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MEGATech Showcase: 40 Years of the Cellphone - MEGATechNews
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The mobile phone is 40 years old. Wrap your head around that. It?ll be tricky, because early mobile phones were some pretty large devices. Truth is that mobile communication goes back over eighty years; but we?re not talking about mobile communications. We?re talking about mobile phones and the first mobile phone call was placed forty years ago.
Martin Cooper and the First Phone Call
Martin Cooper, pictured above, is known as the ?father of the cell phone,? a title he very much earned. Cooper thought up the first handheld mobile phone and led the team that developed it and eventually brought it to the market. He?s also the first person to make a public cellphone call, using a prototype DynaTAC cellular phone, an event that I?m sure brought him a lot of funny looks.
The First Cell Network
In 1971, AT&T went to the Federal Communications Commission and proposed a commercial cellular service. It wasn?t until 1977, six years later, that they were able to follow through with it, and the nation?s first cellular network was born. It was located in Chicago and it only served 1,300 customers out of the gate. Coverage was limited and different geographic areas required different cellular providers, but it was a start.
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
In 1984, the first cellular phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, went on the market. It wasn?t pretty to look out and it sure doesn?t seem very comfortable to hold, but it worked. It also weighed 28 ounces, stood 10 inches high, and dosed you with a lot of radiation, but it worked. It featured a red LED display and the battery could only support a phone call of up to an hour, afterwards you?d have to charge the phone for up to 10 hours.
The Simon Personal Communicator
Bestowing the title of the first smartphone isn?t as clear cut as the first cell phone. In 1994, IBM released the Simon Personal Communicator, a cell phone that could also send and receive emails and pages, and was also equipped with an address book, calendar, calculator, electronic note pad, and a further assortment of PDA-esque features. Feature-wise, the Simon Personal Communicator could rightfully be called the first smartphone.
Yet the term ?smartphone? wasn?t coined for three more years when in 1997, Ericsson referred to its GS 88 Penelope concept as a ?Smart Phone.? The Penelope never actually made it to market. Even if it had, I think it?s safe to say the Simon Personal Communicator was the official debut smartphone, even if the term hadn?t been invented. You could argue that it was ahead of its time.
Cellphone: The Next Generation
Then there are the generations, commonly labeled as 1G, 2G, etc. The first generation started in 1977 with the development of the first network in Chicago. In the following thirteen years, small networks popped up all over the UK, Canada, Mexico, and the Washington DC/Boston area, as well as in Scandinavian countries. The major difficulty that occurred during the first generation was rapidly expanding usage in the face of limited technology.Years later in 1991, we saw the shift from analog transmission to digital, which kicked off the second generation. Another big shift was cell phone size, with new technologies allowing the construction of cell phones as light as 100-200 grams. This generation saw the world?s first smartphone, the first person-to-person SMS message, downloadable ringtones, and pre-paid service plans. In Japan, NTT DoCoMo launched the first full Internet service for mobile phones, which would ultimately lead to the third generation.
In 2001, just two years after NTT DoCoMo launched their Internet service, demand for mobile data has become too much for circuit switching, so packet switching becomes the new thing, which ushered in the third generation. Streaming media content was introduced and the way in which mobile phones are used is changed dramatically. The Blackberry 5180 is the first BlackBerry with voice capabilities. The Sanyo SCP-5300 is the first cellphone with an integrated camera. The ROKR is the first mobile phone to include iTunes, and then of course Apple released the first iPhone in 2007. In October 2008, the Android Market launches.
Then in 2009, less than four years ago, mobile data makes the move from packet switching to all-IP transmissions, and with that we?re in the fourth generation. Will this be the generation of the phablet? I sure hope we don?t call it that.
Happy birthday, cellphone.
Source: http://www.megatechnews.com/megatech-showcase-40-years-of-the-cellphone/
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Suicide bomber kills 20 at political rally in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) ? A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday at a lunch hosted by a Sunni candidate in Iraq's upcoming regional elections, killing 20 people, officials said.
The blast ripped through a hospitality tent pitched next to the house of Muthana al-Jourani, who is running for the provincial council and held the lunch rally for supporters, councilman Sadiq al-Huseini said.
The attack took place in Baqouba, a mixed Sunni-Shiite city some 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad. Insurgent attacks and sectarian bloodletting have been rampant there in the decade since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Violence is expected to surge in the run up to Iraq's provincial elections on April 20.
A health official and police officer who provided details about the attack spoke anonymously because they weren't authorized to speak to media.
The police officer said al-Jourani, who was injured in the attack, had not requested any extra security for the political event.
In the city's morgue, at least 10 bodies lay strewn on the ground, draped in black plastic sheets. Emergency crews treated the wounded. At the site of the bombing, white plastic chairs were overturned and men, apparently in shock, stood dazed in blood-stained clothing.
Eyewitness Ahmad al-Hadlouj, a 34-year-old who was wounded in the blast, said hundreds of people had gathered in the side street for the rally. His father, a member of the candidate's political bloc, was also wounded.
"This is our blood (shed) for the people," said al-Hadlouj. "We will still participate in elections."
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the police officer said the attack was the hallmark of al-Qaida militants who have used suicide bombers, car bombings and coordinated attacks to try to destabilize the country and undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government. Hard-line Sunni extremists see Shiites and those who work with them as heretics.
A wave of deadly bombings and attacks in March prompted Iraqi officials to conclude that al-Qaida's Iraqi branch, known as the Islamic State of Iraq, has been getting stronger. They say rising lawlessness on the Syria-Iraq frontier and cross-border cooperation with the Syrian militant group Nusra Front has improved the militants' supply of weapons and foreign fighters.
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Downtown businesses support breast cancer awareness during 'First Friday'
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Posted on April 6, 2013 at 10:35 AM
SPOKANE , Wash. --? Dozens of businesses come together on the first Friday of the month to show off local artwork, music and food. On Friday, the monthly art tour incorporated cancer awareness.
The downtown partnership asked shoppers to wear pink in support of the Susan G. Komen walk coming later this month and if you wore pink into the OWS Brickwall Photographic Gallery shoppers could receive 10% off their purchase.?
People in the area say they love coming out for First Friday and the focus on breast cancer deepens their appreciation.
Artists say the events also help them get their name out there.
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Source: http://www.krem.com/news/local/Downtown-businesses--201768121.html
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Google Glass The Mirror API - How It Works
Timothy Jordan gave developers at SXSW a sneak peek at the Google Mirror API, which is what they'll use to build services for Glass, and now you can see it as a video. ?What it reveals is that the Mirror API has more structure than you might expect.
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Everyone seems to be as much frightened by Google Glass as they are excited by it, but what of the ways in which we can program it? Surely it is going to be complicated interacting with all that sophisticated design - speech input, speech output, the gesture based UI and so on. Where to start?
The truth of the matter is that the Mirror API only permits a very limited range of interactions with the hardware and the user, but it is probably more than enough for everything but the most radical innovative app that needs to talk directly to the hardware. In brief the Mirror API is based on a simple model that makes it a lot like creating a web app. It is described reasonably well in the video.
Unfortunately 50 minutes to describe a simple API is a bit long and there is a tendency to wander off topic.?After a brief promo for Glass and a discussion of why its all really, really exciting, no mention of scary, we get to an interesting demo of Glass, at around 10 minutes into the video, with an attempt to show what it is like to wear it and use it.
The importance of this section is that it details ?the user interface and how you will be able to interact with with the device. This may not be as impressive as the promo video, but it is much more informative in that it shows Glass taking realistically poor photos and how the user has to swipe and tap at the arm of the glasses to give gesture commands.
The meat of the talk - the API and how it might be used - starts at around 15mins. ?The Mirror REST API is explained in quite a lot of detail including the POST, PUT and GET headers which is perhaps more detail than actually required. Of course, you can use any language that has the ability to work with HTTP on the server and the details of exactly how to issue a POST, PUT or GET vary.?
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The API is surprisingly high level and works in terms of "Timeline" cards. These act like the basic unit of interaction with the Glass user. They work like tiny HTML pages downloaded from the server and displayed via Glass and they? have simple menu options that the user can select via a tap. ?You can insert?cards into the user's information stream in response to a subscription notification and the user can scroll through the timeline with a swipe. ?You can also add services that allow cards, e.g. photos, to be shared to new services so the interaction can be two-way.
All of the processing, interaction and generally clever processing is performed on the application's server, which simply sends new Timeline cards and receives any that are saved to the server. This is the same sort of client-server behavior you find in an Ajax app, only much simplified.?
The full Mirror API gives you nothing more than Timeline cards, menu options on the Timeline cards, share entities and subscriptions and this is all. It is all very simple, but it might be more than enough when you add the built-in services that Glass provides.?
When you add it to the voice input capabilities of Glass and the ability to take photos, things become more interesting. For example, the user could voice dictate a reply to a question or send some voice dictated requests to the server. The user could take a photo, say, in response to a request from the server and then share it and so on.?
The real question that is unanswered at the moment is what else there might be in the API above and beyond the Timeline card?
There probably isn't going to be any deeper level of integration with Glass - no lower level interface that allows you to get at the camera or audio system directly. This isn't unreasonable from the point of view of security. The higher level abstraction that Mirror provides treats Glass as a simple I/O device organized as a sequence of Timeline cards, which is probably enough for most applications.
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Once you have understood the way that Timeline cards provide a two-way communication method between your server and the user it all makes sense. Any real work that your app performs has to be done on the server.
So now you know - what do you think you could do with Glass?
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Source: http://www.i-programmer.info/news/91-hardware/5726-google-glass-the-mirror-api-how-it-works.html
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