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Yahoo Beta Mail For All

Yahoo Thursday opened up its beta mail to just about everybody. The ad-supported beta mail brings desktop clients to the web, with calendar, mapping, drag and drop, tabbed navigation, et cetera. This comes out of Yahoo’s 2004 acquisition of early AJAX innovator Oddpost. We had … Read More »

WhoseSpace is MySpace

Peter Chernin, Chief Operating Officer of News Corp., according to Multichannel News dropped the proverbial hammer on those who he sees are leaching off the MySpace ecosystem. “If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or … Read More »

 
 

Its’ a Widget World

Earlier this morning our good buddy, Mike Rundle was talking about widgets, in response to a previous post. I think the next stage would be to allow users to get the web data they want without even opening their browser. Targeted, practical, functional widgets that give … Read More »

Update on the JK XV6700 upgrade

It has been a few days now that I’ve had to play, I mean work with the XV6700 and felt it worth an update to let you know how it’s coming.  First of all I am finding the XV6700 to be a great phone!  … Read More »

Using Windows Mobile as a music player

Jason Dunn of The Two Inch View has published an article detailing his experience using a Qtek 8500 Windows Mobile device as a music player.  Jason covers the entire Windows Media Player performance and settings and his article is applicable to any Windows Mobile device.  … Read More »

USB SynCE to pair your Linux device with Windows Mobile

It seems like everybody is playing with Ubuntu or some other flavor of Linux these days and with a new package those open-sourcers can now sync those boxes with Windows Mobile devices.  Mobile Gadget News has posted some instructions for fellow Linux users who … Read More »

Forget FTTH, Get Fiber Boots

We all know about South Korea, where broadband adoption has been driven by a gaming culture nonpareil. Hong Kong City Broadband, a company that sells 100 megabit connections for peanuts (I have written about them in the past) is now starting to push a … Read More »

Welcome to MySpace Records

MySpace is opening shop as an indie record store — make that 3 million indie record stores. Using Snocap’s backend, MySpace plans to give all the musical artists on its site the option to set up online storefronts on their profile pages and … Read More »

Get your Yahoo on with Windows Mobile devices

Yahoo has launched Yahoo! Go, a Windows Mobile version of their communications bundle that includes email, IM, photo, contacts and calendar functions. The mobile service was launched in January for the Symbian platform, and now Windows Mobile users can tap into it too as the … Read More »

Windows Mobile security- a problem to be reckoned with?

ITBusinessEdge has published an article that points to a report by Airscanner that claims Windows Mobile software is insecure.  The report makes it clear that Windows Mobile is not the culprit but the third party software that is released by developers without proper security … Read More »

Win a bundle o’ mobile gear with Aximsite’s 3rd Annual Review Contest!

Think you’ve got what it takes to write a good review of some Pocket PC hardware or software? If so, why not put pen to paper (or Tablet PC) and enter the 3rd annual Aximsite Review Contest! You have to be a registered Aximsite user … Read More »

What’s New Today: Dash, et cetera

Dash Navigation, an auto navigation device maker, comes out of stealth Monday. The company had previously been called Circumnav Networks and had admitted it was building “a social network of traffic data” at one time, though a lot has happened since the project began … Read More »

More Must Reads

Only the very brave can pick winners amongst the current crop of Web 2.0 start-ups, social networks and other sundry services. And whatever the outcome might be, it is safe to say that the popularity of open source database MySQL and programming language PHP … Read More »

Did Yahoo kill their blog search service? That’s the top meme on Techmeme, but since it is based on just one report, it is prudent to wait for Yahoo to officially say something. Yahoo had launched blog search with much fanfare in October 2005 as … Read More »

Hampton Software, a UK-based small software developer has released Articulation, a SIP client that allows you to well make SIP/VoIP calls from your Treo, as long as they are running Palm OS 5. If you are using Treo 700p, don’t bother trying this software. Of … Read More »

Rumors have been flying since Mark Pincus posted to Tribe yesterday saying he’d taken back control of the company. Pincus had founded the social networking startup but had since turned over operations and served as a board member. “as of today jan and the board … Read More »

Paidcontent, the digital media and content publication was one of the first to realize that niche job boards were the future, and introduced its Digital Media Jobs board, when we were rank amateurs in comparison. Since then vibrant communities like 37Signals, TechCrunch, Alarm:Clock, and more recently … Read More »

Reports are starting to pick up on the fact that Qualcomm, the San Diego-based wireless company that has thus far dominated the key cellular standards, is staring an uncertain future in the eye. It seemed like the company would make an easy sweep of … Read More »

Windows Mobile has had voice recording capabilities longer than I’ve used the platform. Yet I rarely used the feature back then and I don’t use it at all today. Why? It … Read More »

DivX, the video company well known for its coding and compression technology, quietly launched a YouTube-style online video sharing community, Stage6, a few weeks ago. While there seems to be no end to the video-sharing sites out there, DivX’s site already has a pretty impressive … Read More »

We wrote a bit about using text messages to find information over cell phones this week. 4INFO, a company we mentioned in passing, announced a deal with TV Guide to provide local TV listings via SMS and WAP today. The company’s CEO … Read More »

Startups like Vancouver-based EQO, which have been working on getting more support from Skype as a mobile partner, got some bad news recently — competitor iSkoot scooped up a coveted deal to help Skype mobilize. While three-old EQO didn’t seem too pleased … Read More »

Zapr, a Sydney, Australia-based peer to peer file transfer company is about to launch and open its service to beta customers. The company is one of the latest to join a new breed of online file transfer services, we have labeled personal P2P applications. Read More »

You don’t want to miss this if you own a Windows Mobile device. In fact, stop reading this post, click this link and sign up for the SPB Diary 2.0 public beta right now. Go ahead…I’ll wait….*whistles*…..*gets cup of coffee*….*makes the bed 3 hours late*….. … Read More »

Pando, the startup that has created a drag-n-drop file-sharing application, says it’s hit the one millionth install mark, in just the three months since it launched into public beta. Pando has released a plug-in for Outlook and Read More »

While the details are still under NDA, Ed Hardy provides a very insightful article about the next version of Windows Mobile, code named "Photon". According to Ed, Photon will change they way mobile users actually use their devices, simply because the way people use their … Read More »

Google Talk is offering an update today, according to reports, that will enable users to easily transfer files, set presence with music, and send and receive voice mails. According to the article its also Google Talk’s first birthday. We haven’t checked out the upgrade … Read More »

Having travelled from Philly to Florida twice in the past two months, I could have really used this: Marriott is testing wireless check-ins from Windows Mobile smartphone handhelds. Guests download a small application and then check in while en route to the hotel; clearly … Read More »

Is a single game so popular that it’s dominating its space like a 800lbs. Tauren? That was the premise of “World of Warcraft Crushing PC Game Industry?” a frenetic Slashdot discussion launched by a recent interview with Age of Empires co-creator Brian … Read More »

Wormhole Creations has launched a new web site chock full of Windows Mobile goodness.  Technology at Play has news and forums dedicated to the Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Phone Edition, and Smartphone.  You will find information about many programs for these devices and good deals … Read More »

A 28-year-old Indian woman who last December started www.crorepatipage.com, an advertising billboard on the Internet for Indians alone, has already earned around $5000, not an insignificant sum in India, The Hindu Business Line reports. Sunaina Bansal hopes to emulate the success of Briton Alex Tew’s … Read More »

Keeping private and confidential data on a mobile device can be a risky proposition; misplace the device and you run the risk of the data finding it’s way to into someone else’s hands. One option to protect that data is SafeBoot’s Device Encryption for Windows … Read More »

Jeff Clavier just might be the Web 2.0 VC – eight months after America Online bought one of his portfolio companies, Truveo, he hit another home run today. AOL, has bought another one of his portfolio companies, Userplane. That’s pretty good track record … Read More »

There are ($)6.3 billion reasons why US wireless carriers love wireless data business. Chetan Sharma, an industry analyst, consultant and a long time reader of our blog has put together some numbers that show the importance of wireless data to the bottom lines … Read More »

We had a big week – launched the new look, had a party and signed on two sponsors. I would like to take a moment and say thanks to Odesk and Bix, who came on board sight unseen, and without knowing how their ads were … Read More »

The Department of Telecommunications and Information Services for the City of San Francisco is going to hold a community meeting to discuss the possibility of building broadband infrastructure (fiber to the premises) in the city. The meeting is being held in response to resolution # … Read More »

Former Dreamcast executive Peter Moore gave a great talk at Ziff-Davis Electronic Gaming Summit, advising the game industry on what they must do to expand their audience. As documented by Gamerscore, Moore’s speech, “The Elite 8: Eight Ways to Confront Elitism and Open … Read More »

Students participating in the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition developed a solution that helps provide environmental awareness for the visually impaired. As if that isn’t impressive enough, the solution uses a Windows Mobile handheld device to provide audio information to the blind. "We used ultrasonic sensors to … Read More »

So it did not win over MySpace, or IGN or The Facebook or whomever…. but apparently that isn’t stopping Viacom from trying again. The Financial Times is reporting that they might be in talks to acquire Bebo, one of the new fast growing social … Read More »

Flag Telecom, a company owned by India’s ADA Group that also owns Reliance Communications, said it has signed a contract with T-Com, Deutsche Telekom AG’s broadband and fixed line business, to provide 180 gigabits of additional broadband connectivity between Europe and the U.S. The additional capacity … Read More »

Wikia, a company founded by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) has launched a new effort called World Wikia, which aims to create an editable worldwide guide of places to go and things to do. The company wants to leverage the expertise of the locals to build … Read More »

Mobile people are all abuzz about Jaiku, that marries social networking with mobile presence. They call it rich presence. Rich presence on Jaiku includes an IM-style away line, your phone profile (ring volume, vibrate), location (country, city/region, neigborhood), Bluetooth devices around, upcoming calendar events, … Read More »

Emoze claims its free push email service is “the world’s first free and secure push email and PIM service for Windows Mobile smartphones and Pocket PCs”.  The Emoze service uses a mobile client on the PPC and a PC Connector application running on any Windows PC … Read More »

Palm has released Traffic for the Treo that takes full advantage of all models of the popular phone.  Traffic sends live traffic information to the Treo in realtime by updating the data wirelessly.  Traffic data is available for a number of major … Read More »

The wireless spectrum auction is next Wednesday, and analysts from UBS have a taken a look at the data and given us some of their thoughts. A key point is that the analysts predict that the overall prices paid for spectrum are likely to be lower … Read More »

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