Green Dam, a tool that has been mandated by the Chinese Government to help filter porn and violence sites, is delayed. But what is really intriguing is the idea that the country wide filtering systems in use by China, and many other countries and companies might not be up to the task of filtering all the content. Green Dam should be seen as a tool to self monitor on the actual PC, meaning China is having problems keeping up with the speed that the internet adds and removes web sites. Read more

Too bad that the IPhone 3.0 OS is coming out in the next month or so, but some intrepid researchers have figured out a way to get unsigned code to run in memory for people using IPhone 2.0 software. This opens the door to unsigned third party apps running on your IPhone without the need to jailbreak the thing. Read more

Google claims we can expect to see at least 18 phones with the Android operating system by year’s end, possibly 20. Which phone carriers they will be on has yet to be determined, according to the New York Times. Currently T-Mobile’s G1 and a phone available in Europe called “Magic” by HTC are the only phones that give Google credit for using their Android OS.

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The Cellphone is hardly a toy in the kitchen according to the NY Times.

One high-tech cooking tool, however, has transformed the kitchen lives of many Americans: the cellphone.  It has become the kitchen tool of choice for chefs and home cooks. They use it to keep grocery lists, find recipes, photograph their handiwork, look up the names of French cheeses, set timers for steak and soft-boiled eggs, and convert European or English measurements to American ones.

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Booyah is a group of former Blizzard game developers who’ve gotten together to create a game — or some kind of game-like software — for the iPhone. They’re at least partially funded by the iFund, and are being advised by Blizzard’s Rob Pardo, so they must have something going on. It’s just hard to tell what it is, exactly.

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I said that a few weeks ago: iPhone is all about the apps and I’m more convinced of that than ever.

As I was scanning the Wall Street Journal on my iPhone, I got to thinking about some of the other apps I have installed on this mobile device.

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On April 1st, Research In Motion (RIM), threw the doors open on its much anticipated AppWorld. This storefront is their response to the hugely popular iPhone App Store that provides access to over 25,000 applications for iPhone users to choose from. While not nearly as robust (according to MediaPost there were only 500 apps available upon launch out of a promised 1000) it’s a start for BlackBerry users. Honestly, who has the time to sift through 25,000 apps anyway?

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At CES the product I was most excited by was the Palm Pre. After all, they had hired a bunch of people from Apple and it went further than the iPhone in many places. It had a keyboard. It has an OS that let you run multiple applications at the same time (something the iPhone doesn’t do) and did copy and paste. The OS seemed even better thought out than the iPhone was. Contacts collected data from Facebook and other social networks.

It looked like it would win in the marketplace.

But now it’s March and the tides are changing.

First, last week Apple came out with a set of APIs for the iPhone that many people missed because they were drinking at SXSW. More on those in a second.

But today stuff is leaking about a new iPhone that’s coming out.

Now I’m starting to doubt whether Palm can make it. I’m not the only one.

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Once again, a Friday release of my 7 cool / useful things… several techy / geeky resources that I’m pleased to share:

My 7 Cool Things Of The Day - SimulTravel, Basic Print, LifeAssist, Wertago, Twellow, and Montana GIS

1. iPhone App of the day -  SimulTravel for iPhone - The new Simultravel GPS iPhone application locates hotels within the desired area, displays pricing information, and enables instant conversation with a live travel agent at the tap of a screen. Available for just 99 cents.
2. Blackberry app of the day -  Cortado Basic Print - the app establishes a bridge between BlackBerry smartphones and Bluetoothr enabled photo printers.
3. S60 App of the day - LifeAssist, an innovative “Man Down” tracking application. Complete with GPS tracking, motion tracking, elementary signs-of-life check, biofeedback, remote camera activation, battery monitoring, and a voice-based interface.
4. Google G1 (Android) App of the day - Wertago is a clever mobile application for nightlifers wanting to get up-to-the-second information about what venues are hot, share content and influence the social scene and view details on a map
5. Tweet of the day - From conservative Twitterer @ rmaynard: News: Obama declares that the $700+Billion Stimulus Plan saved 25 jobs in Columbus, OH. That’s $28B per job saved, yeah!!!
6. Twitter Add-on of the day - Twellow is a tool designed to help you connect with people that interest you. Simply key in a search term, then browse the results. Twitter users are presented to you based on you search term.
7. Free GIS Data Pick of the day - Montana GIS Clearinghouse. Select data from a list of available GIS data layers or simply bundle up data using the bundler application.

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Ok, this is brilliant. If you travel lots and give presentations then this is for you… tell em Glenn sent you will ya!! Big screen environment for the mobile environment… WOW.. thanks to the gang at MIR for this video.. awesome stuff gang! Imagine this also… using your mobile (like a smartphone of an iPod touch) you can project a video, even a full length movie) onto the wall.. WOW!!! who needs a projection TV?? Read more