Attentive Phone: Smart Features Every Phone Should Have

Even before Microsoft worked out a reported $1 billion deal with Nokia, I decided to make a small investment of my own by purchasing a secondhand HTC HD7 last month. I’m enjoying the Xbox Live integration and games as well as some of the top-tier apps, even if I do find several shortcomings with Microsoft’s platform. The latest was the inability to connect to a hidden Wi-Fi network this past weekend, a smartphone must-have for consumers, and even more so for enterprise users. But I also found another must-have that’s only available for Windows Phone 7: it’s called Attentive Phone.
The application, an HTC-developed exclusive, only does four things, but its simplicity and usefulness makes it a must-try for any Windows Phone 7 owner with an HTC handset. Here’s what it offers:

• Quiet ringer on pickup: reduces the ringer volume if you move the phone as a call is being received.
• Pocket Mode: increases ringer volume if the handset is in a pocket or bag.
• Flip for speaker: activates speakerphone mode when turning the phone over on its face when in a call.
• Flip to mute ringer: turning the phone over on its face silences the phone ringer during an incoming call.

Perhaps I’m easily impressed these days, but when you think about it, nearly any smartphone today could offer these useful functions, leveraging the internal sensors that fill handsets today. The software knows when the phone is in motion by monitoring either a gyroscope or accelerometer, for example. And that little proximity sensor that disables the touchscreen when you bring your phone to your face could be useful, too. That same sensor can tell when you’ve flipped the phone over, for example. Finally, ambient light sensors can detect when the phone’s in a purse or bag.
Om made note of these “smart” functions in November when he pondered the question, “Can Mobile Phones Think?” Back then, he pointed out a piece of Nokia software similar to Attentive Phone, called Nokia Situations. It, too, offered smart features such as the ability to intelligently modify ringtones based on a particular scenario, and the ability to auto-reply to missed calls via SMS. On the Android side of things, I’ve used similar apps that I can recommend: Tasker and Locale are both worth a look, although Tasker relies more on the user to configure when and where automated functions are triggered.
Regardless of the platform or handset, maybe it’s time these types of functions should become native to our handheld devices. After all, the sensors that enable these smarter features are, in most cases, already there. While I may be too far ahead of the curve by thinking our smartphones are capable of ushering in an era of home robotics, it’s hard to argue against simple software that can make our smartphones even smarter.

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Black Duck Introduces Android Fast Start Program

As the Google Android platform has become red hot for developers, Black Duck Software has launched an Android Fast Start program, a bundled software and service offering designed to help Android developers get started with Android development.

Black Duck officials said Android Fast Start helps to automate and ensure compliance and simplify the operational challenges of managing Android projects. Android Fast Start saves months of ramp-up time, provides ongoing cost and time savings with timely updates for future Android releases, and enables development organizations to ship with confidence they are in compliance with company policies and legal obligations, Black Duck said.

“Android has rapidly become a leading platform for mobile innovation by offering developers rich, varied and flexible components. Innovation is made possible by rapid enhancements and significant releases, which require management and control,” said Bill McQuaide, executive vice president of products and strategy at Black Duck. “We believe Android Fast Start is an essential tool for developers in the Android device ecosystem who want to ramp up quickly while reducing the operational and compliance challenges related to developing for this platform.”

McQuaide explains that Android is a complex open-source project made up of more than 165 components, 80,000 files and 2GB of code under 19 different licenses. The code base evolves rapidly, with many developers and companies contributing on a regular basis. Android Fast Start provides visibility and control of Android, simplifies change management and ensures and automates compliance.

Black Duck Android Fast Start includes a custom configured version of the Black Duck Suite, the company’s platform for management and governance of open-source software in a multisource development process, populated with detailed Android component information. In addition, customers also receive expert “Android-Ready” Professional Services for rapid deployment, integration and configuration of the solution in their environment, including build-system integration and customized workflows.

Benefits of Android Fast Start include enabling development teams to:

·         Instantly implement an “out-of-the-box” management and compliance platform, prepopulated with Android, saving months of ramp-up time.

·         Easily assimilate changes in frequent releases of Android (occurring roughly every three months).

·         Increase the efficiency of supply-chain logistics by providing ecosystem partners with detailed reports on the composition of Android-based software.

·         Ship with confidence by simplifying and automating the operational and compliance challenges of using an open source platform with over 165 components and 19 licenses, not all OSI-approved.

Android is growing in popularity as a mobile development platform; it captured 55 percent of new FOSS mobile projects in 2010, according to a recent Black Duck study. For more details on Android Fast Start, visit www.blackducksoftware.com/android.

The Black Duck study of trends in mobile open-source development platform choices show Android leading the pack but Apple iOS still in the game.
Analyzing data from the almost 9,000 mobile free and open-source software projects contained in the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, Black Duck found that of 3,800 new mobile projects started in 2010, the open-source Android leads as the platform of choice with 55 percent of the total. Apple’s iOS is a close second with 39 percent, and other platforms had a 2 percent or lower share of new projects. While Android is open, iOS is not, indicating that FOSS developers support the most popular platforms, regardless of their openness. Beyond the two leading platforms, Windows, Palm and Symbian have two percent or less of new projects and MeeGo has only a handful, Black Duck said.
The number of FOSS mobile projects started in 2010 doubled from the previous year. The increase is attributable to the increased popularity of FOSS for mobile and the explosion of FOSS projects for mobile apps and games (particularly in Android, but for iOS as well.)
“Mobile software has the full and focused attention of commercial and FOSS development communities,” said Peter Vescuso, another executive vice president at Black Duck, in a statement. “As mobile apps displace desktop applications and mobile devices displace laptops and desktops we expect to see broad commercial developer interest in the top mobile development platforms, as well as consolidation in the number of platforms that draw developer support.”
Moreover, the Black duck study showed that not all new FOSS mobile projects are developed for a specific platform, and some, but not all, are written for multiple platforms. While many mobile projects have large code bases (such as Android), a distinct trend in the 2010 results was the growth of apps, particularly smaller custom applications. Examples include a number of transit-related (bus, train) projects from around the world (Sri Lanka, Trondheim Norway, Germany, Spanish Railways), and the US (Seattle, Lafayette Louisiana, Massachusetts (MassRoute)). In addition, projects created for single events are on the increase, e.g. an application in support of an Agile Development conference in Italy https://github.com/iliasbartolini/AgileDayConferenceApp. These and other small projects are made possible by the rapid development environments of top mobile platforms.
The Black Duck study also indicated that many of 2010’s new mobile projects did not declare a license. Of those that did, the most popular were the GPL (all versions), MIT, Apache, BSD and Microsoft.
"Black Duck's latest metrics concerning open-source traction in mobile development confirm the importance of market opportunity for developer traction," said Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst at RedMonk, in a statement. "In concentrating on the Android and iOS platforms, developers are advantaging two differentiated platforms. While Android may be open source and iOS closed, they are both volume platforms, which indicates that developer pragmatism is alive and well."

Grid2Home Raises $2.6M for the Open Smart Grid

The open smart grid is here, and players are emerging to build applications and services on top of it. The latest is Grid2Home, which makes smart grid software based on open standards and launched last September, and according to a filing this morning, has raised $2.6 million of a planned $3.1 million round.
Grid2Home’s execs have deep roots in the wireless world — from Qualcomm to Texas Instruments — and have approached the smart grid in much the same way as a traditional wireless network software company would. The company makes a software platform that can be used by developers to connect various devices across numerous smart grid networks, and Grid2Home licenses the software to chip companies, smart energy device makers, electric vehicle charging companies and car companies.
That type of startup, which builds tools for developers based on standard network technology, is pretty typical in the Internet and mobile ecosystems, but somewhat rare for the smart grid world. Their ramp up means, despite the nascent stage of the smart grid industry, that startups are betting the smart grid will have the same type of open standards and innovation as the Internet. I expect to see more startups emerge making the same bet over the next few years.
One of the key indicators that IP and open standards could be the future of the power grid network emerged back when Cisco bought wireless network company Arch Rock, a startup that called itself the first completely open standard networking option for the smart grid (see Why Cisco Could Reach An End to End Smart Grid Network First, on GigaOM Pro, subscription required). Cisco has emphasized an IP smart grid, and specifically one based on the latest IP numbering systems IPV6.
Of course, pioneer Silver Spring Networks has done the heavy lifting for building an IP-based smart grid over the past eight years, and now faces some competition from Cisco, which also recently announced a partnership with smart meter maker Itron.
Previous investors in GRid2Home include Granite Ventures.
For more research on demand response and the smart grid check out GigaOM Pro (subscription required):

• Why Cisco Could Reach An End to End Smart Grid Network First
• An Open Source Smart Grid Primer
• Smart algorithms, the future of the energy industry

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Android beating Blackberry in operating market

Google's Android mobile software grabbed the lead in popularity over Research in Motion's Blackberry system, according to the latest industry statistics released Tuesday.
Google's Android is outperforming RIM's Blackberry in the mobile operating system market. (CBC) StatCounter.com, an online statistical service, said Android held a 15.2 per cent share of the mobile operating system market in the second month of 2011.
The improvement gave the Google-owned software company a small lead over RIM's older Blackberry system, which held a 14.5 per cent slice of the global market in the same month.
Android's monthly gain represented the first time the newer company had surpassed Blackberry in market share, StatCounter said.
Android's lead over RIM was even bigger in the crucial North American market, where the Google system held a 26.4 per cent in February versus Blackberry's 22.2 per cent.

Bigger jump

More ominously, Android's gains show the technology upstart gaining speed in the rapidly growing mobile market.
"The momentum is certainly with Android, which has almost tripled its market share over the last 12 months from 5.4 per cent to 15.2 per cent," said Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter's chief executive officer.
Globally, Nokia's Symbian system holds the largest share of the mobile software market at 30.7 per cent while Apple Inc.'s iOS offering locked down the No. 2 spot worldwide at 24.6 per cent.
Interestingly, the Apple operating system has lost more than nine percentage points in market share in the global market during the past 12 months Cullen noted.