Mar 192012
 

App markets are free in the sense that they are usually pre-loaded on mobile phones and other devices, but there is no such thing as a free app market or an app market that only offers applications which are free. There are several app markets, each offering tens of thousands of applications, free and paid ones alike. You may not be so lucky in finding a free app market, but there are more than enough free applications available from Android’s Google Play, Apple’s App Store, among others.

Dropbox, for example, is a free application from Google Play, which is not a free app market. This application allows the user to access as well as transfer files from any computer, as long as it also has Dropbox installed in it. Dropbox is also available to those who have either an iPad or an iPhone.

Another example of a free application that did not come from a free app market would be Triplt. It is from Apple’s app store and works as an organizer on your iPhone for all of the travels that you plan to do, whether it be a business a trip or one for leisure. With this application, it will no longer be necessary to remember important details such as reservations.

Guidelines for mobile ads have been the focus of both the Mobile Marketing Association and the Interactive Advertising Bureau, but they are struggling to keep these guidelines up-to-date because of the frequent changes, brought about by its extremely speedy growth. Continue reading »

Mar 172012
 

Samsung has once again made our dreams of living in a futuristic wonderland one step closer.

Last October the electronics superstar announced that their engineers had made a breakthrough in LED technology. A representative of Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology said they had successfully fabricated “nearly single crystalline Gallium Nitride on amorphous glass substrates”. In other words, they figured out how to make LED screens out of ordinary glass.

That may not sound too impressive; after all glass has been used in the production of TV’s since they were first produced. However it’s all to do with the components that make up the LED screen that makes this discovery so exciting.

Current LED TV’s generally use sapphire substrates (tiny pieces of sapphire) to build an LED screen. A costly process I’m sure you can imagine. What Samsung has discovered is a way to create an LED screen that substitutes sapphire with ordinary glass. The same kind of glass that’s in your windows!

What does this mean for the rest of us common folk? HUGE LED screens, that’s what.

Current Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED TV’s on the market are 2-inches in size. With this new technology GaN LED’s could be as much as 400 times larger! And because they’ll be using glass substrates they’ll be able to lower production costs. Continue reading »