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MIT Media Lab has reinvented the original Post-it, and its name is “Quickies”.

“Quickies” are stickies that have some intelligence and the ability to remind us about the task we ought to perform or to provide us at the right time with the information we captured in the past.

This new Post-it are provided with a RFID chips, artificial Intelligence and ink recognition technologies can make it possible to create intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located, can send reminders and messages.

This is unbelievable, write on a post it and manage it from your PC to know when and why it was written for.

Via El Mundo

Link Ambient Intelligence Group

Could be possible run iPhone Mac OS on any touch screen? Maybe not, but people of Flick Software have created iSwish. With this application, available next May, you can run Windows Mobile with an Apple-like UI. This include some iPhone features.

• Flick from screen to screen
• Jiggle with icon move
• Smooth motion
• Summerboard theme support
• Summerboard text on/off
• 32bit color alpha blending
• Links to standard windows mobile apps
• Photo library
• Simulated multi-touch pinch on photos (iZoom)

You don´t believe us, take a look.

Via EngadgetMobile

Just some months have passed since the first iPhones reached the streets, but that´s more than enough for becoming the main reference in interactive interfaces.

It hasn´t been a big deal, though. Rivals like HTC Touch with its TouchFLO interface or Nokia N95 “n-gage flavoured” are magnificent competitors, but have nothing to do against the Apple iPhone style.

And now, thanks to Makayama TouchBrowser, all of us who can´t afford the price of an iPhone will be able to enjoy an iPhone-style Internet browser for our Windows Mobile gadgets, which means you will forget the stylus at last!. Thanks god for releasing us of the old scroll suffering!

Via Engadgetmobile

Microsoft have chosen AT&T to launch the world’s first Surface into retail.

With this 30 inch multi touch screen, costumer could learn more about the mobile devices showed at stores by only placing it atop the Surface. They’ll also have the ability to explore interactive coverage maps. Later, users will be able to drag ringtones, graphics and video and drop it into “the phones.” Amazing!

This service will be availabe at New york, Atlanta, San Antonio, and San Francisco stores next April 17th.

Take a look to the entire picture gallery or watch this video to know more of about this “vaporware”.

Via EngadgetMobile

Face Contact is the new application for Windows Mobile created by CNetX in which you can manage your contacts with a “cover flow” interface.

Features:

• Perform all kinds of contact management operations, such as adding, editing or removing contacts.
• Initiate common contact-related tasks, such as starting a phone call, sending text messages and email, or browsing a contact’s web page.
• Sort or rearrange contacts by different criteria, at any time.
• Jump instantly to specific positions in the contact list based on the contact’s initial.
• Keep full control of index/position in the list even when rapidly scrolling through your contacts.

You can download Face Contact now as a demo version for 10 days or buy it for only 9.45€.

That is the coolest way i have never seen to use the contact list, but the interface is obviously copied from Apple´s Cover Flow. : (

The University of Glasgow has unveiled a hack that provides vibration feedback when a virtual key is pressed, simulating the effect of typing on a real keyboard.

The patch is called Haptic Feedback which researchers say can help improve typing speeds, while simultaneously reducing errors. The hack is available from the University’s Google Code page, requiring a jailbroken 1.1.3 iPhone. The current modification uses a 70-millisecond, 170Hz pulse with the built-in vibration motor to simulate pressing the key, while a 50-millisecond, 100Hz pulse imitates the key raising when the finger leaves the touch surface.

Via Google Code

Some time ago, we talked about the last movements of Zumobi. They were to release a beta version of their product by mid-December.

Well, the application is already available to download in their web, tough regrettably, the beta is only available for U.S.

But the new announcement is the agreement with Microsoft for distributing Zumobi with the next releases of Windows Mobile. A great movement! Don’t forget that Zumobi is a spinoff from Microsoft.

Via XatakaMovil
Link Zumobi

Some days ago we knew about the new Yahoo Go 3.0, rebuilt as a widget platform.

Now, we have noticed another information about this platform. As Reuters reports, Yahoo mobile Chief Marco Boerries has confirmed that Yahoo will make versions of its mobile services to run on phone platforms including Google’s Android (when it is up and running) and the iPhone (hinting it will make such an announcement at MacWorld).

This approach meets with Yahoo’s mobile strategy that claims to put its services on as many handsets as possible. In words of Marco Boerries, “Yahoo is ready to demonstrate its commitment to mix and match services of its own with those of rivals in a new, more open strategy…By offering Internet services that work on existing phones rather seeking to compete with mobile phone software of its own, Yahoo can reach hundreds of millions of phone users”.

Via MocoNews

Yesterday, we talked about four new Samsung launches.

Today this firm show us one more handset, Samsung SGH-F490, that ships spectacular features:

• EDGE/HSDPA connectivity
• 5 megapixels camera phone
• Video recorder 320×240 to 15 fps and music/video player with VGA resolution to 30fps
• 130 MB internal memory
• MicroSD card reader
• 3,2″ 16:9 finger touch screen
• Croix GUI (like Samsung Armani)

It also allows the conventional earphones use, through a 3.5mm jack, or earphones via Bluetooth.

The price for this outstanding cell phone will be 530€ and it will be for sale in February.

For sure, it’s a rival for Nokia N95 and iPhone in the field of multimedia smartphones.

Via Xataka Movil

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Via EngadgetMobile we’ve reached ‘the Boy Genius Report’ blog, where we’ve found this 5 minutes long video of the next release of Windows Mobile.

There we can see some of the new features of the long-awaited Windows Mobile 6.1 and a comprehensive list of this new features and improved ones.

The look and feel of the GUI is better than 6.0 and IE also has some improvements. Anyway, it still is pretty far from iPhone’s Safari or Opera Mobile.

Via EngadgetMobile
Link BoyGenius