Nature Valley View Trail, Street View

I must confess that I’m addicted to Google Street View, and whenever I have time I like to take this opportunity to “commute” to unique places in the world and recorrerlos from my computer is obviously not the same as traveling, but it is an alternative when the economy does not allow more. For those like me deserve Nature Valley View Trail go directly to paragraph favorites.

After two months of kicking the most famous U.S. national parks backpacks loaded with cameras capable of shooting in 360 degrees, the creators of this service we now offer convenient routes emulate. For now, the proposal includes the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Great Smoky Mountains.

The interface of Nature Valley View Trail is very similar to Street View, including recommended routes can be followed even automatically. As I said, you can not compare much less to experience these beautiful landscapes go live, but entertains while together the money to do so.

Android: HTC vision with QWERTY keyboard cool iPhone Alternative 4

The mobile phone manufacturer HTC is apparently before the publication of a new model: the so-called HTC vision. have emerged since the new recently by the first pictures of the phone on the Internet, already divorced before the actual release the spirits. The main attention is paid especially the keyboard, which can expand and a HTC Touch mobile phone rather surprised.

Since the iPhone from Apple to try to jump to other manufacturers of mobile phones and smartphones on the touch-train. To make the best competition can imagine the companies in new ways. Including HTC. Since working with Google and its Android operating system, the company could post significant gains. The open-source operating system from Google gives users the possibility to adapt the user interface individually and is characterized in particular by increasing ease of use compared to Windows Mobile from Microsoft.

Source: htc.com

The prototype of the HTC Vision just running this version of Android 2.1 with the user interface Sense. The surprising thing is that the HTC has a vision of a complete QWERTY keyboard. This comes to light when opening the phone. But why the HTC smartphone has a keyboard at all? This seems at first glance perhaps superfluous, because the touch screen can already make all the entries. But know the owner of a Touch phones, such as cumbersome alone can be the text input via touchscreen. For this reason, the HTC Vision phone is set to become one of the most interesting iPhone 4 alternatives.

The known technical way, the data show significant relationship with the HTC Desire: a 3.7-inch display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and the 1 GHz processor. Further information was not yet to discover from the manufacturer in experience. Even when a sale is the prototype model is mature, yet not sure yet. However, what might be the case is that the HTC will convince vision with touch screen and keyboard, users with security.

Mobile Payments Now Available for Android-based devices

PayPal has available its library of payments for devices based on the Google Android operating system.

Ti Journal: This library allows you to add PayPal as a watchdog for personal payments, gifts, goods physical and services sold through mobile devices using the Android platform without having to worry about maintaining the security of personal financial information.

PayPal also recently announced the opening of the beta version of its library of mobile payments and iPhone the developer community is already making good use of it.

In addition, PayPal offers another important development: PayPal X Toolkit for Google App Engine (GAME), a platform for the development and operation of Web applications and cloud services from Google.

These tools help developers to incorporate payments securely and easily into their applications and services built on the platform EAG. With them, co-payments can be processed allowing large number of applications in different markets.

Google fails in its initiative and will not sell more Nexus One in your webshop

Google to sell directly through the Google web Nexus One in an attempt to give a better start to the product, not something that the major mobile operators in the United States will do exactly jumping for joy. If this is joined by the dismal financial results of the initiative, it is not surprising the decision to throw the shop close to the Mountain View launched in his day.

The promised to be a revolution in the distribution system of mobile devices has exceeded the 200,000 units sold short, so we can speak of a relative failure that has caused Google to reconsider the conditions for placing the terminal, some of which did not meet adequate guarantees complete customer satisfaction.

Gestate the idea, to finish up the project and directly selling our own product, including distribution systems, are too many stages to be covered by a company specialized in another field. The failures in logistics and resolution of incidents were gradually undermining the credibility of the service.

Reason to decide to step back and settle for the “traditional” method of working with various operators, as they are currently doing in the European market. Read the rest of this entry »

Google under investigation by the FTC after redemption of AdMob

Faced with the explosion of the market for online advertising, Google’s strategy is scrutinized by the Federal Trade Commission U.S.

The acquisition of AdMob by Google in November 2009 for 750 million dollars goes wrong with U.S. authorities. According to the American press, the powerful FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has every intention of verifying whether Mountain View will not benefit from a dominant position in the market for online advertising, especially mobile.

The FTC would then intend to ask the actors, some of Google’s competitors, their opinion on the risk monopoly that buying AdMob would run on a booming market thanks to the democratization of mobile Internet. At the end of its investigation, the Commission may bring a lawsuit to cancel the transaction.

AdMob is governed specializes in advertising for mobile phones. The technology developed allows to dynamically adjusting the sizes of ads to content in the form like the fund. AdMob already has a network of 15 000 sites for mobile devices.

Google’s strategy on the market for online advertising had already attracted the European Commission following the acquisition of Double Click in 2007. After investigation, Brussels had finally given the green light in March 2008.