Nokia released its first Linux-based smartphone yesterday running on the Maemo 5 OS. The smartphone is called the N900 which is an evolution of their previous Internet Tablet devices that surprisingly did not support cellular connections (only WiFi). Among the big features of the device are the ability to multi-task and better web browsing capabilities. Nokia denies that Maemo will replace Symbian as Nokia’s standard smartphone OS. Instead, Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki told Bloomberg that the N900 was aimed at the estimated 200 million technology leaders on the planet.
Archive for August, 2009
Spotify for iPhone preview
Aug 28
Spotify mobile for iPhone is finally set to be available for premium subscribers via the App Store in the U.S. and consumers are ecstatic. Spotify managed to get into the App Store ahead of competitors Rhapsody and Grooveshark after initial reports that Apple might deny the service due to it’s competitive threat to iTunes. The recent investigation by the FCC around Apple’s app store approval process may have led to Apple quickly approving the app to refute all anti-competitive claims. Either way, I am super psyched about this and looking forward to full on unadulterated music goodness.
Need to get your puff on? There’s an App for that. iPhone medical cannabis locator application
Aug 8
Looking for safe access to your cannabis medicine? Need to find a physician? Have legal issues? Cannabis by Cannabis Apps has created an iPhone application that allows you to quickly locate the nearest medical cannabis collectives / cooperatives, doctors, clinics, attorneys, organizations, and other patient services in states that have approved medical marijuana (cannabis) legislation.
Here’s a preview of the billboards in the “Gone Google” campaign. Gone Google is the new advertising and marketing campaign for Google where they tout their cloud based messaging and collaboration enterprise applications as alternatives to shrink wrapped software from Microsoft and IBM. Google is trying to raise awareness around it’s cloud based applications as Microsoft is poised to soon unleash their own cloud version of Microsoft Office. Surprisingly, over 1.75 million companies are already using Google Apps. You can visit www.google.com/appsatwork to get more information about the benefits of going Google.
Paypal recently rolled out their new service called Do Stuff for Money. It’s a service that allows you to send an offer to your friends via e-mail or via FB Connect to do stuff for money. A recent offer that’s currently on the site reads, “Free Spin offered Juan Gram $100.00 to “Just simply take a shower, it’s for your own good.. 
“. Once your friend accepts and does what you asked, you can easily pay them using PayPal. No cash is exchanged by either party, just the way Paypal likes it, a cash-less society.
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555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.
“The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture – the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers “Galerie der Gegenwart”. Resultant permeabilty of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception, geometry and aesthetics expressed through graphics and movement. A situation of reflexivity evolves – describing the constitution and spacious perception of this location by means of the building itself.”
