Daniel Tunkelang Leaving Google Maps to Join LinkedIn

Daniel Tunkelang has announced on his blog today that he is leaving his position at Google Maps for an exciting research position at LinkedIn. Daniel was hired at Google about a year ago. There he worked on authority pages and the of mapping businesses to their official home pages.

When Daniel was first hired at Google as an engineer he did something that was amazing and delightful. He reached out to me, looking to understand issues and concerns that I had with Google Maps and their approach to Local. We initially had several detailed email exchanges and a long telephone call. He was gracious, inquisitive and forthright. All things that I respect and honor. He reached across a chasm that typically exists between Google and me and was sincere in his efforts to understand my critiques. Google could learn much from his outreach efforts (although as he pointed out personal contact doesn’t scale well :) ).

We have stayed in touch, off and on throughout the year and I have appreciated the occasional communications and (personal) assistance that he has provided. Even though I don’t know him in a truly personal sense, I consider him a friend and wish him well at LinkedIn.

Apple introduced technology to support Network Controlled Fast Dormancy

Experts from the company Nokia Siemens, dealing with the supply of communications equipment for cellular operators surveyed phones to Apple, working under the management of the latest firmware IOS 4.2.1 and they obtained the support of the new technology Network Controlled Fast Dormancy (NCFD). Nokia Siemens started implementation early this year and so far full support NCFD was realized only in smartphones from Nokia. Now this technology will appear in the iPhone.

Technology Network Controlled Fast Dormancy is suitable for both consumers and mobile operators.It allows reducing the load on the cellular networks and allows more economical use of energy from the battery of the phone. When using this technology is amended the operating mode of the phone. It resembles something between a standard active and standby mode.Smartphone software interacts with the base station and receives information for the least busy at that time the unit cell and connects to it, coming out of search mode (the thing in phones not support NCFD occurs much more slowly, which exhausts battery faster).

The official Google Reader for Android

Google introduced its official use Google Reader for mobile operating system Android.

Application enables users to monitor RSS feeds through your mobile phone.Google Reader Android allows for synchronization with desktop computers, has big buttons with pictures and a cumbersome interface. It enables users to enjoy the publications to share in the application or e-mail to other devices and users.

The functionality of Google Reader for Android is the same as that of Google Reader for desktop systems – has allowed users to Starred Publications and leave notes to them.

Applications can be downloaded from the Android Market.

Currently no information whether the application will appear for the iPhone, but now there are applications like NetNewsWire, Pulse and Reeder, who maintain Google Reader subscriptions.