Cool Ideas – Smartphone Hardware Accessories/Appliances
Looking for ideas for accessories for mobile devices/apps – these sites may provide some prototype platforms and ideas:


CY8CKIT-023 PSoC® Expansion Board Kit For iPhone & iPod Accessories

Vinod’s 12 “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile
- Data Reduction or Filters: “Reducing, filtering and processing data streams to deliver the information or action that is relevant to you.”
- Big data or Analytics: “Analyzing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data to deliver unique services or analysis.”
- Emotion: “Services that evoke strong emotions in users.”
- Education 2.0 : “Education models that dramatically reduce the cost and increase the availability of quality learning.”
- TV 2.0 : “TV as an interactive and social experience both on the primary and the second screen.”
- Social Next : “Social as a useful and productive part of lives—enabling collaboration and deep community building around the world in specific areas.”
- Interest-based networks: “User driven content that maps to people’s interests both for a better user experience and better targeting.”
- Health 2.0 : “Exponentially growing data will yield personalized lifestyle suggestions, improved outcomes, predictive diagnostics and applications we can’t imagine.”
- Internet of Things/Universal ID/NFC/Smart sensors: “Sensors and authentication technologies which will interconnect everything and remake our interaction with the world around us.”
- Personal Collaborative Publishing : “Truly free press with no barriers to entry and personalized interest-based curation.”
- Utility Apps: “Leverage device ubiquity and context to deliver valuable services.”
- Marketplaces & Disintermediation : “Remove the middle man, increase market efficiency and produce better results, faster.“
Ref: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/19/unhyped-internet-and-mobile/
Schwartz’s Deli – Montreal
After more then 20 years of hearing Montreal friends and associates tell me of the greatness that is “Schwartz’s Deli” - I finally visited it today. It was a trip that should have taken 5 hours but ended up taking almost 8 after waiting in line to get into Schwartz’s and Montreal traffic.
It was a long way to drive for a smoked meat sandwich… but I have to admit it was the best smoked meat sandwich I have had!
If you are ever in Montreal and you like smoked meat, make the time to stop by - 3895 Saint-Laurent Boulevard · Montreal, Quebec
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Mobile App Companies in the Ottawa Region
Reblogged from Brian Hurley's Blog:
There has been a lot of interest in the mobile app development cluster in Ottawa. I recently took an inventory of companies in Ottawa who were developing mobile apps or mobile related software. The current list of companies I found is below:
- Purple Forge – Community Engagement Solutions – iPhone
Zeebu Mobile – Children’s Games – RIM, iPhone- inactive…


February 26, 2012





