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AdMob Launches New Video Ad Unit with Real-Time Interactivity for iPhone

AdMob announces the launch of its new Interactive Video Ad Unit for iPhone, enabling consumers to browse Web sites, view additional videos, and more while the video is playing. The first ads will start running this week in select applications across AdMob’s iPhone ad network that reached more than 20 million unique iPhones and iPod touch devices worldwide in 2009

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fring Launched on Android Mobile Platform

fring today announces its release on Android platform, bringing mobile social services to Android smartphone users including Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM. Centralized from one integrated contact list, fringsters also make calls to regular phone lines via Skype-Out and hundreds of popular SIP services over 3G, GPRS or Wi-Fi internet connection. The software can be downloaded via fring’s WAP site at m.fring.com or directly via the Android Market. In addition to Android, fring is supported worldwide on thousands of Symbian S60, iPhone, iPod touch, Windows Mobile, J2ME and Linux devices

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The Nokia N900 is now available to US consumers

The Maemo-powered Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to those who have placed a pre-order. With the Linux-based Maemo operating platform, 32GB of storage and multiple options of connectivity including access for 3G data networks, the Nokia N900 comes with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard and enables consumers the ability to personalize up to four different home screens as they wish. One can be work related with a calendar widget and contacts application while another can be favorite bookmarked web pages while yet another can be set to show popularsocial networks.

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Social Media Made Simple With Social Beat On Verizon Wireless Phones

Verizon Wireless and iSkoot today announced the availability of Social Beat, the free social media application that allows you connected to popular social media sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Social Beat also displays more than 50 customer-selected feeds from the hottest names in news, sports and entertainment sources, which can be viewed in one central location. When you sign in to Social Beat, they can easily view friends’ activity, news feeds, status updates and new photos. You can even post new status messages and tweets, send comments and messages, and receive updates from their personalized news section through a single stream on their mobile phone in real time.

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Opera Mobile 10 now available for Windows Mobile phones

First released for Symbian devices , Opera Mobile 10 beta is now available for Windows Mobile platform. The Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile looks and feels similar to the Opera 10 desktop browser and Opera Mini 5 beta. It can be downloaded from www.opera.com/mobile/ or m.opera.com/mobile/ (for phone download). Opera maintains its powerful arsenal of features in this beta, including Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, a password manager and its super, server-side compressor, Opera Turbo.

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Samsung Announces the Upcoming Availabilty of the Samsung Go with AT&T

Samsung today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Go, a compact and lightweight netbook with Microsoft Windows 7 Starter Edition OS. The Samsung Go, weighing just 2.8 lbs., has a built-in Intel Atom processor and standard 4-cell 4000Ah battery that provides up to 4 hours on a single battery charge. The Go will be available beginning Nov. 22 through AT&T retail locations or online at www.att.com/netbooks .

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Windows Mobile Marketplace Made Accessible from PC Web Browser

Giving you a better and faster way to browse the applications on Windows Mobile Marketplace, Microsoft has put up a website with all the approved applications. You can buy an application directly from your PC, though it still have to be downloaded from your Windows phone by launching the Marketplace software on your phone. You can actually browse through all the applications in Marketplace without signing in with your Live ID

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Qualcomm Now Sampling Industry’s First Dual-carrier HSPA+ and Multi-Mode 3G/LTE Chipsets for Global Markets

Qualcomm today announced that it is sampling the industry’s first chipsets for dual-carrier HSPA+ and multi-mode 3G/LTE. The Mobile Data Modem (MDM) MDM8220 solution is the first chipset to support Dual-carrier High-Speed Packet Access Plus (DC-HSPA+); and the MDM9200 and the MDM9600 chipsets are the multi-mode 3G/Long Term Evolution (LTE) solutions

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Samsung Creates its Open Mobile OS called Samsung bada

Samsung has announced the launch of its own open mobile platform, Samsung bada in December. The name ‘bada’, which means ‘ocean’ in Korean, was chosen to convey the limitless variety of potential applicationswhich can be created using the new platform. Dr Hosoo Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of Media Solution Center at Samsung Electronics said, “By opening Samsung’s mobile platforms we will be able to provide rich mobile experiences on an increasing number of accessible smartphones.” He added, “bada will be Samsung’s landmark, iconic new platform that brings an unprecedented opportunity for operators, developers and Samsung mobile phone users around the world.” The official website (www.bada.com) will open on November 10th and will feature a range of information on bada including updates on product launches, features, and event notices.

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Rogers Wireless first to Offer LG Eve GW620 in Canada

LG and Rogers Wireless announced the LG Eve (GW620) Android smartphone, featuring an application called Social Network Services (SNS) Manager, which brings together a user’s Facebook, Twitter and Bebo networks into one place, letting them check status updates in real time. The SNS Manager leverages social networking by putting a person’s address book contacts as the central reference and launching point for a variety of social media tools. Also designed for easy social networking are the 5 MP camera for taking high quality pictures that you can view and edit on the LG Eve’s 3-inch touch screen, and the 5-line QWERTY keypad, which is ideal for email and messaging

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Parrot RKi8400 Car Stereo Makes US Debut at SEMA

Parrot has launched the Parrot RKi8400 in the United States. The Parrot RKi8400 is an FM/AM RDS car stereo that features multiple connections for both the iPhone and the iPod. It is designed with a storage compartment behind the removable front panel, ideal for protecting and recharging an iPhone or iPod. Parrot RKi8400’s iPhone and iPod connections have achieved the double official Apple license ‘Made for iPod’ and ‘Works with iPhone’.

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Samsung Mobile Announces Availability of the Samsung Mythic and Samsung Flight

Samsung announced the availability of the Samsung Mythic, a full touch screen device with AT&T Mobile TVSM capability, and the Samsung Flight touch screen phone that comes with a QWERTY hardware keyboard. The Mythic’s 3.3″ full touch screen features Samsung’s innovative TouchWiz™ user interface, which allows users to simply drag and drop widgets for their favorite and most commonly used features and functions on the phone’s home screen.

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Global Telecom Companies Announce a Standards Based Solution for Voice and SMS Services over LTE

AT&T, Orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have defined the preferred way to ensure the smooth introduction and delivery of voice and SMS services on Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks worldwide. The above telecommunications industry leaders have jointly developed a technical profile for LTE voice and SMS services, also known as the One Voice initiative. The profile defines an optimal set of existing 3GPP-specified functionalities that all industry stakeholders, including network vendors, service providers and handset manufacturers, can use to offer compatible LTE voice solutions.

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Samsung Selects Tele Atlas for Digital Maps and Location Content

Tele Atlas and Samsung have announced an agreement under which Samsung will use Tele Atlas maps for its GPS-enabled devices. Samsung will be able to bundle Tele Atlas’ product with its smartphone with more than 24 million points of interest (POIs), Voice Maps, and visual enhancements such as 3D Landmarks, 2D City Maps and Digital Elevation Models. “I believe that the agreement will bring innovative and user-friendly mobile GPS experience to our users with Tele Atlas’ unique approach to combining community input with other sources to develop the freshest, highest quality maps and innovative location content,” said Hyoungmoon No, Vice President of R&D Planning Team, Samsung Electronics .

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App Store for WM 6.0 & 6.1, Reviews of AT&T HTC Pure, Verizon Imagio

As of late last week there were over 250 apps in the new Windows Marketplace for Mobile, and an unofficial free application now opens the store to Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1. This week I’ll also point you to an overview of some of the new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices that are out, as well as reviews of the AT&T HTC Pure and Verizon Imagio. Plus, I’ll point you to an interesting opinion piece about whether Microsoft is falling behind in the mobile arena

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Nokia launches the Nokia 6788 TD-SCDMA Slider

Nokia today announced the Nokia 6788, its first device for TD-SCDMA – China’s domestic 3G standard, at an event in Beijing. The Nokia 6788 is specifically designed for China Mobile’s network, featuring a 5-megapixel (2592 x1944) camera with a dual-LED flash, a 2.8″ QVGA display, and the hugely-successful Symbian S60 platform, the Nokia 6788 allows people to instantly share the things that matter to them most. The Nokia 6788 is expected to be available at the end of December 2009.

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First Sony Ericsson Android Smartphone Rachael Announcement on November 3rd

Not exactly stated on the company website, new Sony Ericsson event page called “ What’s Next ” is available today with its next press event schedule. The page’s source code is pointing at a project codename “Rachael”, which has been known as Sony Ericsson first Android smartphone. This is also confirmed by Sony Ericsson South Africa’s twitter page  for the new Project Rachael.

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DataViz Releases Documents To Go Premium Edition 2.0 for BlackBerry Smartphones

DataViz today announced the availability of Documents To Go® Premium Edition version 2.0 for BlackBerry smartphones. Included in this latest version is an easy to use desktop application with support for bi-directional file synchronization, updates to the PDF To Go, support for password-protected Microsoft Office 2007 files, and a new file browser for accessing and managing documents.

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T-Mobile Announces Sony Ericsson Equinox with Customizable Light Effects

The Sony Ericsson Equinox, available exclusively from T-Mobile, combines style and substance. Featuring external light effects and a customizable pulse light, this fashionable flip phone will have heads turning. In addition, the Equinox is a great companion while on the go with built-in A-GPS with available Location Based Services by TeleNav, a 3.2 megapixel camera with video capture, music and video player, stereo Bluetooth and an FM radio

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Rumor: HTC Desire Going to Verizon Wireless as Droid Eris

With the HTC Desire first leaked in September , here comes its first leaked photo, going to Verizon Wireless as Droid Eris according to engadgetmobile . The Android smartphone is said to be listed as one of the Droid Series from Verizon Wireless. It cames with touch sensitive buttons below the touch screen, another 2 hardware buttons and track ball will be available too for navigation, call answering and call ending.

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ARM Launches Cortex-A5 Multicore Processor

ARM announces the launch of the ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore processor, available as an extremely area- and power-efficient uniprocessor or up to a 4x multicore processor. By delivering better performance than the ARM1176JZ-S processor within the raw power and silicon area footprint of the ARM926EJ-S processor, the Cortex-A5 uniprocessor offers nearly twice the power-efficiency relative to these earlier and extremely popular predecessors. This increases the quality of the user experience while reducing costs and end-user device size. The Cortex-A5 processor is fully application compatible with the Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processors

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Access and Emblaze Mobile Unveil Else Intuition with Linux Platform

ACCESS and Emblaze Mobile this week unveiled its new Else Intuition, featuring Access Linux Platform v3.0 with touch UI. To be used with GSM Quad band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) or GSM Triband (850/1900/2100 MHz) network, the Else Intuition comes with built in GPS, WiFi, bluetooth and powered by a TI OMAP 3430 processor. Else Intuition takes advantage of ACCESS Linux Platform v3.0 to provide advanced flexibility and configurability, enabling users to run multiple applications simultaneously

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