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BlogsTags > mobileFour short links: 21 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 21, 2013 Hyperinflation in Diablo 3 — interesting discussion about how video games regulate currency availability, and how Diablo 3 appears to have messed up. several weeks after the game’s debut a source claimed that there were at least 1,000 bots active … Weekly Highlights and Insights: May 6-10By Adam FlahertyMay 10, 2013 Fit2Cure: Andy Oram introduces a game that crowdsources the search for drugs to cure under-researched diseases of developing countries. Unit testing core data: James Turner shows iOS developers a less painful way to set up an OCUnit project to test … Four short links: 9 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 9, 2013 On Google’s Ingress Game (ReadWrite Web) — By rolling out Ingress to developers at I/O, Google hopes to show how mobile, location, multi-player and augmented reality functions can be integrated into developer application offerings. In that way, Ingress becomes a … Cultural capital goes commercialBy Julia ErrensMay 2, 2013 It wasn’t one of my proudest moments when, a week before Christmas last year, I was hunched over my smartphone towards the back of the famous Hamley’s Toy Store on London’s Regent Street, composure tethered to an elusive bar of … Conquering iOS Core DataBy Rachel RoumeliotisMay 2, 2013 Joshua Smith (@kognate) is a Lead Mobile Developer at iRx Reminder, frequent Cocoa Conference speaker and author of an upcoming book with O’Reilly on core data. We recently sat down to talk about core data and its complexities. What exactly … Google Glass and the FutureBy Mike LoukidesApril 29, 2013 I just read a Forbes article about Glass, talking about the split between those who are “sure that it is the future of technology, and others who think society will push back against the technology.” I don’t see this as … Go native, go big, and go deepBy Zigurd MednieksApril 29, 2013 Apps have to get bigger and more ambitious. A key question for the developer community is how do you create big, integrated, multi-functional, configurable apps for the mobile enterprise? Curiously, Facebook is providing some answers by not using HTML5 and … Upward Mobility: Should there be only one?By James TurnerApril 29, 2013 As long as most people can remember, the smartphone space has been a contested one. Before the iPhone became temporarily ubiquitous, RIM and Palm were fighting it out to own the market, and today you have a plethora of platforms … Building native apps from JavaScript using TitaniumBy Andy OramApril 18, 2013 In this interview, the author of Titanium: Up and Running describes how Titanium can be used to generate native mobile apps from JavaScript code. He distinguishes the Titanium platform from native API programming and from other popular JavaScript platforms for … The Fluent Online Conference PreviewBy Simon St. LaurentApril 12, 2013 As JavaScript and the Web connect more and more technologies, conversations grow broader and broader. While the Fluent conference is large enough to cover a broad range, we created a sampler of topics for the two-hour online conference I hosted … Digital publishing and the loss of intimacyBy François Joseph de KermadecApril 9, 2013 Reading used to be an intimate experience. Even Amazon, the pioneer in digital publishing, branded its Kindle with a child reading alone under a tree. Books were specially designed to disappear into the background as much as possible, helped by … Four short links: 1 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 1, 2013 MLDemos — an open-source visualization tool for machine learning algorithms created to help studying and understanding how several algorithms function and how their parameters affect and modify the results in problems of classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, dynamical systems and … Commerce Weekly: Intuit Pay heats up U.K. mobile payments marketBy Jenn WebbMarch 14, 2013 Intuit Pay enters U.K., PayPal Here takes on Square Register On the heels of PayPal announcing it would bring PayPal Here to the U.K. later this year, Intuit launched its Intuit Pay mobile payments solution in the U.K. market. The … Commerce Weekly: Google may be prepping an Amazon Prime competitorBy Jenn WebbMarch 7, 2013 Is Google gearing up to battle Amazon head-on? The Google e-commerce rumor mill continued churning this week. Alexia Tsotsis reported at TechCrunch that Google is “stealthily preparing to launch an Amazon Prime competitor called ‘Google Shopping Express.’” Her sources indicated … Four short links: 4 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 4, 2013 Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation — do hard things and risk failure. What else are we on this earth for? crossfilter — open source (Apache 2) JavaScript library for exploring large multivariate datasets in the browser. Crossfilter supports extremely … Commerce Weekly: Visa pursues NFC mobile paymentsBy Jenn WebbFebruary 28, 2013 Visa looks to kick-start NFC Visa is taking aim at the NFC mobile payment holy grail. On Friday, the company announced the Visa Ready Partner Program. Leena Rao reports at TechCrunch that the initiative “aims to help mobile device manufacturers, … Four short links: 28 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 28, 2013 Myth of the Free Internet (The Atlantic) — equity of access is an important issue, but this good point is marred by hanging it off the problematic (beer? speech? downloads?) “free”. I’m on the council of InternetNZ whose mission is … Commerce Weekly: Best Buy wants to end showrooming, Google wants to startBy Jenn WebbFebruary 21, 2013 Google takes on brick-and-mortar; Best Buy takes on ecommerce The Google retail store rumor ignited again this week. Seth Weintraub reported at 9to5Google that “[a]n extremely reliable source has confirmed to us that Google is in the process of building … Commerce Weekly: You can now buy stuff with tweetsBy Jenn WebbFebruary 14, 2013 American Express turns Twitter into an ecommerce platform American Express announced an enhancement this week to its Sync with Twitter feature — users can now buy things with a tweet. Tricia Duryee reports at All Things Digital that all users … Four short links: 11 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 11, 2013 How Virtual Fences Will Transform Rural America (The Atlantic) — When it comes to managing animals, every conventional fence that I have ever built has been in the wrong place the next year. Stately — a font of states which … Commerce Weekly: Google targets Amazon’s shopping platformBy Jenn WebbFebruary 7, 2013 Google acquires Channel Intelligence, pursues Amazon shoppers In a recent post at Wired, Marcus Wohlsen took a look at the success of Google’s switch last fall to all-paid product listings — such as the top result for a search for … Commerce Weekly: Goodbye traditional retail, hello ecommerceBy Jenn WebbJanuary 31, 2013 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Death bells toll for brick-and-mortar retail A recent report from mobile analytics startup Flurry looked at the growth in consumer use of shopping apps and … Four short links: 31 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 31, 2013 Courier Prime — tweaked Courier “for screenplays” (!). (via BoingBoing) The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Potential Downfall Of American Society (PDF) — education is dangerous to female extended family members. As can be seen in Table 1, when no … Commerce Weekly: Analytics for people, the next big thing in retailBy Jenn WebbJanuary 24, 2013 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. New trend in retail customer tracking: Smartphone Wi-Fi Dan Tynan posted a two-part series (here and here) on IT World this week looking at growing … Four short links: 23 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 23, 2013 These Glasses Thwart Facial Recognition Software (Slate) — good idea, but don’t forget to put a stone in your shoe to thwart gait recognition too. opsec for Hackers (Slideshare) — how boring and unexciting most of not getting caught is. … Commerce Weekly: PayPal marches toward ubiquityBy Jenn WebbJanuary 17, 2013 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. PayPal expands its footprint with new partners PayPal announced this week it has expanded its U.S. footprint to include 23 new partners for its PayPal … 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 … Four short links: 26 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 26, 2012 Arduino IR Remote Control — control your Arduino project via your TV’s remote control. (via Arduino) holler — WTFPL-licensed Javascript library for real-time in-app notifications via the commandline (uses node). (via Javascript Weekly) First Tweets — numbers of “first tweet … Commerce Weekly: Predicting 2013By Jenn WebbDecember 20, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Predicting the 2013 commerce space As 2012 wraps up, industry executives are looking ahead to what 2013 might bring. In a report at eCommerceBytes, executives … Commerce Weekly: Gift cards get SquareBy Jenn WebbDecember 13, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Give a gift through Square Mobile payment company Square got into the gift card business this week, launching a gift card service tied to its … Four short links: 10 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 10, 2012 RE2: A Principled Approach to Regular Expressions — a regular expression engine without backtracking, so without the potential for exponential pathological runtimes. Mobile is Entertainment (Luke Wroblewski) — 79% of mobile app time is spent on fun, even as desktop … Commerce Weekly: Same-day delivery war heats upBy Jenn WebbDecember 6, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. The high price of instant gratification The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Bensinger took a look this week at the e-commerce same-day delivery trend, a service … Reading experience and mobile designBy Travis AlberDecember 5, 2012 It’s all about user experience. Once you get past whether a book is available on a particular reading platform, the experience is the distinguishing factor. How do you jump back to the table of contents? How do you navigate to … Commerce Weekly: Holiday cyber spending breaks recordsBy Jenn WebbNovember 29, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Holiday weekend sees huge increases in online and mobile spending The big news this week is the cyber spending that happened over the holiday weekend. … MEF Global Consumer Survey 2012By Joe WikertNovember 28, 2012 MEF enables community networking and provides information on the mobile industry just like TOC does for the publishing industry. They also produce reports summarizing the state of the mobile commerce marketplace. Their latest report is called Global Consumer Survey 2012 and … Commerce Weekly: As Square heats up, so too does its competitionBy Jenn WebbNovember 15, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Square aims high, BofA enters mobile payment arena Square’s partnership with Starbucks launched this month, catapulting the payment startup into a new tier of competition. … Four short links: 13 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 13, 2012 3D Printing Photobooth Opening in Japan (io9) — A technician at the lab will scan your body (much like with early photography, you’ll need to be able to hold a certain pose for 15 minutes) and print out an impressively … Square Wallet, the Apple Store, and Uber: Software Above the Level of a Single DeviceBy Tim O'ReillyNovember 8, 2012 Back in 2003, Dave Stutz, in his parting letter to Microsoft, wrote a prescient line about the future of technology: “Useful software written above the level of the single device will command high margins for a long time to come. Stop … Charging up: Networking resources and recovery after Hurricane SandyBy Alex HowardNovember 2, 2012 Even though the direct danger from Hurricane Sandy has passed, lower Manhattan and many parts of Connecticut and New Jersey remain a disaster zone, with millions of people still without power, reduced access to food and gas, and widespread damage … NYC’s PLAN to alert citizens to danger during Hurricane SandyBy Alex HowardOctober 30, 2012 Starting at around 8:36 PM ET last night, as Hurricane Sandy began to flood the streets of lower Manhattan, many New Yorkers began to receive an unexpected message: a text alert on their mobile phones that strongly urged them to … Four short links: 26 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 25, 2012 BootMetro (github) — website templates with a Metro (Windows 8) look. (via Hacker News) Kenya’s Treasury to tax M-Pesa — 10% tax on mobile money-transfer systems. M-Pesa is the largest mobile money transfer service provider in Kenya, with more than … Commerce Weekly: Square’s big movesBy Jenn WebbOctober 25, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Square gets international, plans major growth; PayPal Here hits retail Square made a couple of big move announcements this week. First, the company literally will … Four short links: 24 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 24, 2012 Restoration of Defocused and Blurry Images — impressive demos, and open source (GPLv3) code. All those blurred faces and documents no longer seem so safe. Peter Molyneux Profile in Wired — worth reading for: (a) Molyneux’s contribution to the genre; … Commerce Weekly: Targeting AmazonBy Jenn WebbOctober 18, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Strategic maneuvers aimed at Amazon Retail competition against Amazon is starting to heat up coming into the holiday shopping season. On the heels of Wal-Mart’s … Four short links: 18 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 18, 2012 Let’s Pool Our Medical Data (TED) — John Wilbanks (of Science Commons fame) gives a strong talk for creating an open, massive, mine-able database of data about health and genomics from many sources. Money quote: Facebook would never make a … Four short links: 17 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 17, 2012 Beyond Goods and Services: The Unmeasured Rise of the Data-Driven Economy — excellent points about data as neither good nor service, and how data use goes unmeasured by economists and thus doesn’t influence policy. According to statistics from the Bureau … Four short links: 15 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 14, 2012 Cheap Thermocam — cheap thermal imaging camera, takes about a minute to capture an image. (via IEEE Spectrum) Observations on What’s Getting Downvoted (Ars Technica) — fascinating piece of social work, showing how the community polices (or reacts to) trolls. … Commerce Weekly: Will NYC taxis get Square?By Jenn WebbOctober 11, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Square may be courting cabs Square not only is gearing up to launch in Starbucks stores in November — it may also be looking to … Commerce Weekly: More brands throw in with Merchant Customer ExchangeBy Jenn WebbOctober 4, 2012 Here are the commerce stories that caught my eye this week. MCX’s mobile payment vision draws in more big names The Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) got a boost this week as several more big brands joined the mobile payments network. … 1 to 50 of 665 Next Stay Connected
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