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BlogsTags > iphoneWhat devices and formats do your customers prefer?By Joe WikertMarch 19, 2013 Most publishers create ebooks in all formats figuring it doesn’t matter whether mobi is more important than EPUB or if the content is read on an iPad more frequently than on a mobile phone. That approach means these publishers have … How can we redefine the book?By François Joseph de KermadecMarch 4, 2013 A book may no longer be a physical object, but its ordinary definition remains straightforward as a “written composition that is intended for publication”. Traditional or digital, we feel confident in our ability to recognise a book. We barely remember … Ebooks and the future of researchBy François Joseph de KermadecFebruary 6, 2013 Knowledge cannot progress unless it is aware of its past: a knowledge-seeker must reference the works of previous generations. Literary scholars return to manuscripts, musicians to partitions, artists to museums… The continued availability of reference works underpins our entire research … Commerce Weekly: Isis Wallet/NFC payments struggle for a footholdBy Jenn WebbJanuary 10, 2013 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. NFC-enabled Cashwrap case equips iPhone with Isis At the 2013 International CES this week, Incipio and AT&T announced the launch of Cashwrap, an NFC-enabled iPhone … Commerce Weekly: iPhone NFC rumors returnBy Jenn WebbJanuary 3, 2013 Happy new year! Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space recently. Apple NFC rumors revived We’ve no sooner outfitted our shiny new iPhone 5s with cases and fancy accessories than rumors of the iPhone … Commerce Weekly: Mobile wallets and NFC get a global partnership platformBy Jenn WebbNovember 1, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Vodafone partners up to launch a new mobile wallet platform Yet another mobile wallet is gearing up to hit the market in 2013. Vodafone announced … Commerce Weekly: Big data in retailBy Jenn WebbSeptember 20, 2012 Here are a few stories from the commerce space that caught my attention this week: Mom and pops sidelined by big data? Gary Hawkins at the Harvard Business Review took a look this week at marketing and research in the … Digging into the UDID data
By Alasdair AllanSeptember 6, 2012 Over the weekend the hacker group Antisec released one million UDID records that they claim to have obtained from an FBI laptop using a Java vulnerability. In reply the FBI stated: The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that … Objective-C and Cocoa: The core of solid iOS apps July 19, 2012 Jon Manning (@desplesda) and Paris Buttfield-Addison (@parisba) are co-founders of Secret Lab and authors of the forthcoming Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 3rd Edition Key points from the full video (below) interview include: Embrace Objective-C’s verbosity [Discussed at the 0:30 mark] Just … What Are We Doing With All This Computing Power?
By Sarah SorensenApril 25, 2012 When Apple released its earnings this week, they announced they sold 35.1 million iPhones in the quarter. Since introducing the iPad in 2010, they have sold 67 million devices. When you stop to think about it, those numbers are just mind boggling and begs the questions are we really using all this computing power to our best advantage? Commerce Weekly: Google Wallet vs Isis is coming soon March 29, 2012 Mobile wallets are in their infancy, yet pundits are already handicapping future showdowns. Also, in-app purchases show increasing promise as mobile revenue streams. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.) Top stories: January 30-February 3, 2012 
By Mac SlocumFebruary 3, 2012 This week on O'Reilly: Edd Dumbill examined the components and functions of the Hadoop ecosystem, Pete Warden gave a big thumbs-up to unstructured data, and Jonathan Alexander looked at how a Moneyball approach could help software teams. Commerce Weekly: The return of iPhone NFC rumorsFebruary 2, 2012 When will Apple bring mobile commerce to the iOS masses? Also, PayPal studies consumer behavior at the cash register and Square collects for candidates. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.) Four short links: 26 January 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 26, 2012 Every Day, More iPhones Sold Than Babies Born -- Malthusian explosion of iPhones predicted once there's an iPhone-to-3D-printer dongle. (via Luke Wroblewski) No Safe Harbour -- a collection of political essays, texts, and discussions that help explain and educate about Pirate Party positions. Available for purchase or free download, natch. (via BoingBoing) Patagonia Roadtests New Sustainability Legal Status --... You say you want a revolution? It's called post-PC computing 
By Mark SigalOctober 24, 2011 Spurred on by a Googler's rant against his own company and Apple's release of a new phone, a new OS and a new cloud infrastructure, Mark Sigal wonders what the "post-pc" revolution really looks like. Developer Week in Review: Talking to your phone 
By James TurnerOctober 21, 2011 This week, we ask if Apple's Siri has more than novelty value, and decide it does. Open Office needs you (or at least your money) to stay afloat, and Google bends to developer pressure and finally adds SQL support to its cloud computing platform. Four short links: 21 October 2011
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 21, 2011 What Mozilla is Up To (Luke Wroblewski) -- notes from a talk that Brendan Eich gave at Web 2.0 Summit. The new browser war is between the Web and new walled gardens of native networked apps. Interesting to see the effort Mozilla's putting into native-alike Web apps. YouTube Insult Generator (Adrian Holovaty) -- mines YouTube for insults of a... Head First iPhone and iPad Development and iOS5By Tracey PiloneOctober 14, 2011 Well, iOS5 is out, and that means that Head First iPhone and iPad Development officially needs some tweaking to work with the latest tools! First, a quick overview of the new features in iOS 5. For the OS itself, the... ePayments Week: Will NFC add value? September 29, 2011 Square's COO questions the value proposition of NFC. Also, early reaction to Amazon's Fire tablet, and interesting — and obvious — stats about mobile broadband use. Fighting the next mobile warBy Alasdair AllanSeptember 28, 2011 While you'll likely interact with your smartphone tomorrow in much the same way you interacted with it today, it's quite possible that your smartphone will interact with the world in a very different way. The next mobile war has already begun. Developer Week in Review: HP fires up the TouchPad production line one more time
By James TurnerSeptember 1, 2011 The TouchPad's $99 price point proves enticing for consumers and — oddly — HP itself, James Gosling leaves Google, and a possible iPhone 5 leak bears a distinct resemblance to the iPhone 4 leak. How Free Software Contributed to the Success of Steve Jobs and Apple
By Andy OramAugust 26, 2011 In the great Second Coming, when Jobs returned to Apple 1996, he drove the adoption of the open source BSD as Apple's new operating system. This enabled some of the Mac's most popular features. ePayments Week: The rise of location-triggered offersAugust 25, 2011 Placecast offers merchants a geofence to corral customers. Also, UK researcher YouGov says iPhone users are more willing to buy with their phones, and telecoms bury Androids with crapware. Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs
By Mark SigalAugust 25, 2011 Apple, under Steve Jobs, has always had an unrelenting zeal to bring the consumer — and humanity — back to the center of the ring. Here, Mark Sigal argues that it's this pursuit of humanity that may actually be Jobs' greatest innovation. ePayments Week: Is "0000" your passcode?July 21, 2011 In the latest ePayments Week: 10 iPhone passcodes make up 15% of all those in use. Also, Google In-App spreads its wings beyond the Chrome store, Isis signs deals with major credit cards, and execs expect mCommerce to be mainstream in 4 years. Strata Week: Google Plus focuses on data controlBy Audrey WattersJune 30, 2011 Google launches Google+, saying "It's your data" and giving users better control over sharing. Yahoo spins out its Hadoop division into a separate company. And a self-published author creates a book out of his iPhone tracking maps. Head First iPhone and iPad Development is out!By Tracey PiloneJune 30, 2011 Head First iPhone and iPad Development is shipping as we speak, which is very exciting! Updating Head First iPhone was a daunting task this time around, there have been lots of developments with iOS development since we printed the first... Strata Week: Google Plus focuses on data control June 30, 2011 Google launches Google+, saying "It's your data" and giving users better control over sharing. Yahoo spins out its Hadoop division into a separate company. And a self-published author creates a book out of his iPhone tracking maps. Developer Week in Review: Oracle sends Hudson on its way
By James TurnerMay 12, 2011 Oracle casts another piece of Sun from their portfolio, Apple and Google defend themselves from big-brother accusations made by, um, Big Brother, and it turns out you probably have a pretty sweet job, after all. Four short links: 10 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 10, 2011 ODB to iPhone Converter -- hardware to connect to your car's onboard computer and display it on an iPhone app. (via Imran Ali) Multitasking Brains (Wired) -- interesting pair of studies: old brains have trouble recovering from distractions; hardcore multitaskers have trouble focusing. (via Stormy Peters) Social Privacy -- Danah Boyd draft paper on teens' attitudes to online privacy.... Four short links: 9 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 9, 2011 UDID DeAnonymization -- a developer exposed an API that connected UDID to other information such as Facebook ID. The API has been closed, but it remains true that your iPhone has a primary key and darn near every app developer has a database linking your UDID to other details about you. Apple requires this to not be public, but... The iPhone tracking story, one week later April 27, 2011 Apple announces fixes and sheds more light on location data. Plus, a look at some of the reporting and potential applications that have popped up. Additional iPhone tracking researchBy Pete WardenApril 24, 2011 The iPhone tracking story led to a host of related investigations. Here's a look at some of the latest developments. iPhone tracking: The day afterApril 22, 2011 The iPhone tracking story published here a few days ago struck an unexpected nerve. Here's a selection of the most interesting immediate reactions. Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves
By Alasdair AllanApril 20, 2011 Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan have discovered that iPhones and 3G iPads running iOS 4 are regularly recording the location of devices into a hidden file. Hints of iPhone envy in ChinaBy Cliff MillerApril 13, 2011 A survey of Chinese phone owners conducted through the Sina micro-blog service finds that iPhones are a prized possession, while Android interest is tepid and things aren't looking good for Nokia. Watering Hole - Play Me Off With a SongBy Randy SilvermanApril 5, 2011 A note from James: This strip marks the last one for which I'll be doing the script. The demands of my day job and many writing projects doesn't leave me enough time to come up with an appropriate amount... Developer Week in Review
By James TurnerMarch 16, 2011 In the latest Developer Week in Review: the iPhone fell to attackers, Twitter shunned their developers, and the Internet proved not to be as robust as one might hope. Google Translate in the Wild - How to sell in Mexico when you don't speak Spanish
By Paul BrowneMarch 8, 2011 I always remember a scene from Saving Private Ryan, in the lull between the action on the beaches and the finale, where US Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) needs to communicate with some German soldiers. Despite not speaking of word of... Why the Droid line caught on February 15, 2011 Preston Gralla, author of "Droid 2: The Missing Manual" and "Droid X: The Missing Manual," discusses the disconnect between consumer concerns (does it work?) and tech world worries (is Android too fragmented?). In Google's "glass house," a battle with Bing looms
By Mark SigalFebruary 3, 2011 Is Google's recent war of words with Microsoft a case of calling a thief out by name, or a matter of pot calling kettle black? Developer Week in Review
By James TurnerFebruary 2, 2011 Snowed in, we look at new mobile SDKs, old Microsoft employees, and really old video about the Internet. The Watering Hole - Flight of the Pigasus
By James TurnerJanuary 24, 2011 Not sure why everyone's so excited about this. CDMA carriers lose one of the big advantages of the iPhone, the talk and browse together feature. Developer Week in Review
By James TurnerJanuary 12, 2011 This week, Unix was for sale, then it wasn't, then it was again. AT&T announced the most poorly kept secret in the history of secrets. And the tablet was all the rage at CES. Four short links: 12 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 12, 2011 Zork and Tic-Tac-Toe on a LiveScribe Pen (YouTube) -- this guy totally ported the Z-Machine so he can play Zork on his pen. My favourite bit is the comment from Infocom founder Scott Cutler: As the implementer who wrote the first Z-machine for the TRS-80 some 30 years ago and one of the founders of Infocom, I was thrilled... iAd Producer - Apple's new HTML5 RIA tool
By Matthew DavidDecember 21, 2010 Apple releases it's first HTML5 enabled RIA tool, iAd Producer. Code Files for using jQuery Mobile, SPRY and jQuery Plugins to build a native iOS App
By Matthew DavidDecember 9, 2010 Earlier in the week I reported that my first iOS app built with jQuery Mobile had been accepted into the iTunes App Store. Today, I am giving you the code I used to build the app. Yes, Virginia, you can build native iOS apps with jQuery Mobile
By Matthew DavidDecember 7, 2010 A second release of jQuery Mobile is only a couple of weeks old, but I thought I would take it for a spin, mix it with some PhoneGap goodness and build a native iOS app for my iPhone. Did it work? Was it worth the effort? Is jQuery Mobile ready for prime time? Using jqTouch to make your Web Site look more like a native application
By Matthew DavidDecember 6, 2010 Rapidly Building iPhone Apps without Learning Objective-C Objective-C, the programming language used to create native apps for the iPhone, is not an easy language to learn. While Steve Jobs espouses how easy it is to build an iPhone App (there... Accelerometer Events in Mobile Safari
By Andrew TriceDecember 1, 2010 Last week, Apple released iOS 4.2 to the general public. This was a much anticipated update for all iPad users, who finally have the ability to multitask. One feature available in iOS 4.2, however of much less fanfare is that it brought the ability to take advantage of accelerometer events directly within the browser, through JavaScript. 1 to 50 of 295 Next Stay Connected
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