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Earlier on the in the week I was posed a question on Facebook. Paraphrased “why are you an Apple fan?” He then went on to state how Apple products are so far behind the competition that surely I can’t be a real tech fan. Instead of being offended, I decided to take stock and think back over the past few years to identify exactly why I became an Apple…
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire is currently the most popular Android-powered tablet, but it doesn’t feature a GPS chip. Given how important location-based services have become, that’s a bit of a drawback for many developers and quite a few apps that want to access location features on Amazon’s tablet actually crash. To avoid these issues, Kayak teamed up with Skyhook to provide location services for its updated Android app. Kayak, of course, relies heavily on location services to show its users information like nearby hotels and airport information.
Skyhook’s Android SDK allows developers to get location information across virtually all Android versions and forks like the Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble’s NOOK.
The service, which provided virtually all of the location features for iOS before Apple switched to its own solution in 2010, uses WiFi triangulation when it can’t use a GPS chip or cell tower triangulation to determine a device’s location.
On Android, it is worth noting, Skyhook is also enabled in a number of other popular apps, including Tweetcaster, HopStop, deCarta and OpenTable. WiFi triangulation, of course, is never quite as accurate as GPS (except for when you are indoors), but using a service like Skyhook greatly improves location accuracy in urban areas and speeds up GPS satellite acquisition times.
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We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%. Also of little surprise was Samsung’s 45.4% of all Android smartphone shipments worldwide. The first quarter of 2012 saw a total of 152.3 million smartphones shipped of which 89.9 million were Android smartphones, 35.1 million were iOS followed … [read full article] View full post on TmoNews
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Jony Ive, Apple’s brilliant senior VP of industrial design, was knighted by the Queen of England today. In an interview for the Daily Telegraph about his latest honor, Ive was asked a few questions about how he thinks Scott Forstall’s (senior VP of iOS software) iOS user interface meshes with his hardware designs. Ive had some interesting and…
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Apple is known to have the most user friendly software in the business. Its operating system is simple, intuitive, and easy to use. Still, there are times when you might want to learn how to do more with your iPhone. That’s where One to One comes in. One to One is Apple’s hands-on support system in place to help teach, train, and show people how to get…
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