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Friday, November 20, 2009

Almost Famous: Elemental Technologies’ Sam Blackman

Drake Martinet

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A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about.

This week: We caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies at the San Francisco NewTeeVee Live conference. Elemental Technologies hopes to become a major player in the future of online and over-the-air video through their high-performance encoding technology.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Into the Heart of Darkness–Shopping the Beijing iPhone Black Market

Dan Butterfield

The black/grey markets in Beijing will blow your mind! On Saturday and Sunday (November 14/15) I had a chance to do a bit of undercover work.

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Monday, November 16, 2009

App Watch: Unlock and Warm Up Your Car With Your iPhone

Andrew LaVallee

As the temperature drops, some cold-weather commuters are trying out an iPhone app that lets them climb in to an unlocked, pre-heated car.

Directed Electronics, the company that sells the Viper car-alarm system, has developed an accompanying app called SmartStart that lets customers use their phone to lock or unlock the car, or turn the alarm on and off.

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Almost Famous: Aviary’s Israel Derdik

Drake Martinet

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A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about.

This week: A Skype visit with, some questions for and a few pertinent stats about Israel Derdik and his high-flying media suite, Aviary, a Web-based media-editing platform that enables users to alter, save and present their multimedia creations, all in the cloud.

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Creating iPhone Apps Far From the Bay Area

Yukari Iwatani Kane

The biggest concentration of developers for Apple’s iPhone is in Northern California, as a story in The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco Bay Area section points out. But the ubiquity of the Internet makes it possible for a software developer anywhere in the world to make apps.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Apple Emerges as Nintendo’s Game Rival

Daisuke Wakabayashi

Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo Co., is a self-proclaimed Apple Inc. fan. He carries an iPhone and uses a Mac laptop. So when Mr. Iwata says Nintendo and Apple aren’t competitors, he should know what he’s talking about.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Music Industry Bows to Point-and-Shoot Cameras

Daniel Terdiman

As cheap, powerful automatic cameras and camera phones proliferate, the music industry–and its sports counterpart–have had to realize they can’t control fans’ ability to take pictures.

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Monday, November 2, 2009

Darth Droid Meets iPhonie-Wan

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

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The New Must-Have Accessory

Vanessa O'Connell and Elva Ramirez

A self-described iPhone freak, designer Norma Kamali spends each morning reading the day’s headlines on her gadget’s current-events application. To unwind, she plays Scrabble on a game app. When her miniature dachshund Zeke acts up, Ms. Kamali looks up her iPhone’s encyclopedia on canine ailments.

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IPhone Arrives in China, but Where Is Pleco?

Sky Canaves

For students of the Chinese language, there is one electronic dictionary application that seems to stand in a class of its own, made by a small New York-based software company called Pleco.

Certain language learners (myself included) have been known to carry otherwise useless (and outdated) Palm Pilots for the sole purpose of using the Pleco dictionary.

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App Watch: A Matchmaker in a Sea of Apps

Andrew LaVallee

One of the frequently heard complaints about iPhone applications is that with more than 85,000 options, finding good ones can be tricky and time-consuming. Could the answer be yet another app?

Envio Networks on Tuesday is launching Chorus, a free app that shows users the ones their friends are trying out and suggests ones that might interest them. The Andover, Mass.-based company, which has received funding from Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, specializes in social-networking technology and saw the Apple device as a good showcase for what it can do.

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Will iPhone Lead the Growth in Portable Gaming?

Yukari Iwatani Kane

At its media event in early September, Apple threw down the gauntlet to Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. Dedicated gaming gadgets like the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable “seemed so cool,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of marketing, but “they don’t stack up against the iPod touch.”

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One-Handed Computing With the iPhone

Jason Kottke

The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone1 is not one of its obvious selling points but is one of those little features that grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Beijing’s Chant: “iPhone! iPhone!”

Loretta Chao

China Unicom may have gotten a bad rap for its lackluster iPhone announcement this week, but its launch upstaged the event at the Apple store.

The iPhone did, in fact, draw a crowd today, despite a rare rainstorm that had streets jammed in Beijing. At China Unicom’s outdoor event, several hundred people lined up to be first to buy the phone.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

High Price Tests China’s Appetite for iPhone

Loretta Chao

Apple Inc. is a master at creating buzz around its product launches. But as the popular iPhone approaches its official debut in China–the world’s largest mobile-phone market–consumers here seem anything but excited.

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