real world

PayPal payments coming to a non-virtual store near you

Digg / Tech Industry News  Sat, 01/21/2012 - 05:32

Not content with having conquered online payments, PayPal is expanding into real-world stores. The online e-commerce company has decided to expand by allowing shoppers to pay with its service in mo...


 

Browsing Breakthrough: Aurasma Augmented Reality App

InformationWeek Internet News  Tue, 01/10/2012 - 12:01

With a simple smartphone camera and Aurasma's free app (iPhone and Android), you can get video layered onto real world images.


 

A URL shortener in a couple of hours - Stefan Koopmanschap

Planet PHP  Fri, 10/14/2011 - 07:06

I have been aware of Silex for a while as a nice microframework based on Symfony2, and have looked into it a couple of times to see if it would be useful for a project.

So far though, the projects I was working on seemed to need more than just Silex, so I picked Symfony2 instead.

This morning, I decided to dig into Silex a bit more with a real-world project I still wanted to develop myself: A URL shortener.


 

AT&T's LTE network in the real world

Digg / Tech Industry News  Mon, 09/19/2011 - 09:05

That spectrum shortage isn't stopping AT&T's newly launched LTE network for delivering some smoking speeds according to tests out from Signals Research this weekend.

AT&T, which launched LTE in in five cities Sunday delivered LTE speeds averaging 23.6 Mbps down and 15.2 Mbps up.


 

How to create a Google Chrome Extension - For Beginners - Basics...

Linux Today  Wed, 08/10/2011 - 14:01

Ubuntu Manual: "Last time we made a basic "hello world" chrome extension. This time we will be going to the innards of a real world Google Chrome extension to see how things will work in real time."


 

5 real-world uses of big data

Digg / Tech Industry News  Sun, 07/17/2011 - 08:15

The explosion of “big data”--much of it in complex and unstructured formats--has presented companies with a tremendous opportunity to leverage their data for better business insights through analytics.

Here are examples of how big data analysis occurs in the real world.


 

Here comes the Chromebooks

Linux Today  Fri, 05/27/2011 - 14:13

Linux and Open Source: "In about three weeks, we can stop talking about how Chromebooks-light-weight laptops running Google's Chrome OS-might, or might not, work in the real world because we'll get our hands on the first two models: the Samsung Series 5 and the Acer Wi-Fi Chromebook."


 

Google’s Plan to Take Android Everywhere

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 05/11/2011 - 07:41

Google wants to connect all your devices to the Android ecosystem and then expose their functionality to app developers.

Apps to control your light, wash your dishes and even grow your vegetables in your in-house garden are just part of a bigger plan of real-world domination.


 

LinuxPR: Solve shell scripting problems using Packt's new Linux ...

Linux Today  Sun, 03/06/2011 - 01:02

LinuxPR: Solve real-world shell scripting problems with over 110 simple but incredibly effective recipes


 

Sven Eisenschmidt's Blog: Symfony2 Tips

PHPDeveloper.org  Thu, 02/17/2011 - 12:07

Sven Eisenschmidt has put together a site that want to help beginners with the Symfony2 framework get up to speed quickly with some handy tips and tricks they can use in their development.

Some of the tips listed so far include: