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[|AUTOmobile Media]

This concept is really taking MOBILE media to the next level. Someone wired a car to be synced with their iphone so the windshield serves as the phone screen. A new way to watch movies, news, youtube videos on a big screen wherever your car may take you. Pretty amazing if they could get it to work for a long period of time. This allows those with iphones to view anything from their car. It did not show viewing an actual video but none the less pretty ridiculous things people are able to do.

Posted By: Sahna McClure

[|Fast Society]

Spring Break season is here! Many college students are going to travel to places where they can release some stress and enjoy life with their college friends. Fast Society is an application for iPhones and Androids for those party and concert goers. This app helps users maintain contact with your friends on a day out in town. You can create a team for any type of scenario, if you are going with a group of friends to a concert like Coachella, spring break or to party downtown. The users are able to share their location, conversations, and pictures with their team members only. Many say this will help track down the friend who is left behind from the group. Their team will able to track them down by their last check in. It allows you to do a conference call with your team or simply record a message. You can see it as a digital scrapbook that you can refer back to after a day of partying

Posted By: Alei Cano

= Never pay for a text to a U.S. number again with [|HeyWire] = HeyWire is a Boston based startup company that is a social communications hub for users worldwide. It is a free, ad based texting app that allows users to contact anyone in the U.S. with a +1 phone number, or that has their own HeyWire account. Users must download the app and HeyWire will assign them with their own U.S. +1 phone number, and right away, users can use that number, over an internet connection, to text with anyone within the U.S., skipping international fees. HeyWire has made this possible by enabling IP and SS7 to interact with each other. SS7 is the way mobile operators send text messages, and IP is Internet Protocal. HeyWire simply laid an IP architecture over the SS7 to send international messages. The app is supported through in app purchases, and users have the options of buying out the advertising within the app for a yearly fee. HeyWire launched in September 2010, and is ranked in the top 20 social networking apps for iOS on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. They launched an app on Android in January and are one of the only texting apps on Android that includes Facebook chat.

Posted By Christy Chierichetti



**=** A "Friendly" Case That Charges Your IPhone [|article] **=**

i-Phones now have a case which allows phones to be charged on the go! Developed by Concord Keystone, "AmigoCase" integrates a backup battery with an iPhone case, allowing users to recharge their iPhone while on the run. The device charges when it's in the case, and a convenient "pivoting" hinge can lock in place, ensuring the phone won't accidentally slip out. To remove it, you just give it a flick. The case costs $80 and weighs about 3.7 ounces. It is proven to add an extra 7.5 hours of talk time or a little over eight days of standby.

Posted By Alexis Stein



= ** Trying to Quit Smoking? Try Annoying Text Messages [|Article] ** = A recent study has found that a constant stream of text messages may help eliminate "unwanted behaviors." This is said to be a cost effective way to provide people with "constant and critical support" that can lead to a healthier lifestyle. Since a large amount of people who own cell and smart phones with the ability to receive and send text messages, this study has high hopes of positively affecting millions with bad habits. Although the theory of Technological Determinism is not seen as a valid theory by most professionals, this study does show that technology is changing human behavior. From being able to quit smoking to over-eating, researchers have been able to use text messages and technology to decrease many unwanted behaviors.

Posted By Angela Ibarra

How Accurate Is Your Smartphone's GPS?__Article__
A new application called Shopkick is claiming that the GPS in most smartphone's is not very reliable. Based on their new app which has a sound inaudible to humans that goes off when users check into Shopkick-enabled locations claim they're more accurate then apps such as Foursquare. Shopkick compared the check-ins based on the users GPS location versus where their app located them on a map and the results were different. Some GPS devices were checking people in 1000's of feet away. The concern surrounds the deals that are given to users who accumulate points and mayorships even if they're not actually at the business when they check-in.

Posted By: Rachael Phillips 3/10/11

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