Archive for March 10th, 2009

Nokia 5800 MSN Messenger – Free Download

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Microsoft, Mobile World | Tags: , , , |

By Phat^Trance, Dailymobile Nokia 5800 MSN Messenger – Its a Chinese version but with English language as option. Download the application from our forum. Take also a look at the another MSN application to the Nokia 5800

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Palm Needs $49 Million for the Pre Project

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Mobile World | Tags: , |

By Chris, Mobilewhack.com Palm seems mentally ready to launch the Pre, but does it have all that much needed money to fund the Pre project? Palm has just decided to remarket around 18.5 million common shares which underlie preferred stock and warrants that Elevation Partners bought back in January. If everything goes well, Palm will [...]

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TicTacTi Employs Image Recognition for In-Game Widget Ads

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Game | Tags: , , , |

By Roi Carthy, Techcrunch.com Casual games may see a vast amount of traffic, but monetizing them can be more than a little tricky due to issues relating to Flash-based game files and the needs of various publishers. Israeli startup TicTacTi is looking to make monetizing casual games more efficient, by using image recognition to insert [...]

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Windows Mobile 6.5 to support web apps

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Mobile World, Windows | Tags: , , |

By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad The original iPhone could do it. The Palm Pre, with its WebOS will do it. And it looks like Windows Mobile 6.5 will be able to do it, too. “It” is the ability to run web applications, and it’s coming to Microsoft’s newest mobile operating system as widgets. A .widget is [...]

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YouTube blocks music videos in the UK

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Music | Tags: , |

By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad Google and the group that licenses music videos in the UK have hit a stumbling block in negotiations. And that’s led Google to block UK users’ access to premium music videos. That covers music that has been uploaded by artists and record labels for which Google pays a licensing fee, as [...]

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Trackle gives you web alerts for virtually anything

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Tech News | Tags: , |

By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad.com Sometimes you just don’t want to sit in front of a browser window and hit reload. Maybe you’re waiting for plane ticket prices to drop, or maybe you want to be the first person to apply for fresh jobs on Craiglist. Trackle is one way to get alerts via email or [...]

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Are Blogs Losing Their Authority To The Statusphere?

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Google | Tags: , , |

By Brian Solis, Techcrunch.com Depending on which numbers you source or believe, all reports agree that the blogosphere continues to expand globally. As the leading blog directory and search engine, Technorati maintains a coveted Authority Index which is considered amongst bloggers as the benchmark for measuring their rank and selling their position within the blogosphere. [...]

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Drop.io Speeds Up Its File-Sharing And Adds Chat

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Tech News | Tags: , , |

By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch.com Private file-sharing service drop.io is jumping on the “real-time” bandwagon, speeding up its application to make it a near-instantaneous experience and adding chat. Before, drop.io was slightly asynchronous in that one person would have to upload their photos, movies, music, or documents that they wanted to share, and everyone else would [...]

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The ur-iPhone in action

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: iPhone, Mobile World | Tags: |

By John Biggs, Crunchgear.com The guy who is trying to sell the original prototype iPhone on eBay just posted a video of this mutant in action. Thrill to half-hearted UI! Wonder in awe at the strange color scheme! Enjoy the brain-dead YouTube comments! Check it out now before Apple tears this stuff down for trade [...]

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Motorola Announces MC5590 and MC5574 Cellphones

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Mobile World | Tags: , , |

By Chris, Mobilewhack With phones like these two Motorola will slowly disappear from the face of the cellphones business. Sure we need rugged phones but they could always look better than these two. The MC5590 and the MC5574 have been just announced by Motorola. They are business-oriented smartphones. But where would you have to work [...]

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Lenovo’s 16-inch IdeaPad Y650 reviewed

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Notebook | Tags: , |

By Darren Murph Lenovo’s curiously cute IdeaPad Y650 has been shipping out to multimedia lovers everywhere for just under a month now, but if you’ve been holding tight until a legitimate review hit the tubes, here’s your sign. Computer Shopper managed to get ahold of one of these 16-inch beauties, and while it was disappointed [...]

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Dell Inspiron Mini 10 gets reviewed

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Notebook | Tags: , , |

By Donald Melanson, Engadget Dell’s Mini 10 netbook certainly seems to occupy the sweet spot between the company’s Mini 9 and Mini 12 offerings but, according to Laptop’s review of the netbook, there may be just a few too many trade-offs for some folks. On the upside, the Mini 10 does compare favorably to most [...]

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Nokia says its 4G position ‘has not changed’

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Mobile World | Tags: , , , |

By Chris Ziegler, Engadget Coupled with the discontinuation of the N810 WiMAX, Nokia’s intention to get LTE devices into the marketplace by next year had many folks thinking that the company was starting to sour on WiMAX altogether, but — at least officially — it turns out that’s not the case. Nokia has contacted us [...]

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Linpus Linux Lite OS caught on video

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Tech News | Tags: , , |

By Joseph L. Flatley, eEgadget We just came across this video showing the Linpus Linux Lite OS in action. Aimed squarely at netbooks and the Splashtop crowd, the operating system comes to life pretty quickly on the pictured Acer Aspire One. Unlike Splashtop, however, this isn’t part of the BIOS, “just a very very minimal [...]

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AMD’s ATI FirePro 2450 quad-display card

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Multimedia | Tags: , |

By Joseph L. Flatley, Engadget It’s a simple premise, and one that we wholeheartedly support: if a single display is good, two displays are doubleplusgood. AMD has always had our back in this regard, and now the company is back with further proof, in the form of a little something called the ATI FirePro 2450 [...]

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Keep your DVD library in order with Multiplex

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Multimedia, Tech News | Tags: , |

By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad If you’ve got a huge movie collection, whether it’s physical DVDs and Blu-Rays or just movies ripped to a hard drive, Multiplex can help you keep track of all of them on your Mac. Its Leopard-like interface uses Apple’s latest Core Animation improvements and looks like an even more epic version [...]

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kre-8 cellphone concept is only for music buffs

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Mobile World, Music | Tags: , , |

By Nicholas Deleon, Mobilecrunch.com This is one of the better concepts I’ve seen ’round these parts, and I see plenty of them. It’s called the kre-8 (the name could use some work, yes), and it’s a cellphone designed, as it were, for those who fancy themselves as DJs, music creators, etc. So what is it, [...]

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Two New Samsung Fabrizio PAVV PDP TVs

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Multimedia | Tags: , , |

By Daimaou, Akihabaranews This morning Samsung Korea announced the 450 Series PAVV Fabrizio PDP Series (plasma). Available in both 42″ and 50” it features 600Hz Technology and Samsung’s Crystal Engine… Unfortunately we’re still missing some key details like contrast ratio.

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PortableApps.com suite 1.5 released

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Tech News, Windows | Tags: , , , |

By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad.com The PortableApps.com application suite is a package of Windows programs that you can run from a USB flash drive. The platform comes with a program menu that pops up when you insert your USB stick, or when you launch the program, and a suite of apps including a web browser, instant [...]

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Seagate demos 6Gbps hard-drive transfer speed

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Gadget News, Tech News | Tags: , , , , |

By Dong Ngo, Cnet In collaboration with AMD, Seagate announced Monday its demonstration of a new hard drive Serial ATA (SATA) interface, tentatively called SATA3, that offers speeds up to 6Gbps, or 600MBps. (SATA3, or SATA 6Gb/second, was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization under the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specifications.) Currently most consumer-grade [...]

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Create random album covers – Time Waster

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Tech News | Tags: , |

By Jason Clarke, Downloadsquad.com Creating compelling album cover art requires talent, though when I look through my old CD collection (how quaint!) it’s pretty clear that talent is not a prerequisite for everyone who creates album covers. For a fun comparison, check out how surprisingly well My Album Generator creates passable album covers. The formula [...]

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ASUS showcases HD-minded Eee Top ET2203 and ET2003

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Notebook | Tags: , , |

By Darren Murph, Engadget.com Amongst many, many other things at CeBIT, ASUS also found time to showcase two new Eee Top all-in-one PCs, though it completely failed to make any deal of it at all. In fact, it didn’t even bother hosting up specifications placards, leaving us curious as to what these offer over the [...]

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Sony’s OLED Walkman specs revealed, QVGA rears its ugly head

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Mobile World | Tags: , , , |

By Tim Stevens, Engadget.com We’ve been itching to spend some quality time with Sony’s NWZ-X1000-series player since its granite-sided shell was first revealed just ahead of CES, and now that it’s inching closer to release (in the Old Country, at least) we finally have a full spec sheet to parse. On the audio side it’ll [...]

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Proto Nokia E75 Sample Photos Inside Nokia Office

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Mobile World | Tags: , , |

By  Mark Guim, Thenokiablog A lot of people love the Nokia E71, but not its crappy camera. With the Nokia E75 on the horizon, I’m sure others are wondering if the camera quality is better. Check for yourself and view 10 sample photos taken from a Nokia E75 prototype direct from a Nokia cubicle in [...]

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Windows 7 RC build 7048

Posted on March 10, 2009. Filed under: Windows | Tags: , |

By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad.com Apart from implementing some of the previously announced changes in post-beta Windows 7 builds, Microsoft has clearly set their sites on providing a desktop environment that users can customize six ways from Sunday. Don’t take the title too literally: build 7048 has definitely received plenty of attention under the hood. In [...]

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