
Event Description:
Near Field Communications (NFC), Geo-location services, and augmented reality (AR) are disrupting the consumer shopping experience while increasing sales and margins for brick and mortar retailers.
Putting interested buyers in front of relevant shelves at local stores is a huge monetizable opportunity for mobile platforms. 400,000 new Android devices are enabled each day, 60-70M phones are shipping with NFC this year alone and 15% of Tier 1 retailers are integrating mobile e-commerce platforms. Come discover how start ups in mobile are making shopping a whole lot smarter.
The panel will discuss a whole host of challenges and opportunities in the mobile retail space including:
What’s difficult to imagine, however, is how Microsoft can build its developer base of Kinect coders when there seems to be little financial incentive for them to join. As the online zine Make points out, Microsoft’s developer agreement terms essentially state “you can’t start a business, make money, sell services or consulting” using the SDK.
“Under the terms of the license for this SDK Beta, you cannot deploy applications created with the SDK Beta for use in your business operations,” according to the Non-Commercial Use terms Microsoft makes developers agree to. “Even if no fee is charged or received in connection with such use, such use in a business is still a commercial use and is not permitted under the SDK Beta license.”
This is arguably one of the biggest stumbling blocks for Android, which is being beaten out by iOS in terms of making developers more money.
Still, the impetus for Microsoft’s SDK release began with amateur coders creating homebrewed hacks with the Kinect for the fun of it. If opening up the SDK leads to more of this, Kinect’s platform could grow much larger.
Of course, Microsoft’s SDK release is initially available to Windows 7 developers only.
http://mobilemonopolyexposed.net/microsoft-releases-xbox-kinect-sdk-hackers-get-to-work/

Location finding property uses functions that supplied by Android via GPS, via A-GPS or via base-station triangulation. “Google Maps” used as the main map service; in the geocoding and reverse geocoding part, high modularity is kept prior mission that let the other services except “Google Maps” would be implemented easily. Php an MySql are used to create web service that evaluates current and destination location parameters, and replies a route list response to mobile application.
(via http://slideme.org/application/yol-arkada%C5%9F%C4%B1m-demo)
Via Desigboom (via http://dvice.com/archives/2011/06/french-city-lay.php )

