June 23rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
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This week, Dunkin’ Donuts launched an application for the iPhone and Web that helps organize and automate group orders.
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Using their computers and mobile devices, customers can initiate orders through ‘Dunkin’ Run’ and alert friends and colleagues that they are willing to be the “Runner.”
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Each member of the group can add their order to the list and then the Runner can print the choices or use the iPhone to create a checklist so that when they get to the store, they don’t miss anyone’s order. The app doesn’t yet transmit the order to the local donut shop.
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“We conceived of Dunkin’ Run as a social application that helps hard-working Americans stay slightly more productive,” said Baba Shetty, Hill Holliday’s Chief Media Officer. “It’s based on the idea of reciprocity — I’ll get your coffee today and hopefully you’ll get mine tomorrow — in a way that perfectly complements the ‘we’re in it together’ ethos of the Dunkin’ Donuts brand.”
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June 23rd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
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Adobe is set to introduce Flash Player 10 for most mobile operating systems later this year, including Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian, and Palm WebOS.
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Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen said during a recent earnings call that multiple partners of the company have already received an early version of Flash Player 10. Developers will be able to get their hands on a beta version of Flash Player 10 mobile later this year, at Adobe’s Max conference in October.
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Flash Player 10 will enable smartphones running on the above-mentioned operating systems to benefit from a richer Internet browsing experience, including watching videos embedded on some websites. Web-based applications can also be built on this platform, theoretically freeing developers from any applications stores.
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June 23rd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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T-Mobile announces a mea culpa Monday in the form of the myTouch, a new Android phone that addresses the most common complaints. The myTouch will be available to T-Mobile subscribers at the end of July, the company said.
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Not that T-Mobile is throwing the G1 under the bus. It has sold a million G1 phones, enough to qualify it as a hit, they say, with a crowd they call “tech seekers.” But that is a comparatively small crowd.
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To reach to the less tech savvy customer the new myTouch has been given a friendlier look. It’s thinner than the G1, and available in black, white and maroon. It is missing the curved “chin” of the G1, which made the phone pop a wheelie if the phone was on a flat surface when the track ball was used. The buttons stand higher than the face of the phone than on the G1, making them easier to press.
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May 31st, 2009 at 9:37 pm
| They are the company’s third-generation OLED materials. Among them, a green light-emitting material has a luminance half-life of more than one million hours when measured by setting the initial luminance at 1,000cd/m2, the company said. This is equivalent to 100 or more years of continuous emission. The green light-emitting material has color coordinates of (0.26, 0.65) and a current efficiency of 25cd/A. In addition, DuPont Displays developed some blue light-emitting materials. Among them, one with color coordinates of(0.14, 0.12) has a current efficiency of 6.0cd/A and a luminance half-life of 38,000 hours when measured with the initial luminance of 1,000cd/m2, according to the company. |
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May 31st, 2009 at 9:35 pm
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In case you didn’t like the Mondrian-style ZEN Mosaic, Creative has announced a new option: the ZEN Mosaic EZ300. It’s the same 1.8-inch player but this time, the entire PMP is of one shade of Black or Pink. It plays MP3, WMA, WAV, Audible 4 music files and will have 4GB or 8GB of storage. Price is 49.99 pounds ($81 $59.99) for the 4GB and $79.99 for the 8GB.
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I have to agree that the Mosaic EZ300 is much easier for the eyes compared to the original mosaic, but believe me, cheap MP3 players are available with more features.
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May 30th, 2009 at 11:10 am
| Tesla Motors is recalling more than half of its new $109,000 (NZ$174,610) electric Roadster sedans to deal with a problem with the vehicle’s steering, the automaker said. The San Carlos, California, automaker said the recall will tighten rear bolts that were improperly assembled by Lotus, the contract manufacturer of the Roadster chassis. The recall affects 345 Roadsters from the 2008 model year assembled between March 2008 and April 2009. The electric car company has delivered nearly 500 Roadsters, spokeswoman Rachel Konrad said. The government said Lotus was recalling 27 Elise and Exige vehicles from the 2009 model year to handle similar problems. A Tesla owner complained about poor steering around wide turns, leading the company to investigate. No injuries have been reported. |
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May 30th, 2009 at 11:04 am
| Not yet for sale in the United States, the HTC Magic surfaced today in the form of a developer’s version dubbed I/O, distributed at the Google conference of the same name. And the second-generation Magic indeed has a touch of magic: Its lightweight design, gorgeous screen, and new Android 1.5 operating system make a compelling combination. The phone will be released by T-Mobile this summer, under an as-yet-unannounced name. The eye-catching Magic handset is what the T-Mobile G1 should have been–sleek, elegantly curved, and graced with distinctive design touches. When the G1 first came out, I described it as bland. Viewed side-by-side with the HTC Magic, the G1 now looks downright kludgy. It feels bulky, too, and no wonder |
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May 13th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
We’ve been hearing vague murmurs of revised Sony Alpha DSLRs all week, but now we’ve got some actual proof: these shots of the new Alpha 230, 330, and 380 went up briefly on Sony’s Russian website earlier today. The biggest improvements seem to be smaller cases, a revised interface, and HDMI out, but there’s also a new “handbook” to help new users get started and a Bravia control mode that allows the camera to be controlled by your TVs remote while it’s displaying pictures. A nice enough upgrade, but unless these are somehow super cheap we’d say the omission of a video mode is going keep most people focused on the Nikon D5000 and Canon T1i. Bigger screenshot with the full feature list at the read link. |
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May 13th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
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Going the complete opposite way of the mini projector trend, JVC announced that it will soon ship a 370-pound projector. Obviously, the D-ILA 3 8K and 4K aren’t about dinky pictures, beaming out 35-megapixel pictures, in resolutions of up to 8192 x 4320. They also feature brightness of 10,000 lumens, a 5,500:1 contrast ratio. These monstrosities use a 3,000 W bulb and a special fiber optic interface, though there’s also HDMI connections on board. But what would you use it with? Perhaps JVC’s 4K camera, which is in the prototype stage now. A 1.25-inch CMOS sensor allows for resolutions of 3840 x 2160and 60 frames per second in RAW mode. The camera head also has a fiber optic interface, which sends the signal to a remote 4K2K signal processor. No word on pricing, which is to say it probably won’t be cheap. [via Electronista]
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May 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
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Craigslist has been working hard to fend off criticism that it facilitates prostitution by implementing numerous measures to help curb Erotic Services listings. In November of 2008, Craigslist came to an agreement with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Attorneys General of more than 40 states to reduce prostitution on the site. In addition to a new phone verification system launched in March 2008, Craigslist began requiring credit card verification for each listing in the Erotic Services section. These two measures were meant to make posters more accountable for their listings, as Craigslist could blacklist phone numbers or credit cards that had posted “inappropriate” ads in the past. As a result, the company has apparently seen a 90 percent drop in Erotic Services listings, which, of course, was the goal.
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