Navigation providers fear Google’s market dominance
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Provider of navigation solutions are afraid, according to the U.S. financial magazine Forbes for their existence. The reason: There are increasing rumors that the search engine giant Google has thrown, which now offers far more than just a search engine, an eye on the navigation market. Accordingly, Google is planning a mobile phone application for mobile navigation. Like many other Google services, this app will also be free and be funded through advertising.
‘Significant investment’

Google spokesperson Carolyn Penner wanted to comment on future products, although not, but confirmed that consumers would ask for a regular navigation option for Google Maps. Steve Andler, manager of the navigation software maker sees Networks in Motion, but Google as a competitor. He points out that Google has made significant investments in maps.

The multi-touch technology will be in a dominating input method. Currently, there are still some obstacles to development that must be solved. According to the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Organization (ILO) will decide the underlying Tastschirmtechnologie on performance and functionality of multi-touch systems.

Development of capacitive method

The term “multi-touch” to use the Fraunhofer scientists for touch sensitive input devices that can simultaneously detect a human-computer interaction, multiple points of contact and process. “Optical systems have a camera with a large display of advantage on smaller mobile devices like the iPhone offer is more likely to capacitive systems,” says Jasmin link from the Web Application Engineering team at the Fraunhofer IAO. It should be assumed, however, that evolve with time capacitive method to operate on larger areas and thus open up more market share, says the expert.

Developers to easily convert files
Adobe has unveiled yesterday its latest version of Flash Player for mobile devices. The software supports Windows Mobile, the Palm OS operating system, Web and in the future, the BlackBerry platform. One of the most successful smartphones that are currently on the market, but not benefiting from the Adobe Flash Player 10.1: Apple’s iPhone. Completely denied the format should not be the iPhone, however.

Because Adobe has now announced by the end of a beta version of Flash Professional CS5 want to make available, which allows developers to transform Flash applications into native iPhone applications. For developers would be the advantage that they can continue to program in ActionScript 3, and could use for creating animations, the Flash application.

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Wait November, they should plan a shopping spree at the Windows Marketplace. Microsoft launches its new software platform, although on 6 October, however, have initially only owners of Windows smartphones with the new system version 6.5 access to it. It was not until the beginning of the second phase of the market launch of the software stores the gates are opened for the users of the old version. So far, aiming for the November, according to Microsoft director Todd Brix wmexperts.com to the site.

Nokia N86: Large firmware update improves 8-megapixel camera

For the Nokia N86 camera phone has published a new operating system version that includes many changes. In particular, the 8-megapixel camera is improved, is added a fast operating system and a client for the download platform of Nokia, Ovi the store.

The camera was completely overhauled. Nokia promises not only a better photo and video quality, there is now a software-based red-eye removal, an improved autofocus and a Nokia phone for totally new feature: facial recognition. This feature is turned on, is hard to focus the camera automatically focuses on faces of people. In the N86, a yellow rectangle indicates the area that will be focused. With the face recognition a feature in Nokia celebrates premiere, which competitors like LG, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have already been over a year now integrated into their mobile phones.

The 20,115 new firmware version can be downloaded directly to your phone and install. This requires the key combination * # 0000 # to call and enter the options menu. An Ethical is to install the PC via Nokia Software Updater (NSU), which is part of Nokia PC Suite.

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Since July 2009 all communicators – RoverPC G7, RoverPC V7 and RoverPC X7 – completed software Spb Mobile Shell (three-dimensional interface that greatly simplifies the work with the device), Spb TV (wireless Internet television), and Spb Online Games (set of online games) .
RoverPC became the first in the Russian market of brand communicators, which offers a device with the latest, third version of Spb Mobile Shell. Also RoverPC first brand communicators offers in the base of mobile Internet service, television (mobile IP-TV) works in the standard 3G networks and Wi-Fi.
Physically installing software Spb Software at RoverPC communicators will be implemented automatically from the memory card that is included with your device.