Check out this video on "Android", Google's open source mobile phone OS. Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and President, Technology, and Steve Horowitz, Engineering Director, explain and demonstrate some of the amazing features of the new platform.

While the industry and quite a number of customers are waiting for the iPhone to finally be released (Apple official release date: June 29), c|net has gone through all the publicly known features and created a nice summary of what we are to expect from Apple's latest gadget based on the commercial.

Now that everyone's waiting for the iPhone and its innovative user interface – have you seen Microsoft's product / vision video on "Surface"? It's well worthwhile … The system has been announced for public availability at the end of the year.

In August 2006, AOL Germany launched the AOL Phone Box, an AOL-branded ADSL 2+ modem / router with integrated 4-port Ethernet switch and VoIP telephony functionality. When we started working on the AOL Phone Box project more than a year ago, the AOL Germany world looked quite a bit different: AOL was one of Germany's [...]

Last week at CES in Las Vegas, Bill Gates announced to-be-released Windows Home Server, and a day later, Steve Jobs showed Apple TV. Both products aim at solving the same issue: how to get media files that are on different devices, hard disks etc. onto one terminal (i.e., the TV). Interestingly enough, the two solutions [...]

You'll all have heard about it – Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. (no more "Apple Computers Inc.") has demonstrated the upcoming iPhone, to be released in June 07 in the US (in Q4 in Europe, in Asia probably 2008). The iPhone features just one button ("Home"), a giant touch-sensitive screen with "Multi touch" abilities and [...]

Design Frameworks in UI Design have come some way. Starting out as conventions amongst designers, then platform standards or standards across a number of platforms, to a written-down and agreed-upon set of guidelines, we have arrived at pattern libraries. Just recently Yahoo! released their UI pattern library to the public, allowing designers to profit from [...]

Just stumbled across a phantastic prototype video (the BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype) by the Digital Graphics Project at the University of Toronto that’s illustrating some cool new interaction techniques for desktop object manipulation. It’s building on the idea of Piles (that’s an older concept Apple still holds the patent on) and using gestures to [...]

The Business Innovation Insider features an excerpt from a talk by IDEO’s Tim Brown. When I saw Tim on stage at the 2004 CHI, I was deeply impressed – his enthusiasm and presence made his talk a highly memorizable experience. And, obviously, so was SAP’s Hasso Plattner when he first met the IDEO people and [...]

Just recently a friend (Lars Grunewaldt) made me aware of the OpenLaszlo environment. It’s an open (and free) XML-to-DHTML / XML-to-Flash environment that comes prepackaged with a tutorial, example apps and a simple IDE. (At least) on the Mac, there’s an installer package that contains everything to be up and running in a minute.