ETech Mobile: Android, iPhone Hacking, Reality Mining, Mobile Africa
Date : 01 25 2008 Category : Web
O'Reilly Network Articles and WeblogsMobile is alive at ETech this year. While it was never explictly requested in the CFP many varied and interesting mobile talks came through the pipes. Here are some of them:
Connecting Your Life to the Web, with Android - Dan Morrill (Google)
By now, everybody understands the web. However, for most people today the web is something you go to and not something that goes with you. With Android, the Open Handset Alliance aims to extend the web to you - wherever you are - not just your desktop. Android will let developers build applications that don’t just go with you, but become part of your lives. We’ll introduce the Android platform, and show a few examples of applications that fit into your life so naturally you’ll wonder how you ever got along without them.
iPhone Software Development: Past, Present, Future - Nate True
The presentation will begin with a brief history of hacking the iPhone, from the first jailbreak to remote shell to Installer and onward. Then we will examine the recently released iPhone SDK, and analyze its utility and potential. Finally, we will go through the process of creating a typical iPhone application using the SDK, and explore a few tricks to make the most out of the iPhone’s capabilities.
Reality Mining: Inference in Complex Social Systems via the Mobile Phone - Nathan Eagle (MIT)
Nathan Eagle has used mobile phones to continuously gather information including proximity, location, and communication from 100 human subjects at MIT. Systematic measurements from these people over the course of nine months have generated one of the largest dataset of continuous human behavior ever collected, representing over 300,000 hours of daily activity. Additionally, in collaboration with one of Europe’s major telecommunication companies, Eagle is currently analyzing the call logs of an entire country—a dynamic social network consisting of 250 million nodes (people) and 12 billion temporal edges (calls).
The Case for Africa as a Mobile Development Hothouse - Joel Selanikio (The DataDyne Group)
Africa is leading the world in year-over-year growth in mobile penetration, and other parts of the developing world are close behind. Most of the people who are now gaining access to cell communications and Internet via cell phones have no other method to access the Internet: their paradigm for Internet use involves mobile devices and small screens, unlike developed country users that generally use cell phones for voice calling, with Internet access being an occasional activity.
Early registration ends Monday, January 28th. Use the following code: et08rdr for a 20% discount. ETech is March 3rd to the 6th in San Diego, CA.