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do whatever you can to be keep yourself
safe, but I don’t let security concerns,
especially when they are just
potential and not a reality, concern me
much.
So, why is Yahoo releasing their
new Fire Eagle feature? It should
be obvious that searches used either
on the web sitting at our desk, or on
mobile devices, can be a great asset.
For example, if bloggers are ranting
about a local election in their town
and a user was seeking local news
about the same upcoming election, it
would be faster and easier to let your
search engine know where you are at
the time you are doing a search for
political news.
Applications for Mobile Devices
One of the reasons Apple has
struck gold with the iPhone is because
they have opened the door for anyone
to create applications for iPhone users
to download. Third party programmers
are starting up left and right,
offering first version applications
for free, or for a low cost, for users
to download and use on the iPhone.
Honestly it is like the first days when
the PC was released and those of us
who were around in the 80’s (man do
I feel old right now) can remember
new companies popping up with neat
new applications to run on our first
computers.
One of the reasons that Google’s
Android is going to give the iPhone a
run for its money is because they also
are opening the door for third party
programmers to create applications
for users to download. It is going to
be interesting to see two companies,
Apple and Google, that a year ago
were trying to muscle their way into
the wireless industry, and now both
seem to be at the beginning stages of
moving us from “smart phones” to a
new era of computing. When the iPhone
first came on the market, I stated
that I believed the biggest mistake
Apple made was calling it a phone,
since it is the beginning of mobile
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