Archive for novembre, 2006
Real time traffic overlay
Warning: This post will be french focused!
Following the launch today of a web site providing real time traffic information ( V-Traffic ) I’ve just played a little bit with J2memap and added the ability to overlay these traffic informations.
Seens nice at a first view, but not very accurate in my own town (Bordeaux), [...]
The right business model for mobile data applications!
Three just announced yesterday that they launch a flat rate data offering. This mean unlimited data transfers. A good news for all J2memap users (and others). No need to cache megabytes of data to preserve your subscription!
Technorati Tags: three, flat rate, data
GoogleMap Mobile now support GPS (on one phone?)
Yes, it seems that there is versin available for the “HelioDrift” that support GPS. The news cames from the Google Blog. So applications like J2memap will loose one of their key differenciator in the future. This was expected, but the real issue that GoogleMap (on mobile) is still closed, and does not provide any [...]
Found a great Ruby On Rails hosting provider
After some try , thanks to dennis Baldwin recommendation, I’ve found a great RubyOnRails provider, with a terrific customer service. It’s the first time that I see a customer service answering correctly to emails in less than three minutes (and I mean REAL emails, no robots) even for the basic hosting…
They helped me to [...]
Microsoft answer to Google Earth
Virtual Earth 3D has been released yesterday by Microsoft, and it looks definitively good. There are plenty of analysis and reaction on the web, so I just post a few links here:Google Earth BlogMicrosoft Releaase Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)
The bad thing is that it’s totally linked to IE7, so you need to download it to [...]