Top Ten Gaming Apps on the iPhone

These are the top ten highest grossing iPhone Apps, and interestingly the first few are created by big gaming companies, like EA.

The Droid: Hype or Happening?

Remember when you were young and dating for the first time? I bet someone, your mom or your dad, or maybe a sister or brother, told you that you should never put your heart out there all at once.

It's best to keep 'em guessing a little bit, showing a little of the greatness you possess, but not all.

Apparently, this strategy works very well with releasing a game-changer phone.

The go-slow, reveal little approach to releasing the Droid seems to have worked well for Verizon.

I'm actually thinking of getting this phone, even though I was left longing when I signed up for the iPhone 2.0 release.

Is this the year for too much hype? Does anyone out there have the Droid? Does it perform well? I like Verizon's call network and data network. I don't think I've ever had a dropped call in the one and half years I have had Verizon service.

What really I want to know about is how does the phone perform on the user level?

iPhone Can Drive Your Car, and Lock It for You

What more can the iPhone do? It can drive your car.

According to this blog post at Fast Company:

What'll it let you do? Navigation, of course. But also remote door locking, vehicle finding, dealer connect, stolen vehicle location, automatic alarm notification, roadside assistance calling, and automatic collision notification (a potentially worrying one--presumably it'll let you know if your partner has pranged your lovely Merc). If that's not enough, there are premium extras that give you location-based weather and traffic info, and a concierge service that lets you book hotels, find stores, make restaurant reservations and so on.

It may look like a phone, act like a phone, and deliver phone calls, but iPhone is not a phone. It's the beginning of the way people will conduct business, life, commerce, and more.

Have Doctors found a Smart Phone They Can Use?

Jeff Brandt sent me a link to this blog posting about the emergence of the Droid phone as a real mobile device tool for doctors.

The comments are interesting. One commenter points out that the rumored Apple tablet device is a game changer and more able to be a doctor's device.

The link is provided by Leonard Kish, who further leads me to this blog post about about the health care internet.

Looks like several blogs are going into the feeder read today.

Tethering Works on the iPhone 3.0

Just follow simple tethering instructions for your iPhone device and you can do what many Windows Mobile people could do for a long time.

This blog will increasingly focus on how wireless devices are used and we plan to go big on this for a forum next year in Las Vegas or Chicago on the use of wireless devices for buildings.

BlackBerry and iPhone Pilgrims May Overload Cell Networks at Inauguration

Are you ready for your photos taken on the National Mall to arrive a few minutes or maybe an hour late? The million or so people using their cell phones to track the inauguration will put a burden on the cell providers, says a story at the International Herald Tribune.

The largest cellphone carriers, fearful that a communicative citizenry will overwhelm their networks, have taken the unusual step of asking people to limit their phone calls and to delay sending photos. The carriers are also spending millions of dollars to temporarily and substantially upgrade their networks in Washington.

Dropped calls, lost photos or delayed text messages are always a risk during spikes from sporting events and concerts. People often feel compelled to share these events with others, and that takes bandwidth.

Cellphone cameras are taking better pictures all the time, and sending those high-resolution images quickly floods the airwaves. The Obama crowd — which could exceed two million — is expected to be mostly young, just the group accustomed to staying in touch by uploading photos, blog posts and tweets on Twitter.

For those coming to pay homage to the BlackBerry-toting president, the inauguration has the potential to be a wireless Woodstock. If, that is, the networks can handle it.

"If some of these estimates come true, people should anticipate delays with regards to sending text messages or making phone calls or getting onto the Internet," said Joe Farren, spokesman for the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, an industry trade group. It has asked people to send texts rather than make phone calls (text uses less bandwidth than speech) and to send photos only after the event.