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Blackberry Maps Missing? Found!

This has only been tested on Orange UK, and Blackberry Bold - no reason why it couldn’t work for other operators or devices, as long as GPS isn’t disabled.
Having recently brought a Blackberry Bold, thinking I would receive all of the standard features and applications I had read about, I was disappointed to find many [...]

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Silverlight 2: Things ActionScript developers need to know.

Disclaimer: I recently attended a course entitled Tools and techniques for designing User Interfaces with Microsoft Silverlight 2, which was paid for and supplied by Microsoft.
Thank you to Microsoft, Xpertise and specifically Michael McClary for sending me along to the course.
I am not biased towards one company (Microsoft, or Adobe) nor towards either technology. I [...]

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Photoshop goes mobile: Not just Windows Mobile only.

You may have seen the recent blog posts about Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile, specifically, the fact that you need a Windows Mobile device.
Well, they are wrong.
The plan is to use a service called ShoZu.
ShoZu is a free service, that works on around 300 handsets worldwide, that allows you to “connect your phone and your online life”.
You [...]

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Quickie: 3D Cameras

Basically, they take two images, one with the flash enabled and one without.
They compare the two images, and from that they can work out the depth of objects.
This allows them to create a displacement map.
Read more on New Scientist
See the demo video - watch from 00:40 onwards to see a demo of it in action.

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Jumptap is to AT&T as Google is to Verizon

The mobile search and advertising start-up Jumptap have gone through another round of investing, raising the total capital raised to over $70 million.
Jumptap now directly compete against Google, as each of the search providers have signed deals with America’s two giants, AT&T and Verizon respectfully.
Jumptap believes it has an advantage over Google when it comes [...]