July 11th, 2008 — Launched
Here’s a interesting Adobe AIR application made in about 5 minutes.
It literally took me 11 lines of code and a good 15 minutes to build. Decided to send it to Leo and was happy to hear how excited he was about the app and did a plug for it on the net@night and MacBreak Weekly podcasts.
You can use the application to watch the live video stream and see the schedule for upcoming shows. Looks like it was released just in time to see him do the 24 hour iPhone 3G launch marathon.
May 18th, 2008 — Launched
GoMovies, an app for your iPhone, is a fast movie times search exclusively for the iPhone. Although there are many movie times services out there, a customized iPhone app could prove to be crucial.
GoMovies is a web-based application that allows users of the iPhone to effortlessly find movie show times in an instant. The design of the page is sleek and keeps with the look and feel of your iPhone and it is simple to use. Just go to Gomoviesapp.com on your iPhone, enter your zip code, and GoMovies gives you a full listing of movies in your area, where they are, and what time they are playing. Since this application was built specifically for the iPhone, no software downloads are required whatsoever, so just bookmark Gomoviesapp.com and use it the next time you need to check where and when that next movie is playing.
May 11th, 2008 — web2.0
According to recent rumors, Apple’s iPhone, will offer a “premium” 3G service, supposedly a lot faster.
Will consumers jump on the bandwagon?
I’d say hell no as a previous users of AT&T’s “premium” service (when it was Cingular), the premium 3G service is still slower than Sprint’s CDMA network.
Heck, I did a lot of testing over at our dot com blog when 3G was out about a year ago.
What iPhone needs is WiMax, a proven technology that seems to take years to get in the hands of U.S. consumers including me.
iPhone + 3G Premium = Still really slow browsing, still really slow twitts, still really slow whatever.
What Apple should have done is partner with Sprint in the beginning and they would have a lot faster speeds by now and 5 to 10 times faster once Sprint rolls out their WiMax.
Clearwire + Sprint = bad
AT&T + Apple = bad
Sprint + Apple = good
Clearwire + AT&T = good (let the bad companies work together so we don’t have to face them…)
According to a discovery by Chronic Productions, published earlier this weekend, and relayed by MacRumors, Engadget Mobile, et al., prospective users of the next iteration of Apple’s most ambitious mobile device will be given the option to browse the Internet via 3G broadband or by way of the now-standard 2.5G/EDGE connection. All you’ll have to do is flip a software-based switch, similar to how iPhone users currently transfer between EDGE and Wi-Fi connectivity.
May 9th, 2008 — web2.0
In a recent article by Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch about WiMax, I read the article and do agree with some of the points such as Clearwire being not a good company, but I don’t think WiMax deal will be a disaster.
Why?
WiMax is the only available wireless broadband technology that has proven it’s versatility and speed over the current outdated 3G technology in the U.S.
WiMax is as fast as Cable DSL with download speeds up to 6Mbps.
In Korea, they call WiMax, WiBro. Internationally, it’s called mobile WiMax.
WiMax is an IEEE approved standard, IEEE 802.16.
As soon as WiMax hits Sprint networks, everyone will be going bonkers over the high speeds of being able to do more things such as watch movies on the cellphone, and use Skype to call instead of using up your minutes.
It will be like the iPhone buzz, except people will crave over the high data speeds.
People in Korea and other parts of Asia have been getting this for last 2 to 3 years!!!
May 7th, 2008 — Zedomax Network News, google, web2.0
In a recent article by BusinessWeek, the writer claims that real threat to Google could be mobile phones. Due to the smaller sized screens, Google possibly be facing a lot less advertising space.
This is true if everyone started Googling on their cellphones but I see that is unlikely within the next 5 to 10 years.
Although mobile devices have proven to be more efficient and pretty much everywhere in Asia, the U.S. still has a long way to go because the telecommunication companies don’t want to sell new technology. The biggest scandal in the U.S. is that Sprint, AT&T, and all the other cellular providers are still behind in speed compared to the rest of the world.
In Korea, they’ve had Wi-Max, broadband internet about the speed of Cable DSL here for last 2 years or so. In the U.S., Sprint expects to roll out Wi-Max maybe end of this year, and that’s still a “maybe”.
For U.S. telecommunication companies, they make far more money by selling consumers outdated 3G phones. Why sell new tech when you got $500 million inventory of outdated phones?
So, in final words, no. Google will never have to face any real threat from mobile phones. Instead, they will probably get bigger with viral spread of their new open-source Linux-based mobile operating system, the Android.
With capabilities similar or better than the iPhone, Google’s Anroid will be able to convince the world to use their phone. As for ads? Maybe they will give out free Google phones that have ads on them.
Thanks to Josh for tipping me on this article.
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