Finland’s GeoSentric unveiled on Wednesday its mobile social networking service GypSii for Apple’s iPhone.
The GypSii application lets iPhone users to get maps and directions and access other location-based as well as social networking services.
Apple has shipped more than five million iPhones globally since its launch in June last year, GeoSentric said.
Source: Reuters
Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia smartphones later this year.
The two companies on Tuesday at Microsoft’s Mix ‘08 conference are scheduled to announce that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia’s Series 60 (S60) smartphone software that runs on Symbian OS. The software, which will be available later this year, will also run on Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets.
For people with compatible devices, it means they will be able to see content, notably video, written for Silverlight, which Microsoft is pushing as an alternative to Adobe’s Flash Player. Microsoft has been signing on content partners to use Silverlight for media streaming, including MLB.com and online Olympic games broadcasting with NBC.
For Microsoft, the deal with Nokia is a step in its pledge to make Silverlight “ubiquitous,” that is, capable of running on multiple operating systems.
The system from SecurEnvoy offers two-factor authentication that transforms mobile phones into virtual network tokens.
Instead of using tokens or smart cards, the SecurAccess system sends a passcode to users’ mobile phones.
When users wish to log on to the corporate system, they enter their Microsoft User ID and password, and then the passcode that has been pre-enabled on their mobile phone.
Once the passcode has been used, it is superseded with a new one sent to the phone.
This pre-loading function eliminates the need to install any software on to the mobile device, and provides users with access to their passcode as soon as they need it, rather than having to wait for an SMS message to be delivered.
John Lewis expects to make considerable savings by swapping from token-based two-factor authentication to SecurAccess.
The user licence is cheaper than purchasing, replacing and distributing tokens, and deployment costs are lower with no need for training courses.
Matthew Clements, principal programmer for John Lewis, said, “We have been using traditional token based two factor authentication for remote access systems since the late 1990s.
“However, after reviewing the capital, revenue and administration costs associated with the existing system, we decided to look for a cheaper alternative, and found SecurEnvoy’s tokenless approach to be far superior, and a cost effective solution.”
Source: ComputerWeekly
At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls that are visible just underneath the skin.
The basis of the 2×4-inch “Digital Tattoo Interface” is a Bluetooth device made of thin, flexible silicon and silicone. It´s inserted through a small incision as a tightly rolled tube, and then it unfurls beneath the skin to align between skin and muscle. Through the same incision, two small tubes on the device are attached to an artery and a vein to allow the blood to flow to a coin-sized blood fuel cell that converts glucose and oxygen to electricity. After blood flows in from the artery to the fuel cell, it flows out again through the vein.
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Check out this cool concept Curved iMac from designer Nuno Teixeira.
It features two screens, the main one is a large curved LCD display at the front. There is a second LCD screen built into the back, and there are also two web-cams one front and back.
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