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If you find it too hard to control your vacuum, Rodrigo Guiterrez and Jeff Craig of the University of South Florida have created a native iPhone app to allow the iPhone to control the iRobot Packbot over Wi-Fi. The iRobot Packbot has a built in camera, and you’ll see video from the camera streamed onto your iPhone. Oh, so they’re going into other campuses and spying on them with this small little robot?
Robots invade after the break.
iPhone: big hit in education market?
The iPhone has been a big hit in the market of home consumers, and might be as well in the enterprise market this July. But what about the educational market? Students of the school ACU, Abilene Christian University, created a video to outline the many uses of the iPhone at the school.
Check it out after the break.
Safari beats Firefox at JavaScript rendering, and IE, of course…
Firefox 3 may have beaten Apple’s Safari in several tests, but Safari is still the best browser in the market at JavaScript. Webkit recently adopted the SquirrelFish JavaScript interpreter, and we can definitely see a speed increase. The current build of Webkit and Safari 3.1.1 are ahead of both Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7/8 b1. Zimbra performed these tests to find which browser would give the best user experience with the Zimbra Web client. The SquirrelFish JavaScript interpreter in Safari 4 is a bytecode engine, and Webkit claims it’s 1.6 times faster than the current JS engine in Safari 3.1.1 Why is SquirrelFish making Safari so much faster? The Zimbra blog explains why.
SquirrelFish does its magic by turning JavaScript script into so-called bytecodes, an optimized code much more suitable for run-time execution than natural language-based commands, which are longer and more complicated to interpret – and therefore are slower.
I wouldn’t called Safari a winner of the browser wars now, because JavaScript isn’t the only part of the web and other browsers have some better features. But, it does show one of Safari’s strenghts. After learning this, I’ll be using Safari when using any JavaScript web apps.
Via [Zimbra Blog]
RelatediPresentee unveils iWeb themes for business
Although it does have some simple and elegant themes right out of the box, iWeb probably isn’t being used for many business websites. iPresentee hopes to target businesses with five new iWeb themes: Office, Global, Money, Illusion and Papery. Each contains seven templates: Home, About Us, Services, Support, Clients, Contact Us, and a blank template. Personally, my favourites are Money and Global, though all can easily be customized without manually editing a line of code in iWeb.
Check out a sample after the break.
iPhone; too much hype, maybe? Oh yes!
If the stories here at Appletell about the iPhone weren’t enough, 2,781 stories about the iPhone were submitted to Digg. There’s also been an additional 24,066 about the iPhone on Google News. 47 of the iPhone stories submitted to Digg hit the front page. We also saw about 24 “iPhone Killer” stories. Regarding price, 21 of those 2,781 stories were about the iPhone’s price. Another interesting stat, 121 images of the iPhone stories were posted, though none made the front page.
Does the iPhone deserve all this hype? There are still tons of features we didn’t get from the iPhone, such a frontside camera for video confrencing and a replaceable battery. Apple’s apparently the type of company that doesn’t have do a whole lot to grab a huge amount of free press.
Via [Popfail]
RelatedAMD Stream processor first to break 1 Teraflop barrier
This speedy chip almost makes me want Apple to switch to AMD. Today, the FireStream 9250 stream processor was announced with more than one teraflop of processing power. A teraflop! The chip fits in a single PCI slot, and only uses less than 150 watts of power. This speedy friend can deliver a rate of performance per watt, with up to eight gigaflops per watt. The Firestream 9250 is capable of a hundred parallel calculations per clock cycle, where most proccessers can only do a few. NetworkWorld points out that, “A gigaflop is 1 billion floating-point operations per second.” So, the 9250 tops 1 teraflop, or 1 trillion floating-point operations per second.
More after the break.
Apple’s open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web
WWDC got all the attention for the iPhone 3G and the apps demoed on it, which were amazing. However, we didn’t hear about something else…SproutCore! That new iPhone couldn’t have been the only thing they were working on. Apple attempted to keep this on the down low, and had everyone sign an NDA, but this open source project has everyone talking. We haven’t yet seen any pictures or videos, but here’s a description of SproutCore from the WWDC schedule:
SproutCore is an open source, platform-independent, Cocoa-inspired JavaScript framework for creating web applications that look and feel like Desktop applications. Learn how to combine SproutCore with HTML5’s standard offline data storage technologies to deliver a first-class user experience and exceptional performance in your web application.
Not much has been leaked, expect for when we found out the .Mac Web Gallery was built off the framework. Again, not native Apple technology; Charles Jolley of Sproutit used it for his online e-mail application called Mailroom. Flash for Mac has always been falling behind, due to Adobe focusing on the Windows version. Now, the puzzle fits together; Flash could have worked on the iPhone, but could not run rich web applications to replace desktop apps.
For more information on SproutCore, check out its official website.
Via [RoughlyDrafted]
RelatediPhone 3G pricing: US $199, Germany 1 euro, U.K. free
At WWDC last week, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, announced that the 8GB model of the new iPhone 3G will sell for a maximum of $199* across the world in any carrier. What pricing did each carrier choose? AT&T maxed out and will be selling it at $199. Outside of the States, some carriers will be offering it at the bare minimum or close to nothing (with a calling plan). In Germany, T-Mobile will sell the iPhone for only 1 euro to the customers who select the top plan. Another carrier, O2, who carriers the phone 3G in the U.K., announced the iPhone will be free for all customers who sign up for one of the top plans.
So, let’s do some math; an iPhone with AT&T would cost $199 for the phone and $69.99 a month for a two year contract, for a total of $1,878.76. An iPhone with a two year contract on T-Mobile in Germany would be a whoping $3,265.54 02, and the UK has a pretty good price of $2,107.44, only 12% more than AT&T’s plan.
By reading the first paragraph, you’re hooked onto getting a phone with T-Mobile. A euro for an iPhone? Come on, why not? Then, it’s $136 a month with T-Mobile… and $87.81 a month with O2. European carriers know what they’re doing.
* Prices in USD
[Via Apple 2.0]
RelatedApple Stock goes up, Garmin’s stocks down
Apple gained $4.02, or 2.2% to $185.63, the day after WWDC where they announced the 3G iPhone for half the price of the original cost. The iPhone is now price at only $199. They also demoed some location-based services for the iPhone, which may have hurt GPS device maker, Garmin. Garmin’s stock fell 2.85, or 5.8%, to $46.74, and may have been due to the iPhone’s new navigation features and the App Store. The iPhone SDK opens possibilities to these companies, or anyone, to create GPS applications on the iPhone. Garmin competitor TomTom has already jumped on board and created a navigation app for the iPhone that, “runs on the iPhone already.” Apple’s iPhone could hurt sales of car-based GPS devices in the long-run.
Via [The Street]
RelatedApple nears iPhone deals for Japan, Korea, says report
Apple is doing pretty good in the European and American market, but what about the millions and millions potential customers in Asian countries like Japan and Korea. NTT DoCoMo Inc, isn’t a household name here in North America, but they are the leading mobile service provider and may be the carrier of the iPhone in Korea. The iPhone is currently in Egypt, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Jordan, Slovakia, Peru, Jamaica, Mexico and many other countries, so why not Korea and Japan? DoCoMo has wanted to be the carrier of the iPhone for quite some time now, and has been in talks since December of 2007. DoCoMo has about 53 million subscribers, and 44.4 million of those are using their speedy 3G network. Not only would it be a mistake to not put out in these countries, but Gene Munster believes it will happen.
“We would say Japan is 90% likely [to have the iPhone] by the end of 2008,”
Via [Computer World] Photo Via [Google Maps]
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