Apple iPhone owners in Australia have reported that their smartphones have been infected by a worm that has changed their wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop crooner Rick Astley.
The worm, which could have spread to other countries, is capable of breaking into jailbroken iPhones if their owners have not changed the default password after installing SSH. Once in place, the worm appears to attempt to find other iPhones on the mobile phone network that are similarly vulnerable, and installs itself again (via First iPhone worm discovered - ikee changes wallpaper to Rick Astley photo | Graham Cluley’s blog)
The impact of AR is very evident when you look at campaigns, such as Night at the Musuem Two. For the first three weeks of the pre-movie marketing launch, the website had 15,000 visitors, with an average viewing time of two minutes. When our AR experience was available, the website had 15,000 visitors in the first 24-hours and average viewing times shot up to 6.5 minutes
The 200th layer is a system that helps users find the real-time availability of public rental bicycles that are part of the Le Vélo STAR system in Rennes, France. The add-in to Layar, developed by In Cité Solution, gives you the location of the nearest bike parking spot, and handily tells you how many bikes are available at the moment. (via Layar Augmented Reality App Hits 200th Data Layer | Technomix | Fast Company)
These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now a number of tools that allow non-developers the ability to create their own iPhone apps without knowing programming or scripting. (via 13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App )
Jonathan Wegener is the mind behind Exit Strategy NYC, an app that helps New Yorkers navigate the ins and outs of the subways system by showing all the exits, entrances and transfer junctures. You’d think map-app makers like him would be most excited about AR. But Wegener doesn’t intend to ever involve augmented reality in his app’s roadmap. “It’s a total fad,” he says of AR. “Looking at a tiny screen to show you overlaid information about the world around you is a really awkward and a broken user experience.” (via Put Your Phone Down: Augmented Reality Is Overblown | TechWatch | Fast Company)
There have been more than a few iPhone apps to help you find your car, but Car Finder [iTunes link] uses augmented reality to get you pointed in the right direction.
Here’s how it works: you get out of your car and mark your position, making sure you have a good GPS fix. If you don’t have one, you’ll be told that and see the accuracy of your fix in plus or minus meters. (via Use Augmented Reality to find your car)
Of the more than 2 billion iPhone and iPod touch applications downloaded since Apple’s App Store opened in mid-2008, about 30 percent—approximately 610 million—fall into the premium app category, translating to total developer revenues of $900 million, according to iPhone analytics firm Pinch Media. While paid apps constitute about 30 percent of all downloads, Pinch Media notes they make up about 77 percent of the App Store’s100,000 total available applications—the firm’s research indicates that premium apps average 9,300 downloads, while free apps average 71,000 downloads.
Although Pinch Media’s findings indicate that premium App Store downloads average $12,100 in revenue ($8,500 net to the developer), the firm is quick to point out that the arithmetic can be misleading because the most popular applications generate a very disproportionate percentage of sales. Pinch notes that a small segment of developers earn substantially more than $8.500 per app, and most do far worse. Pinch data also indicates that the average 99-cent iPhone app is not downloaded significantly more often than the average $4.99 app—in fact, its research suggest that the relatively strong sales performance of apps priced at $4.99 is an indicator of their quality.
Paid Applications on the App Store (From 360iDev) – Pinch Media Blog
A Philadelphia developer has rooted out an unfinished feature of Windows 7 that turns any laptop into a wireless access point, allowing other Wi-Fi-enabled devices to share the connection without special software.
Nomadio, which specializes in military network consulting and development, used the new “Virtual Wi-Fi” feature in Windows 7 to create Connectify, a free application that it released as a beta last Friday.
![There have been more than a few iPhone apps to help you find your car, but Car Finder [iTunes link] uses augmented reality to get you pointed in the right direction.
Here’s how it works: you get out of your car and mark your position, making sure you have a good GPS fix. If you don’t have one, you’ll be told that and see the accuracy of your fix in plus or minus meters. (via Use Augmented Reality to find your car)](http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksjvg3SJGA1qzsmmko1_250.jpg)
