Nokia Ovi is shaping up for a fight with Google

Nokia’s multimedia supremo Anssi Vanoki showed off the company’s new Ovi service at Nokia World today, demonstrating how it’ll work on PCs, online and on mobile handsets. My takeaway thought is this: everyone bangs on about Nokia taking on Apple and its iPhone, but with Ovi, Nokia seems to be setting its sights at Google.

I mean that in its web form, Ovi is trying to bring together a bunch of different applications, including communication and content, while also rolling it out on mobile phones. Just what Google is doing with its web apps, in other words.

Also interesting is Nokia’s bullishness today – for example, one Vanjoki slide had a bunch of Nokia Nseries phones in, but also an iPhone, a Sony Ericsson Walkman, and a BlackBerry. It might seem like a small point, but last

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Eat right and save the world

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GPS navigation on modern cellphones and smartphones

The MobiTrackPRO is a J2ME midlet for GPS navigation on modern cellphones and smartphones. MobiTrack connects a GPS receiver that utilize NMEA output protocol to a cellphone to display GPS data and/or to transmit it to an Internet server. It can be used with any bluetooth GPS receiver such as the HOLUX GR-320 or with GPS receiver connected via cable. MobiTrack is able to display on the cellphone satellite positions, latitude, longitude, altitude, UTC time, HDOP and other information. More features:

• Loading of waypoints from KML files
• Pan map and track
• Loading of Google and Virtual Earth maps with smart caching
• Optimized GUI for hi-res display (208×208px)
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• Fast start with last good-known GPS configuration
• Separate intervals for local saving of points in track and for transfering current position to NetGPS server script via GPRS connection
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China’s smartphone sales pegged at 52 percent

CCID Consulting has released figures showing how China’s smartphone sales changed from the second quarter to third quarter of 2007. Windows Mobile’s growth rate, pegged at 52 percent, outpaced the overall rate by a factor of 10, the Beijing-based market research firm reports.

CCID says the sales volume of China’s smartphones reached nearly 6.4 million devices in 2007 Q3, up 5.2 percent over 2007 Q2. Sales revenue reached 16.61 billion yuan, increasing 11.3 percent on a month-on-month basis. The firm ascribes this to students buying phones during the summer vacation and to promotions during the Chinese national holiday.

Chinese smartphone operating system market share, Q3 2007
Source: CCID Consulting
According to CCID, Symbian OS retained its large lead over other operating systems, thanks to continuing popularity of Nokia’s phones in China. Symbian held nearly 70 percent market share, with sales volumes reaching 4.416 million handsets.

Though still representing just over 5 percent of the market, Windows Mobile posted a sequential growth rate of 52 percent, CCID noted. This was attributed in part to the popularity of Windows Mobile-based phones from Motorola, Samsung, Lenovo and Dopod (HTC).

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What Does android means to google

 

The best answer that i think would be that google is upto some thing that solves problems for developer and manufacturer Google has never been into manufacturing hardware. They are an ad revenue based company, and they have been looking for ways to bring their advertising model to the mobile phone industry. What better way to do this than to break from the pack and develop your own mobile platform. Also  As of this writing Google has stated it has no intentions of releasing hardware of any kind to compete against the Iphone. Instead it is focusing it’s efforts on Android, a new open source platform for mobile phones

All applications are created equal
Android does not differentiate between the phone’s core applications and third-party applications. They can all be built to have equal access to a phone’s capabilities providing users with a broad spectrum of applications and services. With devices built on the Android Platform, users will be able to fully tailor the phone to their interests. They can swap out the phone’s homescreen, the style of the dialer, or any of the applications. They can even instruct their phones to use their favorite photo viewing application to handle the viewing of all photos.

Breaking down application boundaries
Android breaks down the barriers to building new and innovative applications. For example, a developer can combine information from the web with data on an individual’s mobile phone — such as the user’s contacts, calendar, or geographic location — to provide a more relevant user experience. With Android, a developer could build an application that enables users to view the location of their friends and be alerted when they are in the vicinity giving them a chance to connect.

Mobile adult services to reach $3.5 billion by 2010.

Thanks to the growing acceptance of streamed video and video chat services, every pervert will be delighted to know that the mobile adult services worldwide is projected to reach $3.5 billion by 2010.

According to Juniper Research, Western Europe will remain the largest regional market for mobile adult services throughout the period covered with revenues increasing from $775m in 2007 to $1.5 billion by 2012.

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Price tages that are made Only for billionaires

Have you ever thought of being worlds richest perosns or have ever dreames of  having countless money.Take a look back at the year’s biggest stories–provided by Forbes from the world’s priciest properties, best airlines and ritziest restaurants to the market’s most dangerous cars and ultra-luxe hotels.

Also we’ve got a ranking of the market’s most dangerous cars, a sampling of the globe’s ultra-luxe hotels, and a list of America’s most unhealthy commutes

One in five European households has cut landline

Yahoo news reports that Almost one in five European Union households has gone wireless, cutting off their landline cables to use a mobile telephone only, a study by the EU statistical office showed on Tuesday.

Eurostat said that last year 18 percent of households had mobile phone access only as subscriptions for wireless handsets soared to 95 per 100 habitants in 2005 from eight in 1996.

The data embraced all 27 EU countries except Bulgaria and Romania, which joined the bloc this year

TAG Heuer release its own mobile phone

^{If Prada, Armani, Levi’s and Diesel can do it – why wouldn’t TAG Heuer release its own mobile phone as well. Yap, they’re going to…
According to Reuters the famous Swiss watchmaker, part of French luxury goods group LVMH, is working alongside Modelabs (the folks behind Levi’s phone design) to release “a series of luxury mobile phones.” Heard that — not one device but a “series.”
Apparently, TAG fans will have to wait for the second half of next year, when we may see such TAG celebrities as Kimi Raikkonen, Brad Pitt and Tiger Woods suddenly start using new cellphones. Hopefully, we’ll actually see at least a single powerful phone (i.e. smartphone) in the whole series. In the meantime, we can still hope it’s the Rolex that will combine both the beauty AND the features}

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Two Companies Interested In Singapore’s Mobile TV Licenses

Two companies have already expressed an interest in the mobile TV licenses Singapore’s Media Development Authority yesterday announced it would handout for the second half of 2008: “PGK Media says it wants to launch a ‘TV2Go’ service as soon as it receives a licence, supplying 10-15 channels. Innoxious Technologies says it will supply eight channels, targeting 15-35 year-olds” reports Rapid TVNews. The MDA plans to adopt a technology neutral position and is “proposing to give operators the flexibility to deploy a standard that best suits their business case” (release). Singapore has a population of 4.5 million, but more than 100 percent mobile penetration—and there’s not much area to cover either.

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IS Google Android a threat to Microsoft

According to Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence, a consulting  and research firm, the new mobile OS is based on Linux and contains a Web browser, video player, instant-messaging  application, and several other features.

Google’s Android OS is the outgrowth of a mobile software project started three years ago by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andy Rubin. His company, Android, was acquired by Google in August 2005 for an undisclosed amount in a move that was widely seen as the opening play of Google’s wireless  plans

What makes the OHA so impressive,” Sterling said, “is that Google has convinced so many companies that it is in their interest to participate, despite their fears of Google’s size and resources. They’ve made the case that if the mobile industry is accelerated as a whole, a lot of different companies are in a position to benefit, and not just Google, where as Microsoft has particular reason to be concerned about the release of Android, Sterling pointed out, because it is a direct competitor to the company’s Windows Mobile. Sterling said that he expects that companies such as Nokia and even Microsoft ultimately will join the alliance, particularly if consumers react favorably to Android.

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Why Google bought Jaiku

According to venturebeat Speaking of cool Finnish companies getting sucked by Silicon Valley, you’ll recall the Jaiku was recently bought by Google. Jaiku is like Twitter, in that it lets people post short messages about what they are doing. So why did Google chose Jaiku, instead of the homegrown San Francisco company, Twitter. Jonathan Mulholland says its because Jaiku offers location awareness, and that this fits in with its designs for its Android platform:

…when posting status updates Jaiku has the ability to capture and share the location information (neighbourhood, city, country) of the poster in real time. So in addition to a message post Jaiku can provide real time location awareness of users… And how does Jaiku do this? An integral part of the service is a client application for Symbian S60 platform mobile phones. The client uses location APIs within S60 devices to triangulate the handset (and the users) location based on nearby cellular network towers. The Jaiku client was in fact originally conceived as a ’status aware address book’, and as such integrates into compatible S60 phones to the extent that it also shares the phones (and again the users) status availability (General, In Meeting, Outdoor etc). So in addition to a message post AND location awareness you also have deep mobile integration sufficient to identify the status of a user as well…Jaiku potentially gives Google the Holy Grail – time relevant, location based targeting of information, personalised to a very high degree. Google + Jaiku is not a million miles away from being able to push appropriate advertising to individuals based on their profile, their location and their availability.

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The Nokia 6131 NFC Review

The Nokia 6131 NFC (for Near Field Communication) is one stealthy handset.  the phone offers pay by touch, touch ticket and other very cool RFID applications inside a conventional phone form factor. Basically they’ve embedded an RFID chip into the top part of the flip lid. We got a heads up on the technology from Richard Humbach, Head of NFC Business in Finland a while back, and it was very interesting.

Here are is its Specification

Display and user interface

• Main display: Active TFT QVGA display supports up to 16,777,216 colors (320 x 240 pixels, 2.2 inches)
• Outer display: Active TFT display supports up to 262,144 colors (128 x 160 pixels, 1.36 inches)- Light indication on outer display for missed calls/SMS/calendar reminders
• Clearly separated keys for easy dialing and messaging
• Demo mode (phone demo without SIM card).

Key features

Key features

• Slim, stylish fold design with innovative, one-hand push-to-open operation
• Dual displays: 16-million “true” colors inside and 262,144 colors outside
• Active standby on enhanced Series 40 UI
• Light indication on outer display for missed calls/SMS/calendar reminders
• 1.3-megapixel camera with full-screen viewfinder for both main and outer display
• Email with attachments
• XHTML browser
• Enhanced messaging with recently used contacts and groups
• Clearly separated keys for easy dialing and messaging
• MP3 player and FM stereo radio with Visual Radio
• Fast browsing and downloads with EDGE
• MicroSD memory cards available as enhancements (optional)

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Half of Mobile Phones Sold in USA are 3G Models

According to Strategy Analytics ‘ Q3 list of top selling consumer handsets in the US market. Motorola, with its RAZR and KRZR, and LG, collectively accounted for seven of the top best selling consumer handsets.

Motorola, however, despite selling four of the top ten models in Q3, realized an ASP of only $80, nearly 40 percent lower than the group average.

3G devices accounted for 55 percent of these top selling device volumes

call any long distance landline or mobile phone by just dialing a local number,

Internet phone calls (VoIP), that you make from the computer to other landline or mobile phone numbers using software like Skype, are generally cheaper but then they require a computer and an Internet connection.

Jajah earlier made some good start and allowed users to make long distance phone calls over the Internet using regular phone lines – a computer was required only for arranging the call – the actual voice conversation would happen over traditional phone lines.

Now they have gone a step further with Jajah Direct that completely eliminates the need for a computer to make internet phone calls.

With Jajah Direct, you can call any long distance landline or mobile phone by just dialing a local number, then enter the number you want to call and Jajah connects you. And since it’s a VoIP call, the calling rates remain low.

And unlike the Skype phones, you require no special hardware to use Jajah Direct – it works with every phone that has a dialpad.

Jajah Direct is currently available only in US, UK and Israel but Shaherose (of Jajah) did confirm that they will offer this service in India soon.

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BSNL’s Big $750 MM WiMAX Network Plan

Wireless technologies seem to work well in India vs. wired broadband, which is popular in other fast-growing telecom markets such as China. Maybe it is easier and faster to roll out wireless infrastructure and start making money.

Indian incumbent BSNL plans to spend about $750 million on a nationwide WiMAX network that will primarily target rural areas and small towns and cover a sixth of the country’s ever-growing population. This has to be one of the largest WiMAX rollouts anywhere on the planet.The funds for the first phase of deployment are coming from a universal service fund set up for broadband access. BSNL will roll out the WiMAX network in large cities later as a separate buildout. The initial network will connect schools and telephony kiosks in villages.

The state-owned incumbent that is often the target of choice four-letter words because of dropped calls to my parents in Delhi has been dabbling with WiMAX for a while now. The announcement comes close on the heels of the Indian government clarifying its 3G policies.

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Japanese phones offer earthquake warnings and automatic translation.

The latest Japanese phones from NTT DoCoMo (905i/705i) offer earthquake warnings and automatic translation.

– A novel feature that could be life-saving, Area Mail, provides quick emergency reports delivered to mobile phones in a specific area, with dedicated ringtones and messages used to alert the user to an impending emergency.

– Shabette Hon-yaku, is a Japanese-English (and vice versa) voice translation service. Simply speak into the phone in Japanese, and the phone will speak back in English – or vice versa, if preferred.

The interesting thing about this service is that the translation occurs on the server, not the mobile phone, meaning that the service is free to improve in time without the need to upgrade the handsets.

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Nebulus to help save lives

The Nebulus Emergency Flotation Device is a self-inflating shell which deploys quickly, enabling a water or ice rescue to be performed by just a single person without waiting having to wait for back up. In such emergencies, timing is everything and every single second of waiting could mean the clock ticking even closer to death’s door. The Nebulus looks pretty much like an ordinary life rae, and can be manually inflated by an emergency first responder or the rider when the recreation vehicle breaks through ice. It utilizes a couple of pressurized carbon dioxide (CO2) bottles to inflate an enclosed lift bag. Whenever the rip-cord is pulled, the Nebulus’ inflated lift bag can carry up to 1,000-pounds of the submerged vehicle and riders.

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Iphone to be sale in China interesting statistics

China Mobile’s pending negotiation with Apple on iPhone sales, China Unicom China’s second largest mobile operator showed its interest in introducing iPhone into China, reports Xinhua news agency

Localmobilesearch has  an interesting analysis of the financial implications for Apple from Silicon Alley Insider:

We estimate that a 2% share of China’s 600 million mobile subscribers (projected 2008) with a $300 unit price tag and no revenue share would yield $1.8 billion in incremental annual revenue. (For comparison, after only three months of iPhone sales, Apple already has a 1/2% share of the U.S. market). A 5% share at the same price would produce $4.5 billion in annual revenue.

China Mobile is reportedly in talks to sell the iPhone in that market. China is the world’s single largest mobile handset market, with some 500+ million mobile users.

How to crash a Windows mobile using MMS

Security researchers have released proof-of-concept code that exploits vulnerabilities in MMS implementations in mobile phones running mobile versions of Windows.

The vulnerability was discovered six months ago by security researcher Collin Mulliner, who published the exploit at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin last week in a bid to force manufacturers to deal with the issue. document.write(’\x3Cscript src=”http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/adj/reg.security.4159/antivirus;’+RegExCats+GetVCs()+’pid=’+RegId+’;'+RegKW+’maid=’+maid+’;test=’+test+’;pf=’+RegPF+’;dcove=d;sz=336×280;tile=3;ord=’ + rand + ‘?” type=”text/javascript”>\x3C\/script>’); dcmaxversion = 9 dcminversion = 6 Do On Error Resume Next plugin = (IsObject(CreateObject(”ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.” & dcmaxversion & “”))) If plugin = true Then Exit Do dcmaxversion = dcmaxversion – 1 Loop While dcmaxversion >= dcminversion

The flaw involves buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) protocol in MMS messages. As a result long MMS messages appended with malware may crash phones in such a way as to deposit hostile code in the memory of targeted devices. The IPAQ 6315 and i-mate PDA2k are confirmed as vulnerable but other devices running Pocket PC 2003 and Windows Smartphone 2003 are also likely to be at risk of attack using the technique.

Even in devices confirmed as vulnerable the attacker needs to know the correct memory slot where the MMS processing code is executing, so exploitation is far from easy. Malicious MMS message will most likely only crash a device rather than infecting it, reports anti-virus firm F-Secure.

“While [this] is very significant, it does not pose an immediate danger to any large group of users. Although it is possible to create an MMS worm or other malware that uses the vulnerability, this particular exploit cannot be directly used in creating malware,” Jarno Niemela, a researcher at F-Secure’s Labs, writes

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How to run 2 Skype accounts on the same computer

I was trying to use skype with tw credential a t the same time and i found this great way to do it.

First, Create a new Windows user by going to the Control Panel and Clicking on “User Accounts”. Choose “Create a new account” and follow the steps to set permissions. 

Skype  also suggest setting a password for the new user by clicking on the newly created User and choosing the Set Password option.
The new user will also require admin rights on your PC.

Next, create a shortcut to Skype or make a copy of the Shortcut that is already in the start menu. Right click this new shortcut and choose properties. On the bottom of the first page will be a button labeled “Advanced…”. Click this button and select “Run with different credentials”. Select OK, and then select OK again to close the Properties dialog.

You’re all set. Whenever you use this new shortcut it will ask for a Windows username and password. Enter the username and password of the user you created earlier by choosing “The following user:” option. Click OK and you’ll have a second instance of Skype. It will require that you log in with your Skype username and password the first time.

To help automate the ‘run as’ trick you can create a second desktop icon for Skype and modify its properties. Click the advanced button and check the box ‘run with different credentials’. After clicking on the modified icon it will ask you to sign in as another user. Changing the icon graphic also helps ensures you click on the correct icon.

If you have multiple USB headsets or USB Phones you should be able to setup both instances of Skype to use a different sound device

Apple Trying Hard In Europe

Moconews Apple and its partners in the mobile telephony business are having a hard time stopping them. Ever since its launch in the US back in June, the iPhone has been subjected to all sorts of hacks and tricks by a growing community of keen . “It is being much more proactive than in the U.S., where it took a groundswell of unhappy iPhone owners to build before Apple took steps to ease their concerns…”They certainly have learned their lesson, and are being more proactive,” said Chris Fletcher, a mobility research director with AMR Research. “Europe is going to be a much tougher market” reports the Wall Street Journal. One of the bigger issues was the connection speed, which Apple has tackled by getting agreements with hotspot providers in the UK and Germany so people can use the iPhone in the hotspots free of charge. The WSJ also mentions T-Mobile’s unlimited data plan, which has received criticism for being shaped down to a lower speed when people use too much data.

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Steve Ballmer at the Microsoft VC Summit 2006

 Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer says that Google wasn’t ahead of Microsoft in any way online except with search. Is that true.Here are a few more tidbits he covered:

• VC investment levels up – including in early stage since 2005, with resource shortages in certain places (especially where Google has a development center)
• Consolidation in the industry is happening, with M&A being the primary exit option
• Consumer markets are driving enterprise expectations, as applications and services available in the cloud to consumers lead to enterprise demands
• Open source is leading in the enterprise through pragmatism: it is about value delivered, reliability and cost savings. There is still an issue of IP protection, and what will happen when a company selling open source software is sued for a patent infringement.
• Service oriented software is very difficult to balance between extensibility/customization that you get inside the firewall, and the cost savings that you get through a standard platform in the cloud.
• Venture investment correlates to Microsoft’s business (per the blurry picture on the right that shows that mapping)
• Phones are going from dumb to smart
• Web 2.0  = Intelligence in all devices, and communication between all devices.
• Still a lot of issues with open source companies, or companies relying on open source stacks that they modify without paying a lot of attention to contribution obligations related to the license.
• Innovation investments targeted by Microsoft:
  • Windows: The Live Software Ecosystem
  • Software Development: Up a Semantic Level  – as opposed to using low level declarative programming
  • Delegating IT
  • In Control: Professionally and Personally
  • Rewiring the Economy: moving away from paperwork through enterprise and extrarprise workflows
  • Redefining Personal Entertainment & Creativity

Following the presentation, a brief Q&A took place with the audience:

• On the issue of speed of execution and delivery vs. Google (“unnamed company down the road”), Ballmer states that companies can’t deliver fundamental innovation in 6 months chunks and with loose coordination. At the same time, he jokes about Microsoft’s tendencies of having super long sales cycles on products and services.
• On the Microsoft stock: “I would not sell now baby” .
• How does Microsoft set the price on technology acquisitions, since they seem to value business less than technology ?
  That valuation is often based on what it is worth Microsoft to have, as opposed to pure financial metrics, etc.
• What can VCs invest in if Google or Microsoft end up building all major pieces of Internet services by themselves ?
  Microsoft will be happy to work with VCs to indicate what is strategic, especially as Microsoft builds a competitive monetization platform to AdSense, and they will go at it with “whatever it takes, for however long it takes”.
• Which deal/acquisition do you wish you had done ?
  Steve wishes he had gone ahead with the SAP acquisition/merger – but does not go through the reasons why.
• Can you comment on the spin-out of Wallop from Microsoft, and SNs in general.
  Social Networks are interesting, and important, but it is not clear which ones will survive in the long run ? Microsoft will deliver SN functionality in their products for the enterprise, but Ballmer does not seem that excited about owning one of these sites.
• What is the solution to avoid the proliferation of malware ?
  Windows Vista, which has anti-virus/malware protection at its core. Less than 50% of PCs have a form of anti-malware enabled.

Google has announced a number of changes to its key Adwords

Google has announced a number of changes to its key Adwords product that will provide a more rounded product offering to Adwords’ advertisers.

Google has tweaked its site targeting feature to give advertisers the ability to run their campaigns not only on the front page of sites, but also on specific pages on each site. The feature now has a new (and appropriate) name: placement targeting.

Advertisers can also now choose the bidding option “that best matches their needs.” Users can now pick between CPM or CPC advertising with placement targeting dependent on the overall goals of each campaign.

Neither change is revolutionary, but it is another step in the evolution of Adwords from its strict CPC one size fits all package to a service that provides a full gauntlet of options to advertisers. Not that Google really has to do much to attract new advertisers, given their dominance of online advertising, but it’s nice to know they are still evolving and listening to customer requests.

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Nokia N95 – 18 Carat Gold with 325 diamonds!

 

This exclusive limited edition diamond Nokia N95 8GB is the first of its kind in the world.
The N95 is 18 carat solid white gold with 325 diamonds, with a total diamond weight of 3.30 carats, Grade VS, Colour E-F. This exclusive phone costs £12,000.00

Only 10 of these diamond Nokia N95 will be made in the world, each with numbering from 1-10. Each phone is made to the customer’s requirement and is uniquely different either by colour of diamonds or a choice of solid classic gold or white gold. This is truly an exclusive and impressive luxury phone piece.

The phone also comes with:-
1 year free International concierge service.
Your phone will have a unique limited edition number from 1-10
Personalise with your name or initials.
1 year free mobile Personal address book security & backup!

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Germans First In Europe To Pick Up The Phone

Germans will get bragging rights to owning the iPhone before UK customers this Friday. The Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) store at Schildergasse in Cologne will open at 12.01am CET (1.01am GMT) to let customers buy the device on T-Mobile (via release). In the UK, O2, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Carphone Warehouse stores will open at 6.02am – the companies are allowing two per customer but stressing (via emailed release) it’s strictly “first come, first served”.

In Cologne, what DT hopes will be queuing customers “will be provided with food and drink, as well as the necessary shelter from the midnight cold”. The device will be sold in some 700 DT shops (399 euros or £277 on a two-year contract) but it gets traction in around 1,200 UK spots thanks to the three-way retail deal (£269 on an 18-month contract with unlimited data and WiFi from £35pm). Carphone Warehouse expects to shift 10,000 units on launch day, O2 forecasts 200,000 sales over Christmas. Orange sells the iPhone in France from November 29.

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Meebo to be the chat partner for Joost

In the beginning, meebo was “just” a chat aggregator. Over time they have grown to add Rooms, a Platform and they are announcing a partnership tonight with Joost. Meebo will provide their Rooms technology for the 250 channels on the Joost network. Nielsen/NetRatings reports that Meebo is the fastest growing IM destination (they don’t include eBuddy in the report).
Check out our interview with Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg.

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Jamster and innerActive to trial mobile in-game advertising in UK

Jamster and an ad-funded entertainment channel innerActive started to test mobile in-game advertising service. The trial offers British cellular subscribers the opportunity to download free mobile games in exchange for exposure to ads within the game.Under the deal, innerActive will provide technology to Jamster to dynamically display in-content and contextual ads. Mobile users in UK will be able to download free mobile games, which have embedded ads.

The mobile advertisements and promotion features are sponsored by leading international brands such as, Calvin Klein, Domino’s Pizza, Fox, Paramount Pictures, and eBay.

The mobile in-game advertisements are targeted and segmented in real time according to users’ behavior and responses, generating valuable incentives like wallpapers & movies trailers, and several prizes such as portable media players or pizza vouchers.

Ememrgency imposition leads to suspended annual defence talks

Due to imposed emergency by President Mervaiz Musharaf The United States has suspended annual defence talks with Pakistan. Eric Edelman, undersecretary of defence for policy, was supposed to head a US delegation for the talks beginning on Tuesday, but he will not go until political conditions improve, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters. 

Morrell is travelling with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who also on Monday called for Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to return his country to a constitutional democracy as soon as possible.

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China produces one half of the world’s mobile phones

Mobilemonday reports that China’s mobile phone output reach 500 million to 600 million sets this year. This is about one half of the global handset market.The production estimate comes from Xu Qin, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission, quoted by a Xinhua news.

China’s parts suppliers, however, are growing quickly as they sell to China’s electronics market which is experiencing stellar growth. According to Peter Kong, president of Arrow Asia Pac, a unit of Arrow Electronics Inc. in Melville, N.Y., China’s gross domestic product (GDP) is growing at 10 percent per year. “If you take the GDP growth of the first half of 2006, it has already far overtaken that of North America, Europe and Japan,” says Kong. Chinese component manufacturers come in many flavors. Some are indigenous suppliers that sell their products locally and export some to Europe and North America. Others are multinational manufacturers with facilities in China. They also export and sell locally. Still others are multinational manufacturers that have set up plants in China specifically to satisfy their customers in China.

iPhone contains hazardous chemicals

According to alleyinsider International — Scientific tests, arranged by Greenpeace, reveal that Apple’s iPhone contains hazardous chemicals. The tests uncovered two types of hazardous substances, some of which have already been eliminated by other mobile phone makers…

In May, due to our successful Green my Apple campaign Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple, claimed: “Apple is ahead of, or will soon be ahead of, most of its competitors” on environmental issues.

We watched closely when the iPhone was launched in June for any mention of the green features of the phone from Apple. There was none.

So we bought a new iPhone in June and sent it our Research Laboratories in the UK. Analysis revealed that the iPhone contains toxic brominated compounds (indicating the prescence of brominated flame retardants (BFRs)) and hazardous PVC. The findings are detailed in the report, “Missed call: the iPhone’s hazardous chemicals“

There have been thousands of media articles about the iPhone. Few of them have discussed the phone’s environmental credentials. Check out our video of the disassembly of the iPhone and what the tests revealed:

leaked Google phone Photo

We’ve seen a lot of Google Phone concepts in our day, but it’s really hard to determine which — if any — are for real. Here is the latest leaked photo of what may be the first official Google gPhone, but without any sort of confirmation from the search engine giant, we can’t say just how official this product shot really is.

A while back, we heard that HTC would be the firm that would actually manufacture the Google Phone, but what we see here is actually a handset from e28, a Chinese third-tier manufacturer. That’s strike one. Strike two comes from the fact that this phone isn’t terribly attractive or daunting in its design, and we’d imagine that Google would want something pretty for their freshman dance.

And then, we’ve got to wonder if this is the hardware heading to either Sprint-Nextel or Verizon, as reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier today.

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Facebook launching to compete adsense

ITs quite a strong rumour that Facebook is launching an ad network that will reach far beyond its website, much like Google’s AdSense. Now others are confirming it. AdAge reveals that several advertisers and agencies have been invited to a “discussion” being held Nov. 6 (presumably in time for Ad:Tech NY) where Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will “unveil a new way of advertising online. Feels like adsense  would be having tough time.

Unlocking iphone is now easy

Its easy to unlock Iphone with a website (jailbreakme.com) whre you can instantly install an application that then allows you to install and enjoy 3rd party applications.

If you’re running the latest firmware version on the iPhone or iPod Touch, Jailbreaking it couldn’t be easier. Here’s how:

1. Launch Safari on your iPhone and go to jailbreakme.com
2. Follow the instructions on the page and click on Install AppSnapp

According to the site, once you click to install, you should wait until the “Slide to Unlock” screen appears, which could take up to 5 minutes depending on the speed of your connection.

Once you slide you’ll see an Installer icon. Press that icon and start enjoying 3rd party applications.

The hackers even did you a favor and patched the very exploit (TIFF) that allowed them to gain access and jailbreak your iPhone to begin with.

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AdBrite to serve ads for facebook

Internet advertising marketplace AdBrite has announced a new ad program, tailored to the needs of Facebook application developers, who can now use a new web-based interface to join AdBrite’s ad inventory.

AdBrite co-founder Philip Kaplan claims that the demand from the Facebook application developers was already there, and that it was a logical move for the company. Popular Facebook applications like iLike, Zombies and Pirates already display AdBrite ads.

While the rights to display ads on Facebook itself are held by Microsoft, Facebook third party apps are there for the taking. the Facebook platform has been a huge success, and Facebook applications are already cashing in serious money for developers around the world, so AdBrite has done well to jump on the bandwagon before the competition does.

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Google is not coming out with a Googlephone

According to valleymag Google is not coming out with a Googlephone. But the idea is clearly so entrancing that tech reporters keep returning to it, as in a new Wall Street Journal article. The short version: Google will announce plans that, instead of involving its own models of cell phones, will work with existing carriers and handset makers. It’s a big comedown for Google’s wireless engineers, who have, it seems, wasted as much as $100 million Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin staked on the failed Googlephone project. But as a piece of corporate jujitsu, the Googlephone may still pay off brilliantly. The mere threat of a Googlephone may have been enough to corral some wireless carriers into its camp. And the most intriguing element? Google’s wireless software efforts will pull in existing mobile versions of Gmail and YouTube, among other Google services. But that’s not the key part, as my colleague Gizmodo editor Brian Lam has speculated. No, instead, Google’s hoping to establish a software platform that’s open to third-party developers. And that may be the trickiest part to sell. Wireless carriers are famous for restricting what software can run over their networks. That they would crown Google as the new kingmaker seems unlikely. About as unlikely, in fact, as a Googlephone

Nokia and Samsung makes 54% of the mobile phone market

Global mobile phone shipments grew a modest 12 percent year-over-year, to reach 285 million units in Q3 2007. Samsung and Nokia were the star performers while Motorola stayed on its down curve. “Total global cell phone shipments remain relatively sluggish, at just 12 percent annual growth, but Samsung and Nokia continue to surge ahead. Samsung is the fastest-growing top-five brand, with 47 percent annual shipment growth. Meanwhile, Nokia has easily the highest operating margin among all megavendors, with a 22 percent rate in its handset division,” commented Neil Mawston, Associate Director at Strategy Analytics.“The rise of Samsung and Nokia is coming partly at the expense of Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Samsung is rapidly picking up share in 3G feature phones, where Sony Ericsson has seen much recent success, while Nokia continues to outsell Motorola in the entry-tier GSM segment of emerging markets,” said Bonny Joy, Analyst at Strategy Analytics.

Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors Q3 2007
Nokia	88.5	34.90 %	111.7	39.20 %	10.97 %
Samsung	28.9	11.40 %	42.6	14.90 %	23.49 %
Motorola	53.7	21.20 %	37.2	13.10 %	-61.83 %
Sony Ericsson	19.8	7.80 %	25.9	9.10 %	14.29 %
LG	16.5	6.50 %	21.9	7.70 %	15.58 %
Others	46.4	18.30 %	45.7	16.00 %	-14.38 %
Total	253.8	100.00 %	285	100.00 %

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Holiday season to attract highest sales in 2007

Many analyst believes that highest this holiday season would attarct highests sales in comparison to last 2 years as companies have started focussing on this part of years as most highly selling index.

The holiday shopping season is almost upon us. Many online retailers are still trying to get everything ready for the anticipated hordes of shoppers who will be beating down their online gates to buy gifts for their loved ones and friends.

Most retail sectors depend heavily — and some, almost exclusively — on December sales  to make their yearly numbers. In fact, many online retailers will do more business  in the last 12 days before Christmas than the rest of the year combined.

Online shopping has become a part of the holidays themselves, with 24 percent more unique visitors to

the Index on Thanksgiving and 29 percent more on Christmas day than last year. Many people are taking

advantage of their holiday time off to go online and shop while brick and mortar stores are closed, which

means online shopping may soon take its place among the American holiday traditions of eating and

spending time with friends and family.

Biggest Holiday Online Shopping Day

The biggest online shopping day of the holiday season was December 12th with 30.4 million unique

visitors to the eShopping Holiday Index. On that day, eBay led the top shopping destinations with a

unique audience of 12.4 million, followed by Amazon with 6.1 million unique visitors, and Wal-mart.com

with 4.0 million (see Table 1).

As managing director, Paul Yates, comments, complacency can be the biggest enemy of any on-line business. He explains: “While Christmas may only just be over, effective SEO involves a lot of research, careful implementation and patience. It can take a long time for search engines to spider and index a site, so many well run businesses are already optimising their sites ready for next Christmas.”

Rrestaurant servers stealing their way to higher tips on credit card receipts

According tu Punny There’s a fascinating yet frightening discussion over at the FatWallet Finance Forums about restaurant servers stealing their way to higher tips on credit card receipts. Servers upset by low tips that they probably deserved have been known to edit the tip line of credit card receipts to bump up their tip. For example:

See how easily a measly tip is changed to a generous one by a disgruntled server or bartender?

The easiest way to combat this illegal and downright nasty behavior is to reconcile your receipts against your credit card statements each and every month. You’ll spot restaurant wrongdoing and be able to phone it in to your credit card issuer faster than you can say “there’s a fly in my soup.”

But for the trillions of people who don’t want to go through the trouble of reconciling their receipts each month, there’s an easier way to stop tip alterations just by glancing over your credit card statement each month. It involves using checksums to add a layer of security to your tip amount. The term “checksum” normally refers to a technique used by computer systems to ensure file integrity. Here, we’ll be using checksums to ensure human integrity.

There are many checksum systems you can use when tipping, but here’s a great example that’s easy to learn and can be performed without the aid of a calculator unless you suck at math really badly.

Step 1: Look over your receipt

You’ll get ripped off far more often for food and drink overcharges than you will by spiteful servers. Check each billed item and compare it to the menu price.

Step 2: Calculate the appropriate tip

Tip as you normally do without worrying about checksums for now. For our example, let’s say you had the following bill but service was slow, so you’d like to tip about 10%.

Step 3: Apply a checksum

That $4.71 is just begging to have ten dollars added to it, and $51.87 becomes $61.87 so easily. Foil these alteration efforts with this simple checksum method.

Adjust the amount of the tip so that the numbers in the final total to the left of the decimal point add up to the right-most digit. In this case, the total has a “51″ to the left of the decimal point (A). 5 + 1 = 6, so the final digit should be six. Adjust the total to $51.86 or $51.96 (B) by adding nine or subtracting one from the tip (C).

Step 4: Check your credit card statements each month

While the receipt will help you ensure no fraud was enacted upon your dining bill, you only need the statement to verify the checksum. For this example, simply locate the dining transaction, add the numbers to the left of the decimal point, and confirm that they add up to the right-most digit. If they don’t, you’ve been scammed.

This technique is not foolproof. If the scammy server had added nine dollars to the total—making it $60.86—the checksum calculation would still come back okay. But because it’s harder to turn a “51″ into a “60″ than a “61,” it’s unlikely your server will do this unless they’re wise to this particular checksum technique.

Step 5: Deal with the theft

If you hit a checksum that fails, dig out your copy of the receipt to confirm it doesn’t match the total on your statement. Next, do three things:

1. Call your credit card issuer. It should be fairly simple to get a credit for the difference between your actual bill and what you were forced to pay due to this fraud.
2. Call the police. You were the victim of a crime, so you should report it, even if it’s just a few dollars. If the stealing server has multiple victims who report his or her behavior, the police will likely take action against the server and/or the restaurant. Hopefully a few thieving restaurant workers behind bars will set enough of an example to discourage similar actions in others.
3. Call the restaurant (optional). At this point, you’ve likely got your money back and given all the information you can to law enforcement. You can try calling the restaurant to report the theft, but it might not do much. In the best case, the manager will recognize the server’s name on your receipt and confirm he or she has been suspected of wrongdoing. Maybe you’ll even get a free meal out of it for your trouble. Worst case, the restaurant does nothing.

The original poster in the FatWallet Finance Forum topic may be onto something when he or she says that this is probably one of the most widespread types of theft that goes unpunished. Now you have the tools to fight it. The next time you’re at a restaurant, eat, drink, be merry, and do a little extra math come tip time to help combat this rapidly growing problem.

Nokia Still Leads Worldwide Cell Phone Market

According to iSuppli, Nokia is still outselling its competitors in the mobile-phone handset market by more than two to one, and the company’s market share increased from the second quarter.

The analyst firm said that Samsung remains Nokia’s closest competitor. Nokia, however, controls 39.5 percent share of the market, while Samsung shipped only 15.1 percent of those phones sold during the third quarter. Motorola, Sony, and LG rounded out the top five, although iSuppli cautioned that Motorola’s market share estimate should be considered preliminary until Motorola reports its earnings later on Thursday morning.

As usual, the only market Nokia has had difficulty in is North America. iSuppli analyst Tina Teng said in an email that the third-quarter sales figures for the North American market were not available yet. Through the end of 2006, Nokia had roughly 15 percent of the North American market, placing it fourth behind Motorola, with a market share of 40 percent. LG and Samsung almost tied for second and third, respectively, she said.

Tired of Facebook? Try Hatebook

Here is your time to say and say hello to Hatebook. Hatebook is a Facebook parody site that looks and functions exactly like Facebook… except with an evil twist.Here’s a brief list of the “evil twist” to give you a better idea of how Hatebook compares to Facebook:

• if you want to mail message someone on Hatebook, it’s called “junkmail”
• instead of a blue color scheme, Hatebook is an evil red
• profiles (called “hate profiles”) include a section called “Why I’m Better Than You!”
• “Hate Albums” consist of photos and descriptions of things you hate
• Are you married? Single? Hatebook doesn’t care. Your status options consist of Hater, Player, Sucker, Loser, etc.

After we created a profile, we were greeted with the following message:

“Hello Sucker methodshop! Welcome to Hatebook! Your registration to the Evil Empire was successful. Feel free to pimp your hate profile.”

Also, you are suppose to enter in the wrong mailing address to hide from your enemies. I just used our P.O. Box. I don’t really mind if someone hates that. I don’t really like it myself.

But why just parody Facebook when you can improve it? The German creators of Hatebook have not only recreated Facebook’s functionality, they have also improved it. For example, they’ve integrated Google Maps into Hatebook (Evil Maps) so you can locate people you hate on a map.

Does everybody love to hate? Even advertisers? Time will tell. In the meantime feel free to hate MethodShop.com here: http://hatebook.org/user/methodshop

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Encryption software for Windows Mobile PDAs and PDA memory cards. Creates a secure storage for all business documents and files – all protected with the strongest algorithm available today – AES 256 bit. Protects private data from getting into wrong hands even if the device is lost or stolen. The encryption software creates a virtual storage card on the Windows Mobile PDA. Data moved to and from the virtual storage card is encrypted or decrypted on-the-fly using the 256-bit AES algorithm. Decryption and encryption is totally transparent and requires no action from the user. It transforms your PDA in a highly secure device, requiring mininum effort and user interaction. Features: Strong and unbreakable AES 256-bit encryption Encryption key backup File Erasing mechanisms compliant with the US Department of Defense specifications (U.S. DoD 5220.22-M) Windows Mobile File Explorer integration Ability to customise program behaviour – autotun, command line support, etc. Password quality meter Up to 10 encrypted storage cards supported No backdoors

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New Japan carrier enter wireless market

Today sees a new carrier enter Japan’s gorillapolistic cellphone market; eMobile, the cellular subsidiary of ADSL infrastructure company eAccess, is sliding in with a data-only HSDPA service that’ll start this March and grow a voice element in 2008.For the moment, they’re offering one standalone Windows Mobile 5 gadget, the Sharp EM ONE, which looks to be a remix of the WinMob units Sharp’s provided to Willcom thus far; it sports Bluetooth 1.2, 802.11b/g, OneSeg digital TV support, a 4.1-inch wide-VGA screen, and a “dual-slider” keyboard that can expose either the full QWERTY goods HTC-style or simply a directional/enter key, as desired. It will support voice calls once the network does, and it looks like Skype can fill in some of the gap for the meantime. (The remainder of the current range are CF/Express Card/USB devices for laptop use.)

Service costs run about Y5,980 per month before discounts, with the initial cost for an EM ONE determined by whether you opt to remain unfettered by contractual obligations (Y95,000), or go for a one-year contract (Y71,000) or two years (Y39,800).

Voice services will be supported in their initial phases by a roaming arrangement with NTT DoCoMo to provide nationwide coverage; it’s not entirely clear at present how extensive eMobile’s own network is.

[Via K-Tai Watch (Japanese) --Dotcommu]

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Tastebook launches

New startup TasteBook launches on Wednesday morning, with a lot of help from Condé Nast: an investment from their Internet unit, CondéNet as well as a partnership with Epicurious, a Condé Nast property.

Hardcover bookEasy-open binder makes it simple to add recipes anytime.

100 recipesEach TasteBook includes 100 recipes. Order them all at once or in batches.

Colored tabsOrganize your recipes any way you want with ten tabbed chapters.

Cooking notesAdd helpful hints, cooking tips, and personal notes to any recipe.

The perfect giftCreate a TasteBook as a special gift for bridal showers, family reunions, and holidays.

StumbleUpon goes with Google, Wikipedia and Yahoo and Flickr

News  reports that StumbleUpon, a fun Web discovery service, is getting a new feature, SearchReviews, that will take it beyond its historic role of hyperefficient time-waster. It could make it an integral part of the day-to-day browsing experience. SearchReviews pushes StumbleUpon ratings and other information into the search results pages on major search engines and content sites like Wikipedia, Google Reader, Flickr, and YouTube.

Users who run the StumbleUpon toolbar will now see little icons after search results on these sites that show them how popular a site is in the StumbleUpon community, the number of thumbs-up ratings it has, and who of their friends has rated the page

Skype to launch its first cellphone with 3

Skype is looking to take the next step in trying to dominate the telephone market by offering a completely wireless service. It aims to do this by launching its first cellphone with a little help from mobile operator 3. 3 is a cellphone network provider that currently operates in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Austria, Denmark, Italy

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Advertisers Look To Big Web Brands In Mobile

Moconews reports that While mobile advertising is growing strongly, apparently most advertisers are sticking with the familiar names they know from the web rather than the new start-ups targeting mobile. “Advertisers are buying up space on TWC, ESPN and other high-profile wireless Web sites, but lesser-known sites are still awash in excess inventory–even if those sites are wildly popular among young mobile users. AirG, for instance, recently surpassed the 20 million-customer mark, delivering its social networking offering in 10 languages and across more than 100 mobile operators. But despite the attractive demographics of its user base, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based startup is struggling to sell more than 10 percent of its ad space…“The last year’s been good,” said AirG spokeswoman Allison Johnson. “We’re definitely getting a lot more interest, but we’re still not selling anywhere near all of our inventory” reports RCR News. The general attitude seems to be that as the industry matures advertisers will be able to determine which mobile sites are the best for them to advertise with, and mobile marketing startups are keen to be there to close the gap. That being said, even AOL (NYSE: TWX) Mobile is reportedly having trouble, with the majority of the inventory left unsold.

As RCR notes, the potential size of the mobile advertising market varies widely depending on who you talk to. However, I’m calling out the line “AdMob said last week it delivered 673 billion–yes, with a ‘B’–ad impressions to U.S. mobile users in September alone.” I’m not exactly sure what they’re referencing, but this PDF of Admob Network Metrics puts the figure at 673 million, with an ‘m’. I’m going with the smaller figure, since 673 billion would roughly require every single person in the US to view an average of 75 mobile ads every day.

KPN’s 9 million customers get Miyowa’s Windows Live Messenger

Good news for the Miyowa team! Link: SourceWire | Press Releases – KPN Selects Miyowa for its Java Mobile Instant Messaging Service Miyowa, the European leader in mobile instant messaging, today announced that following on from KPN’s successful launch of Windows Live Messenger™ on i-mode last year, the company has now deployed the mobile Java version [...]Read the complete post here

The Google Way

GOOGLE engineers are encouraged to take 20 percent of their time to work on something company-related that interests them personally. This means that if you have a great idea, you always have time to run with it. NY has story on Over-enthusiastic Google engineer Bharat Mediratta, whose 1,000-word PR piece in today’s Times is one of those annoying little things the company should button up.

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MobileWrite for palm

Using MobileWrite, it is easy to enter text and data, in to your favorite Palm OS applications, by simply writing on the screen of your handheld, instead of using the keyboard. MobileWrite gives you an option to use standard letters, Graffiti 1 or Graffiti 2 letters. Using the standard letters, capitals and lowercase letters can be written as you normally would on paper. Updates: Improved the shorthand feature. Shorthands can be entered using the keyboard on the Treo. Date and time macros can be included in shorthands. Added 5-way navigation button support for the screens, and made other screen improvements. Improvement in recognition. Can be installed on an SD card.                                                         Download now Source

Few Snippets in mobie industry

·         Over 50% of South Koreans have migrated their cellphone account to 3G ·          South Korean youth replace cell phones every 11 months ·          99% of phones sold in South Korea in 2005 were camera phones ·          40% of South Korean youth send SMS text messages in class ·          37% of South Koreans download cellphone games ·         15% of South Koreans play video games on their cell phones every day ·          Over 30% of South Korean students send 100 text messages a day ·          20% of South Korean cellphone owners use Internet search on their cell phones ·          30% of South Koreans upload pictures from camera phones to socialnetworking sites ·          42% of South Korean cellphone owners send picture messages ·          Average amount of daily consumption of DMB digital TV on cell phones in South Korea is 129 minutes per day ·          43% of South Koreans use cellphonebased Internet ·          20% of South Korean DMB cellphone owners watch digital TV in the car ·          63% of South Korean cellphone owners use mobile payment ·          25% of all VISA cards in South Korea are provided via cell phone ·          45% of South Koreans buy MP3 files to phones ·          97% of South Koreans buy ring tones ·          45% of all music sold in South Korea is sold to cell phones ·          26% of South Koreans listened to MP3 songs on their cell phones in 2005  

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Guidelines for handling copyright-protected videos

A coalition of major media and Internet companies Thursday issued a set of guidelines for handling copyright-protected videos on large user-generated sites such as MySpace.

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Conspicuously absent was Google Inc., whose YouTube Web site this week rolled out its own technology to filter copyrighted videos once they’ve been posted.

Media companies Walt Disney Co., Viacom Inc., CBS Corp., NBC Universal and News Corp. joined Internet companies Microsoft Corp., MySpace, Veoh Networks and Dailymotion to issue the guidelines, which would require sites to use filtering technology to block copyrighted clips from being posted without permission

Google still high in Q3 profit

The Google train keeps on rolling. After seeing its stock rise above $600 per share not even two weeks ago, Google has exceeded forecasts by earning a profit of $1.07 billion in the third quarter of 2007, a 46% increase over the $733.3 million it earned during the same period in 2006. Sales have risen 57% to $4.23 billion.

The company is attributing the overall rise to the increasing profitability of search advertisements. Google’s stock has settled to about $639 since the announcement.

Google’s rival Yahoo, while recently reporting a 12% increase in revenue, hasn’t fared as well in terms of profit, which fell for them by 5% to $151.3 million in Q3.

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Suite of note and draw tools forPocket PC software

Nominated for Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards 2006 in the category The concept of Vsnotepad is to note, change pages and view your notes like a true notepad. Easy to use, powerful and complete. VSnotepad is adapted to the professional or personal situations. Include calculator, a really unique and usefull tool. Draw/note and calculate simultaneous in a fast way.

Include in the suite: -Vsnotepad Classic 1.9 -Vsnotepad Blue Version 1.9 -Vsnotepad Green Version 1.9 -Vsnotepad Painter 1.7 Include in  bonus: 2 amazing games Hit the monkeys 1.3 The Funkokys 1.3 Compatible Windows Mobile 5.0 Compatible Squared Screen (240×240 / 480×480 ) Designed to be like a true notepad. Optimized graphic Interface. Full screen Smoothed and detailed. Compatible QVGA/VGA Save your notes in jpeg format. Multiple Undo Compatible Phone Edition Calculator tool. Graphic Tools. Color selector. Easy creation and change page method. Show Current Time. Detection of the level of battery. English / French. Vspainter features advanced and unique tools to help you create your digital masterpieces with your Windows Mobile / Pocket PC. Design and save your creations in a easy way, just launch Vspainter and you get right in to painting by using standard brushs, special brushs, Shapes and others special effect including many tools like the smudge tool and the lightning and darkness pen. Vspainter is also able to create, store and view simultaneous creations. . Compatible Windows Mobile 5.0 Compatible Squared Screen ( 240×240 / 480×480 ) A good complement tool for your professional pc desktop software: Draw anywhere, anytime Full screen Compatible Phone Edition Compatible QVGA and VGA screen. General Speed Improve : 2 times faster. New improved Finger Tools : 50x faster and more realistic ! Better interface with flying windows Loading Pictures JPEG Better Undo Clone/Memo Stamps tools Clone Drawing Axis X/Y Flip Screen Horizontal / Vertical Zoom Screen 2x, 4x and 8x Change Colors RGB / Brightness / Contrast Colors manual selection 2 new predefinite colors palette Better Other Brush and Special Brush Better support of the transparency Fix interface bug Smoothed and detailed interface 10 standard Brush ( Including line, circle and square ) Smudge/Finger Tool Pickup Color Smooth Tool Eraser Tool Special drawing pen History Undo In help Clear Screen Lightning and Darkness Tool Colors Selection Windows 15 Alternatives Brush 16 Shapes Brush 16 Special Effect Brush ( including lightning, cloud, fire ) Use hotkeys to select, change pages or switch fullscreen mode Easy creation and change page methode Save your creation to JPEG files Show the current time in the tools bar Detection of low level battery English and French Download

Verizon Wireless in a boiling pot

Verizon Wireless found itself in a boiling pot of water after the company decided it would not allow a pro-choice abortion group named NARAL to use its mobile network to distribute opt-in SMS news alerts to its subscribers. Verizon Wireless said that company policy prohibits “highly controversial” and potentially “unsavory” messages from being distributed on its network, which is why they turned down the political organization.

This morning, the company reversed its decision in the face of outcry from pro-choice supporters and anti-censorship complaints from all corners of the country.

While Verizon Wireless does not monitor the contents of every SMS message sent on their network, the abortion rights group had hoped to establish a “short code” service (e.g., “text 55555″), which would need to be supported by each mobile operator to be effective on all networks. While their request was approved by other carriers, Verizon Wireless initially said “no.”

NARAL launched a response on their site, asking supporters to contact Verizon’s top executive to complain about “corporate censorship.” The site asks, “What kind of company would deny its customers the ability to use their cell phones to participate in our democracy?”

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Verizon wants to share costumer call records data with third parties

Verizon  Wireless has publicly expressed its intentions to start serving ads to its users, and now it has started: Jason Devitt, the founder of still-stealth Skydeck (founder of Vindigo) writes on his blog that he got a notice from VZW about CPNI (CPNI stands for Customer Proprietary Network Information…a user’s complete call records…an overview of CPNI is here), where Verizon wants to share these records with third parties.

CPNI stands for Customer Proprietary Network Information:so now  our call records, essentially. What numbers we called, how often, how long we spent on the phone, and how much it cost us. (It does not include our own names, numbers, or addresses.)

Verizon wants to share this data with third parties, and of course they need our permission: “you have a right, and we have a duty, under federal and state law, to protect the confidentiality of your CPNI.”

But that duty only goes so far: “Unless you provide us [Verizon Wireless] with notice that you wish to opt out within 30 days of receiving this letter, we will assume that you give the Verizon Companies the right to share your CPNI with the authorized companies as described above.”

VITO AstroNavigator GPS application for Mobile

VITO AstroNavigator II is the GPS application that displays sky map above you according to your current location, time and direction of movement. VITO AstroNavigator II supports the latest GPS receivers with the digital compass and rotates the screen according to your heading to display the right picture of the sky above you.

Even if you do not have a GPS receiver VITO AstroNavigator II can display the actual sky picture above you. All you need to do is to point to your place at the world map.

	The sky map in VITO AstroNavigator II contains over 9000 stars visible to the naked eye, planets of solar system including Sun, Moon and constellations.
	VITO AstroNavigator II provides you with easy search of sky objects. You can quickly pick a necessary planet, constellation or star by scrolling the list with the joystick.
	With VITO AstroNavigator II you are now able to identify any sky object and receive general information about them.
	You can choose what celestial bodies you want to be displayed for more convenient viewing. It is possible to turn on or off displaying of stars, planets, constellations, the grid.                                                     Download now

Google making Phone software & Mozilla on open-source Firefox browser

according to Miguel Helft people claims to have seen  the GPhone, complete with descriptions of what it looks like. Not all claims coincide. Regardless, that’s not bad for an effort about which Google has said nothing. Also to be noted is that Mike Schroepfer, the vice president for engineering of the Mozilla Foundation, announced that the group is working on a mobile version of its open-source Firefox browser.

Google’s entry into the phone business is big news. But the sources I talked to with knowledge of the project say Google is not building a phone. The company is building a mobile phone operating system, as well as what technologists call a “reference platform,” a set of specifications for how hardware makers would build a phone based on that software. Google is also beefing up its mobile applications, and it is believed to be creating software to ensure those apps run smoothly on as many phones as possible.

In a way, that looks a lot like what Microsoft does with Windows Mobile and Symbian does with its mobile operating system. Yet no one really talks about the “Microsoft Phone.” Rather, there’s the Motorola Q running Windows Mobile, the Palm Treo running Windows Mobile and so forth. So maybe speaking of the Google Phone is a bit of misnomer. Maybe we should simply be talking about the, well, we don’t yet know who will make these phones, but say if it were HTC, we would talk about the HTC phone running Google’s mobile Linux.

Then again, there is the possibility, raised by some analysts, that Google could decide to brand or co-brand phones with some manufacturers. In such a case, there really would be a Google Phone. It would also be the first time that Google would be pushing a consumer device, and as some people have noted, it could create conflicts for Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who sits on the board of iPhone maker Apple.

Take control of your communication

eWorks Pro? combines the best in class communication, attachment handling and call management features of DynoPlex’s graphical e-mail client and its industry leading spellchecker with IM+® by SHAPE Services, the best single client instant messaging solution supporting all major public IM formats: MSN®, AOL?, ICQ® , Yahoo!®, Google® Talk and Jabber®. As professionals become increasingly mobile they require the comprehensive communication tools to stay in-touch with colleagues, partners, and clients. eWorks Pro? provides that next level of communication experience by combining all critical means of communication into a single application with consistent user look and feel and closely integrated features.

Graphical E-mail Client with PIM Sending E-mail with Attachments Premium Attachment Viewers Instant Messaging: all-in-one IM+® Client Presence Awareness IM+ Contact Integration Call Logs Export, Calling Cards VOIP Calling Integrated Spellchecker

eWorks Pro? includes the eWorks?, IM+®, eSpell?, and eFile? modules

eWorks? is a comprehensive Personal Information Management solution for mobile professionals Through its Personal Information Manager (PIM), eWorks allows you to perform any MS® Outlook task on your handheld device. The four basic Outlook® functions – Calendar, Contacts, Memos and To Do’s – are available here at your fingertips and can be synchronized seamlessly with MS® Outlook and MS® Exchange. eWorks allows you to manage schedules and tasks, organize and edit e-mail attachments, SMS messages and files, and oversee your contact (list), wirelessly, with ease. eWorks goes beyond the limitations of standard BlackBerry® functionality, offering a global search function to access all records located on your device, and a built-in spell-check function to perfect your documents. Its flexible user interface also provides for customized appearance and data layout configurations.

eWorks? allows to compose formatted e-mails, attach files to e-mails, launch attachment viewers and editors. eWorks? supports advanced calling features: VOIP calling, multiple calling card support, call log export and call manager. Integrated PIM binds schedules, tasks and contacts together with communication components: E-mail, SMS and phone. Global Search function to search and access all records located on the BlackBerry® from a single interface. NEW  eWorks Desktop feature: Quickly and easily create and send e-mails from your laptop via your BlackBerry Smartphone while your computer is off-line. NEW  Buy Now: Quickly purchase our new applications over the air and use them straight away!

IM+® is a perfect instrument that provides for instant interactive communication and presence awareness. IM+ supports MSN®, AOL?, ICQ®, Yahoo!®, Google® Talk and Jabber®. Its main features include MSN conferences support; sending SMS via Yahoo; free SMS to Cingular Media Net, Cingular MMode, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon; storing contact list information on the servers, so that IM+® and a desktop client always use the same contact list; adding, removing, grouping, and sorting contacts; surfing to Web URLs and E-mail addresses; saving history for each user; searching and filtering message history; notifications of incoming messages and user status change; different alert types (Vibro, Sound, LED). Direct simultaneous connection to the supported services Encrypted messaging support (SSL) Contact list management functions Multiple Code Pages support Full presence status support Text and Graphic Broadcasting Full emoticons support eSpell? is an integrated device based spellchecker for the BlackBerry®. eSpell? is designed to provide fast, accurate and reliable spelling in any e-mail or document by detecting the misspelled words and suggesting correct spelling alternatives. eSpell? is flexible and expandable – adding new specialized dictionaries is possible at any time. Position yourself a cut above the rest with faultless spelling. eSpell? is a unique spellchecker ensuring that every email and document will leave your device in perfect form. eSpell? seamlessly integrates with native BlackBerry® e-mail composer and provides fast, accurate and reliable spelling of e-mails. eSpell? quickly detects misspelled words and suggests correct spelling alternatives. Spelling dictionaries are stored on the device and eSpell does not connect to a server to check spelling – meaning that there is no need to be in wireless coverage to check your messages. eSpell? supports use of specialized dictionaries such as Legal, Medical, Scientific, etc., and addition of new words to personal dictionary. eSpell? supports all languages available on the BlackBerry®.                                                                          DOWNLOAD NOW

In Game Advertising takes off

According to Marek Pawlowski these 5 phone will change the world of computing and the area of mobile handsets is due to change drasticlly as Here is id his full posts

Hide folders with invisible trick

Accrding to Jeff Dempsey You ever have a folder on your computer that you really dont want any one to find? You can make this folder hidden but then you have to un-hide all the folders when ever you want to find it. So how can you make a folder truly invisible? Follow these simple steps and your unmentionables will stay that way.

1. Right click where ever you want the invisible folder to be and select create a new folder.

2. Right Click on the folder and hit rename. Erase the name of the folder so there is nothing there.

3. If you try to stop here windows will tell you that you need to provide a name. So to get around this… with the name field still active hold down ALT and press 0160 on the number pad (make sure Num Lock is on), release alt

You should now have a blank name with nothing but a folder next to it

4. Now click on the nameless folder and right click. Select Properties.

5. Go to the Customize tab.

6. Find and press the Change Icon button. Scroll through the icons until you find one that has no image.

4. Hit OK and you have an invisible folder!

With the invisible folder you can hide what ever undesirables you have. Be it video games at work, pictures of your family or anything else you can think of “wink”.

The folder will show up for a brief second if you put it on your desktop. For that reason it might be smart to place it inside a folder or amongst a group of folders.

Test the performance and availability of your website from 11 locations around the world

With dot.com you can Test the performance and availability of your website from 11 locations around the world. Simply click on the button for the test that you would like to run and input your info. This is the only testing wizard online that gives you results from around the world.

Dotcom-Monitor has remote agents positioned around the globe that act like an Internet browser. Once you create an account with us and submit URLs you would like to monitor, the process starts immediately. Our agents will start checking your site with the frequency that you’ve set up. The agents monitor your web site to insure the web site is accessible, has proper content, and is maintaining good performance. If any of these things fall outside specified parameters, the notification process starts.

	Accessibility & Availability Check
	Web Site Accessibility Monitoring insures that your web site is accessible from multiple locations around the world. If the web site is not accessible, we take a traceroute snapshot and record it along the with an error message.  Click here for an example.
	Performance Check
	Web Site Performance Monitoring checks the time it takes for your server to respond to the monitoring agent’s request. You can specify the threshold, for example, 5 seconds. This is the time that you expect your page to load on the client browser. If, for example, your page takes over 5 seconds to load, we will notify you about

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Gamers Choice: The 25 Most Popular Mobile Phones of 2006

In a year that over 14% of mobile phone owners played a mobile phone game and over 1 billion new mobiles were sold, prospects for mobile phone gamers and developers has never been better. MobileRated brings developers and gamers together. This list is presented as a service to the global game community. List shows manufacturer, model, and marketshare on MobileRated.

The MobileRated Gamers Choice 25 Most Popular Mobile Phones of 2006 are:

1. SonyEricsson W810i (3.35%)
2. RIM BlackBerry 8100 Pearl (2.72%)
3. SonyEricsson K750i (2.60%)
4. Nokia 6600 (2.59%)
5. Motorola RAZR V3 (2.49%)
6. SonyEricsson K800i (2.30%)
7. Nokia N70 (2.19%)
8. Nokia N73 (1.99%)
9. SonyEricsson W300i (1.95%)
10. Nokia 6620 (1.92%)
11. Motorola SLVR L7 (1.84%)
12. Nokia 6630 (1.52%)
13. Motorola V360 (1.43%)
14. Motorola L6 (1.29%)
15. Nokia 6280 (1.26%)
16. Nokia N80 (1.25%)
17. Motorola RAZR V3i (1.19%)
18. Motorola RAZR V3x (1.15%)
19. Nokia 3220 (1.12%)
20. SonyEricsson K700i (1.11%)
21. SonyEricsson W800i (1.10%)
22. RIM BlackBerry 8700 (1.07%)
23. Samsung SGH-D600 (0.99%)
24. Nokia 6680 (0.99%)
25. Nokia 6230 (0.97%)

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5 free sofwares for HTC

Most Wanted Fugitives for Pocket PC
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	“Make the world a safer place–help the FBI catch the ten most wanted fugitives. View the criminals’ description on your mobile, track them down and win hands …
Bible Names Glossary for Windows Smartphone /Free/
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	Free bible names dictionary for Windows Mobile® smartphones
BYTE@HAND 15 Puzzle
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	The 15-puzzle is constructed with 15 numbered sliding tiles packed into a 4×4 frame. The object of the puzzle is to arrange the tiles in the right order using f …
SmaryoContacts for Pocket Pc
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	Auto Dialing and play voice message,Full text index,Calculator,Full function free download….
SmaryoContact for Smartphone
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	Auto Dialing and play voice message,Full text index,Calculator,Full function free download….

5 best HTC Softwares

Sunnysoft Contacts
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	First complete contacts from Windows Mobile. Adjust contacts to your actual needs. This application make management of them significantly quicker. It integrat …
SmartBlock for Smartphone
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	The smart way to block unwanted calls and SMS messages – never be disturbed!
SecuBox for Pocket PC
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	Encrypt your Windows Mobile PDA and its memory cards. SecuBox creates a secure storage for all important and business critical files, including Pocket Word, Exc …
VITO Ringtone Editor
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	VITO Ringtone Editor is the quickest way to create your own ringtones right on Smartphone. All you need to do is listen to the melody and choose its part to ass …
Resco Explorer 2007 for PocketPC
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	The WINNER of the PocketPC Magazine Awards. This advanced File Explorer can compress files with build-in ZIP, encrypt files, view registry, view text and image …

Facebook Rumor: A New MySpace

Facebook is working on a platform for bands that will be launched later this year. This was reported on paidContent.org. They said that the rumor was started yesterday morning.

According to the rumors, Facebook will offer more to bands than MySpace does. They will let bands and labels to create pages, and let them embed custom widgets to market their events and music.

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5 ways to secure your mac

Mac users: you’re most likely not running any virus scanners or spyware killers, but you’re just as vulnerable to careless computing habits that could compromise your system as anyone else. Macworld lists five ways you can secure your Mac, including:

• Use admin accounts for administration only
• Don’t share user accounts
• Turn on password prompts
• Encrypt sensitive files (Ed: more on that)
• Attach a security cable

While most people probably have never used that lock slot for a security cable (have you?), the rest of these are just good habits to get into regardless of operating system

Yahoo to Purchase 10 Percent or $100M of Alibaba IPO

According to various reports, Yahoo is going to buy either a 10 percent stake or $100 million worth of the forthcoming public offering of B2B site Alibaba.com on the Hong Kong exchange. The company already owns a significant minority stake (39 percent) of Alibaba Group, the parent of Alibaba.com. It would be buying a stake directly in the B2B site. As Loren Baker explains, Yahoo doesn’t own its foreign sites, which are typically operated as joint ventures with local control.

Google has bought Jaiku

Google has bought Jaiku, a Twitter-like service for quick or short blogging.

We’re joining Google from the Jaiku team shows their excitement for the news. Because Google acquisitions usually lead to a mad rush of user sign ups, Jaiku has decided to limit the number of new users who can sign up. If you are a Jaiku user already, you may want to read the Google FAQ they posted today.

Google said they “plan to use the ideas and technology behind Jaiku to make compelling and useful products.”

Lots of people are asking, why didn’t Google buy Twitter instead?

There is extensive coverage on the acquisition at Techmeme.

GPS navigation on modern cellphones and smartphones

The MobiTrackPRO is a J2ME midlet for GPS navigation on modern cellphones and smartphones. MobiTrack connects a GPS receiver that utilize NMEA output protocol to a cellphone to display GPS data and/or to transmit it to an Internet server. It can be used with any bluetooth GPS receiver such as the HOLUX GR-320 or with GPS receiver connected via cable. MobiTrack is able to display on the cellphone satellite positions, latitude, longitude, altitude, UTC time, HDOP and other information. More features:

• Loading of waypoints from KML files
• Pan map and track
• Loading of Google and Virtual Earth maps with smart caching
• Optimized GUI for hi-res display (208×208px)
• Loading of pixel maps (map,gmi and jpg,gif,png), waypoints (wpt) and NMEA logs (ubx) from MMC card
• Saving of track (plt) and waypoints (wpt) to MMC card
• Fast start with last good-known GPS configuration
• Separate intervals for local saving of points in track and for transfering current position to NetGPS server script via GPRS connection
• Sending last good-known position, speed and course by SMS
• Sending coordinates of waypoints by SMS
• Loading of routes from kml and rte files

Compatible Devices

Every body loves music

 

The best things often come in small packages. spotify have created a powerful, but extremely lightweight software application that users will simply download. You can then log onto our service at which point our proprietary technology methods enable on demand streaming of music.

Down in the vaults at Spotify we’re busy putting together one of the biggest collections of music available anywhere, carefully ordered and tagged with metadata that makes it easy to search, find and explore. Our development team keep polishing the product by adding new features that strengthen the user experience.

120,000 new blogs are created every day

According to Sirfy the blogs are growing every second and they are are about wde range of topics. Here are few details of blogs

120,000 new weblogs are created worldwide each day.

That more than 1.5 million blog posts are published each day.

That the most popular blogging language is Japanese, not English

 

The chart above shows a graph of the most influential or authoritative blogs as compared with the most authoritative “big media” sites. Certainly, top-quality journalism, interesting articles, and consistency of quality show why the top big media sites are on top

Total Recall ™ the easiest, most user friendly extended/conversation/call recorder

From the Makers of BlackBaller ™ & AutoPilot two of the most popular Series 60 Programs around, and innovators of their day comes Total Recall (tm) – Quite Simply the easiest, most user friendly Conversation/Extended Recorder Utility ever.

FEATURES INCLUDE:

Standalone Recording Utility (for when you are not on a call

Extremely small footprint

Record in either AMR or WAV

Intelligent clip naming

Send clips via BT, Irda, Email and more!

One button recording

But don’t just take our word for it, download a free 14 day demo version and see for yourself!

Updated! August 2nd 2006 – Update Inlcudes:

You can now record in both AMR & WAV format with more formats coming soon

Standalone recording feature now fixed

Direct recording to MMC card

Program stays hidden or displays recording details – your choice!

Recorded clips are now named using the caller’s phone number

Options to send recorded clips via BT, IrDA, Email & MMS

Clips can be copied over to MMC card for easy storage and or transfer

Various bug fixes and program enhancements to make a smarter, faster and better looking program!

Mac Marketshare at Universities Booming?

The DailyPrincetonian reports on a growing trend amongst at least some universities.

The Princeton University newspaper reports that Princeton’s Mac marketshare has been rising dramatically, with 40 percent of students and faculty currently using a Mac as their personal computer. This number is up from only 10% of Mac users on campus only 4 years ago. And this number could still be growing. This year, the University’s Student Computer Initiative reportedly sold more Macs than PC’s, with 60 percent of students choosing a Mac, up from 45 percent just last year. Students were offered a choice of Dell, IBM and Apple computers.

This follows a recent report that looked at a similar trend at many other colleges. According to a separate Pioneer Press survey, Dartmouth is up to 55% freshman with Macs (up from 30% in 2005), University of Virginia with 20% of freshman with Macs (up from 17% in 2006), and Cornell with 21% dorm network users with a Mac (up from 5% between 2000-2002).

PioneerPress attributes the uptick in sales to the popularity of the iPod, security of Mac OS X, design and ease of use.

These numbers are much higher than the general population, in which Mac marketshare numbers have been hovering around 5-6%. (All of these figures may not be directly comparable, as marketshare numbers typically represent new sales in a particular time-period rather than the installed base. Regardless, the numbers are still significantly higher than would be expected.)

3 new iPhone television advertisements

Apple has posted three new iPhone television advertisements yesterday

which show iPhone users talking about how they use their iPhone and its advantages

Great widget for monitizing your content….by SMS.

Zong is the only web service that enables you to create and launch mobile services in 10 countries in under 10 minutes and generate revenues from each transaction. Through Zong’s intuitive interface, you will create you service in a few clicks, you will then be able to market it to your user base and make money today! Zong is a service of Europe’s Mobile Media solutions leader, Echovox, which has direct connections and relationships with over 50 mobile operators.

Creating mobile services has never been easier.

I create my
mobile service I launch my service Subscribers access my services from their mobile I make money

The mobile operator takes a commission on each transaction for handling billing, collection and credit risk. It then pays the remaining amount to ZongZong then pays you the revenue generated by your service minus a small transaction fee that can be as low as 3% of what it gets from the operator (* % varies according to volume, the more volume, the smaller the fee).

Music industry wins song-download case

A U.S. jury has handed a victory to the music recording industry, which had claimed a Minnesota woman infringed song copyrights by using online media to illegally download and distribute music, according to court documents.In the civil case, a jury in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on Thursday found that Jammie Thomas infringed copyrighted song recordings, according to documents. The jury awarded damages of $9,250 for each of 24 recordings, or a total of $222,000, according to documents.

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Create An Fake ID Badge

 With  this you can Make your own ID card, press pass, name tag, unofficial Flickr badge, or any other kind of identification. Print it out, laminate it, wear it with pride! Make any kind of identification* easily in just a few seconds.

Fake ID Badge

Create An Fake ID Badge

 With  this you can Make your own ID card, press pass, name tag, unofficial Flickr badge, or any other kind of identification. Print it out, laminate it, wear it with pride! Make any kind of identification* easily in just a few seconds.

Fake ID Badge

Is this the BlackBerry 9xxx?

Just in case you’d been getting tired of iPhone rumors, Zune 2 leaks, and more Centro “in the wild” shots than you can really stomach, we’ve got something to alleviate the pressure. Enter the Photoshopped yet appropriately-blurry, rumored next phase of the Research In Motion takeover… the BlackBerry 9xxx. Okay, adjust your eyeballs and listen up — according to the Boy Genius Report, the new device is slated to launch sometime in early 2008, and will be delivering mouth-watering goods like HSDPA-ified 3G, a 600Mhz processor, and an integrated backup / restore function which should help keep the suits from sweating themselves out of their expensive leather office chairs. Of course, this is all deeply, deeply unconfirmed at the moment, though the Boy Genius says he has a source. We suggest taking it with a grain of salt — but feel free to dream

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Want to make an appointment to see the doctor!Doctor 2.0 is here

While ZocDoc is busy creating a platform for doctors to interact with their patients, Dr. Jay Parkinson figures he already has the tools he needs to run a Web 2.0-style medical practice.

Want to make an appointment to see the doctor? Check out his Google Calendar for availability and shoot Parkinson a text message or e-mail. He’ll text you back and then make a house call with as little as an hour’s notice. He doesn’t have an office. Instead he has e-mail, instant messenger, and a cellphone. And Parkinson uses Life Record to keep his medical records online.

Parkinson is based in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, where he is targeting young creative professionals, many of whom are freelancers. That means they don’t have full time jobs with health benefits. So he charges $500 a year for an initial checkup and up to 2 house calls. If you need more, you can pay per visit. If you need a specialist, he’ll direct you to one. Since Parkinson isn’t part of a medical network, he’s contacted thousands of NY area doctors to discover specialists with the lowest prices for a variety of procedures.

What do you think? House calls are great and all, but would you be willing to see a doctor that doesn’t even have an office?

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Justin.tv opens its lifecasting platform to anyone with a webcam

First there was Justin. For the past few months, you’ve been able to watch life through the eyes (or camera) of a guy named Justin who has been broadcasting his life on the internet 24 hours a day. Then there was Justine, a conveniently named blogger who stepped to wear the dorky hat. Gradually, Justin.tv has added more and more channels to its “lifecasting” platform, and today the team has announced that they are opening up the platform to pretty much anyone who doesn’t mind sharing their lives over the web.

You’ll need to be 13 or older to participate, and obviously you’ll need a webcam, computer, and internet connection. The Justin.tv front page makes flipping from channel to channel a breeze. There’s a Cover Flow-like interface that you can scroll through, or if you know the name of the channel you want to see, you can use the search bar. But honestly, there’s something kind of compelling about flipping from one lifecast to the next. It’s kind of like flipping TV channels hoping that you’ll land on something interesting, even though you know there’s nothing good on.

[via NewTeeVee]

Microsoft has released Bungie Studios from its ownership

According to an email received by the Post-Intelligencer, Microsoft has released Bungie Studios from its ownership. The deal is apparently done, but Microsoft wishes to hold the public announcement until after October 6 for the protection of quarterly financial results.

The email reads: “Apparently MS just wants Bungie to make Halo for the rest of their natural days, and Bungie doesn’t like how MS is constantly trying to “handle” everything they do; the way they market their games, the way they interact with their fans (basically the fact that they do appreciate their fans), and how stingie [sic] they are with the profits (comparable to the rest of the industry). So as of today they are their own independent entity.”

Game Informer checked with its own sources and reports that Bungie and Microsoft separated on October 1, 2007. According to the magazine, Bungie did not wish to be tied down to indefinitely making Halo games. As a result, shareholders of Bungie bought the studio name back from Microsoft for “an unstated, but significant amount of money.”

Microsoft will retain all rights to the Halo franchise, assuring that the Master Chief will never grace competitors’ systems, and will also hold “the right of first refusal on future games,” meaning that Halo 3 probably won’t be the last Xbox 360 exclusive title from Bungie Studios.

Bang and Olufsen and Samsung officially launch the Serenata music cell phone

Bang and Olufsen and Samsung has finally officially announced the launch of their new joint venture that is the Serenata music cell phone, we know that the news about this new cell phone is old but both electronic giants Bang and Olufsen and Samsung have held back on the official announcement until now.

When one of the best mobile phone makers ‘Samsung‘ gets together with the best audio maker in the world ‘Bang and Olufsen‘ you know that the phone that they make will be something special. The Serenata will boast cutting edge mobile phone technology with superb sound quality

When listing to music through this new cell phone the sound that you hear from the built-in stereo loudspeaker system claims to offer hi-fi quality sound, this is sure to be a hit with many mobile phone users. The phone offers a 4GB memory capacity, and the 2.4-inch screen makes it easy to select from your favorite tunes.

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Google acquires Zingku social mobile platform

Google drive for the mobile space seems relentless. It has acquired mobile social networking and communication platform Zingku. Zingku released a statement Thursday saying that it had entered into an agreement to have Google acquire its service, but did not give details. Meanwhile Google has issued no formal statement, reports CBC News.

Google acquires Zingku.

Google has entered an agreement to acquire “certain assets and technology” from mobile platform operator Zingku.

According to Zingku:

Our service is designed from the mobile phone, outward, allowing you to create and exchange things of interest ranging from invitations to “mobile flyers” with friends in a trusted manner. On the mobile phone, Zingku uses standard text messaging and picture messaging features that come with every phone. On the web, our service uses your standard web browser and instant messenger. There is nothing to install.”

We don’t have a lot of information about the company (including location; there are no details on their site) although a Google search would suggest that the company may have been funded by Flagship Ventures. If we find any more details we’ll update the post. The acquisition price was not disclosed.

(via Google Blogscoped)

CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment

CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2007, the largest wireless data event in the industry, truly embodies the ever-changing, dynamic and innovative world of wireless data in Enterprise and in Entertainment. This is the one show that brings key audiences such as enterprise users, solution providers, content owners and mobile distribution channels together to form strategic partnerships, service industry needs and create new innovations in wireless data.

Microsoft to acquire a stake in Facebook.

Microsoft reportedly is negotiating to acquire a minority stake in social networking service Facebook. The Wall Street Journal reports Microsoft’s proposals could value Facebook at $10 billion or higher–Microsoft is seeking to purchase a stake of up to 5 percent, at a cost between $300 million to $500 million, said sources close to the talks.

But Microsoft is not the only potential suitor: The WSJ says Google also is interested in acquiring a Facebook stake. Microsoft is said to be exploring a relationship with Facebook to help shift the balance of new-media platform power away from Google–Facebook, which counts more than 40 million users and adds more than 200,000 new subscribers each day, anticipates 2007 profits of $30 million on revenue of $150 million. Facebook reportedly is seeking to generate as much as $500 million in cash for acquisitions of its own. Sources add the company is also developing its own ad platform, enabling marketers to target users via personalized ads. Representatives for Microsoft, Facebook and Google all declined comment.

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GPS Navigation and Mapping Utilities Pack for Windows Mobile Pocket PC

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Digital compass, speedometer with alarm, real-time map navigation… Efficasoft GPS Utilities is now available on Windows Mobile Pocket PC!

Get GPS Utilities for your Pocket PC and be ready for travelling, hiking, driving, geocaching and more!

Fully supports Windows Mobile Pocket PC (2003, 2003SE, WM5, WM6), VGA (480×640) and horizontal screen.

Summarized view shows all your GPS information at a glance. Graphical satellites state display with detailed statistics.
Two-mode digital compass. Digital speedometer with easy setting speed limit and sound alarm.
World map view displays your location anywhere in the world with free-scale zooming.
Friendly interface design, switch views at a single finger touch. Works with any serial, Compact Flash or Bluetooth GPS device that supports the standard NMEA0183 protocol (that’s almost all GPS receivers!). Auto detects Bluetooth GPS devices. Multilanguage support – English, German Fully supports Windows Mobile Pocket PC (2003, 2003SE, WM5, WM6), VGA (480×640) and horizontal screen.

Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug

tibbar66 writes with news of a serious multiplication bug in Excel 2007, which has been reported to the company. The example first that came to light is =850*77.1 — which gives a result of 100,000 instead of the correct 65,535. It seems that any formula that should evaluate to 65,535 will act strangely. One poster in the forum noted these behaviors: “Suppose the formula is in A1. =A1+1 returns 100,001, which appears to show the formula is in fact 100,000… =A1*2 returns 131,070, as if A1 had 65,535 (which it should have been). =A1*1 keeps it at 100,000. =A1-1 returns 65,534. =A1/1 is still 100,000. =A1/2 returns 32767.5.”Read more of this story

 

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IM+ for Skype for (Symbian series)

IM+ for Skype is a mobile software that allows users to chat with Skype friends and call any PC/mobile/landline phone, regardless of the WiFi zones. Pure Skype quality with no extra voice delays! Skype Certified.

Skype wirelessly anywhere in a cost-effective way  IM+ for Skype is the unique mobile application that enables voice and text communication with other Skype users and provides cost-effective calling to landlines and mobiles.   The application is completely mobile. No desktop with Skype is necessary. All you need is a mobile device with Internet connection and SkypeOut credits to make/receive calls. IM+ for Skype is network independent, working in GSM, 3G and CDMA and doesn?t require WiFi. Call Skype users from any Symbian S60 v3 mobile. With IM+ for Skype you can talk with other Skype users all over the world. Enjoy high quality of voice communication – clear sound, no delays even for long-distance calls!Make cost-effective calls to any destination. IM+ for Skype is based on SkypeOut service that allows users to make and receive calls for extremely low fees. See who is online and chat with Skype users. Text messaging is cost effective way to say something instead of sending an SMS. One Time Fee, all updates included. One time fee for the application, no monthly subscription. By purchasing IM+ for Skype users are entitled to all products upgrades. Saving with IM+: Cost effective mobile telephony. See how you can save: § Example 1: Call from UK Vodafone phone to PC with Skype. Let?s say Mary is on IM+ for Skype, lives in UK and her carrier is Vodafone. Mary wants to call her friend who has Skype on her PC. SkypeOut rate will be equal to destination rate for calling to UK Vodafone of €0.205 per minute plus the connection fee rate (€ 0.039). § Example 2: Call from UK Vodafone phone to landline in USA. Let?s say Mary is on IM+ for Skype, lives in UK and her carrier is Vodafone. Mary wants to call her college friend who lives in USA, Florida to her phone number. To calculate the SkypeOut rate, just add the destination rate for calling to to UK Vodafone (€0.205) and the destination rate to call to USA (€0.017). So the rate to call from USA to UK via IM+ for Skype is €0.222 per minute plus the double connection fee rate (€0.078). You can save even more by using ANY landline number instead of mobile! SkypeOut tariffs to landlines and mobiles are different and in most cases calling to mobile is much more expensive than calling to landlines. You can enter any landline number (it can be the phone number of a friend you came to visit, or even a phone number of a local restaurant) in the Call Back field in IM+ and the call will be forwarded to the number you indicate. § Example 3: Call from UK Vodafone phone to landline in USA with Call Back to landline. Let?s say Mary is on IM+ for Skype, lives in UK and her carrier is Vodafone. Mary wants to call her college friend who lives in USA, Florida to her phone number. To make the most economy call Mary enters the landline UK number of her Mother in the Call Back field. Now the rate will include the destination rate for calling to to UK landline (€ 0.017) and the destination rate to call to USA (€ 0.017). So the rate to call from USA to UK via IM+ is € 0.034 per minute plus the double connection fee rate ( €0.078). System Requirements: any Symbian S60v3 mobile device connected to Internet; SkypeOut credits for voice communications. SkypeOut is your personal account where you can add Skype credit to make and receive calls in IM+ for Skype. Skype credit is necessary for any incoming or outgoing calls. You can get SkypeOut on the official Skype website. Third party trademarks, trade

iPhone transforms AT&T network

The iPhone has certainly had an impact on customer’s wallets, on Apple’s Mac OS release schedule and on competitors like Nokia and Motorola. Now, it seems that the device has also had an impact on AT&T’s cellular network. AT&T says that network upgrades go on all the time, but 20,000 new radios seems like a significant change for a single new device. The upgrades are having an impact beyond the iPhone, though–customer churn is low, and customer satisfaction is high. With results like these, the iPhone could prove important to AT&T for a long time to come.

 

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T-Mobile USA snags BlackBerry Curve with WiFi

AT&T recently announced the launch of the BlackBerry 8820 with WiFi, now T-Mobile USA has announced that it will offer the BlackBerry 8320, or the BB Curve with WiFi. The design is the same as the original Curve, which runs on AT&T’s network, but the new Curve has a broader keyboard and a 2 megapixel camera. The old Curve has no camera. T-Mobile is offering the handset for $249.99 with a two-year contract. It comes in either ”pale gold” or “titanium.” Interesting that there have been a couple of high profile WiFi-enabled phone launches since the 700 MHz debate over open access and open devices. Here’s what the handset looks like in pale gold

SK Telecom invests $270M in Helio

SK Telecom plans to invest up to $270 million in Helio, the wireless voice and data services joint venture that the company shares with EarthLink. The MVNO had 130,000 subscribers in August, however it could post a loss of up to $360 million for the year. The continuous losses have been affecting EarthLink’s bottom line. EarthLink’s stock got a bump in the right direction upon announcing the SK Telecom cash infusion.

Tradewinds a best-selling game of Far East trade and pirate adventures.

Tradewinds 2? is the sequel to Tradewinds® – a best-selling game of Far East trade and pirate adventures.

Tradewinds 2? offers players a brand new adventure based in the exotic seas of the Caribbean. Building on the trading fun of the first game,

Tradewinds 2? features 20 all new ports to explore, new ships and weapons to buy and upgrade, new goods to trade in, and a brand new feature – tasks to complete for honor and reward. In each port, the Governor may request the help of your captain – from simple shopping tasks to rescuing fair maidens and defeating dangerous pirates.

Elicit help at the Inn, and buy charms and amulets from the trader to help your safe passage to the next port. Choose from 5 characters to captain your ship, or even create your own with the character generator, and then set sail for your adventure. Tradewinds 2? offers two play modes – Story Mode and Free Trade Mode – both offering many hours of game play. With over a hundred different tasks in a range of different character combinations encompassing different ports, Story Mode has excellent replay value. Free Trade Mode offers a different challenge, where players sail the seas to trade amongst ports and build their fortunes. Over 100 hours of gameplay! 20 Caribbean ports to discover and explore Upgrade your ship and weapons Defeat dangerous pirates in exciting sea battles Complete tasks and missions for honor and reward

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football that automatically measures the distance

 You can find this really neat football that automatically measures the distance it gets thrown or kicked. Pretty cool right? And another cool thing is that it’s only $20.

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Sensor accurately determines distance ball is thrown

Oversize readout shows distance

Comfort grip for throwing ease

Durable foam construction

Advanced electronics register a distance readout upon impact of the throw

Digital LCD display

Accurate to within 1 yard

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Hidden Expedition: Titanic [PPC - WM5]
	Explore the wreckage of the sunken Titanic and discover her hidden treasure
$ 19.95   $ 15.96  Untill 17/10/2007
UBF [PPC - QVGA]
	A non-stop, round-the-world bowling challenge tournament for your handheld
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Atomica [ Smartphone]
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	Make Molecules in Dr. Atomica’s Laboratory! Build up atomic power by moving atoms to make larger and larger molecules, but watch out, otherwise your test board …
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Bookworm [WM 2003 - Pocket PC]
	Bookworm is a popular word game based on the online and PC classic from PopCap. Feed Lex the Worm’s endless appetite by joining letters on the library wall! Use …
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Alchemy [WM 5.0 - Pocket PC]
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	Turn lead into gold in Astraware’s addictive PopCap puzzle game! Can you turn lead into gold ? Can you become the mythical Alchemical Grand Master? Place …
$ 9.95   $ 7.96  Untill 17/10/2007
Bzzz [Smartphone]
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	Life is easy for a frog – or so you thought. But what if those flies decided to get their own back… ? You’ve got to keep your frog happy and well fed by helpi …
$ 9.95   $ 7.96  Untill 17/10/2007
Seven Seas [Smartphone]
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	Navigate your galleon through hazardous waters, avoiding pirates, reefs, and even sea monsters!
$ 9.95   $ 7.96  Untill 17/10/2007

Xerox aims to challenge HP

Xerox have introduced five printers, including the Phaser 8860, which features new solid-ink technology, saying the system puts the cost of color pages on par with that of black-and-white.

Solid ink uses wax ink sticks rather than the cartridges of powdered toner found in laser printers. The process works like that of a high-end offset press to create richer colors, the company says, and has significantly fewer disposable parts, which leads to lower maintenance costs.

“If you compare HP color toner to what our inks will be, we will be one-fifth the price. We think it’s going to help us grow our market share and attract a lot of customers who maybe don’t consider Xerox today,” said Jim Rise, a Xerox vice president.

Experts say color documents are seen as more effective in communications, but the cost of buying new color printers, supplies and service contracts has been a barrier to adoption.

Ergo Bike Premium 8i

Exercise bikes are as common as the dust that collects on them when they sit in the corner unused. The Premium 8i adds a new motivator in the form of head to head racing against other riders anywhere in the world on a simulated course. You can even trash-talk over VOIP and monitor their biometrics. Plug in a laptop via USB and you can see real-time video streams of your competition. Priced at $3500 Source

15 things Apple Need to correct in iphone

According to computer world The iPhone will likely go down as the most successful launch of any technology product in history. It’s a truly revolutionary product and deserves much of the praise it has received — but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.In the spirit of constructive criticism, we’re offering up 15 big things that Apple can do in the next generation of iPhones to make using an iPhone even better. Apple hasn’t said when the next-gen devices will make their appearance, but some Apple watchers have speculated early 2008.

1. Get on the 3G train
2.  Add GPS
3. turn auto-correct into auto-complete
4. Support a landscape-oriented keyboard systemwide
5. Provide third-party developer support and an iPhone SDK.
6. Add mobile iChat
7. Allow iPhones to be used as hard drives.
8. Support Bluetooth syncing
9. Add video capture.
10. Add a flash.
11. Provide push e-mail.S
12. sync to-dos with iCal or Outlook.
13. Sync notes with your computer
14. Add an RSS reader.
15. Send text messages to multiple contacts at once

Verizon Wireless to join Vodafone in upgrade to LTE

Verizon Wireless and Vodafone Group plc are planning to move to Long Term Evolution technology as the 4G evolution path for their respective networks, according to remarks by company executives this week. Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone, and Verizon Communications Inc. chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg, spoke about the technology choice at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference yesterday. Vodafone and Verizon control Verizon Wireless through a joint venture. Sarin laid out a path toward LTE evolution within the next three to four years. Vodafone relies on GSM- and HSPA-based technology for wireless high-speed data access in its properties abroad, while Verizon Wireless—45% owned by Vodafone—is a CDMA operator whose most recent network upgrade has been to EV-DO Revision A.

Google gPhone Waiting on 3G?

Google is reportedly considering launching its mobile phone with 3G capability, a move which would push the launch to the first half of next year rather than the end of this year…but the sheer number of rumors seems to indicate the phone is definitely on the way.

“Google will definitely launch its own-brand handset but has yet to finalize the handset’s specifications, OS, production contra

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Ultimate Bowling Fighter for your smartphone

Welcome to Ultimate Bowling Fighter - a non-stop, round-the-world bowling challenge tournament for your handheld.

Select your character to battle against international opponents, unlock new challengers and locations and display your special skills as you attempt to become the Ultimate Bowling Fighter. Choose from Ryo – the skillful Japanese warrior; Kelly – the all-American bowling heroine; Jose – the smooth Spanish hustler; or Maya the bootylicious Brazilian diva and challenge the others to a duel in the bowling alley.

The game features 3 play modes: Solo – for a simple one-off challenge or to develop your skills; Tournament – where players travel to international locations and battle against a range of opponents to unlock extra features; and Multiplayer – play against your handheld or 2, 3 or 4 friends! Ultimate Bowling Fighter features fast-paced game play, high-quality graphics, fun ‘Strike’ and ‘Spare’ effects, and realistic stereo sounds.

• 4 playable characters
• 4 exciting locations
• Stunning graphics
• Hilarious animations
• Compete against the other characters in Tournament mode
• Practice your skills on your own or against the computer in Single Player modes
• Play with up to 3 of your friends on one device in Multiplayer mode
• Unlock additional bowling locations and a new character as you play!

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Peermeta Secures $6 Million Investment to Fuel Its Growth in the Mobile Content Industry

Businesswires reports that a new early stage mobile software platform developer, announced today it has closed on a $6 million Series A investment from Sigma Partners and Kepha Partners. This funding fuels the company’s growth beyond the seed stage to complete and launch the product in the marketplace.Focusing on the intersection of digitized content, Web 2.0 services, social networking and mobile technologies, Peermeta provides a foundation for a new generation of personalized content across web-enabled mobile devices (handsets, PDAs, media players, gaming devices). Peermeta is led by long-time serial entrepreneur Cheng Wu, who founded successful businesses such as Arris Networks, ArrowPoint and Acopia Networks, and who also was General Manager of Cisco’s Content and Multiservice Edge businesses. Other members of the founding team round out a diverse set of expertise from such other companies as Airvana, Nokia, Tatara Systems, Avid Technologies and Sycamore Networks.

Is Sony Ericsson jumping the Windows Mobile bandwagon

Taiwan-based and always well informed Commercial Times today reported, that HTC (High Tech Computer) has received ODM orders for Windows Mobile-based smartphones from Sony Ericsson (you know – the guys behind Symbian-based UIQ), which will market the new smartphone in the second half of 2008. Volume shipments of the smartphone – Sony Ericsson’s first Windows Mobile-based smartphone and HTC’s first ODM orders from a first-tier handset vendor – are expected to top over one million units and to account for 10 – 20 % of HTC’s total shipments projected for 2008, the Commercial Times said.

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Hidden Expedition: Titanic – Exciting new game from Astraware!

The legendary RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, still houses a wealth of artifacts and treasures on-board. In Hidden Expedition: Titanic, explore the wreckage of this once-majestic ship and collect antique artifacts for the Titanic Museum.

Hunt for hidden objects within the wreckage during 14 diving missions, ultimately leading to the final prize: The Crown Jewels. Based on Hidden Expedition: Titanic, the best-selling PC game, the handheld version features the same stunning graphics and captures the atmosphere of the original. Control your game using a choice of the intuitive five-way controller or the stylus to find a variety of artifacts hidden within the sunken ship.

• Based on the #1 hit PC game by Big Fish Games
• Explore the Titanic through 17 on-board locations
• Discover historical artifacts and gems
• Play with 5-way or stylus
• Solve the Captain’s puzzle to discover the ultimate artifacts!

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Palm hints at loss loses Treo engineer

Palm has lowered its expectations for profits during the quarter ending August 31. The company expects to break even or lose one cent per share on revenue of $359 million to $361 million. Previously, the company expected to make one cent per a share on revenue of $355 million to $365 million. This time last year, Palm posted a profit of 16 cents per share, which came out to 21 cents when special items were excluded.

Palm’s senior vice president of engineering, Michael Farese left the company after two years onboard. Farese joined BitWave Semiconductor, a developer of radio frequency integrated circuits for handsets, as president and CEO. Farese helped develop the Treo 700 (photo) and Treo 750 (photo).palm

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Orange gets iPhone for France

It’s the third consecutive day for an exclusive iPhone deal in Europe. Today’s? France Telecom’s Orange will be Apple’s carrier partner in the country, according to the carrier. “We have signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone,” France Telecom’s spokesperson said. The phone will go on sale in November, according to the carrier, which did not specify an exact date. The iPhone goes on sale November 9 in both the U.K. and Germany, so chances are it will be the same. Orange has also not yet released pricing details or service plans for the handset. On the pricing front, the carrier only said it “won’t subsidize the iPhone

 

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Google introduces Gadget Ads

Google officially launched Google Gadgets as an ad unit tonight after about three months of pilot testing. Google’s AdWords platform now supports Google Gadget content in addition to existing text, image, and video offerings. The gadget ads feature an entirely new widget analytics platform for tracking gadget success and interaction, an open caching proxy hosted by Google’s geo-distributed servers, and the introduction of YouTube as a video hosting and transcoding platform free from any Google branding. I previously covered Google’s upcoming advertising widgets in early May.

Advertisers can create Google Gadget content in any size supported by AdWords images. In the example shown above Intel combined a Flash game with tabs displaying images and text with more information on the Intel Centrino Duo mobile processor. Each gadget interaction is recorded according to a set list of actions such as mouse over, tab views, entering a ZIP code, subscribing to a web feed, or initiating audio or visual playback. External links such as a visit to an external website pass through Google trackers for CPC billing.

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Dubai World is chipping in for a stake in Las Vegas’

Dubai World is chipping in for a stake in Las Vegas’ MGM Grand for $5bn. Making Dubai the proud owner of 9.5% share in one of the largest hotels on the strip.

Someone told me that its impossible for a an Arab/Muslim city to invest in a gambling operation and most likely its wrong. But the story was also on CNN, so most likely its true. I am not worried about Arab’s reaction to it, but more towards American one.

Can’t wait to see Jon Stuart’s thoughts on it tomorrow night; he is in Iraq at the moment by the way.

I’ll be very honest with you, I don’t care about this whole arab investing in gambling business. I spent a whole week in Vegas last summer and I stayed in MGM. I didn’t hit the tables, instead I spent a small fortune on shows like BlueMan show, KA and others. So, there are lots of things to do in Vegas other than to gamble.

I am with this move and if they can buy 100% of MGM, I am down with it.

Also, the place is full of themed venues such as NewYork NewYork, Luxor, Paris and Aladdin (now known as Planet Hollywood).

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Nokia Siemens sells Belgian R&D unit to Devoteam

Timo Poropudas from mobile monday reports that MoNokia Siemens Networks has agreed to sell its development activities in Herentals, Belgium to Devoteam Group for an undisclosed amount.

About 160 staff at the site and all activities apart from the open transport network unit will transfer to Devoteam.

The move is part of the network equipment maker’s broader cost reductions plan, which includes transferring more R&D to partners and focusing development more on emerging growth markets like China and India.

“Nokia and Siemens, the parent companies of Nokia Siemens Networks, have successfully partnered with Devoteam Group over recent years,” said Mika Vehviläinen, Chief Operating Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks.

“This agreement is good for Devoteam Group and for the employees of Nokia Siemens Networks. It gives Nokia Siemens Networks additional flexibility and transfers people to a strong partner where their competencies will be a natural fit.”

Here Is a basket full of free Mobile games

Youpark Mobile [Pocket PC 2003 Edition]
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Mine-Fields
	Locate all the mines as quickly as possible!
Mobile Media Center Beta
	Mobile Media Center is the cool way to enjoy photos, songs and videos stored on your PC and play it on your smartphone
Mobile Webcam
	Your secret eye: Let your phone make serial pictures and send them to the web.
Bia Eid 3D
	As a soldier, join up to the battlefront with your troops attacking the enemylines using some powerful arsenal weapons like machine gun post,sniper rifle,tanks, …
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	Reversi Game for Series 60 is a puzzle game (Reversi, also called Othello) for Nokia Series 60 smartphones, where the goal is being to end up with as many balls …
Super Miners
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8 best discounted apps

UBF [PPC - QVGA]
	A non-stop, round-the-world bowling challenge tournament for your handheld
$ 19.95   $ 15.96  Untill 17/10/2007
Atomica [ Smartphone]
	[See More Titles]
	Make Molecules in Dr. Atomica’s Laboratory! Build up atomic power by moving atoms to make larger and larger molecules, but watch out, otherwise your test board …
$ 9.95   $ 7.96  Untill 17/10/2007
Bookworm [WM 2003 - Pocket PC]
	Bookworm is a popular word game based on the online and PC classic from PopCap. Feed Lex the Worm’s endless appetite by joining letters on the library wall! Use …
$ 19.95   $ 15.96  Untill 17/10/2007
Alchemy [WM 5.0 - Pocket PC]
	[See More Titles]
	Turn lead into gold in Astraware’s addictive PopCap puzzle game! Can you turn lead into gold ? Can you become the mythical Alchemical Grand Master? Place …
$ 9.95   $ 7.96  Untill 17/10/2007
Bzzz [Smartphone]
	[See More Titles]
	Life is easy for a frog – or so you thought. But what if those flies decided to get their own back… ? You’ve got to keep your frog happy and well fed by helpi …
$ 9.95   $ 7.96  Untill 17/10/2007
Seven Seas [Smartphone]
	[See More Titles]
	Navigate your galleon through hazardous waters, avoiding pirates, reefs, and even sea monsters!
$ 9.95   $ 7.96  Untill 17/10/2007
Bejeweled 2 [WM 2003 - Pocket PC]
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	The legend has returned…and is more wildly addictive than ever before! Bejeweled 2 takes the classic game of gem-swapping to euphoric new heights. Players mu …
$ 19.95   $ 15.96  Untill 17/10/2007
Shape Shifter [WM 5.0 - Pocket PC]
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	Ladies and Gentlemen, Children Of All Ages, Shape Shifter beckons you to a delightful convergence of action, intrigue and fun!
$ 14.95   $ 11.96  Untill 17/10/2007

easyPDA for your Pocket PC

Easy to use: easyPDA makes it easy to use your PDA! The key and common denominator for all the products is easy, as it makes many of the PDA’s advanced and already built-in features easy to use. easyPDA is a menu program making it easy to launch applications on the PDA with just a tap of the finger. Without easyPDA the user must navigate through small and complicated menus with the stylus pen. easyPDA takes advantage of the PDA’s touch-screen technology in order to expose you to all the important features in a PDA, in the same user-friendly fashion. Furthermore, easyPDA integrates with the leading navigation software in the industry – TomTom NAVIGATOR. This and much more makes easyPDA the primary application for your PDA. Key features in easyPDA: Easy to use with just the tip of your finger Easy-to-master user interface Handy functionality for the mobile user Integrates contact data from Pocket Outlook System state notifications Delivered with three languages (English, German and Danish) Easy access to phone functions Easy access to your speed dial Easy access to call contacts Easy access to call history with new options like “delete by Category” Easy access to your SMS menu Enables the use of SMS messages templates Easy access to your e-mail Enables the use of e-mail templates Easy access to your calendar Easy access to your tasks Easy access to your inbox Easy access to TomTom NAVIGATOR Easy access to Show on Map Easy access to Navigate to Easy access to your settings Easy access to lock/unlock device Customizable easyPDA is highly and easily customizable. You have the possibility to customize and organize the icons and the path exactly the way you want it. You also have the possibility to add or remove buttons, this personalizing your PDA to your needs

The 4-Minute CrossTrainer – 4 Minutes Exercise is Enough!

Just 4 minutes use will be the equivalent of 45 minutes on a conventional treadmill. This is what US based company Range of Motion is claiming for its ROM machine. The 4-minute CrossTrainer is being claimed by the compnay to burn 465 calories by exercising 55% of the body’s muscles. The ROM involves 12 times as many muscle cells as does walking or running. Out of shape and weak people can get to very high oxygen consumption rates with the ROM because so very much more muscle cells are involved in oxygen metabolism while using the ROM. The extremely time efficient 4-minute CrossTrainer asks for a mere £7,800 ($15,000). After all, 4 minutes a day is not a bad idea

Shape Shifter beckons for your PocketPC

Shape Shifter beckons you to a delightful convergence of action, intrigue and fun!

ShapeShifter has two fun-filled modes of play; Beat The Clock, where you fill a specified number of rows before time runs out; and Shape Speedster, where you clear a number of rows before the board fills up. As they are cleared, another row appears. If the rows reach the top of the board, then your game is over. Higher levels bring more and varied types and colours of shapes to create a greater challenge. Beat The Clock also includes special bonus levels to test your speed and dexterity.

ShapeShifter also features the same zingy sound effects as the PC version and has a carnival-style music soundtrack courtesy of Astraware’s Aurora Sound Engine.

• A massive array of colourful and bright shapes!
• Original musical score!
• 2 Game modes
• Selectable levels of difficulty, from level 1 to level 99!
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mobile handset industry future market expansion forecast to grow only 5.6% CAGR from 2007 until 2012

Acoording to informa telecom The mobile handset industry is the largest consumer electronics market in the world, with almost one billion mobile handsets sold during 2006. After a period of strong annual growth until 2006, this is now slowing with future market expansion forecast to grow only 5.6% CAGR from 2007 until 2012. The market continues to be dominated by Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG, who together account for over 80% of device shipments. Their success is largely a result of their performance on a number of criteria which include market segmentation, R&D and cost control. As market growth slows and competition increases still further, these factors will become more important. However, reducing ASPs (Average Selling Price) and convergence are obliging device vendors to review their businesses.

ASP, the mean price at which a vendor sells its handsets, is often used as an indicator of vendor performance. However, as it is possible to be extremely profitable with a low ASP, or to be less profitable at a higher ASP, this indicator should not be taken in isolation. When the ASP of different device vendors is compared, it can reveal a general indication of the market tiers where these companies are most active. Thus it is possible to see the strength of Nokia’s performance in the lower device tiers, while Sony Ericsson sells the majority of its handsets at relatively high prices.

Is your BlackBerry Losing Text Messages or Call Logs?

Are you having issues with your text messages vanishing without deleting them? Or maybe you notice your call log is suddenly empty? Both of these are symptoms of a full memory.

What can you do to avoid this? Clear out as much as you can from your BlackBerry.

Move pictures, ringtones, music, and videos to your microSD card if you have one. You can even set your camera to save pictures there by default.

Delete programs you do not use. I often download a free trial or try out freeware that I discover I don’t need or like. I often forget about these programs which are taking up my memory. Make sure to remove them either using Desktop Manager’s Application Loader or under Options, Advanced Options, Applications.

Keep your log clear. The BlackBerry keeps a log for trouble shooting. Just hold down the alt key and type lglg from the homescreen. Once the log comes up go into the menu and select clear. Make sure to close the log when you are done.

See what programs are open. This is also a great help on the battery. From the home screen hold the alt key and press the back button. You will get a banner of programs that are running. There will be some BlackBerry applications that are always running, such as phone, messages, and BlackBerry Messenger.

Clean out old e-mails, text messages, and call logs you don’t need. I often accidentally save an e-mail or a text. I try to check my saved messages regularly and get rid of what I don’t need, such as my flight info from a trip I took three months ago.

Check your themes. Do you have lots of themes installed on your BlackBerry? They take up memory. You may want to delete them in Options, Advanced Options, Applications.

Remove any media you are no longer using, such as old ringtones or mp3s that have worn out their welcome on your BlackBerry.

From your Desktop Manager use Application Loader to see what languages are loaded on your BlackBerry. You can remove any you don’t need. Also consider removing any other the option applications that come your BlackBerry that you may not use, such as Password Keeper or BrickBreaker. If you don’t use it, free up the space.

Try any or all of these as they fit for you. These steps helped me stop my vanishing text messages

Google gets a brand man

valleymag reports that Google has hired a brander-in-chief, Ogilvy & Mather’s Andy Berndt.

Berndt will work with agencies on using Google’s new ad products — which now range from text links to banners, video, and radio ads — more creatively. He’ll also, most importantly, work on Google’s own marketing efforts. Only one problem, as I see it: He’ll report to Lawee, whose job now becomes even more pointless with Berndt doing all the work. If only Google followed my Darwinian “Toogle Many Googlers” principle, which would require the axing of some Googlers — say, Lawee — to make room for new hires like Berndt.

Back up ur data with Carbonite’s backup

Ifyou have ever experience system crash with most needed data lost in sec you are gone!!!  Carbonite’s online backup service starts automatically and works quietly and continuously in the background protecting your data. If you’ve accidentally erased something, don’t worry; we’ve still got a copy. You can restore deleted files with just a few clicks on your PC. If your PC crashes, just visit our website to recover lost files.

The best thing is that Carbonite online backup software is always looking for new data on your PC. The moment you add or modify files, Carbonite swings into action to back up your data. Whenever your PC is connected to the Internet (at home, the office, a hotel or airport…) Carbonite is working to keep your data safe. And it will never slow down your PC or Internet connection.

BlackBerry 8320 for hard-working office monkeys

For the millions of hard-working office monkeys who are saddled with BlackBerries whether they want them or not, we present a sneak peek at the BlackBerry 8320. You saw the 8300 earlier this month on video, but this 8320 has something its lesser brother doesn’t: Wi-Fi 

We’re almost there people! Now if I can only get my hands on the svelte looking chrome and black BlackBerry 8300 model, my life’s mission will be completed. Well, at least for a few hours. Although it’s the same case with minor color changes, the BlackBerry 8320 has one thing the 8300 doesn’t. That’s WiFi. Still no GPS but, let’s hope the 8xxx (Papa Bear) will join his family soon at the BGR Headquarters. Check out some BlackBerry 8320 flicks in the gallery!

On second note: While looking over the device it seems as if it has the standard 2.5mm headset jack, and NOT the 3.5mm headset jack found on the 8300. RIM is really just trying to confuse the hell outta us aren’t they?

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On Google’s content network, 10 to 15% of clicks are fraudulent

According to Forbes click-fraud auditors who argue that there’s a discrepancy in Google’s content network where 10 to 15% of clicks are fraudulent: They say you throw away no more than 10% of clicks, while they estimate click fraud rates at as much as 25%. This is where Google’s $13 billion in revenue comes from clicks on ads. 

That’s just one particular set of numbers. The auditing firm, Fair Isaac, for example, estimated in May that on Google’s content network, 10 to 15% of clicks are fraudulent. On ads placed next to search results, they said that there was a negligible rate of click fraud, less than 1%. That implies an overall click-fraud rate of around five to 7%. The number of clicks that we proactively throw out is less than 10%. So then the question is really: How much are advertisers getting for free thanks to our detection methods?

Most auditors have realized this is very difficult to do from the point of view of a third party and have changed their business model to focus on other kinds of analytics. Click Forensics is one company that has continued to publish numbers, but I don’t hear much about them anymore. You need a lot of data to do any sort of statistical analysis, and auditors don’t have nearly as much as we do.

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt dismissed click fraud as “immaterial.” Even after paying a $90 million settlement, Google has maintained its “everything-is-just-fine” answer to click-fraud worrywarts

Give a gift Of Pocket Quran In the month of Ramadan

Holy Quran program on Pocket PCs with two kinds of Tafseer and English translation

The world’s first Holy Quran program on Pocket PC devices. The software comes with Arabic-Latin soft keyboard.

The Pocket Quran has the following features:

• High quality display with “Othmanic” typeset.
• A multilingual interface Arabic and English are included.
• Convenient horizontal, and vertical Quran display.
• Tafseer Al Jalalin and Al-Muyassar.
• A searchable English translation for the meanings.
• Advanced search capabilities, including search for all “word root” derivatives, and word highlight.
• Audio Quran recitations, with full synchronization with Quran text display (Only sample audio files are included). You will use the included desktop Audio Manager to download the audio files.
• The Program provides two groups of Quran audio files. You may select the high quality (the full Quran requires 256MB storage), or the medium quality (the full Quran requires 128MB storage).
• You can add and delete up to ten bookmarks.
• With a single tap on a verse you get Juza informaion. Tapping the Hezb mark you get additional Hezb information.
• Long tap on a verse will start reciting from the tapped verse.
• Approved by Al-Azhar Al-Sharif on 28-5-2003.

Pocket Quran also includes the following features:

• Arabic handwriting recognition of numerals and isolated characters (Arabic Graffiti).
• Arabic on-screen keyboard.
• Arabic user guide inside Pocket Explorer

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Protect yourself from unwanted calls and messages

BlackBaller is an Extreme Mobile Filter that is designed to block (reject) unwanted calls and messages (SMS/MMS). BlackBaller is a full featured and easy to use program which offers unique features such as message filtering, and the ultimate in user friendly features – Smart Reject Sensor. BlackBaller is the most user friendly and robust program of its kind.

BlackBaller feature Summary:

Block unwanted calls and messages (SMS/MMS)

Supports two types of filters: Blacklists (Blocks all calls on list) and Whitelists (Blocks all calls except what are on the list).

Tight integration with phonebook. Availability to block groups, persons, numbers and private numbers. Also includes an advanced option for setting block expiration date.

Smart Reject Sensor – Ultimate ergonomic solution. When you reject a call the system automatically asks if you want to block this specific caller.

Real background mode. BlackBaller is highly integrated into your mobile device. It works silently without keeping the program open and hidden and using up a lot of system resources.

Complete log for rejected calls/messages.

Note: BlackBaller offers a trial period of 14 days. After that time you should register your copy of the program, otherwise you will not be able to continue using it. Killer Mobile is not responsible for any lost personal data that you have entered into BlackBaller during the trial period.Installation

You can install the program as a native Series 60 application. See your phone’s users guide for details. Installation requires about 200 Kb of the free space on your device’s memory disk. Please install to the internal device memory for best performance.

Note: Currently BlackBaller does not have any trusted certificate, this may cause warning in the installation process and will also keep the autostart feature from functioning (we will be signing the program very soon!) However using the AutoPilot program is safe. Every customer may request certified version of the program free of charge when it is available.

**If you get certificate error when attempting to install the program on your S60 3rd Edition smartphone, it means that you haven’t enabled installation of unsigned SIS files. Go to Tools -> App. Manager, choose Options -> Settings and set Software installation to All and Online certif. check to Off.

New York Times will stop charging for accessing its website

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night.

The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the work of its columnists and to the newspaper’s archives. TimesSelect has been free to print subscribers to The Times and to some students and educators.

In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

Google Docs Ads presentation

Google finally rounds out their web-based office suite with the addition of a Presentations to Google Docs. Create a whole new slideshow in Presentations or upload an existing PowerPoint file to get started. Kick your web-based presentation into slideshow view mode and invite others to see it real-time as you move through slides—with chat built right into the sidebar. Make the slideshow public or invite specific collaborators to edit and/or view. Check out my test Life Hacks 101 presentation, an existing .PPT file imported into Google Docs, which I used at a talk this summer. While I wouldn’t use a browser-based slideshow to give a real-time, in-person presentation, for collaborating on a set of slides remotely, this looks ace. Of course, web-based presentation-makers aren’t new; Zoho Show and Preezo have been around for some time now.

Google Docs (now with Presentations)

O2 To Offer a 40% Revenue Share For IPhone

 O2 is actually going to give Apple a FORTY percent of all revenues made off the iPhone. This will be on top of any margin O2 has agreed with Apple on the retail price of the device, which will reportedly also need to be shared with Carphone Warehouse—these details will presumably be made more clear at Apple’s press conference in London tomorrow, which everyone expects to be related to the iPhone.According to a story in the Guardian, Apple has played all mobile operators off each other and has specifically sought national deals as a way of increasing its bargaining position [no mention of the FT Deutschland rumors that T-Mobile might actually be offering it in more than one country]:

“Orange and T-Mobile are understood to have signed contracts [in France and Germany respectively] and at least one had Apple employees helping to implement the device on their networks. But at the 11th hour O2 snatched the UK deal with an offer that gave such a high proportion of revenues to Apple that none of its competitors could see any way of making any return on the phone, even over three years.”

90 Million Mobile Internet Devices Shipped Through 2012

Moconews reports that Around 90 million mobile internet devices and 5 million ultramobile PCs will be shipped over the next five years, according to a study by ABI Research. Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs) are defined as devices which run Windows and business applications and are aimed at business users, while Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) target consumers and are more likely to run a Linux operating system. “Because many of these devices would be small and have limited battery power, [ABI vice president Stan] Schatt says, many of them would save power by being based on Linux instead of Windows. The most well-known Linux-based platform is currently being developed by Intel, which debuted its plans to enter the nascent MID market in April,” reports PC World. Schatt also suggests that ultramobile PCs haven’t really done enough to differentiate themselves from laptops, and will therefore struggle…

AT&T taps NEC America

AT&T has picked NEC America to provide it with some legacy optical gear for its new video network.They have worked together before, so the relationship itself isn’t necessarily a surprise, but bringing in legacy gear to support a new service is. Where were the new global vendor giants on this one? Perhaps they were busy trying to integrate themselves.

NEC America is not exactly a mom-and-pop shop, but in the U.S. market, it also doesn’t seem the most likely supplier in a carrier infrastructure deal supporting a new video service, especially with a lot of other global vendor giants embedded in those networks, too. But.

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Analysts tough on Alcatel-Lucent

Missed revenue goals, thousands of job cuts and executive departures are making Alcatel-Lucent a very easy target. One analyst has compared the company to no less than Britney Spears, such is the ignominy of the company’s slide.

Yet, there’s not much more for Alca-Lu to do at this point than forge ahead, make more cuts if necessary and try hard–really hard this time–to figure out what carriers will actually spend on network gear in the near future. Some might call the Alcatel-Lucent merger a mistake, but until some giant telco says it would rather deal with mom-and-pop shops than international conglomerates that  can meet their scalability requirements, this is a deal you won’t see undone.

Vollee Gets $7 Million Second Round Funding

Israeli mobile games company Vollee has raised $7.5 million in its second round funding, from existing shareholders Benchmark Capital and BlueRun Ventures. It previously raised $4 million from them in March. Vollee offers services to port console games to 3G devices, and said it would prefer to charge per subscriber if it marketed the game individually, but would work with different business models with carrier partners, reports Globes.

Antivirus protection for palm powered hand

Pocket Antivirus offers superior protection for palm powered handhelds from today’s viruses as well as free wireless updates to guarantee protection from future viruses.

Features

Virus Scan Pocket Antivirus quickly scans for and removes all known Palm OS Viruses.

Wireless Updates Whenever a new virus threatens your device, new virus definitions can be downloaded wirelessly from within Pocket Antivirus.

Virus Definitions Pocket Antivirus displays a list of it’s virus definitions with descriptions of the damage each virus does, and how large a threat it is to your device. Unlike other products Pocket Antivirus tells you exactly what you’re protected against.

Hotsync Protection Pocket Antivirus scans new files for viruses as they are being hotsynced to your device.

Security Log Pocket Antivirus logs all antivirus related events, so you can see exactly what is happening on your device.

Background Scan Pocket Antivirus protects against viruses in the background as well as manually, so you always know your device is secure.

Frequent Updates Pocket Antivirus has released more updates than any other antivirus software for Palm OS.

Fast Tech Support Pocket Antivirus’ Tech Support’s average response time is under 30

Mobile penetration in Russia is 70%

A realistic estimate of mobile penetration is Russia is around 70 percent, said Kirill Vronsky of Telecom Design at MobileMonday Global Summit in Petersburg on September 12th.

The mobile penetration level of Russia is usually said to top one hundred percent. This is figure is arrived by adding up the SIM-volumes reported by Russian operators. It does not take in account that many people have several SIM-cards and that operators do not remove inactive prepaid-customers from they subscriber books very rapidly. Almost all of the subscribers in Russia use prepaid SIM cards.

Stockholm and St. Petersburg educated Vronsky is the director of strategic development of Telecom Design that offers value added services delivery by developing and implementing innovative communication products and solutions. Its key telco customers are Megafon, companies of “SviazInvest”, Rostelecom (MMT), Vimpelcom (Beeline) and UralSviazInform.

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Iphone Rebate via SMS

iPhone users who bought their handset before August 22 can receive their rebate via SMS. If you were an early adopter, go to the Apple website, enter your telephone number and iPhone serial number and you will receive a text message for your $100 Apple Store rebate.

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A weather tool for PocketPC

Spb Weather is a powerful weather Today plug-in. You can customize weather views, skins and even weather forecast data sources. Spb Pocket Plus users can save space on their Today screens running Spb Weather in a form of a separate tab Spb Diary 1.7 users can view weather forecast on Calendar Plug-In even when Spb Weather Today Plug-In is off. Spb Weather Features: NEW! Integration with Spb Mobile Shell Integration with Spb Diary Integration with Pocket Plus 4000+ cities Optimized traffic (400 bytes for 5 day forecast) Easy customizable interface Professional skins Easy configuration from context menu Custom weather source support Custom city support

Integration with Spb Diary Spb Diary users can view weather forecast on Calendar Plug-In even when Spb Weather Today Plug-In is off. Weather data can be refreshed: Automatically After docking the device Manually: Just tap on the status string at the bottom of the weather dialog

Integration with Spb Pocket Plus Users of Spb Pocket Plus will be agreeably surprised that Spb Weather is another Spb product that supports a Today plug-in compatible with Pocket Plus – the world’s most popular Today plug-in with tabs. From now on Spb Weather and other Spb products that support their own Today plug-ins can be integrated in a form of separate tabs of Spb Pocket Plus. The Today screen will no longer be overcrowded. Now you can open Spb Weather and other plug-ins only when necessary. Spb Weather tab acts like any other tab of Pocket Plus. It can be renamed and moved, it can contain other icons, etc.

Skins The design of weather icons in Spb Weather is set by means of skins. Spb Software House provides five skins in the default Spb Weather package. More skins can be permanently downloaded from Spb: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/weather/skins.html You can see the skins for Spb Weather from Spb UniThemes:

Custom View Modes Spb Weather provides user with 10 possible view modes. 4 days 5 days 7 days Multiline Header as tabs Header with selected city only No header

Context Menu Tap-and-hold on Spb Weather to get a powefull context menu that allows you easily: Change the view style Change the header style Change a skin Change the current city Instantly refresh weather data Open Spb Weather options

Detailed Weather Popup To get the detailed forecast for one day, just tap on this day in the view. You will get the desired information in a compact nice popup window. Movable popup window Detailed forecasts for 3-4 days Different forecasts for different parts of the day. Easy navigation

Many other features Spb Weather has many other features and options: 10 professional skins Custom cities Traffic statistics Favorite city list Custom measurement unit settings Flexible synchronization options Customizable sources templates (advanced users) Custom skins (advanced users)

Google Adds 54 More Countries to Google Maps

 

Rawfeed reports that Google added 54 MORE COUNTRIES TO GOOGLE MAPS, including war zones like Afghanistan and Iraq, and — more interestingly — authoritarian countries like Cuba, Iran, Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar), Syria and Venezuela. Best of all, now everyone can join the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in