GPS
Skyhook hones in on another partner, Samsung’s Wave to geo-locate like no other
Skyhook Wireless seems to have located itself yet another major partner in its continued quest to pinpoint every single cellphone owner in the world. Sure, we’re exaggerating a bit just to get you riled up, but there’s no arguing the fact that the company fulfills “hundreds of millions of location requests every day across over 100 million handsets, netbooks and cameras.” Or so it says, anyway
Texas Instruments’ Blaze tablet coming to developers this August
Back in February when Texas Instruments announced its ARM-based OMAP 4 system-on-chip ‘Blaze’ dev platform, we sort of figured it might be tablet-bound. And, here it is — Blaze is going to be a tablet ! Not a shocker, but we’re glad to hear it, of course, since the tablet wars are hotter than ever and we love a good fight
Gyroscope gunning on the iPhone 4 with Eliminate: Gun Range (video)
We’d heard earlier that ngmoco’s new game Eliminate: Gun Range was one of the first apps to really take advantage of the iPhone 4 ‘s gyroscope, and now that we’ve had a chance to play with it, we’ve got say there’s a ton of potential here.
Some iPhone 4 models see signals drop to 0 when held left-handed, including ours
What’s more annoying than spending hours lining up for a shiny new gadget? Learning that your precious phone can’t actually connect to the network.
iOS 4 privacy policy updated: Apple can anonymously collect location data, you can take away iAds’ cookies
It may not be a big deal — Android’s done it for years — but some will no doubt be interested to learn that Apple can monitor your GPS. In the latest revision of its privacy policy, presumably updated for iOS 4 , it revealed the company can anonymously track the “real-time geographic location” of devices and is free to share that data with “partners and licensees” as well.
Apple now accepting iOS 4 apps, multitasking ahoy
Although we’ve been running iPhone OS 4 — now known as iOS 4 — since it was first announced in April , we actually haven’t been able to try out any of the fancy new multitasking features, since no third party apps have been released with support yet. That’s all about to change: as of today, Apple is accepting iOS 4 apps, which means we should see quite a few apps that take advantage of multitasking on the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 , as well as make use of the 1500 other new APIs in the system when it launches on June 21 . That’s definitely good news, but we’ve got a feeling Apple’s unique take on iPhone multitasking will take a few people by surprise, as only certain tasks are allowed in the background — and apps that need to run persistently, like IRC and IM clients, still won’t really work at all.
