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Given that the iPhone already represents a groundbreaking merger of cell phone, iPod, and Web browser, would there really be a market for a new mini-tablet computer a little larger than an iPhone? Bigger than an iPhone but less capable than a full-fledged computer, an “iSlate” device would be in an awkward middle zone, said analyst Greg Sterling.

Could this be the return of the Newton? AppleInsider reports that Apple has been slowly but persistently working on a mini-tablet computer, a little larger than the iPhone, sporting Apple’s multitouch technology and an embedded version of OS X. The Apple rumor site claims that the product has been under development for the past 18 months. Although engineers had been pulled off the project to work on the iPhone, they have now returned full-force to developing a handheld computer.

A Microsoft employee on Thursday accidentally blogged about an upgrade to Office Mobile that shouldn’t be available for another couple of weeks. The upgrade, when it becomes available, should solve an incompatibility issue that left Windows Mobile 6.0 users unable to read Office 2007 file formats.

Jason Langridge, who works in Microsoft’s Windows Mobile group in the U.K., wrote that Office Mobile 6.1 was available and he included a link to the download page. But a representative with Microsoft’s external public relations firm said that the upgrade was put up on the site initially for internal testing and was accidentally made available to the public.

The new version of Office Mobile is expected to become available very soon, probably within the next two weeks, he said.

BillRate, from Iambic, allows users to harness the power of their Windows Mobile Pocket PC companion to record time, expenses and mileage while on the go. BillRate makes it easy to link time, expense and mileage entries to a particular project and then allows organizing, filtering and sorting the data in a number of ways.

Additionally, when the Pocket PC and the Windows Desktop edition are used together, data is synchronized between the two, allowing further analysis and easy exporting to Excel, XML, and other data formats.

This update includes a variety of improvements centered around usability and customization on both editions.

VITO has updated the current version of VITO Voice2Go to 1.51. It mostly focuses on some minor bug fixes. In this new version, the Magic Word suspends while you are speaking on the phone, so you won’t accidentally fire off some application by saying your voice command.

MadZ Software announced the release of version 1.1 of its DVD to iPod Touch/iPhone Video Converter software. DVD to iPod Touch/iPhone Video Converter rips DVD video files and converts them into .mp4 format for uploading to and viewing on the new Apple iPod Touch or iPhone. Just connect your Apple device to your computer as you normally do, and instantly the converted video files will be uploaded.

With DVD to iPod Touch/iPhone Video Converter 1.1, you can convert almost all DVDs for play on an iPod Touch or iPhone, including purchased DVDs, original DVDs, DVD copies, even downloaded DVDs. The input video can be in either NTSC or Pal format. For Multilanguage DVDs, you can even choose which soundtrack language to convert. You also have full control over which titles and chapters are converted. Also, you can control the output format such as setting a custom sample rate for audio and custom resolution and bit rate (quality vs. size) for video. Conversion of a two hour movie takes about one and a half hours to complete.

Jeyo Mobile Companion 2.0 is an extensive update to this Windows Mobile device manager. Version 2.0 builds on the powerful capabilities of the original: operation of your Window Mobile device from a Windows PC through a familiar ease-to-use Outlook-style user interface, SMS-ing directly from your PC through your phone including chat mode, and powerful features to manage all the important personal data on your Smartphone or Pocket PC phone such as the ability to backup and restore of all your vital data.

Elecont Weather for Pocket PC provides you with full six day global and local weather forecast and current conditions directly on Today Screen. In addition to a lot of useful weather information, it displays with animated icons directly on Today Screen.

T-Mobile has announced the next evolutions of the T-Mobile Sidekick family. Two newly designed devices–T-Mobile Sidekick LX and T-Mobile Sidekick Slide–will hit the streets this fall and both feature the must-have assetse, including the newly launched, custom-designed MySpace application.

While Sidekick enthusiasts await the new devices, T-Mobile kicks off Sidekick Nation, a user-generated video contest hosted by MySpace where fans have the chance to show their creativity and win a grand prize that includes $10,000 and a trip to Hollywood to see his/her video highlights aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Skype Recorder is an easy-to-use tool for recording Skype audio conversations. Skype Recorder can record Skype calls automatically. The software has a number of additional handy features such as an automatic record encoding into MP3/WMA/OGG/WAV format, all Skype versions support, conversations in either single or dual audio track recording, hidden mode work, a built-in audio player, a built-in FTP-client and an easy-going interface.

The software will start the recording by itself as soon as you start talking on Skype. The conversation over, Skype Recorder will encode the recording to the specified format and will save the ready file on your hard drive.