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- The 5 Best Features Of The HTC EVO 4G
- Producteev Two: The Task Management Service I've Been Longing For
- AdMob Rolls Out iPad SDK; Praises 'Creative Potential' Of HTML5
| The 5 Best Features Of The HTC EVO 4G | Top |
| The EVO 4G is a great phone with the notable drawback of its short battery life. But apparently a lot of you don't care judging by the comments on my full review . Fine by me. Even though it doesn't have the battery strength to make it through a day of moderate to heavy usage, there are still some serious advantages to this phone over others. Enough so that some buyers are probably going to camp out their Sprint Store this Friday. Here's my top five favorite features so far, including a few I didn't touch on at all in my review . | |
| Producteev Two: The Task Management Service I've Been Longing For | Top |
| I’m one of the worst ‘task managers’ you’ll ever meet. There are thousands of services out there that would make my life way easier, that I either don’t know about or that are too complex or too simple for my taste and needs. So when I got pitched by an entrepreneur in between sessions at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt conference about a “new breakthrough cross-platform task management product”, I was skeptical. Five minutes later, I was sold . Enter Producteev , which is launching said new product – dubbed Producteev Two – today. Here’s what I love about it: Producteev Two lets users capture tasks, email-based action items or schedule deadlines using whatever communication channel they prefer . The product, which is free for up to 3 individual users, connects to a myriad of popular communication tools, including IM services like Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger as well as Twitter and Facebook. No longer need I feel forced to visit a web application to save and manage tasks, unless I choose to do so. I can simply send a custom message to a dedicated email address, or quickly open a Gtalk IM window inside my Gmail account to create or assign tasks, and get notifications back through the channels of my choosing. Better yet, a proper Gmail Gadget plugs directly into Producteev Two so I can now quickly check and manage important tasks straight from my Gmail interface, which I tend to have open at all times anyway. There’s also one for iGoogle. Just great. There’s even some sort of social gaming aspect to the product. One feature, Producteev Academy, enables users to win badges for different activities, such as completing the most tasks. Don’t worry: it can be turned off. In addition, the company this morning announced the launch of Producteev Two for the iPhone, which is also free. The mobile app works offline, syncs in the background when the user goes back online and supports push notifications. It’s currently being reviewed by Apple’s team of app scrutinizers, but should be available soon (screenshots below). On Producteev’s roadmap: a desktop client for Mac, which will be available later this month, and an API. Amazing stuff for a company that’s raised less than $1 million in early-stage funding. CrunchBase Information Producteev Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| AdMob Rolls Out iPad SDK; Praises 'Creative Potential' Of HTML5 | Top |
| Fresh off the closure of its acquisition by Google, mobile ad network AdMob is officially launching an iPad-specific SDK to allow app developers to use the network’s ads within their apps. The SDK was previously in beta but is now available to the public. AdMob says that the SDK is unified across all devices running the iPhone OS, which makes it much easier for developers, who can can download one binary for development across all Apple iPhone OS devices – iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The new also SDK supports two ad formats in native iPad applications: text & tile ads and image ads. Both of these ad formats are available in the three IAB standard ad sizes: 300×250, 728×90, and 468×60. AdMob has already signed on advertisers to create advertising campaigns for the iPad; currently Amazon.com is currently running a campaign promoting their Kindle for iPad app. AdMob is relatively late to roll out a iPad-specific SDK, competitors Millennial Media , Medialets , Mobclix, and Greystripe have all created ad formats for the device. The network is also praising the “creative potential of iPad ads using HTML5,” even building demos of ads using HTML5 technology, which rivals Flash, to show off the innovative formats. This is interesting considering the whole Apple-Flash war, tablet battles and where AdMob’s parent company Google falls into this. At Google I/O conference a few weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt seemed to position the search giant as Flash’s friend. Of course, it should also be interesting to see if the rumored Google tablet will support Flash and if AdMob will change its tune if this is the case. CrunchBase Information AdMob Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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