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Seems to be that MobileMe service from Apple keeps having troubles. The new hiccup is that MobileMe users cannot access to their e-mail section. Apple has said in a bulletin that this is a known problem and that is affecting less than 1% of the users. Though, if we have a quick look at the Apple discussion boards we realize that actually there is an increasing number of users being affected without finding a solution on Apple’s support team.

Besides, some British users who signed up for a free trial of the service, have been charged in their accounts with 121 pre-authorization Pounds. Apple has “solved” this problem providing these users with additional 30 days of free service. So these customers can enjoy a total of 120 days trial service: initial 30 day free credit + 60 day trial + additional 30 day trial. This solution is ok, but would have been better not charging those 121 Pounds.

Via BoyGeniousReport

Qik allows your mobile phone to broadcast videos on live by streaming on the internet.

At the beginning of the year, this application was published but in a restricted way, only available for pre-registered or invited users. Now it has been published in a beta version and it is available for anyone who signs up in the website, even if you doesn’t want to stream videos but see and comment other people videos.

If you sign up you will be able to stream videos on a website directly from your mobile phone using your data plan to connect to the internet. In this new version you will have the chance of creating areas for your videos, grouping and making them public or private.

This new public version includes support for new phones such as Motorola Q or Nokia N96, and in following versions it will include support for iPhone 3G and several devices from HTC as HTC Touch Diamond.

One more feature of Qik is that the latency from the start of the recording to the beginning of the broadcasting on the internet is just between a half-second and 3 seconds. Half a second is extremely fast! This makes Qik the fastest and most live system of the online video streaming sites.

I’m sure that live video streaming from mobile phones is becoming something important in our lifes, better than just sending multimedia messages so that with Qik we can share on live our streams with whoever we want.

Via xatakamovil

Caixa Penedes by the hand of SevenCLick, company of  the TBS Group specialized in development and consultancy services on mobile technologies, presents its Online Banking application completely developed fo the iPhone.

Coinciding with the launch of the iPhone 3G in Spain next July 11th, clients of Caixa Penedes could accede from this link mobile.caixapenedes.com to new surroundings of acces for iPhone in which to consult and operate with their accounts, as well as visualize corporative and commercial information and social responsibility of this entity.

Accounts and cards global liquids, account movements consultancy, money transfers between own accounts or another accounts, charging prepaid mobile phone accounts, branch and cashier localization via Google Maps, are some of the features supported, all of them specifically developed for the first time using to the limit the capacities of the famous device of those of Cupertino.

Link Press release
Link CaixaPenedes
Link MobileCaixaPenedes

According to Mitchell Baker words, FireFox Mobile will be available this year, probably at the end of the year, Maybe Christmas?

They have to do a great job to beat current mobile browsers, and of course their target are smartphones and it will come with a lot of great features.

Via Bitelia

Since Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone, on sale on July 11th, companies have been working hard to get versions of its products suited to this device.

Google could not miss this meeting and a few days ago it has update its website with one link to access the new version of its chat.

Google Talk Gadget, which is the name that has given at this version of chat from the iPhone, simply using the Safari browser (using ajax) and a Gmail account.

Via Engadet Mobile

Today is the Firefox download day, it will probably break the most downloaded software record but, What about Firefox for mobile handsets?. There are not too much info but this video below shows how it will looks like in a concept video. It is very similar compared with iPhone´s Mobile Safari browser but of course it looks like better than Opera Mini.

Via Bitelia

One of the most annoying things mobile operators do is calling their data plans “flat rates”.  Flat?? When I subscribe a data rate the last thing I want is having to control how much information I have downloaded. I think calling “flat rate” to a data plan that limits the amount of information you can download is just misleading customers.

Movistar has presented the first REAL Flat Data Plan in Spain. It’s not perfect, but the offer is clear for customers, without hidden information I’d like to say.  Here are the conditions:

• Option “Internet en el Movil”. 10 € and 100 Mb included at 1Mbps / 384Kbps. When you excess this amount, the rest of the information is “NOT CHARGED” BUT THE DOWNLOAD SPEED IS REDUCED TO 68 Kbps.
• Option “Internet en el Movil Plus” (What a name!!! ;P). 15 euros and 200 Mb included at 3Mbps / 1,4Mbps. The excess is not charged and the download speed is reduced to 128 kbps.

As I said before, this is far from being perfect, but comparing it with the rates offered by other mobile operators, THIS IS THE BEST OPTION.

I hope that mobile customers finally lose the fear of mobile internet access. Let’s see how the rest of mobile operators respond to these offers.

Link Movistar Tariffs

It is time for Opera Mobile to bring us the opportunity to work on internet applications without internet connection thanks it will support Gears in its desktop and mobile browsers.

“Opera will have full support for Gears on mobile when they launch this year,” said Charles Wiles, Product Manager for mobile web apps at Google. “Opera Mobile 9.5 will be a great example of a high-quality browser on a mobile platform that supports Gears. This marks the coming of age of the browser as the platform for application development on mobile devices.”

“The forthcoming Opera Mobile 9.5 with Gears will usher in a new era for the Web on mobile devices,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “Together, these products will create new ways to bring applications to life on mobile devices. Developers will be able to use this along with Opera Dragonfly to develop and debug compelling applications for any connected environment.”

Great!

Link Opera Press release

Last week, several Indian news media reported that RIM was working with Indian governmet in order to let their security agencies spying on domestic Blackberry network.

The inmediate and natural complains of Indian Blackberry’s clients has made the company to state it’s commitment to “serving security-conscious businesses in the Indian market.”

RIM has answered Indian government that there are some other ways for “government to take care of security concerns”. But Indian government keeps on demanding “satisfactory answers” to its security questions, so we’ll see if RIM is able to maintain its security commintments.

Via EngadgetMobile

Opera Mini 4.1 lets you have the full Web everywhere. This newest release includes several new features, including automatic completion of Web addresses, making it easier to get to the sites you need; tools for attaching files to Web-based email; uploading photos to your blog or other site; downloading attachments from email for storage on your phone; and saving and viewing pages offline.

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