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For you Facebook users out there… BostonPocketPC now has a Facebook page ! In addition to the content you would find here, our Facebook page also includes an event calendar for upcoming Boston/New England Windows Phone User and Developer group events as well as Windows Phone events in the Greater Boston area. The BostonPocketPC Facebook page also hosts Discussion Threads for members

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BostonPocketPC Now On Facebook

Google has in the last few days released a few updates for their Google Maps software. Android users in the UK and Ireland running 1.6 and above and Blackberry users too will be happy to find out that they now have free Navigation in addition to the Voice Search which has also been added to Symbian & Windows Mobile versions.

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Google Gives Directions & Voice

Faced with a prevailing culture where consumers expect web services and digital content to be free, mobile app and mobile web developers need to adopt the right strategy in order to monetize their efforts. The Freemium model is a classic marketing tool available to mobile app developers to maintain the perception of a free service, while attempting to lock-in customers into some type of charging mechanism. (And I recommend reading Chris Anderson’s ‘Free: The Future of a Radical Price’ book for further insights into this). But many of the decisions around charging will stem from a look at the value that the mobile consumer perceives he/she is getting from the app in question. Apps with a low perceived value will struggle to charge anything at all, no matter the charging mechanism

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Mobile Web and Mobile Apps Monetization Strategies

Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) is about to launch a new version of its popular E72 smartphone. A new version actually means new color – white. At the moment, the E72 is available in four color options (black, grey, brown and purple) and with the addition of white, I’m betting the Finnish company will move even more units — Nokia E71, which is the predecessor of the E72, is still selling like crazy in white. Anyway, specs wise the device will remain the same. The first country that will get the E72 in white seems to be Malaysia, where the phone already earned its spot on Nokia’s country website

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Nokia E72 White Edition shows up on Nokia’s Malaysian website

It’s not like every day we talk about Ovi Store success stories. We had Digital Chocolate and Shazam reporting their respective milestones reached, and now we have an even smaller company, Numo Solutions, saying their SMS Preview application has hit the 1 million download mark. The free app is so handy that if I were Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) I would consider either acquiring Numo or adding that functionality to my phones — Nokia used to be known for the latter practices. As its name says, SMS Preview shows a preview of an incoming text messages and is available in either a free or paid versions

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Numo Solutions’ SMS Preview hits 1 million downloads in the Ovi Store

The UPS guy handed me my new iPad just a few hours ago, and yes–the jumbo-sized screen is as glorious as they say, and I was shocked by how good HD videos looked. But I was also surprised by how heavy the iPad feels, and if you were hoping to read e-books all day under the clear, bright blue sky, well…bad news, folks

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The 10 Most Surprising Things About The iPad

Lenovo talks up LePhone, shows off app store ahead of May launch Lenovo’s Android-based LePhone (not LePhono, sadly) may not be officially launching in China until next month , but the company did just hold a launch event of sorts in the country, in which it revealed a few new details and did a fair bit of boasting. According to The Wall Street Journal , Lenovo says that it’s aiming to sell ‘millions’ of the phones in the next five years, and ‘tens of millions’ after that — although not just involving this particular phone, obviously. Lenovo COO Rory Read also reportedly further added that the company is ready for a ‘ tough fight’ against Apple’s iPhone, and that Lenovo will have a ‘better brand position’ that RIM, which hasn’t yet gained a significant foothold in China. That’s certainly plenty ambitious for a company new to the cellphone space, and should no doubt only further fuel those rumors of a certain acquisition

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Lenovo talks up LePhone, shows off app store ahead of May launch

Philips Xenium X510 Dual-SIM Phone Philips might not be as popular as Nokia or Sony Ericsson when it comes to phones, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth checking out the devices it has to offer. Said company is gearing up to launch a new phone for its Xenium range, the Xenium X510. The most notable feature of this phone is its dual-SIM feature, which is less common outside of China.

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Philips Xenium X510 Dual-SIM Phone

Newegg has a set of deep discounts on digital photo frames to go along with Mother’s Day, and we figured we’d give you the heads up. They’ve got a total of ten frames on sale from manufacturers like HP, Viewsonic, Hannspree, and others, some for as much as 30% off. There are some good deals, and some nice frames available—in fact, who says you need to buy one to give to mom, right? You can get a look at all the discounted digital photo frames at Newegg, which all ship for free as well. As always, you can find all sorts of Newegg promo code s and deals on our forums

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Newegg Mother’s Day Deal: Digital Photo Frame Sale

It was pretty obvious to us when we first saw the iPad that it would definitely be big in the medical field. As it turns out, it looks like hospitals are catching on—case in point, California’s Kaweah Delta. The hospital has ordered 100 iPads for use around their campus. Nick Volosin, the hospital’s director of technical services, sees the iPad as replacing laptops for things like email, checking X-rays, EKG results, and more.

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Kaweah Delta hospital orders 100 iPads

Microsoft’s Fusion Labs just announced a new product that they are doing in partnership with Facebook , called Docs for Facebook. Built on Microsoft Office 2010, Docs for Facebook is seemingly a play by Microsoft to take some of the cloud-based office suite share away from Google Docs. You’ll be able to create and share documents with friends on Facebook, control privacy settings, and with a click of a button, open the documents in your native Office software on your PC or Mac.

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Microsoft Fuse Labs announces Docs for Facebook

Microsoft has whet the appetites of administrators this month by announcing some the new features it expects to be in the first major upgrade of its Exchange Server 2010 software later this year. Here are 30 of the new features in the upcoming Service Pack 1 for the program

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30 new features in Exchange Server 2010 SP1

Breakthrough in PPC Ad Testing and Optimization: Using Ad Sets to Improve Even Your Best PPC Ad Campaign Tuesday, May 4 – 1 PM EDT Speaker: Matt Van Wagner, CEO, Find Me Faster Sponsored by Acquisio For years, A/B ad split testing has been the workhorse of ad testing for PPC campaign managers. It is easy to understand and easy to implement, and can produce steady, predictable gains in your campaigns. However, A/B testing can also lead to over-optimization, a thinning of your ad message diversity and cause decay in your campaign performance. That’s where Ad Set Optimization™ comes in.

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Webcast: PPC Ad Testing Using Ad Sets

We’ve talked about the Sprint Overdrive 4G hotspot a bunch, including a look at a scenario where it saved us from the perils of AT&T in our Sprint Overdrive review .