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Watch TV Using SlingPlayer in your Mobile

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Sling Media say that using their set up, any program that you can watch on your sofa back home, you can now watch via a PC or Mac, as well as UIQ on Symbian OS, Symbian S60, Palm OS, and Windows Mobile-based smartphones anywhere you can get an internet connection (3G cellular or Wi-Fi).

This is because Sling Media has announced it is to release SlingPlayer Mobile for UIQ worldwide this summer and expects the new version of SlingPlayer Mobile for S60 to be available this spring – and – good news for N95 owners, its existing SlingPlayer Mobile for S60 on Symbian OS will soon support Nokia’s N95 8GB. BlackBerry compatibility is expected soon too.

Sling Media expects to support the following UIQ handsets at launch and will continue to expand handset support thereafter: Sony Ericsson P1i, P990i, W960i, W950i, M600i and Motorola MOTORIZR Z8. Slingbox customers have to buy SlingPlayer Mobile application for a one-time charge of $20.

source:sling

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New KF300 Slim Fashion Phone by LG

 KF300

LG finally revealed the mysterious LG KF300 – a name tag that surfaced not long ago without any further information available. As it turns out, the LG KF300 is the GSM variant of the CDMA-only LG SV300 Wine phone.

The KF300, to be brutally honest, while it looks slim and sleek does give off a bit of a girls-only type vibe. And that’s not a bad thing ladies. It’s a flip phone with a 2.2-inch QVGA display on the inside and a 1.3-inch TFT screen on the outside. The external screen has a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels and the inside has a 240 x 320 pixel resolution with 256K colors. It’s quite the feature rich phone with a 2 megapixel camera with auto-focus to boot, Bluetooth, microSD card support, an FM radio as well as a media player. The KF300 will also support EDGE / GPRS. From the images you’ll also see that there are also a few shortcut keys located right under the screen. It also has a five way nav-pad and rather large keys which is surely a good thing.

The LG KF300 will be available in black and pink. Unfortunately there seems to be no price tag associated with the handset yet.

source:gsmarena

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Motorola Inc in Trouble? “Split in Motorola”

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Motorola Inc. announced plans to separate its struggling handset business from other operations Wednesday, forming two separate publicly traded companies after months of agitation from frustrated investors.

The suburban Chicago-based cell phone maker has been under pressure from billionaire investor Carl Icahn for changes meant to revitalize its cell-phone business. The cell phone unit has seen its sales and stock price plummet with the company unable to produce second act to the once-popular Razr phone.

Motorola said the handset business will operate separately from another company that will encompass its home and networks business, which sells TV set-top boxes and modems, and its enterprise mobility solutions, which sells computing and communications equipment to businesses.

Last year, the company pulled back from developing markets, cut 7,500 jobs and CEO Ed Zander resigned.

A flock of executives have left the company this year, and more cuts and changes are likely as the new management team scrambles to retain control in the face of a revived threat from Icahn.

Icahn, who has been steadily increasing his Motorola position, disclosed in a filing this month that he now owns 142,362,000 million shares, or 6.3 percent – up from 5 percent a month ago.

Wednesday’s announcement came two days after Icahn sued Motorola, seeking documents about its executives and its cell phone business.

 source:tech2

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Windows Mobile 6.1 Releasing Soon

Win Mob 6.1

Microsoft will announce the much-rumoured refresh to its mobile phone operating system, Windows Mobile, on 1 April 2008.

An improvement over Windows Mobile 6 released in February 2007 the new version, unsurprisingly named 6.1, will be a stop-gap measure to keep both consumers and industry happy until the launch of Windows Mobile 7.

Leaked screenshots of 6.1 have already done the rounds in the blogosphere, and show the system has been simplified with the screens displaying less mess than the Vista-inspired version 6.

A new look with new fonts, new homescreen and new features such as a task manager and copying and pasting in Internet Explorer all bode well for users of Microsoft’s OS for handhelds.

source:pocket-lint

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Fly launches New SX 200 Mobile

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Fly Mobile has announced the launch of the SX 200 mobile phone with the bold claim that it’s “the best value mobile phone currently available in the UK”.

The SX 200 offers a (megapixel count not specified) digital camera, an FM Radio, MP3 player functionality, Stereo Bluetooth, video recording and playback on the phone, mobile internet, speaker phone capabilities and memory card support.

These slightly vague specs are all packed into a slider design that will set you back £29.99 – available exclusively from Woolworths.

A Fly Mobile bod said: “Why should mobile phones with music players, video recording and stereo Bluetooth be expensive on pay as you go? At Fly we like to think differently and offer these features in well designed, good looking devices at fantastic value for money”.

source:pocket-lint

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100,000+ iPhone Developers Have Downloaded SDK

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Apple has announced that more than 100,000 iPhone developers have downloaded the beta iPhone software development kit in the first four days since its launch last week.

“Also, over one million people have watched the launch video on Apple.com, further demonstrating the incredible interest developers have in creating applications for the iPhone.”

This milestone press release has been sent out as the iPhone Dev Team, a group of hackers, has announced that they have first jailbroken, and then unlocked, the 2.0 iPhone firmware before it has even been released.

source:pocket-lint

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BBC’s iPlayer is now available to iPhone and iPod Touch

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BBC’s iPlayer is now available to iPhone and iPod Touch owners on the go.
It is the first time the software has been available on portable devices, and it will work over a Wi-Fi connection but not over the mobile network.

The BBC has launched a new version of its iPlayer video on demand service specifically for the Apple devices, which allows immediate streaming on iPlayer content.

And compatibility with other portable players is mooted – a BBC developer said that the corporation was currently working on other versions of the iPlayer for “many more” devices.

 source:BBC

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VoIP co Truphone today welcomed Apple’s launch of the SDK

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Injunction-happy VoIP co Truphone today welcomed Apple’s launch of the SDK for the iPhone.

Steve Jobs revealed that although VoIP apps would be approved for the iPhone if they worked over Wi-Fi, GSM-based solutions would be banned from the official App Store.

Truphone says its engineering department will be examining the SDK to see how it can help with the development of a Wi-Fi Truphone client for the iPhone.

source:pocket-lint

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Launching iPhone GPS add-on?

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Show floor rumors from CeBIT have tipped us that Nav N Go have announced a version of its satnav software iGO MyWay 8 for the iPhone that will use an “upcoming yet to be announced iPhone GPS receiver”.

A Nav N Go representative on the stand at CeBIT who has confirmed that they have launched a version of the software for the iPhone, but was evasive about exactly how the GPS side of things works and all.

 

source:pocket-lint
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New “Otello” search engine that uses images for serch

Vodafone

Vodafone is demonstrating a trial service called “Otello”, which is a search engine that uses images, rather than words.

Rather than use a word as a search term, Otello users can send images via MMS from their mobiles and the search service which then returns the results to the user’s phone as an “ordinary” search result.

A picture from a newspaper, billboard, book cover or place are all examples of what can be searched for.

Vodafone is running trials with a German newspaper that lets users find out more about stories by photographing the images that appear in the article and MMSing the images.

source:pocket-lint