8 posts tagged “google”
Google has implemented geo positioning called "latitude" into their iPhone range. From now on users can decide whether or not to give others access to their exact GPS position and to see friends in the neighborhood.
It can update the geoposition automatically while the user is on-the-move or set the position manually.
The strange thing about it is, that Apple asked Google to make it as webappliaction, not as iPhone application, in order to not allow background operation.
Those of you who always want to stay current on what's going on in the world of mobile comuting, most likely follow appropriate blogs, twitter, facebook, newsites, etc.
What, it you could get only those news you are interested in on a timeline - from various sources?
Google timeline is new at the Google labs and does exactly this. Thus, one can stay up-to-date with daily updates, wonderfully sorted and arranged by publishing media and per day/week/month.
The screenshot shows the timeline of any news regarding the "Palm Pre" appeared on the Google network.
One of the challenges facing anyone who is considering the Palm Pre is the viability of Palm, Inc. Once you get past that, the next question is the move from a self contained PDA phone as has been the situation with previous Palm handhelds, to a phone whose PDA information is somewhere out on the web.
Several events this past month have made me especially leery about this way of doing my work. First, on 9 and 10 March 2009 the internet was buzzing with the weekend security breach at Google documents due to a software bug. As one article put it so well, “While the trend toward cloud services is growing, some still worry about the privacy of data kept online and whether it is shrewd to rely on the Internet for access to information and applications.”
Quite frankly, for many the move to “cloud services” might prove foolhardy. Do you want to be the person to explain to the boss why your contracts, contacts, and other assorted private information were suddenly made available to all because of a software bug?
Or how about the loss of all your appointment and contact data because your Pre needed a hard reset and you were not in a place to reload all that information? You were in one of those dreaded “dead spots” or didn’t have the hours needed for the download of all that information. This second scenario came to mind once again when I had to do a several hard resets and reloads this past week because of corruption in a piece of software on my Treo 680. Thankfully I had everything on my SD card in good working order as a result of proper use of NVBackup, so the reload after a hard reset took only a few minutes each time until I finally figured out what was wrong. Settings, files, and software all were back and running smoothly after only a short delay. As part of my usage of NVBackup, I try to always keep a “safe” copy of everything in case files get corrupted.
The Pre has no SD card or any other form of external backup medium readily available to the user. The user is supposed to depend on the servers at some remote location and hope they can connect when needed as well as hope others who should not see that information won’t be able to see it. So, I plan to stick with my trusty Treo 680 for now and begin researching other systems and software. I sure hope Palm, Inc., survives, and I especially hope they come to their senses about the lack of a storage slot on this unit. The other specs look great, but this idea of depending on remote servers for security and information availability is deal-breaker for me, and from looking at the comments posted after the Google docs security breach, this will become a deal-breaker for the Palm community as well the first time this happens at wherever the users must store their info. By the way, how does a user reload his info if his Pre settings are corrupt and he can't connect to the web? Reminds me of the "helpful" IT technician with my ISP who suggested I check the web for answers when I called in an outage problem with their internet service.
[John v. Holland]
Google’s VP of engineering (Vic Gundotra) featured the first real webOS applciation at MWC in Barcelona today: Google Maps.
The interesting thing is, that it is completely written in HTML5 and behaves like a real application in native machine code. That same engine is also used in the Android platform browser and the iPhone’s browser, which means that developers are able to code a single app that will run identically on any of these devices. It relies on HTML5’s AppCache, GeoLocation and Database standards to keep an offline record of not only data but app functionality. Gundotra also demonstrated an offline-capable version of GMail, which not only has an executable state on an unconnected device - such as when in airplane mode - but a floating menu and labelling support, and that which looks identical on both the iPhone 3G and the HTC Magic Android device.
Incidentally, Gundotra also described the Pre as “arguably one of my most favorite devices”, a sentiment which after our time with the handset here at MWC we can’t disagree with.
Liebe PUGcast-Hoerer,
die Oktober- Ausgabe 2008 des PUGcast steht ab dem 27.11.2008 auf den Seiten der PUG NED zum Download bereit:
Eine Neuerung ist, dass wir vorläufig zukünftige Episoden mit QR-Codes versehen, damit sie durch einfaches Scannen sofort abgespielt werden koennen. Dazu benoetigt man einen entsprechende Lese-Software fuer PalmOS Smartphones (es wird eine Kamera vorausgesetzt), bzw. fuer jede andere Platform.
Bitte lasst uns wissen, was ihr von dem System haltet und ob ihr Verbesserungsvorschlaege habt.
- PalmOS mit Google-Kalender synchronisieren
- Medien per Barcodescanner einlesen
- Rückkehr vom PalmOS-Magazin „OSScout“
- Einkaufslisten online führen
- Aufgabenlisten online führen
- Entwickler über Folgen von Nova-Verspätung
- Android & Handango
- Online-Backup & Sicherheit
- Entwickler spricht über NS Basic/Symbian OS
- Chrome vs. Iron
- Skype mit dem Treo nutzen
- Outtakes
- Gewinnspiel
Mit der besten Musik von Acoustic Minds, My Machine, The Pulltops, Christian Nesmith, Jon Clarkson und Joe Turley.
Alle Links werden auch wieder in den ShowNotes zur schnellen, sicheren und fehlerfereien Nachverfolgung gelistet.
Nicht vergessen : PUG Treffen der PUG NED am 30.10.2008 !
P.S.) Premiumhörer gelangen schneller an die neue Ausgabe 
It seems to be for real, that Andoid is running on Google's first gPhone, the HTC Dream, which has been seen in reality for the first time.
Google didn't exactly confirm or deny that they would eventually produce the fabled gPhone during the Open Handset Alliance conference call. Forbes is reporting on an HTC device codenamed "Dream" that they suggest is possibly the much-awaited hardware that could launch in 2008.
The Dream phone is one of several prototypes that Google used to demonstrate the Open Handset Alliance software to potential members. Forbes quotes HTC CEO Peter Chou saying of the Dream, that in the time they've been working on Android designs that "this is the best one we've seen". The handset measures around 3 by 5-inches, offers a touchscreen that can be viewed horizontally or vertically, as well as navigational controls and a swivel out keyboard. The software, so we assume part of the Android platform, has what sounds like "time-sensitive" touch controls that are said to expand your area control the longer you touch. Apparently HTC is considering bringing the phone to market in the second half of 2008.
Being heavily dependant on my project's schedule, I always need to be
clear about my daily appointments, telephone conferences, meetings, etc.
This is no big deal as long as you are managing your schedule on your
own, but it really becomes a challenge, while you are collaborating with
others or other groups of people.
You then need to decide on putting all information in your schedule or
let them put it in for you. Another important point is that everyone is
using his/her favorite calendar application and thus, there is no real
interfacing and productivity on finding a suitable date for, let's say,
a project review or so.
The one is using Microsoft's exchange enterprise solution together with any Windows Mobile smartphone or particularly a Palm-Treo running WM, others are using Lotus Notes together with a Domino Server and any kind of PDA or smartphone, some are using the Palm Desktop together with Palm IIIxe, Sony PDA's and Palm Centros and finally some geeks use state-of-the art linux PDA's and work with online schedulers. This is a collaboration nightmare and needs to be streamlined in order to convert synchronisation time into productivity.
The solution is simple and quite easy done.
Google's Calendar [1] is the ultimate solution and
stands on top of it all. For Palm devices it is even possible to
synchronise particular calendar categories and thus split work from
private appointments.
The only thing needed is a google (mail) account, which allows you to
access the free webbased calendar application. Assuming that all have
this already, the interesting part starts with the synchronisation
process of the PDA/smartphone.
For those, who are mostly working at their Desktop PC, should install Companionlink [2],
which supports ACT! by Sage, MS Outlook with Business, Contact Manager,
IBM Lotus Notes, FrontRange GoldMine, Google Apps,Palm Desktop
(currently not Palm Desktop 6.2) and Novell GroupWise.
All major handhelds and smartphones are supported, such as BlackBerry
handhelds, Windows Mobile handhelds, Palm OS handhelds, Apple iPhone
& iPod Touch.
For all others, mostly working wirelessly, they need to install GooSync [3], which does the same job directly over the air.
Once the synchronisation setup works with the local calendar
application, the sharing of calendars should be enabled from within
Google's calendar application. This is easy, while the Google email
address is the only thing which need to be specified for collaboration.
By default, others can only view appointments. Therefore one should check the option "makes changes to event" from within the drop down menu next to the email address. That's it.
Now others (the ones specified by email addresses) can place own
appointments in the desired schedule in order to make it available in
all other Google calendars. Everyone can now sync them back into their local desktop applications and further on their handheld/smartphone device
or directly wirelessly on their smartphone on-the-go. Automatic
synchronisation to the Google calendar should then be enabled to always
stay up-to-date.
This makes finding free dates much more easy for everyone and in case
an appointment is not suitable for me, I simply drag it to antoher day
or time and sync again.
best regards
Clemens
[1] https://www.google.com/calendar/render#
[2] http://www.companionlink.com/products/companionlinkforgoogle.html
[3] https://www.goosync.com/
