New York Times Releases Free BlackBerry Application
The New York Times has released a free, full fledged BlackBerry application sponsored by UPS. Mobile continues to be a very popular way for Times readers to access our content,” Marc Frons, The New York Times Co.’s chief technology officer/digital operations, said in a statement. “With this new application for BlackBerry Smartphones, we are offering BlackBerry users with the latest models a faster, more dynamic and more personalized experience for reading up-to-the-minute news, analysis and opinion from NYTimes.com
This USB powered desk lamp allows you to turn the 12 bright light-emitting diodes on and off from up to 10 meters away, using only your voice. Features: USB Powered Super bright 12 LED Lamp Without Blinking No Thermal With sensitive voiced controlled function Any voice in 10 meters can controll the light on/off 2 Modes: Normal Lamp On/Off or Voice Control Lamp On/Off Energy saving and Environment Dimension: 10.8cm x 9m cm x 33 cm Weight: 350g The USB Voice Control LED Lamp is available from the GizFever.com website for $14.99.
Nokia N900 has arrived! Longest 2 hour wait to open a DHL package ever…
…The Nokia N900 has arrived at my house. Well maybe. I haven’t opened the DHL bag yet and won’t open it until I get home after lectures. I want the first time the N900 box is opened to be on film, ha. It may possibly be that there’s just a box inside, maybe even a mixup and it’s not an N900, heaven forbid! I literally have seconds to go before I have to leave for “Muscle Development in Drosophila melanogaster 2″
SiDiary for Windows Mobile lets you manage diabetes data
Found under: Windows Mobile , Smartphone , Diabetes , Data , Manage , Software , The mobile phone is a daily companion today and for those of you who need a diabetes data tracker for windows phone here is a solution. SiDiary allows to track your daily data with up to four different drug types. You can track a combination of pills and insulin or use our software to support you if you are just using weight control within a base therapy.
Do you eat food? If you said yes, then this video is for you. Here’s why…13 percent of the nation’s trash is food. And keeping food out of landfills is important…
For New BlackBerry Owners: Install The BlackBerry Desktop Manager
Congrats on the new BlackBerry, and welcome to the BlackBerry nation. I know with the holidays there are several new owners, and there’s some important advice I’m going to share that we take for granted and is many times overlooked. The importance of installing that disc that came with your phone, the BlackBerry Desktop Manager. That disc is crucial to your information, for syncing, backing it up, you name it
SET Game SET Game is an excellent mind-breaker game for Pocket PC. The idea is to form “sets” from the cards shown on the deck. Set is a real-time card game. The idea is to form “sets” from the cards shown on the deck. The deck consists of 81 cards varying in four features: number (one, two, or three); symbol (diamond, squiggle, oval (or stadium[1])); shading (solid, striped, or open); and color (red, green, or purple).
Found under: LG , Android , GT540 , , LG is definitely not going to stop rolling out Android phones especially since the manufacturer didnt find the recipe for success yet. Motorola has struck gold with its Droid so were waiting for LG to do the same. And from the looks of it LG is working on a new Android device. Dubbed the GT540 the phone has been spotted inside an internal document but we have no idea when this second LG Android phone is coming to life
Google Maps Navigation Now Available for Android 1.6 Smartphones
Found under: Google Maps Navigation , Android , Android Market , Google , , If you happen to own a Motorola Droid then youre probably excited about that Google Maps Navigation available for Android 2.0 phones. And since the Droid is the only Android 2.0 phone available so far it looks like Google wants to make its Google Maps Navigation system to Android 1.6 phones as well. The company has even gone ahead and announced that the navigation app will be available for all devices running Android 1.6 or higher.
OtterBox introduces Commuter Series Case for BlackBerry Bold 9700
It certainty didn’t take long for the folks at OtterBox to get this one rolling! They’ve just introduced their Commuter Series cases for the BlackBerry Bold 9700. I say it every time but I’ve always been a huge fan of OtterBox products, and now I can protect my Bold. The OtterBox Commuter for Bold 9700 starts shipping today for $34.95 USD. Check out OtterBox.com for more details or to purchase. [via Accessorize Mobile ] You’re reading a story which originated at BlackBerrySync.com , Where you find BlackBerry News You Can Sync With…
Amazon Kindle 2: Now with PDF support, 85% more battery life
In what we are guessing is an attempt to make the Kindle a bit more attractive when compared to the B&N nook , Amazon announced today that the Kindle 2 now ships with PDF support and a battery that lasts almost twice as long as previous Kindle 2s. The battery bump, in particular, gives you 7 days of use with wireless on as opposed to 4. Even cooler, though, is the fact that if you already own a Kindle 2, there will be a firmware update released over-the-air that will give you the same functionality, including the 85% increase in battery life! No date has been announced for the release of that update, but we’d be surprised if it didn’t arrive any day now. Gotta love competition.
Nokia , the mobile phone giant based in Finland, today announced a brand new slider phone with sleek rounded edges design. “The Nokia 7230 is a compact slider with stunning looks. Rounded edges and a sleek finish make this Series 40 device easy on they eye at a price that’s even easier on the pocket. It doesn’t do badly on the feature front either whilst the 2.4-inch screen makes the most of the available space.” The Nokia 7230 is a connected little critter with Nokia Messaging on board, easy access to sharing snaps to Ovi, Flickr and Facebook and 3G for fast data transfer
Acer today launched the Acer Liquid , an Android-powered smartphone running on Qualcomm’s 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, in Beijing, China. Unlike Motorola Droid that runs on Android 2.0, the Acer Liquid still runs on stable Android 1.6, which is kind of disappointing as the “Liquid” has 1GHz processing power and Acer failed to utilize it. The Acer Liquid doesn’t have any remodeled sexy User Interface; it just has a regular Android interface. Acer seem to think that Google’s battery management technology is sub par, and they replace the battery management with their own technology, which they said will provide longer battery life to this Android handset. The Acer Liquid will be launched in the first quarter of 2010 in China.
Google is feeling extra generous this year when it comes to appreciating the small businesses looking to do big business this holiday season. As a result, Google has announced that they are enabling small businesses and other local retailers to display coupons for in-store use on mobile devices of Google-searching users. Although Google has not previously given the small business community exceptional exposure to its mobile coupon platform and prowess, Google seems poised to make up for lost time with this latest endeavor. Essentially, small business owners utilizing Google Local Business Center can quickly create and upload their mobile coupon offers.
iLingual’s Virtual Phrasebook App Brings Us Closer to the Babel Fish … [del.icio.us]
In Douglas Adams’s best-selling novel The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a space traveler could stick the Babel fish right into his ear, making it so he could understand speakers in any language. Emirates airlines’ iLingual iPhone app doesn’t realize his dream, but it’s a step in the right direction. Take a picture of your mouth with this free app (iTunes link), select from up to 400 English phrases and hold your iPhone or iPod Touch in front of your lips to make it look like you’re saying the phrase in Arabic, French or German, depending on which version of the app you have.
Yup, Black Friday 2009 is in three days, and the Black Friday sale leaks are happening fast and furiously at this point. The latest ad that we have for you gives you a look at everything that Amazon will have available at a nice discount for their Black Friday sale. Since Amazon sells pretty much everything under the sun, we’ve pared the offerings down to cover just the things we’re interested in, no clothing deals here, but we’ve got all the tech and gadgets that’ll be on sale at Amazon come Black Friday for you, after the break
iPhone Hints: Access MobileMe site via iPhone [del.icio.us]
Honestly, we hope you never need this week’s iPhone tip, but just in case, you may be glad that you have it. Say you’re out shopping in this run-up to the holiday season and, when your back is turned, your iPhone mysterious vanishes—purloined by the sticky fingers of an opportunistic thief. You probably already know that if you’re a MobileMe subscriber, you can track your missing handset using the Find My iPhone feature of the MobileMe Website. The downside? If you try to access the MobileMe site on your iPhone, Apple will show you a screen telling you that in order to actually login to the service, you need to use a computer.
textPlus 2.0 Hits The App Store For Free Texting [del.icio.us]
textPlus, a text messaging app that’s powered by GOGII, has just hit the App Store. textPlus lets any iPhone or iPod Touch send free text messages to any cell number by using in-app advertising to cover its costs. There is no limit on how many text messages you can send per month, it’s just a matter of getting WiFi, 3G or an Edge connection. GOGII was one of the first companies that was funded by iFund, the partnership between venture capital firm KPCB and Apple, which was announced at the Apple SDK roadmap event.
Achtung! Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies infests iPhone [del.icio.us]
No doubt strategically timed between last week's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launch and this week's Left 4 Dead 2 launch, Activision just announced Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies, a $9.99 iPhone game based on the zombie-themed multiplayer antics of the series console counterpart. Since the only thing the publishers sent us by way of details was an 8GB iPod Touch and iTunes code for the game we'll turn to the App Store description. Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies supports up to four players over Wi-Fi, and two players over a local Bluetooth connection
Apple battles ‘jailbreakers’ over iPhone control [del.icio.us]
When he was 17, George Hotz poured hundreds of hours of his summer vacation into a special project: learning the iPhone's secrets. His unpaid labor eventually paid off. With the help of a soldering iron, he was the first to unlock the iPhone, delivering the handset to international networks before Apple had a chance to. He got some perks, too. His unlock catapulted him to internet stardom, catching the eye of an entrepreneur who traded his Nissan 350Z car for Hotz's restriction-free iPhone.
How do iPhone’s location sensors work together to determine orientation … [del.icio.us]
How do the iPhone's sensors work together to determine orientation? The answer is a little more complex than one might think. Here's a shorter answer over at O'Reilly Answers, here's the longer one at O'Reilly Radar. SPOILER: there are no secret “directional hamsters” inside.