Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced that they are handing off Google Wave to the open source community. This is because Google decided to end development of Google Wave as a standalone product.
The Google Wave team will expand on the 200,000+ lines of code that went into the product and detailed on the website waveprotocol.org. The open source project will be known as “Wave in a Box.”
The Wave in a Box project will have an application bundle that includes server and web clients that support real-time collaboration. Threaded conversations will be supported in the Wave in a Box application. Wave in a Box has gadget, robot, and data API support. Wave data can be imported from wave.google.com.
The open source project will not have the same functionality as Google Wave, but developers will have the ability to run wave servers and host waves on their own servers.
[Google Wave Blog]
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 TUAW recently unveiled a product design by Griffin that could change the way you think about gaming on the iPhone or iPad. The FCC has released the exciting filing that would allow up to 4 people to simultaneously play in an individual setting. Sounds cool, right?
Griffin will send 4 games along with the PartyDock that will will include party, family and casual styles of entertainment. The games will be available in the App Store and would be designed to be ran specifically with aforementioned platform. Head over to the product site for additional info including development. Read More
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Apple’s been slapped with many lawsuits for overheating products in the past, but over in Asia, iPhone owners are finding out the hard way that 95 per cent humidity isn’t the best treatment for the temperature-uncomfortable phones.
The South China Morning Post yesterday commented on the ever-increasing cases of iPhone owners having issues with voided warranties due to water damage, saying that Asian message boards are populated with stories from those who found their iPhone’s liquid indicators were affected by humidity.
Indeed, it appears even in the US there have been problems with positive readings on the iPhone’s moisture indicators, with one woman filing a class action suit earlier in the year.
While Apple’s website says the indicators, located in the headphone jack and base of an iPhone, “are designed not to be triggered by humidity and temperature changes that are within the product’s environmental requirements described by Apple,” it could be that Asian countries that see above 95 per cent humidity just aren’t suited to iPhones.
Drawing on the example of Hong Kong resident Justin Hayward, the SCMP paper quoted him as saying “If the limitation is over 95 per cent humidity, they ought not to be selling the product here. I find it quite unbelievable—a real piece of corporate greed or a great oversight.”
While his network agreed to replace the iPhone for a fee, Hayward is staying strong and sticking by his claim that he hasn’t done anything to void the warranty—and that Apple should be testing them more thoroughly in places of high humidity.
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 It seems like I can’t quit writing about Best Buy today. First there was that possibility of that Rocketfish tablet, then what they are doing to prepare for the tablet PC overload this holiday season. And I thought Future Shop was the only major retailer to get online today.
In fact, I can’t help but wonder if Best Buy and Future Shop are related, as their Press Release looks so much alike and offer the exact same features. I might be betraying some serious ignorance here, but as I stated in another post I wrote today, I’m not Canadian.
Needless to say, Best Buy has come to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad devices. It is apparently the first of its kind from a Canadian retailer.
This will allow consumers to browse and search the entire catalog, as well as get enlarged views, reviews, and ratings. You can find out more information on the official Press Release after the jump.
Best Buy Launches iPhone App – One of the first Canadian Retailers to Offer an App for Mobile Shopping
Canadians can get instant access to all Best Buy products and latest deals with a touch of a button
August 23, 2010 @ 08:30AM
BURNABY, BC – Best Buy, Canada’s most popular retailer and e-tailer of consumer electronics, computers and entertainment products, announced today its free mobile app is now available to download onto iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad devices. The app is one of the first of its kind from a Canadian retailer: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/best-buy-canada/id386960831?mt=8
Consumers can browse and accurately search the entire catalogue as well as dive deeper into each product through ratings, reviews and enlarged views. Shopping for favourite items is made easier by the Mobile Checkout’s “Ship to Home” feature. Additionally, the Store Locator feature with geo-location allows users across Canada to find the stores closest to them.
Features of the Best Buy iPhone App:
* Customer rating
* Customer reviews
* Product specification
* Social sharing (Twitter, Facebook, email to a friend)
* Product Browse
* Product Search
* On Sale Items
* Store Locator (w/ Geo-location)
* Favorites
* Product Purchase via mobile checkout with Secure Product purchase via mobile checkout (Ship to Home)
For more information on the Best Buy app, please visit: http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/iphone-app.aspx
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 So BGR‘s got a tipster lined up with alleged details from within iOS 4 beta firmware that shows a section dedicated to bypassing the usual iTunes activation scheme for three new product codes: iPhone3,2, iPhone 3,3, and iProd 2,1. Actually, these product codes aren’t “new,” per se; we saw all three of them in the iPad’s firmware back in April, but they’ve yet to make the giant leap to officialdom. What’s different here, then? Well, apparently, this activation-bypass scheme has historically had a tendency to show up in Apple’s beta firmware right around the time a new iPhone goes into testing — ostensibly so that field engineers don’t need to worry about that rigmarole to do their jobs — which suggests that these new models are getting ready for action. BGR‘s source says these will be the CDMA iPhone and the next-gen iPad, though you can’t tell that from the product codes alone, and that doesn’t explain why we’ve actually got two new iPhones listed. For what it’s worth, the current iPad — iPad1,1 — used to go by the moniker iProd1,1 in firmware, so it stands to reason that we really are looking at a new tablet here. Now if you’ll excuse us, we’ve got some Verizon Wireless field tech van recon to do.
New iPhone, iPad model codes set up for iTunes activation bypass — CDMA versions, maybe? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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