Asus Eee Pad Transformer

Digital Heritage and Mobile Technology

The Italian Ministry of Culture (MiBAC) has launched a stylish app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch (see here). Apart from an online guide there is a facility to buy a virtual ticket for the top tourist attraction in Rome.

That iPad is looking even more expensive.....

India Express has a story about a tablet PC that the Indian Human Resource Development Ministry hope will eventually sell for just $10! Sketchy details so far but it look interesting. I wonder if BECTA could come up with something like that? Oh no, the just been abolished.

Google App Inventor. So easy a cat can do it?

According to Google, the Google App Inventor is built on the idea that you do not need to be a developer to build great mobile applications. Instead of code, App Inventor allows you to visually design applications and use blocks to specify application logic.

Use the GPS-location sensor to build location aware apps
For example, build an app to help you remember where you parked your car.

Make your apps communicate by using the phone functionality
For example, build an app that periodically texts "missing you" to your loved ones.

Integrate with the web to build mashup applications
For example, build an app that talks to your favorite website like Twitter.



Will Apple make things as open? How will this affect the apps market?
More from appinventor.googlelabs.com

For Flash get Frash: How to get Flash on your iHype

"Frash is a port of the Adobe Flash runtime for Android to the iPhone, using a compatibility layer, by comex ( http://twitter.com/comex ). Frash can currently run most Flash programs natively in the MobileSafari browser. Frash currently only runs on the iPad, but support for other devices (3GS+ only due to technical restrictions) is planned, as well as support for iOS 4."

iPad, schmipdad

Surely you want one of these? It looks as though it's based on an idea for the XO-2 from the One Laptop per Child XO project

It has USB, SD, Flash.....