Archive for January, 2010

There have been seventeen magnitude 7 earthquakes in California. Two in Missouri, three in Hawaii, eighty-four in Alaska and two in Arkansas.

January 15th, 2010 by admin


 Tragedies happen to others… until they hit home. Ask yourself; where would you go, what would you do, who would you call… all questions that you might be able to answer today, but possibly not if you were trapped beneath rubble that separated you from your family as has happened to so many in Haiti. [...]

Scanned directly from the printed page to a smartphone, geo-aware mobile coupon scanners offer marketers branding, retailers traffic, and consumers on the go with savings.

January 11th, 2010 by admin


ScanLife, an App widely available online as a free download, turns a mobile phone into a bar-code reader to capture the quick-response (QR) codes printed in advertisements. Versions exist for the iPhone and BlackBerry as well as Android-based handsets in the United States. ScanLife can read many standard bar codes on a variety of phones, [...]

Do one better than Google by answering questions before they are asked.

January 11th, 2010 by admin


Ever try to send an annotated Google map embedded in an e-mail message to 83 co-workers from your mobile phone contact list in a second? How about showing the location and telling your BFF about a new shop that opened with a half off sale and they have her size? Imagine being able to tell [...]