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Skype and Nokia announced on Tuesday a colaboration agreement to work together in the incorporation of Skype application on Nokia devices. This concerns Nseries devices, having Nokia N97 as first device to incorporate it, which is planned to be released on 3Q 2009. N97 will incorporate Skype as a new feature of the Guide section, where we will be able to check if our contacts are connected to Skype and even use the IM system. Read the rest of this entry »

Last fall the french manufacturer Archos released its last three Internet Media Tablets. The Archos 5 and Archos 7, which both include high-resolution touchscreen, WiFi, up to 320GB storage besides slim casing, and the Archos 5g which adds 3G HSDPA cellular broadband. They are powered by OMAP 3 applications processors from Texas Instruments, based on a 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor.

Now, Archos has announced is going to combine this Archos’ multimedia framework with Google’s Android telephony stack. This makes Archos possible to think in a IMT with smartphone capabiliteis. With the integration of voice Archos is looking to expand beyond portable media players, and moving into the mobile device market with a high-quality video content delivery clearly better than its competitors. Android also provides access to its fast-developing applications environment.

The new Archos’ IMT will offer:

• PC-like Internet experience enhanced by a high-resolution 5″ screen and full-width page viewing
• Adobe FlashTM and Flash VideoTM support, full screen
• Access whenever and wherever to TV, movies, photos, music and game
• Uncompromised TV recording and High Definition (HD) playback, all formats
• Innovative design: compact 10-mm ultra-thin tablet
• Long battery life, 7 hours’ video playback
• 3.5G 7.2 Mb/s HSUPA
• Laptop-like performance from the first implementation of OMAP3440 processor based on the ARM(r) CortexTM superscalar microprocessor and DSP

ARCHOS’ new Android-based IMT with voice functionality will be released in 3Q 2009. Don’t miss it.

Via PRNewswire

According to several of the most respected on-line sources, including Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Wired and Information Week ( the original source of the information seems to be The Wall Street Journal), Microsoft plans to announce next monday a brand new Windows Mobile Application Store.

Monday 16th February seems to be the chosen day. Well, it looks pretty clever, since Steve Ballmer is making a keynote presentation in Mobile World Congress, taking place in Barcelona.

Along with this new service, Microsoft is also presenting My Phone service, an on-line repository of personal information for mobile devices. This seems to be true, since the official website has been up and running during the last weeks (in fact, it was discovered by fault, with the subsequent confirmation by Microsoft).

Don’t expect details of the new Microsoft Service. Nothing has been disclosed yet. Nevertheless, everything seems to be true.

I believe Microsoft will use this keynote to present more products and services, like Windows Mobile 6.5, My Phone, and so on… Last year’s MWC announcementes were, you know, disappointing. Hope they have learned the lesson. At least, Steve Ballmer will be present this year, and it assures the show. If you don’t what I’m talking about, check this video.

Via Wired, WallStreet Journal, Information Week

I criticized Google recently for not including Gmail Tasks as part of Google Calendar instead of a Gmail Labs add-on, because of the missed synchronization capabilities of tasks management.

Despite that this fact has not changed, I won´t be surprised when it would, as Google folks can´t keep quiet. Now it´s time for extending a synchronization feature already available for Blackberry, to a bunch of SyncML capable devices, including iphone/ipod touch.

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As we already knew, Windows Mobile 6.5 (available on the second half of 2009) will have a new and more atractive interface, which is called “honeycomb interface”, as we can see in the below picture. We will see on the screen several joined polygons which form the honeycomb menu and an application will be available on each polygon. This interface gives a new and fresh look to the current Windows Mobile version which seems more like a Windows 3.11 style.

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UQ Communications – a Japanese consortium led by KDDI and also including Intel, JR East, Kyocera and several banks – launches a commercial Mobile Wimax trial service at Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki. Nagoya and Osaka will also go online in June. This means the major areas of Japan will be covered at a 40$ monthly flat-rate, a rather interesting fee.

They also will offer a Wifi service on Shinkansen trains that will be available for all customers by September (though some commercial clients will have it by March).

We’ll have to wait patiently until we see this in Europe.

Via WirelessWatch

Now you can upgrade your iPhone camera from 2mpx to 4mpx by software!

Occipital ClearCam turns your iPhone into a high quality camera with more than double the resolution ofthe original camera application.

How to get it? Easy! (^_^)

Install the application using Cydia (only jailbroken iPhones), search for ClearCam on Cydia´s browser, Select “Install” from the menu at the top of the screen, and then “Confirm”. Now you have a new camera application on your iPhone desktop.

How does it works? Easier than its installation!

Open the application, push the camera icon and it will capture 6 photos in 2.5 seconds, then it automatically create an enhanced 4·megapixel photo. Send it to your camera roll and enjoy the 4mpx picture.

Easy and useful, just if you want to take a special picture of something or somebody, because it takes a few seconds to enhance the picture, but you´ll obtain a sharpener and bigger picture than the original.

Free version is limited to take one picture in the album, you must to delete the picture to snap another one. You can use the trial version using all the features for free for a period of 15 days or pay 10$ to get the entire application.

Try it to believe it. I recommend it (~_^)

link Occipital

Gmail Labs developed Tasks a while ago, and now a mobile version has been launched. On higher-end devices like iPhone and Android-based ones, you can add/edit your own lists of tasks, and on the rest there is only one list. Note that your Gmail language must be set to english in order to enable Gmail Labs. If you have Labs enabled, try Tasks just entering http://gmail.com/tasks from your mobile.

Since Google announced synchronization capabilities with Outlook had been added to Google Calendar, a lot of people have been eagerly awaiting Tasks management included in Calendar, as now just events are supported (and therefore, just events can be sync´ed) and people have started using Calendar as a bridge synchronization for other apps (e.g. Thunderbird + Lightning).

Is a bit of a pain that Google have been working on Tasks to get it to mobiles, when they could have been working to get it into Calendar and then to mobiles. But hey, that´s my view, perhaps you will find Tasks on Gmail for iPhone super useful…

Link Google Mobile Blog | GMail blog

Things are moving in Palm’s world!!! Short after presenting the awesome Palm Pre, Palm has just announced a DevCamp focused on this device.

The most remarkable fact of Palm Pre application development is the usage of standard web technologies such as HTML, CSS and Javascript. The good thing is that the potential developer base is awesome, including mobile application developers (like SevenClick) and web-based developers. We have certain doubts about how deep Palm will allow developers to access. I mean, javascript is not the quitessence of security, and allowing access to contacts, certificates, Telephony API, etc… will be a bit risky if not treated carefully. Let’s see…

For all of you who doesn’t know what’s a DevCamp, I’ll try to explain. It’s very simple. A bunch of developers/fanatics/geeks/freaks/put your own adjective here/people get together to talk and work around a topic, the Palm Pre in this case. Companies usually organize these events to foster application development and to allow developers get in touch with the gurus behind a technology. In my point of view, results are always interesting since developers can share knowledge and impressions. It has nothing to do wih sharing business cards, but sharing knowledge.

If you are interested in PreDeveCamp, check the official website.

Link PreDevCamp
Via MonkeyWeb

SevenClick, a TBS Group company specialized in mobile solutions development, has been selected to participate in the final phase of Innovate!Europe, after presenting to the international market their last creation, zuppex.

zuppex is introduced as a complete multidevice product suite solving situations like sending certified notices, broker less secure push mail or document signing, mobilizing operations that, until now, could only be done from a PC.

This way, public agencies, companies and users around the world, will be able to perform on their mobile phones and with complete legal validity, actions such as sending, receiving and signing certified notices, secure e-mail exchange, digital voting, administrative procedures, and payments.

And all of these, thanks to zuppex, featuring operator independent push communication, encryption and digital signature, in a multidevice and multicontent environment.

Innovate!Europe final phase will take place in Zaragoza (Spain) on May 4-6 2009. As a result of this phase, a prestigious team of investors, big companies, government leaders and media from around the world, will choose the most promising technological start-ups.

Link innovate!europe
Link zuppex website
Download press release