Source Reuters 2011
The tech industry’s movers and shakers have been saying for months now that the HTML5 is very important. New data released Friday indicates that HTML5 is not just going to be big, it’s going to be huge — and it’s coming fast.

Source LoopInsight

The study polled 5,000 consumers and 2,250 employees and IT decision-makers across five European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K.

According to the study, Android-based devices come in second (19 percent), followed by BlackBerry (17 percent) and Nokia (15 percent). Keep in mind that Android devices number well over 100 from a variety of different handset makers.

Found a really interesting report from Ericsson about smartphone usage including when GPS and navigation apps are used the most often.

Came across this video on youtube of a Russian guy going at a Nokia N8 with a set of keys, a very sharp knife, a freezer, sand and the sea! Yes the guy is a bit crazy, the N8 withstands most of the aforementioned items!

We don't recommend you do this to your N8 or any type of phone to be honest!

Staying with the trend of reviewing 2010 .. here is the latest numbers from the Mobile Phone Market for the final quarter of 2010.

Source Telecompaper

The worldwide mobile phone market grew 17.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, a new quarterly high driven by smartphones, according to a study by IDC. Vendors shipped 401.4 million units, compared to 340.5 million units in Q4 2009. Vendors shipped a total of 1.39 billion units on a cumulative worldwide basis in 2010, up 18.5 percent from 1.17 billion in 2009.

We've rolled out a PinPoints solution for Travelshake.com .
Visitors to Travelshake.com can now send locations straight to their phone via SMS.

Here's a little about Travelshake.com :
Travelshake.com is a social media travel website that allows the public to browse videos, images, social media feeds, and the latest offers and updates from individual Irish tourism businesses, in one single location. The innovative website provides consumers with a simple platform for planning a holiday in Ireland, and gives businesses, such as restaurants, B&Bs, hotels, visitor attractions, pubs, and self-catering properties, the opportunity to reach a worldwide audience, via a very useful social media travel site.

Registration with Travelshake.com is free of charge and, so far, over 100 Irish businesses have signed-up, even before the official industry launch.

- Photo and text from Travelshake.com

We got to Paris, enjoyed the Leweb experience and met terrific people! Here's our Leweb adventure.

Delighted to announce the following.

Announced on Techcrunch.com last night, Cauwill Technologies and 15 other companies will have the chance to showcase their products on LeWeb 2010 stages.

We have been working away on the latest version of the Firefox plugin.. here is a sneak preview of what's about to released in version 1.1.5

As you browse the internet or e-mails if there's an address you would like to find or save for later all you need to do is select the address, right - click and select Create a PinPoint or select it from the toolbar. We'll then only need you to name the PinPoint so you can tell it apart from other PinPoints and once that's done we'll give you a PinPoint that you can view or share without leaving your e-mail or current web page.

Ever found an address on a web-page and want to map it for yourself? Or maybe you want to share it with your friends?

Chrome users we have the thing for you! The PinPoints Chrome extension is now released!
(Update to the FireFox Addon is on the way!)
Grab it here!

With the launch of the extension, we've put a 1 minute overview of PinPoints together - We would love to hear what you think of it!

As you've probably noticed we've been moving things around over the past couple of days.

One thing you may have noticed is the improved User Interface. It's easier than ever to create and send PinPoints! We look forward to hearing your feedback.

We'd like to bring your attention to one other item: PinPoints generated prior to 21st of April. All previously created pinpoints will work, but they are not listed under 'Manage'. To say sorry for this we've topped your account back up to 10 free SMS!

Thanks,
Ronan from yourpinpoints.com

Those really nice guys over at Red Ferret Journal wrote up a review of www.yourpinpoints.com. Thanks guys! As the Red Ferret pointed out we support iPhones, Symbian phones and Windows Mobile devices.. but I've heard through the grapevine that a client for BlackBerry is on the way...

We got requests for the 'make a wish' feature to be enhanced - so we looked to rewrite but somebody suggested (thanks Jo!) instead of rewriting it incorporate GetSatisfaction
(you guys over at GetSatisfaction rock.. great service!)

so we did .. and you know what? it's great. Really looking forward to hearing what you guys have to say.. So where do you get satisfaction?

We've been working away with the next version of the site! The blog design is a sneak preview of the cosmetic changes but it doesn't stop there. We have listen to your feedback and made major changes under the hood. We've added some really nifty new search features, simplified the sign-up process added buddy lists and favourite list. We should be ready to release it very shortly so stay tunned!

www.yourpinpoints.com got a makeover !

So what's new? to name a few

• Tabs! We've put everything into handy tabs so you can get to your profile, buddies etc. really easily and quickly
• Single map for everything - the address map and business search map is gone!
• Click the map to drop a PinPoint
• Past PinPoints - If you send a pinpoint via the addons or yourpinpoints.com you can quickly find them under the 'Past PinPoints' Tab
• Improved search results
• Get reviews, photos etc. of the place you've just pinpointed

Go try it out !

Back in March of 2008 when 3Dcamp asked if we'd like to demo PinPoints to the public we jumped at it. 3Dcamp gave PinPoints it's first airing and the response was fantastic. We've come a long way since then and we are delighted to say things are going from strength to strength.

Today we received notification that 3dcamp is back again, Saturday June 6th in the University of Limerick.

For more info see http://3dcamp.barcamp.ie/ or Follow on twitter and use the #3Dcamp

Some screen captures of the new search engine for yourpinpoints.com which will be rolled out very soon..

Some of the New Features include:

• Single Map for Business and Address Search
• New Search box
• Search Results are shown on map
• Improved business finder
• Click to see reviews, photos etc of search result
• Click map to drop a PinPoint

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We've just released an updated version of the windows mobile client.

How to update:

1/ Log into the www.yourpinpoints.com

2/ Select Downloads

3/ Send download link to you phone and follow the instructions on your phone

or

4/ Select Windows Mobile Device and download to PC and install to mobile device

The updated version now supports

• Co-Pilot
• TomTom
• Google Maps Mobile

Enjoy!

We got quite a few requests to support the iPhone.. and we are proud to say it will be rolled out in the next version. The imminent release of the next version of the website (and app) will bring loads of other cool features like buddies list, an improved search feature and favorites.

stay tuned..

We are delighted to announce to Android users www.yourpinpoints.com now fully supports your super cool phone and Google Maps.

Well the title says it all.

PinPoints has been nominated for Best New Web Application/Service – Sponsored by Red Cardinal the this year Irish Web Awards.

We are absolutely delighted with the nomination and honored to be amongst some great web applications and services - the full list of nominees can be found here

This year the Irish Web Awards is sponsored by Realex...

I'm sure you've noticed by now, it's a whole new site. The principle service remains the same - send a location to your phone but we've been listening to our customers and what we have learned is that the additional features we built into the phone client are more than most people want. So we worked hard and we figured out a way to deliver the location on a URL without the need for a client. This is now the default behavior but if you've like to still use the client then you are welcome to - just edit your profile & tell us you want to use the client under "Phone Information".

This new smart URL PinPoint is also a lot easier to share with your friends or use on social networking sites.
Please let us know what you think by using the "Feedback" button at the side.

We are very pleased to announce that yourpinpoints.com now fully supports Palm devices and invite Palm Pré etc owners to sign up and use the service.

Woohoo!

We just setup our Facebook page today - hope to see our current (and new) users become fans of PinPoints and help promote the service.

Thanks to everyone so far that has shared their thoughts via the feedback system, twitter and email.

Our hosting provider is doing a bit maintenance to their servers over the next day or two.

We've been advised there might be some downtime :( so we're letting you know there might be a chance the site is down for short periods.

If you see anything odd please let us know via the Feedback.

Thanks!

PinPoints.

The Nokia N97 is a really cool phone - some really nice features and slick design -  there are tons of great reviews out there..

NEWS FLASH!!

We've added Windows Mobile support to yourPinPoints.com.

We support quite a few phones at the moment! We have a permanent link also which is constantly updated!

Nokia (Nokia Maps & Google Maps)

• N95 (both versions)
• N82
• N78
• 6220
• 6210

XDA (Copilot and Tom Tom)

Well it's March 17th again.. and that means one thing St. Patricks Day.

Wishing everyone a great day!
- from all at yourpinpoints.com

It's been a tremendous year for PinPoints, thank you for all the support and feedback!!

We hope you have a pleasant holiday..

We've rolled out some really new cool features on yourpinpoints.com this week.

Highlights include..

Send to 'New Number'

Now you can send the location  other cell phones straight from the main send dialog window. Clicking the 'New Number' shows a dialog box where you can enter a cell number. It doesn't matter if your buddies cell number isn't registered on yourpinpoints.com  they will receive, what we call, an instant PinPoint.  Your buddy can click on the instant PinPoint and it will show the location!  ps ...

We've been notified by our distributor there might be some delays for PinPoints users on the AT&T  network between

Start: 8/28/2009 2:00 AM Eastern Time (GMT -05:00)
End: 8/28/2009 7:00 AM Eastern Time (GMT -05:00)

Description: Mobile network: AT&T USA are performing emergency network maintenance - Customers may notice delays in AT&T USA message traffic for the duration of the maintenance