A new digital library, called Europeana, intends to showcase Europe?s history, literature, arts and science.

… as you can read in this report about podcasting so people/websites that run podcasts are wise.

Maybe now some Windows Mobile MVPs could move their lazy a*ses and start doing regular podcasts at last? And maybe Microsoft should give me MVP for doing oldest Windows Mobile podcast (4 years already)?

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Verizon and Ontela have worked together to produce a mobile uploader for Photobucket, one of the world’s oldest photo uploading tools on the Internet. Signing up is easy, as all you need to do is use your existing Photobucket account and link to your Verizon phone line:

To utilize the application, Verizon Wireless subscribers sign up for a Photobucket account ? which can be created for free at http://photobucket.com ? and enter their log-in information to link their Verizon Wireless account to their Photobucket online photo album. Once the accounts are connected, the application instantly uploads photos already saved on the phone to the user?s Photobucket account. The Photobucket Mobile Uploader then automatically sends any future photos directly to the same Photobucket account. [release]

The service will be available for 13 handsets on the Verizon network, and we’re assuming that these are the faster 3G / HSDPA phones. The service allows for unlimited photo uploading for only $2.99 a month.

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AP - A Siberian appeal court is scheduled Tuesday to consider a ruling that could lead to the temporary seizure of Norwegian Telenor’s ownership in Vimpelcom, Russia’s second largest mobile phone company.

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Toronto, October 15, 2008: The premier annual 2008 Financial Services Technology Forum will take place on October 28 & 29, 2008 at the Design Exchange (formerly Toronto Stock Exchange) in Toronto, Canada.

Though Google announced that billing mobile game sales for Android isn't possible before early 2009, a company called Mogees has just announed an SDK to at least offer some sort of billing. With this...

The Nokia E61 Tom Tom is a smart phone meant for optimum business solutions. With an in-built Tom Tom Navigator Six, the Nokia E61 provides you a comprehensive mobile office, enabling you to make swift decisions and increase productivity with more timely responses.

The Nokia E61 Tom Tom enables you to navigate through a range of office applications, choice of email solutions and extensive connectivity options. Its multi-tasking abilities include optimum mobile email with instant email notification, easy access of up-to-date calendar and contact information. Its extensive range of connectivity methods includes WCDMA that provides fast wide-area connectivity, and WLAN that provides fast local-area connectivity. The advanced email features of this Tom Tom handset provide you with the ability to view and edit your attachments, and deliver uncompromised voice functionality. You can also send and receive emails while talking on the phone or work in offline mode which enables you to read and write emails even when network is not available. Tom Tom Plus provides you smart and easy navigation with easy call handling.

The Nokia E61 Tom Tom has a large user memory up to 64 MB with miniSD card. With a large screen of 16 M colours and high resolution 176 x 200 pixels, you can see images sharper and, documents and applications appear with high clarity. The joystick provides easy navigation that reduces scrolling. It also supports the most common features of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel including Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP and 2003. The Nokia E61 is compatible with Zip Manager and Adobe Reader.

If you are looking for a simple one-handed navigation, then Tom Tom is your perfect choice. Together with the Tom Tom Navigator, the Nokia E61 provides you excellent mobile business performance.

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We have recently seen the official announcement of the MSI Wind Neton and now we are seeing reports that Asus will be launching their competing all-in-one desktop as early as tomorrow.  The Asus all-in-one desktop PC is the Eee Top, and it comes in two models, the ET1602 and the ET1603.  The announcement is expected to come during an Asus news conference on November 20.

As for the specs, the ET1602 features a 15.9-inch touchscreen, a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, Wi-Fi 802.11, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, and a pair of built-in speakers.  The ET1603 will offer similar features as the ET1602 but has a better (ATI HD3450) graphics card along with a battery.  Of course, the ET1603 weighs in at 9.7-pounds, and given that it seems the battery would serve more as a backup in case of a power loss, than provide for portability.

Still unknown is the pricing, although Asus CEO Jerry Shen did mention in the past that it would be a low priced device.  As for the actual availability, hopefully we will find that out, along with the official pricing tomorrow.

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Thanks to the new Google sync, BlackBerry users will soon be getting a taste of how it feels to live the Android life. While the HTC G1 may lack a desktop sync tool, it does feature automatic syncing with Gmail?s address book and vice-versa, providing you with a safe way of backing up your contacts on the internet. This same feature is now headed BlackBerry?s way and, in true Google fashion, it?s free of charge.

For instructions on how to get the Google Sync update, just head on over to mobile.googl.com/sync and enter your phone number. Once complete, an appropriate link will be sent to your mobile phone. I guess this is Google?s way of spreading the love to the rest of the mobile community even if you?re not yet ready to hop on the Android bandwagon.

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Today is the world of INTERNET means every user on net is connected to each other.There is no need to go to market to buy different commodities.Just sit at home and order what you want.
From a Tiny Steel Pin to A BIG SHIP you can buy everything online.
Today the Market is turned into e-market and buyers become e-buyers.
So,if you want to buy a MOBILE PHONE there is no need to check out the outlets.
Just a click on net and here you are with a number of retailers right in front of you with a numerous attractive deals that it become difficult to resist yourself from buying the gizmo's.Go for online Mobile Phone Shop ping.
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The French music industry body Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) is suing four US based developers of P-to-P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire and Morpheus and Shareaza. (The latter is the one that is stimulating vitriol in the tech blogosphere as it is developed by open source development platform SourceForge.)

Under newly revised French law the US companies can be tried in the France as their applications have not implemented filtering mechanisms to block out copyrighted material.

A couple of arguments are being leveled at the SPPF. The first that these applications aren’t designed for copyright infringement. It’s not the fault of the developers that they are being used as such. This argument of course has been since the original Napster trial. I’m sorry, but it just doesn’t wash. However much there is legitimate usage, the vast majority of usage is not legitimate. All the developers need to do is support their claims off innocence by embedding filtering mechanisms into their apps. If they counter claim that this would restrict the liberty of their users, then they can’t any longer argue that they don’t support illegitimate usage of their technology.

Another argument being aired is that the music industry should stop being so hung up on trying to get paid online, indeed one story eve referred to "the Music Industry's obsession with copyright”. That’s like saying "the car industry's obsession with cars". Copyright is the oxygen of the music industry. Without it there is no industry. Sure there may be cases for changing some industry practices but copyright remains the essence of making money from music.

Music cannot just be ‘for free’ anymore than cars or houses can ‘just be for free’. If people aren’t paid they don’t make the product. Sure music will still exist, but you’ll swap nicely programmed download stores and well stocked high street stores for buskers and millions upon millions of artist pages, all clamouring for your attention. Perhaps that sounds appealing? The problem is, most of them would sound a fraction as good as they would if they’d been able to give up their day jobs and been given proper equipment, studio time, mentoring and artist development support. And even those that would still manage to sound ok, would struggle to find their way to your PC or mobile screen as they wouldn’t have any marketing support to help them get there.

I’ll close with an account of how we first ended up with music copyright collection, which says as much to today’s ‘music should be free’ argument as it did then, 150 years ago:

“In 1847, the composer Ernest Bourget visited the Paris Concert Café Ambassadeurs in the company of his colleague Victor Parizot. At the time, Bourget was a popular composer of chansons and chansonnettes comiques. Among other pieces, the orchestra played the music of Bourget. When the waiter presented the composer with the bill for the sugared water that he and his colleague had consumed as the fashionable luxury drink of the period, Bourget refused to pay claiming that the orchestra had repeatedly played his music - without paying anything: and so [took the] sugared water in return for playing his piece. The dispute between the composer and the owner was brought before the court. On 8th September 1847, the Tribunal de Commerce de la Seine prohibited the owner from playing works of the composer without his consent. The exclusive right of the author to public performances that had been anchored in the French law of 1791 was thus put into practice for the first time. And on 26th April 1849 the Cour d'Appel de Paris sentenced the owner of Ambassadeurs to pay compensation - i.e. in this case royalties - to Bourget.”

The new features in the Zune 3.0 release are adding to user options to discover music in new ways. Microsoft Zune research has shown that radio is still being used by the majority of potential users to discover new music. Most people like to have help in discovering new music. The buy from FM feature rated very high in the research and would drive device and service adoption.

The perception that radio is dead is misguided and has been for years now. Many bloggers and major media back in 2004 said, that radio was dead with the invention of Podcasting and that has NOT at all happened. The same is true for music discovery from broadcast radio.

Broadcast radio is still very important (huge audience) and will continue to be so for a very long-time. These new options don?t stop users from using the Zune players as just a digital music player, Zune just takes it to an new level. If the portable media player market is going to grow then there needs to be more ways new potential users can get into the digital music game.

Many may not realize it, but still as of today the majority of people in the USA do not currently own a digital portable media player and these new Zune features are a way of pulling this huge existing radio listening market into the digital music/portable media player market. The other reason to be positive about the Zune features in 3.0 is that it is always good to have competition in this kind of market.

I just don?t see why many bloggers and major media have to keep slamming Zune, even as it continues to innovate in this evolving space. It is still very early days for digital media and portable consumption of that media. Zune does not have to follow Apple to succeed, as I believe that Zune is quickly moving into the leadership position around innovation in social networking digital media discovery, wireless sharing, sync and radio to digital e-commerce.

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The new BlackBerry Storm, which goes on sale Friday, could be the first phone offered by Verizon Wireless that truly challenges Apple's iPhone offered on AT&T's network.

We have a lot of shoppers who are looking at the Samsung Eternity with digital TV from ATT. We have a great deal going on with our partner Simplexity right now: with a 2-year contract you can get the ...

The new voice-actived Google Mobile app for iPhone is now available. For those who missed the news stories that -- somewhat prematurely -- predicted its arrival last Friday, it basically lets you say any search term or phrase into your iPhone and get search results within seconds -- even GPS-aware localized responses. So ... is it any good? Wow. That's right, wow. I mean, yeah, it's that good. I've been an iPhone owner since day one, upgraded to the 3G model, and this is the first application that's inspired me to remove one of the four core bottom applications on my home screen.

CTIA 2007 -- The Sony Ericsson W580i is the latest Walkman music phone for the North American market. With yet another music announcement, CTIA's first day has a very familiar feel. The W580i builds...

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An iPhone sales training workbook for AT&T store employees was leaked to the Internet over the weekend. From it, we can see some deals were struck between Apple and AT&T.

The Japanese Linux company Lineo has announced a pretty cool technology that is supposed to fire up a Linux machine in less than 3 seconds. The system uses a clever compression technology and a fast flash memory to store the hibernated data.

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Recently I was introduced to an exciting new mobile startup based in Bellingham, Washington called Tatango ( http://tatango.com). I had the opportunity to chat with their CEO and Founder, Derek Johnson, last week to learn more about the company and hear about their future plans.

The company was started just over a year ago under the name NetworkText, and recently re-branded under the name Tatango. (According to a video on their website there is no meaning behind the company name.)

What exactly does Tatango do?

Tatango provides a simple to use service that allows you to send a text or voice message directly from your computer or mobile phone to a group, keeping them connected anytime, anywhere. For example, lets say you had a group of people you wanted to communicate with in a more time sensitive, mobile way than through email. You could certainly grind your way through sending individual text messages or, by signing up to Tatango, you can message everyone with a single effort. Tatango allows any group to collect, manage and mobile message all of their group members both from a computer and mobile phone. And the great thing is that it doesn?t require any special phone and users don?t need to download any software to use the service. As long as you have text messaging, you can use Tatango.

I gave the service a test drive and it is dead simple to use. They have done a great job with the User Interface and even a non-technical Hockey-Mom could figure it out. You set up a group, invite your members and once they join your group, you are able to message them. (This prevents against the dreaded mobile-spam issue.)

It is free to sign up and the basic service is free to use. Tatango makes money by placing 30 character text ads at the bottom of group text messages and 7 second advertisements within voice messages. They also offer a premium version that is $4.95 per month which provides additional features such as the ability to add keywords. Today the service works across all major US wireless carriers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile) and Derek tells me that they will be adding International support early next year as well.

The company is doing great ? they raised an undisclosed amount of funding from The Bellingham Angel Group earlier this year which allowed them to beef up their technology infrastructure, move into some office space, re-design the website and hire a few folks. They now have 6 employees and have had over 5000 groups sign up to use the service. The average group size is 40 and Tatango is now sending about 4 million messages per month across these 5000 groups.

Talking to Derek was very refreshing. He is a young guy (23) and although he admitted some people (guys with $$) have expressed concern about his lack of experience, he is passionate about his company and loves what he is doing. As Derek explained, he didn?t start the company with any grand vision ? he was simply trying to create a more efficient way to communicate with his friends through text messages. Derek and a few buddies spent about 4 months building a prototype and guess what, next thing they knew they had lots of other folks who wanted to use the service as well.

I asked Derek what the next 6 months had in store for him and along with looking for additional capital to stay ahead of the growth, his focus is pretty simple:

1. Get more groups signed up to use the service.
2. Fine-tune his business model so he can get profitable.
3. Continue to add features and functionality to make Tatango even better to use.

Personally I would have loved to use this service lat spring when I was coaching my 6 year old's Tee-Ball team. We had one game during the week and one game every Saturday. If you?re at all familiar with Seattle weather in April and May, you know that it is completely unpredictable. There were at least 4 games when I had to make last minute decisions on whether or not the games were on, and then figure out how I communicate that to 11 other parents. Tatango would have been a perfect solution and I?m sure I?ll find other uses for it as time goes on.

I encourage you to check it out at tatango.com. It will be fun watching these guys grow.

PC and handset industry will clash on tweener products like Netbooks and smartphones.

Nokia has remained ahead in sales of SmartPhones, but Research In Motion is growing faster. SmartPhones are important to both companies because they tend to be very profitable.

Still, according to Gartner, Nokia is still by far the market leader with 47.5% of the smartphone market on 15.2m units sold to users. However, its market share has dropped from 50.8% in the same quarter last year.

Research in Motion (RIM) has done well with BlackBerry sales growing by 126.4% to 5.6m units, year over year, and it has now overtaken Windows Mobile.

Apple is also gaining ground on Nokia in the segment.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean flat screen maker LG Display Co and two smaller Taiwanese rivals are set to post profits for the second quarter that more than trebled thanks to strong demand for TVs and tight supplies of PC panels.

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Sony Ericsson W200i Gets Colorful Techtree.com, India - Jan 10, 2008 Essentially modeled in the Sony Ericsson Walkman phone tradition, the W200i also allows users take quality pictures with its 4x zoom VGA camera. …

 

The Wii's definitely not alone now in the motion-sensing crowd, now that the Asus is going to include a familiar-looking peripheral to its Eee line of products. At least, that's what the latest find in the Federal Communications Commission says in the FCC exhibits list, which is a pair of Nunchuck-looking peripherals dubbed as the "Eee Stick."

We've had both Sony and Microsoft considering creating a motion-sensing controller for their own consoles; what does the Eee Stick offer for the Asus Eee? The report doesn't specify how it's actually going to be used in conjunction with the ultraportable laptop, but we now know that the package will include two controllers.

One of them has an analog stick and another has a D-pad. It will also include the necessary CD software to get it running, a USB dongle - and yes, even wrist straps.

We're actually pleased to see the diminutive, functional Eees get their own line of accessories, but will using a pair of motion-sensing controllers be actually useful for an ultraportable laptop aside from, say, using them for work presentations? Let's see what kind of punch the Eee Sticks pack when they finally get to see the light of day.

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Yesterday, our buddy David Chartier at Ars and Sam Oliver at AppleInsider both publicized an issue that's been burning up the support boards for a while now: iTunes video rentals and purchases in HD are flagged for HDCP control, and in cooperation with the new Mini DisplayPort connector on the MacBook and MacBook Pro unibody models, those movies and TV shows are refusing to play back on non-compliant external displays.

In this case, 'compliant' means HDMI or recent-vintage DVI, but even monitors or TVs that support HDCP may not properly negotiate with the DisplayPort connector to give iTunes and QuickTime the all-clear signal (if so, quitting and relaunching iTunes once the display is hooked up may clear the playback hold). Equally annoying: HDCP is only supposed to apply to 'high-value' digital streams, meaning standard-def purchases and rentals on the iTunes store should be out of scope... but some reports indicate that both the HD and SD instances are flagged, blocking playback on anything but the laptop's internal display or a straight-thru HDMI connection. Argh!

While Apple TV users with unconventional output setups have been dealing with this aggravation since the beginning of the year, MacBook and MBP owners have largely steered clear, even as the HD content on iTunes became available for playback on the laptops. Now that the hardware and software have come into sync on the unibody models, Apple's compliance with HDCP -- a necessary but appalling condition of the content companies that deliver the HD movies and TV shows -- is beginning to close out the 'analog hole' and cause real aggravation for laptop owners with legitimate use cases. Talk about a bag of hurt.

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CTIA 2007 -- LG has become the latest mobile phone manufacturer to partner with Google. The handset maker will begin to introduce new models that come pre-installed with Google applications such as...

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