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Monday, 31.03.08
MULTIMEDIA: Mobile users to have free access to over 150 Million Web Videos with vtap
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 15:56 CET under 01 - General News
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Veveo
Inc., today launched vtap, a new web video experience for mobile users all over
the UK and Europe. Video lovers will be able to search through over 150 million
web videos via vtap, a unique mobile web video search service that allows
consumers to quickly and easily search, view and save relevant web videos from
any source on the Internet on any imaginable topic, tailored to their individual
preferences on their preferred device(s).
In addition, by using vtap's unique personalized collecting and sharing feature,
vtap Feed, you can create a personal profile that allows you to detail your
preferences and receive relevant videos from vtap whenever something new appears
on the Internet.
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GROWTH: Microsoft expects strong Windows Mobile growth in China
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 12:13 CET under 01 - General News
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Microsoft
Corp expects that Windows Mobile shipments to China will more than double in the
next year amid an expected boom in demand for Web access once the country
launches (its propriety)
3G wireless services.
Benjamin Tan, business group Director for China at Microsoft's Mobile
Communications Business, told Reuters that about 2 million Windows Mobile
devices were shipped to China in the last year, which is - according to Tan -
about 10 percent of Microsoft's global total.
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Saturday, 29.03.08
EVENT: Joining this year's HANDY Tech 2008 Event in Tel Aviv as Speaker
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 17:50 CET under 01 - General News
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If
you live in Israel, I'm sure you know
HANDY (which is - funny
enough - the
German word for "Mobile Phone") and I'm sure you are a daily reader of
PocketPCFreak.com,
which is maintained by my fellow MVP and friend Helio Diamant. If you don't live
in Israel, I'm sure you will have the same problem's to read Helio's website
since it's in Hebrew and you might have never heard of HANDY but if you think
about the Israeli version of Expansys/MobilePlanet but with a store, you know
what HANDY's business is. They are *the* mobile devices and gadgets retailer in
Israel as well as HANDY is manufacturing and producing PDA, smartphone & Apple
accessories under the HANDY
Pro brand for some time now (which is even available internationally). Some years ago, HANDY and PocketPCFreak.com joined forces by
organizing a yearly tech event in
Tel Aviv
called "HANDY
Tech".
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Friday, 28.03.08
PUBLIC: Dashwire opens access to public Beta and enhances Service
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 09:00 CET under 01 - General News
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Dashwire,
Inc. today announced it is opening the doors to its innovative service, which
the company
unveiled late last year the first time, providing supported Windows Mobile
smartphone users around the world with powerful new ways to simplify day-to-day
phone usage and to seamlessly share mobile experiences with friends and the
social sites they use to stay connected with them.
Dashwire, which was available in a semi-closed Beta only so far, is focused on
becoming the central hub that seamlessly bridges the mobile phone and web
worlds, simplifying experiences and making it easy to access and share the world
captured on your phone.
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Thursday, 27.03.08
ENHANCED: Sling Media confirms SlingPlayer Mobile updates and developments
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 17:41 CET under 01 - General News
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Not
yet ready to be rolled-out,
Sling Media
today confirmed that it's indeed working on an updated
SlingPlayer
Mobile for Windows Mobile.
However, Sling Media today announced that - in addition to the currently
supported Nokia S60 handsets - it's going to release the long awaited
SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian UIQ smartphones which will be launching this
summer. Furthermore, Sling Media confirmed that the Nokia N95 8 GB gets some
update love as well to better support the big and beautiful screen which Sling
Media intend to fully leverage with an updated SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian
S60.
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UPGRADE: Nokia Siemens Networks doubles EDGE data speed to 592 Kbps
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 12:50 CET under 01 - General News
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Nokia
Siemens Networks, the indisputable #1 in EDGE with 125 public EDGE references,
today launched their downlink Dual Carrier EDGE software solution, ushering the
first steps of EDGE Evolution into Nokia Siemens Networks' GSM/EDGE radio
portfolio. This solution offers double data speeds of up to 592 Kbps to existing
EDGE-capable GSM networks, thus enabling a mobile broadband experience, such as
maintaining relationships in virtual societies, posting video clips to blogs in
real time or streaming the latest news in mobile TV.
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SHARING: TapRoot Systems' WalkingHotSpot turns Smartphones into WiFi Hotspots
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 08:27 CET under 01 - General News
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TapRoot
Systems Inc. yesterday announced its WalkingHotSpot solution for wireless
carriers.
Not yet released for consumers, TapRoot's patent-pending software transforms a
WiFi enabled smartphone (like Windows Mobile or UIQ smartphones) into a hotspot
providing access to 3G data networks. The solution is the first in a series of
products allowing wireless subscribers to enhance their smartphones for internet
connectivity. The WalkingHotSpot solution provides a platform to deliver new
solutions to wireless subscribers around WiFi. The scalable solution allows
users to securely retrieve E-Mails and browse the internet with no additional
software or configuration required on the WiFi client devices.
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Wednesday, 26.03.08
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ROLLOUT: GSA survey confirms 7 in 8 WCDMA operators have launched HSPA
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 13:26 CET under 01 - General News
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Seven
in every eight commercial 3G/WCDMA operators have launched
HSPA, according to the
3G/WCDMA-HSDPA Fact Sheet published earlier this month by GSA (Global mobile
Suppliers Association). 211 WCDMA operators have launched commercial services in
91 countries, of which 185 operators have also launched HSDPA - High Speed
Downlink Packet Access. HSDPA mobile broadband services are now commercially
available in 80 countries. There are 103 commercial HSDPA operators in Europe,
36 in APAC, 24 in the Middle East and Africa region, and 22 in the Americas.
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Thursday, 20.03.08
SERVICE: SugarSync keeps PCs, Macs, Mobile Phones and the Web synchronized
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 21:34 CET under 01 - General News
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Sharpcast
today introduced SugarSync, the first-ever solution that seamlessly synchronizes
both Mac OS and Windows computers, mobile phones and the Web.
Built on the
company's patent-pending Universal Synchronization Platform, SugarSync's
powerful software-service combination gives people the easiest way to keep
digital media and files automatically in sync across multiple computers, backed
up online and remotely accessible from their mobile phones or through any web
browser.
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ALLIANCE: HTC and Reliance Communications join to promote Windows Mobile in India
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 08:47 CET under 01 - General News
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HTC
Corporation and Reliance Communications, India's largest integrated telecom
service provider, today announced a strategic alliance to promote next
generation CDMA devices in India. The announcement marks HTC's foray into the
fast growing CDMA market in India, and reiterates the strategic focus of
Reliance Communications to offer a wider range of world-class PDA devices on the
CDMA platform for its high-end data usage customers.
In line with this, HTC and Reliance Communications also announced two new
Windows Mobile phones - the HTC P3000 Windows Mobile Professional smartphone and
the HTC S720 Windows Mobile Standard smartphone.
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Wednesday, 19.03.08
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COMEBACK: Dell prepares for jumping the Windows Mobile bandwagon again
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 10:34 CET under 01 - General News
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According
to Taiwanese DigiTimes, Dell is expected to return into the Windows Mobile
market again, after
the company axed its Axim-line of Windows Mobile Classic Pocket PCs last
year.
Taiwanese market sources indicates that Dell may team up with Foxconn
Electronics to develop Windows Mobile-based handheld devices, including GPS PDAs
and smartphones
Dell has been reorganizing its team for handheld devices since it hired Ron
Garriques, a former executive vice president at Motorola in charge of its cell
phone division, in early 2007.
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Tuesday, 18.03.08
INTEROPERABILITY: Microsoft tests Windows Mobile at the Vodafone Test & Innovation Centre
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 10:09 CET under 01 - General News
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Microsoft
and Vodafone are stepping up their development partnership to further improve
Windows Mobile. In future, Microsoft will be working in close collaboration with
the Vodafone Test & Innovation Centre in Düsseldorf from the development phase
onwards.
The centre is 7,000 square meters in size and it has all the components of an
ultra-modern wireless network, from base station through billing systems to
multimedia platforms. The Düsseldorf test environment delivers the same capacity
that a wireless network in Switzerland would require. The high-tech laboratory
on the banks of the Rhine, where the Vodafone Group implements the majority of
its international development projects, is the place where new hardware and
software solutions for use in wireless networks are tested under realistic
conditions - right up to series production readiness if necessary.
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UNVEILED: New SlingPlayer Mobile players on the horizon?
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 07:29 CET under 01 - General News
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Engadget
Mobile got the information that Sling Media is currently working on new
SlingPlayer Mobile versions for Windows Mobile Standard and Professional devices
as well as working on an optimized Nokia N95 8GB client and going to expand
their current Symbian S60 clients to include UIQ support as well. While the
updated featureset wasn't announced today, Sling Media unveiled that the update
will includes a better support for newer handsets.
Most likely, Sling Media will ensure that its SlingPlayer Mobile is Windows
Mobile 6.1
compatible right after device availability as well as supporting new screen
resolutions like
Samsung's unique i780 320 x 320 pixel display.
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Monday, 17.03.08
LICENSING: Adobe Flash Lite 3 and Reader LE to come to Windows Mobile
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 07:47 CET under 01 - General News
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Adobe
Systems Incorporated today announced that Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash
Lite software, Adobe's award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed
for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content
within the Internet Explorer Mobile browser in future versions of Microsoft
Windows Mobile phones. Microsoft has also licensed Adobe Reader LE software for
viewing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents including E-Mail
attachments and web content. Both Adobe products will be made available to
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, who license Windows Mobile
software.
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Saturday, 15.03.08
Friday, 07.03.08
OFF-TOPIC: MobiTV wants to shutdown HowardForums [UPDATE]
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 17:24 CET under 01 - General News
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I
know, for many of you this isn't new anymore since most of the::unwired readers
are also great contributors to HowardForums but for the rest it might be new
anyway. HowardForums,
a great Canadian mobile phone resource, operated Howard Chui is facing some
trouble from mobile TV provider
MobiTV. Howard recently informed me that
some forum members discovered that MobiTV stores links to their video feeds
in an ASCII text file that anyone with Internet access, but without any
hacking-skills, can view. With the right mobile device or PC software, it even
gives users free access to MobiTV's video offers. Wouldn't be a problem if
MobiTV wouldn't be a commercial service which requires a subscription (US$ 9.95
per month).
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CORPORATE: Apple announces iPhone SW upgrade with built-in Exchange ActiveSync
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 10:48 CET under 01 - General News
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Sync
and OTA sync was one of the strengths of the combination between Windows Mobile
and Exchange but for a long time, Windows Mobile isn't alone anymore, latest
since Nokia and Sony Ericsson licensed Exchange ActiveSync some years ago too.
And now Apple is the next. Apple yesterday previewed its iPhone 2.0 software,
scheduled for release this June, and announced the immediate availability of a
beta release of the software to selected developers and enterprise customers.
The iPhone 2.0 beta release includes both the iPhone Software Development Kit
(SDK) as well as new enterprise features such as support for Microsoft Exchange
ActiveSync to provide secure, over-the-air push E-Mail, contacts and calendars
as well as remote wipe, and the addition of Cisco IPsec VPN for encrypted access
to private corporate networks.
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Tuesday, 04.03.08
REVEALED: Bluetooth SIG unveiled another HTC Smartphone
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 18:59 CET under 01 - General News
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Absolutely
nothing is known yet about another smartphone, HTC seems to work on but good old
Bluetooth Special Interest Group unveiled that a new HTC smartphone is coming,
which is code-named "HTC CONV100".
According to the available document, the geographical availability is Africa,
Asia, Europe, North and South America which speaks for a - at least - quadband
2.5G device.
Unfortunately, the Bluetooth SIG has shut-down its second approval site,
therefore we even don't know which Bluetooth version is supported (but most
likely Bluetooth 2.0+EDR):
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SERVICE: Yahoo! announces Yahoo! onePlace
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 15:18 CET under 01 - General News
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Together
with
today's Yahoo! Go 3.0 announcement, Yahoo! unveiled Yahoo! onePlace - a
revolutionary mobile content management solution. Yahoo! onePlace is designed to
be an essential tool to enable consumers to better manage the wide selection of
content available across the Internet.
Yahoo! onePlace will bring together a consumer's interests, passions and
important information into a single location - creating a rich and highly
personalized experience. Everything is instantly organized, dynamically kept
current, and served to them the way they want.
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SERVICE: Yahoo! announces upcoming European launch of Yahoo! Go 3.0
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 15:14 CET under 01 - General News
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Yahoo!
today announced at CeBIT 2008 the upcoming availability of Yahoo! Go 3.0 for a
number of European countries, as well as several new European-based widgets that
will be accessible across Yahoo!'s mobile browser and client-based offerings.
Yahoo! Go 3.0 is expected to be available in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and
the UK at the end of Q2 2008. In the upcoming months, Yahoo! Go 3.0 is expected
to be available on hundreds of devices worldwide, accessible by million of
users.
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COMPATIBILITY: Nokia to port Microsoft Silverlight to Nokia S60 and Series 40 phones
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 09:26 CET under 01 - General News
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While
Microsoft's Flash competitor
Silverlight is
still not available for Windows Mobile (except Microsoft internal Betas), Nokia
today announced plans to make Microsoft Silverlight available for S60 on Symbian
OS smartphones as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets.
Adding support for Silverlight will extend opportunities for developers to
create rich, interactive applications that run on multiple platforms in a
consistent and reliable way.
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering
next-generation media experiences and rich interactive applications.
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Monday, 03.03.08
TECHNOLOGY: Vodafone demonstrates next generation HSPA at CeBIT
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 19:31 CET under 01 - General News
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If
today's 7.2 Mbps HSDPA isn't enough for you, Vodafone is the right address for anyone
who wants to find out more about the simple and high-speed wireless transmission
of large data volumes. Vodafone Germany will be demonstrating the next
generation of HSDPA, which delivers speeds of up to 28.8 Mbps, at CeBIT 2008. A
test system at CeBIT is capable of speeds of up to 28.8 Mpbs (downlink) and 2
Mbps (uplink). In future, this technology will offer genuine benefits to
customers who rely on fast internet or intranet connections to the office.
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ACQUISITION: Acer takes over E-Ten
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Posted by Arne Hess - at 17:46 CET under 01 - General News
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Acer
Inc. one of the world's third-largest branded PC vendors today announced it
has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire
E-TEN Information Systems
Co., Ltd., a world's renowned designer and manufacturer of smart handheld
devices and Windows Mobile smartphones, known under the
Glofiish brand.
Under the terms of the agreement, Acer Inc. will offer a share exchange with
ratio of 1: 1.07 for all the outstanding shares of E-TEN, which represents total
equity value consideration of approximately NT$ 9 billion. The new issued shares
will represent approximately 6% of total Acer outstanding shares.
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