Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 6, 2011

Hitech Systems Inc., whose SafetyNet® computer-aided dispatch and records management systems power law enforcement, fire, and EMS agencies across North America, has partnered with Fusion Technology Group to create SafetyNet Mobile, a complementary public-safety app for the iPhone® and iPad®.

"SafetyNet Mobile gives public-safety personnel powerful information wherever they are, exactly when they need it, while cost-effectively integrating with our existing dispatch systems," said Henry Unger, Hitech's president. "It puts powerful augmented-reality technologies immediately at the fingertips of every public-safety officer.

"Augmented reality" is the hottest trend in mobile computing, tying databases of information to a specific location to provide rich, immediate understanding about that place and its history. With SafetyNet Mobile, an officer can point an iPhone's camera at a location and the will see information about that site overlaid on top of the image on the iPhone's screen. Wherever the camera's viewfinder is pointed, the screen will be overlaid with icons indicating premises history, hazards, and other many important informations derived from the computer aided dispatch (CAD) system in operation at the 9-1-1 communication center.

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Apple Will Moves In on Your Wallet.

With the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, and iMac, Apple is the most powerful technology company in the world. It’s also the No. 1 music retailer in the U.S. and among the top sellers of online movies, too.
And Now, It might become an iBank.

After the great acheivement, Thanks to a technology that lets you use your mobile phone to pay for your stuffs, not just online. This tech, called near-field communication, involves a microchip that can send and receive data across very short distances, about four(4) inches. That instead of swiping a credit card, you hold your phone near a reader and let the data zip between the two devices, thats all.


Research director(Richard Doherty) at Envisioneering Group, a research firm in Seaford, New York., said he believes Apple intends to put NFC chips into the next versions of the iPhone and iPad (like after 2010) as the first step toward a business that Doherty calls “iCash.” This could transform the market for mobile commerce, not to mention the company itself: “It’s the bank of Apple.” As usual, Apple says it does not comment about speculations. But Doherty says his firm has sources on standards bodies and at contract manufacturers that lead him to believe a mobile-payment system is in the works.
There’s nothing new about this technology. Nokia and other manufacturers have been shipping phones with NFC chips in them for several years. Doherty says he's used an NFC phone to pay for a tram ride in Barcelona. But so far the chips’ use has been limited.

Where things get interesting is in the system for processing payments. Apple’s iTunes Store already has above 150 million credit-card numbers on file. People use iTunes to buy music, movies, books, and appllications. Why not extend that to other purchases as well—like groceries, movie tickets, general other things, etc? “When NFC meshes with iTunes, the world suddenly changes,

Right now, when you use iTunes, Apple bills your credit-card company—and pays onerous processing fees. But with this new system, iTunes could draw money directly from your bank account to you. Apple would be showing credit cards in the form of smart phones and other devices and operating its own payment-processing system, something akin to PayPal.

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CIO — Goodbye, $.99 iPhone apps.

In fact, mobile app developers are weighing seven business models, the most prevalent still being application store sales with 59 percent of respondents using this model. Other models include advertising (43 percent), in-app purchase (42 percent), brand loyalty and engagement (34 percent), mobile commerce (26 percent), subscription (26 percent), and coupons programs (10 percent).
The fastest growing business model is mobile commerce. In a similar survey last year, only 14 percent of mobile app developers had mobile commerce as part of their business model mix. Today, one out of four have mobile commerce, a growth of 86 percent.
Applications are also maturing and becoming more complex, evolving from simple content-based applications to applications that make use of location, social and cloud services to transactional applications that tap the power of mobile commerce, according to the study.
"As the customer experience evolves, so does application sophistication, customer expectations, business transformation opportunities and the underlying business models," the study concludes.
On the tablet front, the survey found that Androids and, to a lesser degree, the BlackBerry PlayBook are gaining mindshare among developers at a faster rate than the market-making iPad.
Seventy-four(74) percent of respondents said they are "very interested" in developing for Android tablets, up from sixty-two(62) percent last year. Twenty-eight(28) percent are eyeing the BlackBerry PlayBook, up from sixteen(16) percent last year. The iPad leads with eighty-seven(87) percent, only a 3 percent increase from last year. Web OS tablet interest remained flat.
So who is going to host these Android applications? The survey found that eighty-two(82) percent of respondents are interested in distributing their apps via the Android market, thirty-seven(37) percent in Amazon's new Android Appstore, 13 percent on Verizon (VZ) VCAST, and 9 percent on GetJar.
The survey's bullish Android results, however, could have been affected by the Android tablet hype at this year's CES in Las Vegas. More than 85 Android tablets stole the show, and Appcelerator and IDC surveyed mobile app developers only a week after the CES.

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