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I have had the Asus Eee PC 701 in my hands or should that read hand, for the last few days and to be honest I wasn’t expecting very much from this as I have used quite a few UMPC devices before all running Vista and found the compromises to be too great to be useful and performance very poor.
Well I have to say my opinion has turned full circle after using this little device for a couple of days.
Vito software, a Russian mobile software development house has recently updated to of their applications SMS-Chat and Fun Contact. Both applications make SMS and Contacts on your Windows Mobile device far more finger friendly. I’ve been using them every day for a while and after the jump you’ll find some more details on these excellent applications, available for sub £10 each.
Having launched the new iPhone and with the new SDK on the way Apple have added in a couple of clauses to curb what developers can do with the GPS built into the new iPhone. According to Electronista the agreement states that the GPS cannot be used for real time navigation applications.
Looks like Apple are planning to keep the navigation pie all to themselves. TomTom are known to be working on an application, so the question is do they have an exclusive agreement?
So, what’s the use of GPS if you can’t get real time data out of it? I think we’ll see the most innovative GPS aware applications coming from areas outside of navigation. Some sort of "what are people listening to near me" type of app is going to be a good bet!
Qik has a video showing off a demo app for the iPhone, bringing the popular video streaming service to the Apple platform. The iPhone isn’t designed to record video, but Qik has not only made it possible to record, but also stream it to their lifecasting site, where people can watch your handiwork. Much like the video apps from Sling and Flixwagon, Qik appears to be running an unofficial app on a jailbroken iPhone. The demo looks very plain, in terms of UI, but the video streams to the Qik site like any other phone client. Qik expects to get alpha versions of the software out soon.
The new version offers many new advanced features including rich text editing and formatting, file attachments, hyperlinks between notes, multiple notes database support with tree-like views, hierarchical notes organizer, integration with PhatPad, customizable views, user reminders, voice note attachments, and more.
Unless you were a bit sad like me and listened to the live audio stream of the full 2 hours of the Steve Jobs keynote on Monday night, you might want to spare 60 seconds to watch this.
Crunchgear have condensed every interesting item in the keynote into this brilliant video for us to enjoy, 2 hours into 60 seconds missing out all the flannel and bull. Wish I had waited for this before torturing myself on Monday.
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Communications watchdogs have today been pressed by MPs to investigate a new service that allows people to fool caller ID systems into displaying a fake number, amid fears it will be abused by ID fraudsters and other conmen.
It’s thought such trickery is currently legal in the UK. The Liberal Democrats have called on regulators to act however, claiming the availablity of such services in the UK could make it even easier to fleece the public and invade privacy.
UK operator T-Mobile is disconnecting its CSD-WAP subscribers from July 9th, suggesting customers might like to switch to GPRS or something a little more 20th century, and disposing of pay-per-minute internet access.
Circuit Switched Data (CSD) was how mobile phones accessed data services in the early days, or at least the technology that allowed them to try. Technically equivalent to a dial-up modem, it allows speeds of up to 9.6Kb/sec, ideal for downloading the latest news and reviews from the Mobile Internet.
Motorola has become the first mobile phone maker in the UK to offer full-length movies on its handsets.
However, the deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment will win few friends among mobile data providers.
Consumers will download titles to their PCs from Motorola’s site and then side-load them to their phones.
Motorola claims that high phone charges incurred in downloading or streaming movies over the air has prevented the market for mobile movies from blossoming. Side-loading overcomes that hurdle, the firm believes.
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