Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch yesterday saw a huge number of devices being promised for a wide range of countries, and we can’t blame you if you got overwhelmed. Happily Microsoft are helping us get back to basics with a typically-shouty Steve Ballmer and a video of the whole keynote launch, which you can see
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Windows Phone 7 video keynote now available
Although you may not be able at this moment in time to root the T-Mobile G2 smartphone, it doesn’t make it less an attractive Android 2.2 handset, and it has even become more attracted on Amazon.com. According to an article over on Android Community by Dylan Bailey, even though the build quality of the device is somewhat questionable, the T-Mobile G2 is still an impressive device and even more so now that Amazon has dropped the asking price. Apparently Amazon.com is now offering the Android 2.2 T-Mobile G2 for just $99 for new T-Mobile customers signing up for a two year agreement and also includes 2-day shipping. If you are now of a mind to snap up the T-Mobile G2 handset you can check out availability and place your order by visiting Amazon.com as of right this minute, so anyone going to rush over to Amazon and purchase the G2 for only $99?
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Amazon Offers New T-Mobile Customers Android G2 at $99
Zip Repair is a neat little freeware tool which lets you restore corrupted zip files so they can be accessed again. If you’ve ever had an error message while trying to unzip a vital file, you’ll probably recognise the pain 104 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
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Zip Repair – freeware helps you recover corrupted zip files
Autonomy is a software and infrastructure company that was a wide range of offerings including running a private cloud for storing information and other uses for its customers. The company has announced that its private cloud computing platform has hit an impressive milestone. The private cloud now manages more than 17 petabytes of information.
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Autonomy private cloud hits 17 petabytes
The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Launch Event yesterday revealed many new smartphones and one of them was the HTC 7 Pro, which is a worthy upgrade to the HTC Touch Pro 2. This new Windows Phone 7 smartphone has been marked by Engadget as a workhorse and features one of the best tilt-sliding QWERTY keyboards and a stunning 3.6-inch display. This handset is truly a beautiful piece of kit and can see it doing very well indeed
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HTC 7 Pro Release Date: UK and Europe, Worthy Upgrade
Sony and Global HID are coyly batting their eyelashes at each other over a memorandum of intent to jointly develop an embedded contactless smart card reader platform for laptops. The idea is to create a single reader compatible with Sony’s popular FeliCa solution in Japan as well as NFC, HID Global’s own iCLASS, and more. As a refresher, about 315 million FeliCa cards are in circulation worldwide with another 67 million FeliCa-capable mobile phones in Japan used for electronic payments, access, interactive advertising, and membership rewards systems. Hell, Sony’s even got a FeliCa reading remote control . The dark arts of Near Field Communication have been given a boost recently with support from Nokia and the US carriers AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
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Sony and Global HID to unify FeliCa and NFC laptop reader technologies
If you’re looking for a cheap, second-hand phone, but are a little worried about any jibblyscruffins* hiding in the phone, waiting to grasp your throat and squeeze the life out of you**, then Sprint want to help. Sprint are now offering a limited selection of phones in second-hand “refurbished” condition at reduced prices — and just in case there are any jibblyscruffins* hiding in there, they are also giving you a 30-day return policy. But what phones are there
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Sprint now offering refurb phones for less
There’s an unsubstantiated rumor floating around that the Nokia C7, Finland’s second Symbian^3 device to start shipping , the first being the N8, has NFC capabilities built in , but due to being rushed to market the software written to support said internal hardware wasn’t included. In the future however Nokia will issue a software upgrade that will make the C7 one of the first mass market devices with near field communication built in. Now if this is true, and it may just be a PR snafu, then I’ve got to wonder what the hell Nokia was thinking. Symbian^3 was supposed to have NFC built in right from the start, but typical Nokia processes and bureaucracy meant schedules slipped and the awesome long awaited feature was pushed back to Symbian^4. Earlier this year Anssi Vanjoki himself, the guy who practically invented what Nokia is today and decided to leave the company after he wasn’t made CEO, was quoted as saying that all smartphones coming out of Nokia in 2011 will have NFC .
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Rumor: Nokia C7 ships with NFC capabilities built in, will be turned on later via software update
The tablet wars are here and we know that there are many new tablets coming to the market soon and many builders are relying on Android to power their tablets, despite the fact that Google keeps saying Android in its current form is not suitable for a tablet. We also know that some tablet plans
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Google Chrome OS launching Nov 11?
On the heels of our recent post on the Nike+ GPS app update , we talk about another iPhone application that does the similar thing… The outdoor social network for sports and fitness enthusiasts Map My Tracks wants its slice of the iPie, too. Their app is called OutFront and it provides “F1-style performance telemetry” for sailors, cyclists, runners and other outdoor sports. Users can track their activities, review performance and share the results live on the web — you can measure speed, pace, calories burned, elevation gain or loss and much more. Plus, there’s one unique thing about OutFront and that’s the ability to sing along Map My Tracks event management system that lets event organizers broadcast mass participation events online in real-time
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Map My Tracks’ OutFront is another iPhone app that tracks your exercise
Motorola wants to extend their smartphone market share in the mobile space just like every other smartphone manufacturer; however apparently Motorola is going to boost their efforts to grab more market share by launching their first TV advertising campaign of 2010. According to an article over on Marketing Magazine by Sarah Shearman, Motorola’s push will be by Ogilvy & Mather and will focus on the device Motorola has branded as “life-proof,” namely the new Motorola Defy smartphone
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Motorola Boosts Efforts to Grab Smartphone Market Share with TV Campaign
iSlice Golf is a brand new iPhone app for golf fans, allowing them to fix one fault in their game – the slice swing. Using the smartphone’s built-in accelerometer, the application helps users practice their golf swing and receive feedback on swing plane and clubface angles at six critical positions and finally learn what it feels like to hit powerful golf shots just like the Pros do. Speaking of Pros, along the way you’ll be video-guided by PGA Golf Professional Duncan Kegg who will show key positions and incorrect moves that cause the bad slice swing. Moreover, there are instructions that golfers can practice anywhere using nothing but their iPhone
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iSlice Golf helps iPhone owners practice their slice swing
Kensington has a lock on the notebook security market to the point that every laptop I have ever seen has a Kensington lock port on the side to allow you to lock your laptop to the desk to prevent theft. The company has taken the laptop lock that is has sold for years and made
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There are many of our readers sending in emails basically asking what is the point of Adobe Air and what can we do with it, well here is one answer. AppBrain now filters Adobe Air apps; AppBrain will now make it easy to find new Android apps that use Air, so in a nutshell the new filter will now sort by apps that use Air. There are not many apps out on the market that uses Adobe Air and normally the ones you do find is a little weird. Android Community say one example of the weird is the Jell-O bounce app that contains the Bill Cosby bobble head, what is this all about many ask
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Adobe Air Android Apps: AppBrain Review and Problem
INQ, a company that’s a small division of the huge global operator Hutchison, builds feature phones with smartphone features deeply integrated. Last year they launched several devices in the UK that had Facebook, Twitter, MSN and even Skype built in. They were cheap, but the user interface was playful and indeed easy to use.
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INQ to make Spotify and Facebook smartphones, coming to AT&T summer 2011
So what if Microsoft’s nicest WP7 slate phones all went to Europe and the rest of the un-American world? At least we’ll have the HTC 7 Pro , the true Windows Phone 7 workhorse, with its tilt-sliding QWERTY keyboard and compact 3.6-inch size
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HTC 7 Pro arriving in UK and rest of Europe ‘early next year’
The GSMA mWomen Programme has been recently launched as a public-private partnership between the global mobile industry and the international development community in an effort to bring the socio-economic benefits of mobile to women in developing markets around the world. The goal is to halve the gender gap from 300 million and bring the power of mobile to more than 150 million women within three years. The initiative was formally launched by GSMA’s CEO Rob Conway, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Cherie Blair of Cherie Blair Foundation for Women.
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GSMA launches mWomen Programme; Announces mWomen Apps Challenge
Many store owners have discovered that addressing the ethics of the community is a great way to promote business. By displaying their logo on a reusable bag, they can increase traffic to their store. This type of marketing offers an added perk to the consumer. Showcasing your wares from a high-end store is an ideal way to gain status.
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Reusable Bags – Earth Friendly Fashion Statement
Opera Software announced its participation in the Adobe-led Open Screen Project , which consists of more than 70 industry leaders who are working together to make Flash run on an array of platforms and devices. The maker of the wildly popular Opera Mini browser said that partnership with Adobe “ensures compatibility and easy deployment for OEM and operator customers using Opera and Adobe Flash products.” And here comes the interesting part: Through its participation in the Open Screen Project, Opera is making integration even better for customers deploying both Opera and Flash Player 10.1 on their mobile phones and other devices. The result is an improved user experience and faster deployments.
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Opera to participate in Open Screen Project; Flash coming to their mobile browsers?
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has dismissed a revision application by two lawyer brothers and another suspect against the remand extension order obtained by the police in connection with the murder of cosmetics millionaire Sosilawati Lawiya and three others. In a press statement, their counsel, Ravi Nekoo, said High Court judge Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah dismissed the application this morning …
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Court dismisses trio’s application for revision
Shape Services released a new version of its popular multi-network instant messaging app – IM+. Version 4.4 brings several handy features including VoiceOver on incoming messages with instant playback without tapping and history saving in IM+ web at plus.im
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IM+ 4.4 brings VoiceOver, UI improvements, web-based history saving and more