Adisasta, solution provider for mobile people, announced the release of WinMobile Download Accelerator v.2 (wmDA v.2) for Windows Mobile Classic/Professional. wmDA v.2 is a download manager that enhances mobile user’s file downloading experience by providing functionalities to manage, schedule and speed up file downloading from http, https and ftp servers.

wmDA v.2 uses multi-server multiple-threading asynchronous transportation technique to speed up file downloading. The download speed can be increased even further by assigning simultaneous downloading from several mirrors. Any broken download on error or connection failure can be easily resumed using comprehensive error recovery and resume capability of wmDA v.2.

Part of theproblem with smartphones is the term “smartphone.” There is no getting around the fact that the things sound demoralisingly nerdy. To the lay consumer, what “smart” means is “horribly complicated, unnecessarily over-specified, dominated by features no sane person will ever use, liable to do ruinously expensive things to your data tariff without your realising until too late, and weirdly bad at everyday stuff like, you know, making phone calls.”

The manufacturers have got wise to this. They try not to call them smartphones any more, for a start. They’re also trying to market them in a way that makes smartphones seem less techie.

Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion announced the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone will be available in May. Packaged in a liquid silver-colored finish with chrome highlights, smooth edges and soft curves, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 is backed by Verizon Wireless’ high-speed Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) network. This small and light smartphone has rich multimedia capabilities and is VZ Navigator-capable. VZ Navigator is Verizon Wireless’ location-based service that offers customers mapping, audible turn-by-turn navigation and access to information on more than 14 million points of interest.

The BlackBerry Curve 8330, RIM’s smallest and lightest full-QWERTY smartphone, combines stylish looks with the tools people need to manage their professional responsibilities, maintain personal communications and entertain their senses.

Kaspersky Lab announced a new product for Mobile Security. As people continue to load more and more sensitive professional and personal data on their smartphones, more advanced security capabilities are becoming increasingly important for consumers and businesses alike. With Kaspersky Mobile Security, in addition to packing standard anti-malware capabilities, if you lose your phone, you will have the ability to send an SMS message that either temporarily locks the device until it is recovered, or wipes it clean of any stored data. This eliminates the risk of personal information falling into the wrong hands if it has been stolen (or simply left in the backseat of a cab).

In addition, the product has anti-theft capabilities: If your phone is stolen, it can be programmed to make an outgoing call to the number of your choice the second the thief inserts a new SIM card–making it much easier to track down the location of the phone.

MoGo Wireless announced the availability of their Cell Ranger line of intelligent amplifiers for cellular phones. Intelligent amplifiers are a new product segment superior to the current array of amplifiers offered in today’s market. Cell phone users appreciate the increased signal strength and reduced number of dropped calls they experience while using Cell Ranger plug-and-talk products.

Laptop users with broadband cellular air cards also experience increased data rates and reliability. Cell Ranger products are compact and attractive, making them ideal for cellular users of all types that may be experiencing poor cellular reception. Cell Ranger is compatible with handsets offered by all U.S. service providers operating on the 800 and 1900 MHz frequencies including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Alltel and U.S. Cellular.

In less than a year, the iPhone has won the hearts of users, who speak of the combination cellphone, Internet device and music player with reverence.

Indeed, the iPhone, which maker Apple says has captured 28% of the U.S. smartphone market, seems to be loved by everyone–everyone, that is, except those who work in corporate information-technology departments.

Designed with the consumer in mind, the iPhone is less secure than business-oriented smartphones such as those from Nokia or Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, according to IT professionals.

GoogHelper is iambic’s snappy utility that helps quickly launch various Internet searches using mobile friendly sites such as Google, Yahoo!Finance, Amazon, Wikipedia and many more. It has an intuitive, space efficient and elegantly designed interface, optimized for on-the-go, one-handed usage on BlackBerry phones.

Version 1.01 introduces 4 additional mobile friendly searches, along with the new “Send to Google SMS” functionality for submitting search terms via SMS to Google’s SMS service. In addition to GoogHelper, also Tipper and EzQuote for BlackBerry have been updated to version 1.01, in order to address a licensing related issue occurring in certain scenarios.

Big worries for the nation’s first high-tech census should have been obvious when tests showed some of the door-to-door headcounters couldn’t figure out their fancy new handheld computers.

Now, officials say, technology problems could add as much as $2 billion to the cost of the 2010 census and jeopardize the accuracy of the nation’s most important survey.

Census officials are considering a return to using paper and pencil to count every man, woman and child in the nation.

For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.

The 10-second recording of a singer crooning the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” was discovered earlier this month in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable–converted from squiggles on paper to sound–by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.

FlyTunes announced that since its launch in January, it has tripled its channel offerings from 50 to over 160 channels that cover all genres of music, as well as talk, sports and local weather.

The new music channels on FlyTunes include top rated Radio Paradise, SmoothJazz.com, RauteMusik.fm, and 53 music channels from 181.fm. In the talk category, FlyTunes has added NPR, TheScore.com, and local weather in the top 15 U.S. markets.

Over the last eight weeks, FlyTunes has signed up hundreds of thousands of iPhone and iPod Touch owners for its free satellite radio-like listening experience. The average FlyTunes iPhone user listens eight hours per month–according to Comscore, that’s over four times the amount the average YouTube user streams per month.