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Technology
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
According to a press release, Networks In Motion has been granted a U.S. Patent titled “Position Determination System – System and method for providing routing, mapping, and relative position information to users of a communication network” which essentially covers all types of location based services using a GPS enabled device. This patent is a news [...]
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Technology
Friday, April 25th, 2008

In order to extend its reach to mobile and wireless devices, Skype has released a beta version of Skype application for Java based mobile phones. The application works with 50 Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. The application is available worldwide, however, the facility to make Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut calls from [...]
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Technology
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

IBM is up for taking the web to the common mobile users and has announced various applications and services related to communication, mobile-commerce, mobile social network and healthcare. On the 10th anniversary of the IBM India Research Lab, IBM has announced its Mobile Web initiative which will be led by India Research Lab and the [...]
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Technology
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Cricinfo, a susbsidiary of ESPN and one of the biggest portal providing content related to cricket, and Plusmo, a mobile widget service provider, have launched a widget for iPhone. The widget will deliver Cricinfo’s ball-by-ball commentary and updates, Scorecard, match schedules, news, photos and podcasts from cricket experts on the iPhone. The Mobicast widget also [...]
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Technology
Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Opera software, the makers of Opera web browsers, has announced that the in-lab version of Opera Mini browser for mobile phones with Google Android’s open platform has been released. On the launch, Opera CEO, Jon von Tetzchner said, Opera Mini will be able to empower users of Android-based handsets with access to all of their [...]
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Technology
Monday, March 31st, 2008

Microsoft has announced the release of Microsoft Dynamics Mobile version 1.1 which is a collection of mobile application development tools, the server and framework components for Microsoft Dynamics products. The current version of Microsoft Dynamics Mobile supports the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.01 SP1 and 4.0 SP2 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0-SP3 and 5.0-SP1. The Microsoft [...]
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Technology
Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Google has announced that Objective-C, language used for developing Mac OS X applications, can also be used for iPhone application development. This is going to be really helpful for developers who are planning to integrate Google services in their iPhone applications. The source files in the latest version 1.4 of the Objective-C Client library can [...]
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Business
Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Mobile phones have become an integral part of business as everyone needs to remain connected, communicate with customers, employees and business partners and retrieve and transfer information on the go. There are different kind of mobile phones providing different sets of features for making it easy to do business while you are on the move. [...]
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Business
Friday, March 21st, 2008
In the recently concluded FCC’s auction of its 700 MHz spectrum, Verizon has won highest number of licenses and also the much talked about C-Block of spectrum. The main focus of this entire aution was the C-Block of spectrum which will provide consumers the ability to use any wireless device and application on the network. [...]