Shifd
Move your life from your mobile phone to your PC and back with Shifd. Although still in development, Shifd won best hack at last year’s London Hack Day. The demo video shows the developers using an RFID chip to synchronize a personal web portal between their mobile phone and their laptop computer. The Shifd app looks like it will be able to store tasks, contacts, events, newsfeeds, and probably a lot more. At the Shifd website, you can view the demo video and sign up to be notified once they go live. The developers mention a non-RFID version in the works as well.
Safari and Ajax with UTF-8 Encoding
Combining foreign characters, JavaScript and calls to the server in a JSON format sounds like trouble — and it is. But this time Safari is causing the problems instead of IE. If encoding is not specified in the headers, characters like Å, Ä and Ö will not display properly. Now, if you have come across […]
iPhone adding support for corporate email [Apple]
The best thing about the iPhone has always been how it allows you to avoid work emails. “Sorry, dude, it doesn’t support Exchange! Text me!” If you wanted to give your boss an electronic leash, you’d have bought a BlackBerry, right? No longer true: Apple is adding enterprise support to the iPhone. In a presentation at Apple’s headquarters, CEO Steve Jobs announced that Microsoft Exchange-compatible email, calendar, and contacts software would be added soon. Also on tap: Cisco VPN support and other security enhancements. Congratulations, early adopters: Your symbol of indie cred is now a tool of the man. This will increase Apple’s sales, but somehow that just makes it worse: Jobs will laugh all the way to the bank as you cry into your no-foam soy latte.
Eyespot Attacks LongTail of Video Ads and Mashup Content
Eyespot launched a Media Campaign Platform last summer, which was designed as a way for content creators and brands to offer rights-cleared content to be available for mashups across various social networks as a way to insert some marketing material into user-generated content. The idea worked for several labels in the film and television […]