Posts Tagged ‘android’

IRS Blows Minds By Building An App For That (Where “That” = “Your Taxes”)

Friday, January 28th, 2011

“Taxpayers waiting on a refund from the Internal Revenue Service can now check on its status using a smartphone.

The application for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Google Inc.’s Android operating system also will give taxpayers daily tax tips during the filing season, the U.S. tax collection agency said today. Smartphone users may download the “IRS2Go” app for free, the IRS said.”

What do you think?

Would you use an app to check your tax refund status? What will be the next government-made mobile app??

“Augmented Reality” Brings Real Estate To A New Dimension

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

A prosperous new market marries iPhone superpowers with the reality of day-to-day.

  • The European tech company Layar has engineered a mobile browser that layers content over reality using your phone’s camera, compass and GPS data.
  • Layar’s augmented reality technology (A.R.) is now being used in the lucrative real estate industry.
  • Point your iPhone at a home or apartment and watch interior photos and value estimates appear onscreen.

Facts & Figures

  • 1,000 developers have designed 2,000 programs for the iPhone and Google Android using Layer’s technology.
  • By 2014, the A.R. market is expected to have annual revenue of $732 million.
  • Both Google and Microsoft are working on their own versions of A.R.

Best Quote

“There’s a lot of capital, a lot of money in real estate so we expect realtor brands to use it as a service to their customers and customers to use it just out of curiosity.” – Maarten Lend-FizGerald, Layar Co-Founder