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1: Mobile technology permeating every part of our lives in the developing and developed world
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2:growth and adoption rates of smartphones faster than adoption of television or even the PC.
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3: Mobile computing fast growing to replace desktop machines.
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4: Online payments and banking commerce growing now above late 90′s dot com bulle rates.
= Advent of NFC Technology.
Good article here http://mashable.com/2011/03/15/google-in-store-mobile-payments/
and the wiki here.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
What does it all mean? It means that you will no longer need to carry a wallet. At the moment, All I carry in my pockets are 4 things. A packet of cigarettes, a lighter, my iPhone and my laser card.
The former 2 items are hopefully not always going to be something I carry in my pockets, but the phone and card are there to stay. So what if I can get rid of the card?
Well with NFC Technology coming in the iPhone 5 and next HTC Suite of devices, all you will have to do is scan your phone and a chip inside it will be linked to a payments account.
If you travel in London frequently, think of it like an oyster card that is inside your iPhone.
If you go skiing or snowboarding, think of it like your ski pass, on your phone.
Or if you ever bought a drink in a bar, its your credit card, but inside your phone, all the time.
We think that the best applications for this technology are yet to come, but NFC is one of the holy grails that the traditional mobile companies and thinkers have waited for for a long time.
Its funny to think that Nokia could have avoided having to team up with Microsoft, had they lead the footing into NFC technology 4 or 5 years ago, but sleepy directors and CEO’s had to get the wake up call when apple announced they had made a mobile phone.
Todays news about AT&T buying T-Mobile is good news for American mobile customers but I doubt the mobile opperators will be the ones to drive NFC tech, and unfortunatly, the phone manufacturers will only be the enablers, however with Apples SDK and the numerous Android SDK”s, it will be us, the developers that will shape the market and invent the tools that will drive user adoption and useage of this new and incredible technology.
So have a read, and then think of the possibilities. If you have a killer idea that you think you need help in developing or building, feel free to get in touch and we would be happy to discuss.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
Launched today is the restaurants Guide Ireland from our friends at Fusio.
This is definitively the best restaurants guide in Ireland that you can get on mobile form.
Have a look for your iPhone here
http://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/restaurant-guide-ireland/id420915374?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/restaurant-guide-ireland/id420915374?mt=8
More fodder for the interested of HTML5 here at tech crunch.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/html5-versus-native-apps/
They say its expensive developing on multiplatform, but its not really. Our developer Alex for example develops on Android, iPhone and Blackberry. Hes just one on 2. Sergy our other mobile dev can do Droid iPhone and Symbian. So its not that big a deal.
HTML5 is buiolt up ion the press to be this monolith coming of new technology. As tech crunch are putting it ‘A train’ OR ‘RocketShip’. Well, its not. It is the future, but not right now.
here are some html5 mobile apps. I really like the sketch one. http://goo.gl/DjII
From the guy who did the Washington Post iPad app.
http://www.sarahsampsel.com/blog/2010/11/10/designing-the-washington-post-for-ipad-detailed-wireframes/
Since first publishing this article, the announcement actually turned out to be that Apple is now selling The Beatles back catalogue on iTunes.
However, Apple still have unannounced plans for their newly built data center.
With the technology world awaiting Apples big iTunes announcements schedule dofr 3pm London time tomorrow, It seems timely to review a small slice of the biggest shift in technology since the 20′s.
Apple are expected to announce tomorrow that users will now be able to store their entire iTunes library/ media library on the cloud. This certainly fits with their $1 billion dollar investment 2 years ago in building a data center in North Carolina. Image a 50 acre facility covered in only servers, with 3000 people working there.
But going away from this, the cloud has to be accepted as part of technology today. If you have an iPhone, you are part of the cloud. If you sent an SMS through the internet, you are part of the cloud.
So I can across another great concept that is more than that, its pretty much a forming reality. The intercloud. Lots of little clouds, all talking together. ‘The Intercloud’. read all about it here.
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