Category: Software

Wholesale Applications Community (WAC)

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Software, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC

WAC is a consortium of carriers, manufacturers and software solutions providers trying to bring some alternative application marketplace and interoperability for apps on different embedded OS platforms. The apps are written using HTML, CSS and Javascript and once the apps are sent to WAC, they can be distributed wholesale on all the different carriers and gadget makers alternative marketplaces.

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App: Endomondo sports tracking community

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Software, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

http://endomondo.com is a sports tracking system, that works on all the major smartphone platforms, and includes an online community, to compare running routes, compare running performances, in any city, you can see an overview of all the people that are running right now, it can also include real-time speech synthesis to read up comments or comparing your running speed with someone else you want to beat in the community.

Hoccer app at Mobile World Congress 2011

Posted by Charbax – February 16, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Software, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

App to send stuff from one device to another using swipes or movements.

Opera Mini on the iPad

Posted by Charbax – February 14, 2011
Category: Tablets, Software, Exclusive videos, MWC

Opera is adapting their web browser for tablets, here is their demonstration of Opera Mini running on the iPad. Will Apple allow this in the Apple App Store? To be seen.

Opera Browser for Android Tablets

Posted by Charbax – January 18, 2011
Category: Tablets, Software, Exclusive videos, CES, Android

Opera Software is optimizing a version of their Opera Browser for Android Tablets, thus providing some higher resolution user interface features.

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Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com at LeWeb 2010

Posted by Charbax – December 15, 2010
Category: Web, Software, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

If you have an idea to create a competitor to Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia or Google, but you lack the programming talent, you can still do like Kevin Rose did to start Digg.com, what Steve Jobs did to start Apple and what Bill Gates did to start Microsoft, you can just have someone else do all the programming work for you for cheap! Now that we have the Internet, why not hire someone to do it for those $500 or so that you have been saving up?

Digg.com was started for $200, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer bought DOS for $50’000 from some guy which basically founded Microsoft, Steve Jobs convinced his programming friend Steve Wozniak to code the Apple OS inspired by ideas they got from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for “free”, some claim Mark Zuckerberg was hired as a freelance programmer for $1000 to program facebook (then possibly to have been called harvardconnection) before he decided it was too good and kept it for himself (something like that).

What do you think of the potential of outsourcing work using Freelancer.com or other such online freelancing sites? Can those sites also be used to connect freelancers in your local areas if you want to actually meet the freelancer face to face? What do you think is the potential to create a successful startup based on a small investment through freelancer.com or such site? What do you think is the value of an idea compared to the programming talent necessary to build it? What do you think is the risk of you potentially loosing your idea to a freelancer (like Mark Zuckerberg) if they find out that the idea is too good and they decide to keep it or duplicate it?

Dassault Systems 3Dvia.com 3D tools for the web at LeWeb 2010

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2010
Category: Web, Software, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

This is 3D in the web browser using a plugin. Dassault Systems is providing tools for integrating 3D stuff on the web.

youfoot.com presented by Fabrice Lorenceau at LeWeb 2010

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2010
Category: Web, Software, Exclusive videos, LeWeb

youfoot lets users organize alternative Football tournaments and ligues, lets users comment and annotate all football matches in real-time. Will eventually integrate live video and audio commentary features. This type of web app has the potential to replace FIFA and UEFA for the organization and communities of Soccer competition.

appoke.com presented by Stéphane Guérin at LeWeb 2010

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2010
Category: Web, Software, Exclusive videos, LeWeb, Android

Appoke is a startup that is showcased at the LeWeb 2010 conference in Paris.

mylifeshow.tv presented by Jerome Derozard at LeWeb 2010

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2010
Category: Web, Software, Exclusive videos, LeWeb, Android

LifeShow player app on Android and mylifeshow.tv is a startup that is showcased at the LeWeb 2010 conference in Paris.

QNX car info cluster software solutions

Posted by Charbax – November 17, 2010
Category: Cars, Software, Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, ARM TechCon

Here demonstrated in a nice Corvette, you can do a bunch of interactive things with these new ARM Cortex-A8 Freescale i.MX51 powered digital information clusters and infotainment systems that are coming in different configurations to more and more cars soon.

Gary Smith EDA on the future of Chip Design

Posted by Charbax – November 13, 2010
Category: EDA, Software, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon

Gary Smith talks about ARM and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and where the industry is heading as processors keep getting more and more complicated, smaller and smaller, more and more costly to develop while prices of ARM Powered devices keep getting lower and lower. Gary Smith is the founder and Chief Analyst for Gary Smith EDA. Previously, he was the Managing Vice President and Chief Analyst of the Electronic Design Automation Service, Design & Engineering Cluster at Gartner Dataquest.

ARM CoreLink 400 Series

Posted by Charbax – November 13, 2010
Category: Software, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM

This is a Cache Coherent Computer subsystem. Allows to deliver a whole bunch of new use cases, two Quad Cortex-A15 clusters can be fully I/O coherent with the MAli-T604 graphics.

Revo 1 by Revolution Robotics Java Standard Edition based robot

Posted by Charbax – November 13, 2010
Category: Robots, Software, Exclusive videos, Marvell, ARM TechCon

This is a robot system based on the Marvell Armada plug computer system. Find out more at http://revolution-robotics.com

Java Embedded SE 6u21 synchronized with Java SE

Posted by Charbax – November 13, 2010
Category: Software, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon

The latest Java release for ARM Powered devices is multi-processor optimized, allows to fully utilize hardware. All the same Java apps that run on an x86 desktop can now also work on ARM Powered devices.

Linaro Graphics Group at ARM Techcon 2010

Posted by Charbax – November 11, 2010
Category: Software, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon

An interview with the leader of the Linaro Graphics Group on the status of graphics acceleration in Linaro and how important that is for a smooth experience of advanced user interfaces on ARM Powered devices.

Linaro CEO George Grey at ARM Techcon 2010

Posted by Charbax – November 11, 2010
Category: Software, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon

Linaro’s goal is to make it easy for manufacturers to make ARM based devices, from smart phones, tablets, set-top-boxes, cars, even desktops, laptops and servers.

John Bruggeman of Cadence on EDA360 at ARM Techcon 2010

Posted by Charbax – November 10, 2010
Category: Software, Other, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon

John Bruggeman of Cadence and Simon Segars of ARM just hosted a pretty awesome fireside chat at the ARM Techcon (full length video of which I will link to here once it is up). discussing areas in which ARM industry should cooperate more and where they can differentiate themselves and push the technology forward faster. Cadence is an EDA provider which means they provide software tools for designers of ARM Processors. The fireside chat includes discussions on standardization of Linux on ARM, supporting drivers, implementing security at the hardware level (see my video of ARM TrustZone), and how John Bruggeman thinks competing EDA providers should agree on how to collaborate on certain areas to focus on competing on others and bring the industry forward faster. Cost of designing a new ARM Processor should be cut by a factor of 5 he says if these industry players could figure out to better collaborate on the core tools. The goal is for companies that provide solutions and tools that enable always cheaper ARM Powered devices to consumers, that cost to build basic things should be built collaboratively so suppliers can save money on basic stuff and focus on differentiation. $100 Android phones and $400 HDTVs should still allow device makers and the industry that supports the creation of these tools to make a profit. In a constantly disruptive industry with cheaper and cheaper ARM Powered devices, but at the same time with more and more complicated, more advanced, soon reaching Nanotechnology scales ARM Powered devices, it is interesting to imagine how all these companies plan to continue to make a profit.

VisualOn provides ARM Powered video playback without hardware acceleration

Posted by Charbax – November 10, 2010
Category: Software, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon

VisualOn is demonstrating that they can provide solutions for ARM9, ARM11 and ARM Cortex-A8 and -A9 processors, where the playback of all video codecs, in certain cases at up to 720p can be supported by using the ARM part of the processor only, not even needing to use a DSP to hardware accelerate the video playback. It is still to be confirmed exactly what resolutions and bitrates are supported for each specific level of ARM Processor performance. For uses like adding support for RMVB, WMV and certain types of video streaming on top of regular HD decoding hardware, then this could be a good solution for those types of people. It integrates seemlessly as a Native SDK based application on top of Android.

Linutop OS 4.0, custom Ubuntu for web-kiosks

Posted by Charbax – October 28, 2010
Category: Software, Other, Exclusive videos, Reviews, Ubuntu

Linutop sells small, silent and low power PCs based on AMD Geode and VIA C7 processors to use in business and industrial environments. Now they are launching Linutop OS 4.0 that anyone can download at http://www.linutop.com/software/download.en.html to boot from a USB stick or CD/DVD on any x86 computer. They are also considering providing this solution for ARM Powered desktop systems as soon as several popular low-cost designs are released. This video features Linutop founder and CEO Frederic Baille talking about Linutop and a screencast to show the principal features of this OS.