

}

Step 2: Handle onFocus() by overriding onDraw()

We listen for the focus event and update the Button's text color or button image that way as well. But we'll do it this way for now.

public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

// Since this Button now has no background. We must set the text color to indicate focus.
if (isFocused()) {

// Set the focused text color. In the case of ImageOnlyButton we would .
// instead do setImageResource(imageResourceFocused);
setTextColor(focusedTextColor);

} else {

// Set the non-focused text color. In the case of ImageOnlyButton we would .
// instead do setImageResource(imageResourceNotFocused);
setTextColor(notFocusedTextColor);

}

super.onDraw(canvas);

}

You might be wondering where those text color and image variables come from. We will obtain these focused & not-focused images or text colors from variables passed in from the XML resource file as you'll see by reading the source code. I won't go into how that happens here. Instead, I'll keep this tutorial simple and point you to my next tutorial where I will discuss how to create & pass such custom variables.

And That's It

You can download the source to see for yourself.

Prior Tutorials

Tutorial 1: Transparent Panel (Linear Layout) On MapView (Google Map)
Tutorial 2: “Hit” testing on a View (MapView)
Tutorial 3: Custom Media Streaming with MediaPlayer

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