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by Rom Feria on October 14, 2008
Yahoo! GO is Yahoo!'s one stop shop for its mobile services. This application provides an interface to its search engine, photo uploads, e-mail, news sites, etc., for your favorite mobile device...
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by Rom Feria on September 30, 2008
To road warriors who use Google's Street View to help them navigate, gone are the days when you need to whip up your notebook just to be able to use it. Google provides this same service for any J...
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by Rom Feria on September 13, 2008
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nokia's Ovi takes on Apple's MobileMe with the new file sharing services as well as PIM functionality (calendar and contacts syncing) for Nokia's phones....
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by Rom Feria on September 13, 2008
Over at the recently concluded DEMOFall 2008, SkyData Systems announces the private beta status of their new service. What SkyData does is to provide a single point of entry for users to manage and ma...
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by Rom Feria on August 17, 2008
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We featured JoikuSpot before and today, we hear JoikuSoft and Fon partnering to release FonSpot with WiFi.
FonSpot with Wi-Fi will effectively repl...
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by Rom Feria on August 17, 2008
How many times have you found yourself in a foreign country and looking for someone who speaks your language to translate the street sign or a menu entry? Well, been in that situation not too many t...
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by Rom Feria on July 26, 2008
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Apple's dotMac replacement, MobileMe continues to be plagued with problems. If this is how Cloud Computing will be in the future, then it looks a bit bleak, I sh...
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by Rom Feria on July 12, 2008
Before the dawn of the iPhone, third-party apps on my mobile phone come from Handango. With the iPhone, applications are selected, downloaded and installed all from within the phone itself, i.e., no...
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by Rom Feria on July 12, 2008
Quick on the heels of the push-enabled MobileMe services, a similar push e-mail services was announced by eMoze, an Israeli-based company. This free push e-mail requires nothing but a JavaME MIDlet ...
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by Rom Feria on July 12, 2008
A few days ago, Apple finally released their MobileMe services, the successor to their .Mac services. Dubbed as "Exchange for the rest of us", the service was launched not without problems...
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by Rom Feria on June 30, 2008
With less than 2 weeks to the iPhone 3G and iPhone v.2.0 software release, Apple is slowly migrating their .Mac subscribers to the new MobileMe service. Whilst all .Mac services are still functional...
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by Rom Feria on June 14, 2008
At WWDC 2008, Steve Jobs presents MobileMe, the successor to the USD99 dotMac service from Apple, as "Exchange for the rest of us". What MobileMe brings is the entire dotMac services, sans...
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by Rom Feria on June 14, 2008
Funambol announces support for the iPhone with version 2.0 firmware. If you have one of the mobile phones that are readily supported by Funambol, you can try the myFunambol portal.
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by James Koopmann on June 10, 2008
Villers-sur-Mer, which is located in France is providing free wireless internet access to any visitor. Visitors need only apply for a free license and their in. The system uses Firetide wireless mesh ...
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by Rom Feria on May 31, 2008
The current generation of Apple's iPhone does not have a GPS receiver built-in (although rumour has it that the next one will have it) but the Google Maps application that comes with it allows you...
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by Rom Feria on April 30, 2008
jkOnTheRun reports that Jaxtr offers free sms to up to 38 countries. Jaxtr is a free service that " links your phone to the web, so you can hear from callers worldwide while keeping your existi...
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by Rom Feria on April 6, 2008
Road warriors will rejoice with this FAA decision, as reported by Ars Technica, to allow in-flight wifi in American Airlines flights. Imagine being able to play online games with your peers on the gro...
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by Rom Feria on April 6, 2008
We know that we can access web sites on your mobiles phone but it is not common to be serving web sites from your mobile phones! If Google's Android will become a major player in the mobile phone ...
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by Rom Feria on March 19, 2008
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Cortado just announced availability of a free 1GB online storage, courtesy of Box.net, to Blackberry users. One only needs to download the Cortado Connect client and that is it!
Cloud co...
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by Rom Feria on March 13, 2008
Google Maps seems to be getting into a lot of places. The photo above is Google Maps on the iPhone. Whilst it is also available on other platforms as a JavaME application, today, Google Maps is avai...
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by Rom Feria on February 29, 2008
Now that SecondLife, the 3D virtual world where you can interact with participants via chat and voice, has entered the mainstream market as attested by how companies are exploring how it can be used f...
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by Rom Feria on January 12, 2008
Whilst some industry critics claim that Apple's iphone will not make it to the corporate world, more and more services are being re-designed to accommodate the iPhone's user experience, includ...
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by Rom Feria on January 4, 2008
Fast on the heels of qik.com, an on-line video streaming service that I wrote about earlier, we have another service that just came out of the development stage. Named Next2Friends, this new service i...
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by Rom Feria on January 4, 2008
With mobile phones supporting video-capture along with photo capture, it makes sense to let mobile phone users to streaming video on the internet. The bandwidth may be an issue but with EV-DO and HSDP...
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by Rom Feria on January 4, 2008
When you are a road warrior, it is very important to be able to find a good supply of both free internet connection along with a good cup (or two or three) of coffee. In the case of this local (in Man...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on November 4, 2007
Often out travelling and don't really know where to eat? Or want a new place to take clients that is just a little different? Then you should subscribe to whrrl a new social site that recommends a...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on October 31, 2007
Recent newcomer to the Internet, DocStock aims to have available for the world to use "stock" documents that can be used as templates for such things as legal documents, business plans, and ...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on October 19, 2007
Ruud Hein in "walk the walk" outlines a way for you to make Gmail your personal information nerve Center. The idea seems simple enough to implement, I don't know why I didn't think o...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on October 16, 2007
In a major diversion from normal practice, Skype will now be made available on MySpace.com. The Skype client will not be needed here. Everything will be made available in the MySpace.com web page.
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by Elwyn Jenkins on October 10, 2007
Microsoft still don't get the internet, or is it that Microsoft are so conflicted over the way the Internet now delivers software that they cannot make up their minds to provide a truly web applic...
