Busdrone is the handiwork of Andrew Filer, drawing on a number of existing data sources. More recently, as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking, while Filer made more improvements to the desktop version, Eric Butler ported Busdrone to Android. (Android is here; no iOS yet.) Continue reading All-in-One Seattle Transit-Tracker Busdrone Now on Android
WhitePages does have an iPhone app that lets you do some of the things, manually, that Current does automatically. But it’s on Android that the app is fully integrated, so that it supplements the native Android call screen with relevant information. The result has been called “the future of smartphone calling” (VentureBeat), ” the ultimate app for chit-chat” (GeekWire), and “caller ID for the mobile and social era” (Fast Company). Continue reading WhitePages Makes a Social Splash with Android Caller ID
Geekwire has the news that the Windows Phone 7 operating system’s share of the smart phone market declined one percent for the three months ending July. That’s while the smart phone market increased in size, up ten percent from the previous three months. Google’s Android system led the way with almost 42 percent, followed by Apple’s iOS with 27. RIM fell to 21.7 percent, while Microsoft dipped to 5.7. Continue reading Microsoft’s Mobile OS Took the Summer Off From Selling
