According to an as yet unreleased white paper by the DASH7 Alliance, enhanced loyalty programs could be the next big thing. With a DASH7-enabled phone, the white paper states, "a user could set his or her preferences in the Foursquare or Gowalla application that would allow the user to be automatically "discovered" or "checked in" at the coffee shop/restaurant/gun store/etc. and thereby accrue loyalty points passively, i.e. by just being "in" the establishment, rather than requiring active/conscious user behavior to participate in the program.

Here, in handy bullet point form, are all the things you need to know about iPhone OS 4.0

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After talking with several inside sources familiar with the matter, I would like to report that every Android phone currently released in the United States will be receiving an upgrade to Android 2.1.

Here is a GPU comparison for some of the leading smartphones: Motorola Droid: TI OMAP3430 with PowerVR SGX530 = 7 million(?) triangles/sec Nexus One: Qualcomm QSD8×50 with Adreno 200 = 22 million triangles/sec iPhone 3G S: 600 MHz Cortex-A8 with PowerVR SGX535 = 28 million triangles/sec Samsung Galaxy S: S5PC110 with PowerVR SGX540 = 90 million triangles/sec

A legal assault by Apple Inc. hasn’t cooled any of the fervor among makers of mobile phones for Google Inc.’s Android operating system.

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U360mobile is an iPhone App for your school. U360mobile engages incoming students, current students, alumni, and fans.

The magazine is launching an application that looks like a fun shopping and styling tool but is actually a savvy way to connect the magazine and its advertisers directly with readers' wallets.

Our presentation was titled “Mobile Application Stores – State Of Play” and highlights some of our findings on the six largest device manufacturer stores; Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

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we have decided to license our barcode scanning libraries for iPhone and Android at no cost.

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Researcher Gaetano Borriello won the three-year grant, which includes $900,000 up front and $450,000 per year. An engineer from the company will work directly with Borriello. His project is called "Open Data: Data Collection from Mobile Devices."

Open Data Kit (ODK) is a suite of tools to help organizations collect, aggregate and visualize their data.

BUG gives you all the tools you need to build your dream gadget -- a collection of electronic modules you can easily snap together and program to make any device you want. Best of all, it's open source.

I asked some of my personal heroes in mobile to write down their five most significant trends for the coming decade.