Articles for May, 2006

Blackberry 8700g is perhaps most advanced Blackberry by T-Mobile. Whether it’s checking e-mail, making phone calls, or viewing stock prices, there is no other mobile device which can do job better than a blackberry.

The new 8700g has combination of sophisticated styling, excellent navigation, and high-powered applications make it the favorite tool for mobile communication across the globe.

Unlike the 8700c, the new 8700g does not have the flat gray paint job that looks like it missed the creative design department. Instead you get a stunning blue or black case with a metal trim and black keypad. Priced at about $299 it’s also a ideal ‘low-priced’ mobile communication device in the market today.

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Google Inc. on 10 May 06, Wednesday has launched many new products in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft and Yahoo.

The company has added a new tool viz. Google Gadgets & Plug-ins to make it easier to share information through its online search engine and enabling users to download mini-applications, or “widgets,” designed to become fixtures on a computer screen.

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iRiver recently launched iRiver D20, also called ‘Dicple’ a new portable device which is much more than just a digital music player.

Besides supporting the playback of various formats such as MP3, OGG and WMA, the slightly bulky, 370 gms device is also an e-book reader, a picture viewer, supporting GIF, BMP and JPG picture formats, an electronic organiser and a very advanced electronic dictionary.

The Dicple Alpha comes equipped with a decent sized QWERTY keyboard, a 4.3-inch colour TFT screen (a generous 4.3″ 262k color LCD TFT), a builtin FM radio, pronunciation assistant, microphone, 24 different dictionaries and a multiple memory card reader.

The idea is to have a little bit of entertainment when you are catching up on e-books or learning foreign languages. Pretty cool. It also supports a wide array of memory cards, including MMC, RS-MMC, SD and MMC-Plus.
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Acer has introduced Intel Celeron M 370 based notebook viz. TravelMate 2423/2403 in Indian market at starting price of INR 29,999.

Acer TravelMate 2423WXCi is small in size measuring 33.5 L x 24 B x 3.4 H cm and lightweight at about 2.4 kg with battery.

Based on Celeron M 370 1.5 GHz CPU (1 MB L2 cache, 1.5GHz, 400 MHz FSB) it comes with 256 MB DDR2 400 RAM, 40 GB Hard drive, CD-RW / DVD Combo drive, Wireless LAN, 56K ITU V.92 modem and 14.1″ TFT WXGA (1280 x 800) screen.

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Opera Mini is a fast and tiny Web browser, that allows you to access the full Internet on your phone. Users can surf any website such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Hotmail on their mobile phone just like they would on a normal computer. Take all your favorite Web sites on the go with Opera Mini! This includes the vast majority of today’s WAP-enabled phones.

Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone. The new version further improves the browsing experience by enabling download of images, MP3s, etc directly to your phone.

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Free Ringtones brings you the latest ringtones and mobile content (games, graphics and mrore) for your cell phone, download it below for free!

Free Ringtones offers ringtones for your mobile phone, including MIDI and RTTTL tones.

The ringtones are compatible with major cell phone brands such as Nokia, Sagem, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, and Siemens.

Version 1.2 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, and some bug fixes.

Minimum requirements: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server

281.16 KB | Windows version Windows (All) | Download | Freeware

Nokia unveiled the latest addition to the Nokia Nseries family, the Nokia N73, a computer phone with exquisite photography features and integrated stereo speakers with 3D sound for optimized audio pleasure.

N73 sports a stunning multimedia computer in a compact and savvy exterior with exquisite photography features and integrated stereo speakers with 3D sound for optimized audio pleasure. The N73, the latest tri-band phone from the house of Nokia has a lot of useful features:

In addition to a large 2.4 inch display, the Nokia N73 includes a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and support for Internet communities like Flickr - a package ready to challenge any digital camera.

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Motorola has launched MOTODEV portal claiming to deliver a unified developer experience featuring a web-based program and business ecosystem. MOTODEV is designed to make it easier and more rewarding for developers around the world to innovate with Motorola, its products and technologies.

Designed to connect developers to the world of Motorola platform opportunities, company explains, its new MOTODEV portal provides access to everything one need to create and deliver innovative solutions for any of Motorola’s products.

Whether you’re creating business-driven content for iDEN handsets, games to run on a sleek new SLVR, or interactive entertainment solutions for Motorola’s Connected Home products, MOTODEV is here to support your success.

Developers familiar with Motorola’s developer programs, including Motocoder, iDEN, and Horizon, now have a single home base for accessing all the tools, documentation, and other resources you expect from your current Motorola developer program.

What’s new?

Motorola claims that its initial enhancements are aimed at giving you better access to developer information and support, including:
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Seagate Technology last week announced the Seagate ST1.3 Series 12GB 1-inch photo hard drive especially targeted to pocket music player and digital photo storage market segments.

With a footprint 23% smaller, 50% extra storage capacity, and 30% less power consumption than Seagate’s current 1-inch photo hard drive - the latest Seagate ST1.3 Series offers a new optional drop sensor for increased robustness, delivering the features most requested by handheld device manufacturers.

The ST1.3 Series hard drive is Seagate’s second hard drive with perpendicular recording and the company’s first drive utilizing perpendicular technology in the 1-inch category.

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uTorrent is a powerful and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows.

* Multiple simultaneous downloads
* Configurable bandwidth scheduler
* Global and per-torrent speed limiting
* Quick-resumes interrupted transfers
* RSS Downloader
* Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)

Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled

Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0, and now BitComet 0.63) and peer exchange.

Resource-Friendly

µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren’t there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 160 KB in size.

156KB | Windows version Windows (All) | Download | Freeware

Samsung has introduced, as it claims, the world’s slimmest mobile phone, with an inbuilt MP3 player at the Sviaz ExpoComm 2006, technology show in Moscow on Wednesday.

The new wafer-thin mobile phone from Samsung, the SGH-X820, is just 6.9 mm thick and weighs only 66 grams, according to the company.

The SGH-X820 comes equipped with a 2 megapixel camera, a sophisticated MP3 player and Bluetooth.

The company claims that the Samsung `ultra-slim phone` has set a record in the mobile handset history by breaking the wall of seven-millimetre thickness for the first time in the world.

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PC manufacturer, HP has launced seven new notebooks on May 9 expanding it’s laptop range of machines in a very big way.

Five of these systems are business laptops and the remaining two are consumer laptops showcasing new and sleek designs.

The new HP Pavilion dv2000 and the Compaq Presario V3000 will sport a new piano high-gloss finish.

HP dv2000 is a 14.1-inch widescreen computer that weighs about 5.4lbs. The dv2000 features either an Intel Core Duo processor or AMD Turion X2 dual core 64-bit processor.

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Many website owners have been baffled to realize that their websites having thousands of pages indexed in Google database for ages seems to have suddenly disappeared in last 2 months or so, with no trace - effectively erasing their entity from the web and causing untold business losses due to traffic lost.

Experts are indicating that Google’s search engine index, once a clean, lean but monstrous indexing machine, from a Webmaster’s perspective, has been really slipping badly lately.

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Nokia has signed a deal with graphics card specialist ATI to improve high-quality multimedia experiences on its handsets including music playback, 3D gaming, mobile TV and video.

The two companies will integrate hardware, software and tools, as well as promote open standards for multimedia to help developers create content that can be used on a range of devices.

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Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, in a speech last Thursday said that company is planning to boost its investments in MSN and other online ventures like windows-live initiatives to $1.6 billion next year in a bid to catch Google, which currently dominates the search market.

Capital spending and research outlays will rise 60 percent in the year that starts July 1 from a projected $1 billion this year, Ballmer indicated in his speech to many advertisers at the company’s headquarters here.

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