Treo 680 in Brazil

Palm and Claro, the Brazilian mobile carrier owned by America Movil Group, announced the availability of the Treo 680 smartphone in Brazil. The Treo 680 GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band world phone, running on the Palm OS, boasts Palm’s hallmark ease of use. Compact and packed with features beyond its stellar phone capability–such as email, Web browsing, messaging, multimedia, calendar, contacts, touch screen and more.

Posted on: April 2, 2007 9:00 am

Agendus for Windows Mobile

Agendus for Windows Mobile has been optimized to handle the dynamics of your everyday life, and provide a level of proactive personal assistance that so far has only been available from a “real-life” assistant, not a Windows Mobile-based phone or PDA.

The version 1.02 update brings in a number of improvements in the Pocket PC edition, and introduces the brand new Smartphone Edition–which is up to par feature-wise with its Pocket PC counterpart, and optimized for the touchscreen-less Windows Mobile Smartphones, such as Motorola Q, Samsung BlackJack, T-Mobile Dash, Cingular 2125 and numerous others. Both editions are now fully compatible with Windows Mobile 6.

Posted on: April 2, 2007 9:00 am

Agendus Mail for Palm OS

Agendus Mail is an intuitive and powerful email client that brings ease of use, full attachment support, unlimited POP/IMAP/SMTP email accounts, desktop synchronization, SMS capability and much more on Palm OS PDAs and smartphones. And, it’s the ideal companion of the Agendus for Palm OS line of solutions.

This update to version 5.31 brings various improvements to the IMAP and SMTP protocols support, and addresses a couple of SSL related issues occurring when using certain types of authentication methods.

Posted on: April 2, 2007 9:00 am

Back up your iPod

Your precious iPod–your friend, your status symbol, your companion during good times and bad. It comes with you wherever you go; until one day, it disappears without a trace. Here’s a cautionary tale, plus some tips on how to preserve your tunes if this nightmare scenario happens to you.

Posted on: April 2, 2007 9:00 am

Be a music video star

For the upcoming video for Placebo’s new single, “Running Up That Hill,” from their new album, Meds, Capitol Music Group is partnering with Motionbox for an exciting new music video, starring YOU. The new Placebo video will be a montage of Placebo’s fans singing “Running Up That Hill.”

Placebo’s fans will submit video using Motionbox, the personal video sharing service. The band is asking fans to submit single-camera shots of them singing their new single, “Running Up That Hill,” sung in its entirety; with the deadline for submissions being April 6th.

Posted on: April 2, 2007 9:00 am

Kaspersky Open Space Security

With the release of Kaspersky Open Space Security (KOSS), a suite of products designed to protect network structures of all sizes and to provide protection for both network perimeters and all nodes on the network, regardless of location, type of device, or platform, Kaspersky Lab is providing protection to wherever users go. With its unique tiered suite, KOSS responds to a whole new set of security challenges depending on the level of protection needed.

Built upon the award-winning Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 engine, KOSS provides premium level protection against all forms of malware, including viruses, spyware, Trojans, worms, spam, phishing and hacker attacks–both on and off the corporate network. Additionally, the solution includes fully integrated workstation firewalls with intrusion detection and prevention, and additional protection when connecting to all types of networks including public Wi-Fi.

Posted on: April 2, 2007 9:00 am

Motorola blue-collar phone

Motorola and AT&T said today that the two companies are teaming to introduce a new mobile device aimed at people who “do actual work.” The new MC35 is designed to be a rugged phone that will support Windows Mobile 5, and that will come with the Good Technology application suite.

According to a Motorola spokesperson, the device is intended to work as a GSM phone; it will support Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and wide area networking. The MC35 will come equipped to read bar codes, and it includes GPS as a standard feature.

Posted on: March 30, 2007 9:00 am

Vista-compatible Boot Camp

On March 28, Apple released a new version of Boot Camp, 1.2, that is compatible with 32-bit Vista. Boot Camp is Apple-developed software that allows Intel-based Macs to run Windows without requiring emulation.

Posted on: March 30, 2007 9:00 am

Microsoft Deepfish

Microsoft announced Deepfish, a new mobile browsing technology from their labs group. It’s a small, downloadable app for Windows smartphone users that presents Web content the same way you’d see it on your computer’s Web browser.

Deepfish is designed like an array of photo thumbnails. To zoom into a section you want to see in more detail, you just select it with a magnify box controlled by your phone’s directional pad, or pointer. If you want to zoom back out, the original version of the page will still be loaded in your phone’s memory cache.

Posted on: March 30, 2007 9:00 am

AccuWeather Mini-Forecast

AccuWeather.com has launched a new Microsoft Vista Gadget–the Mini-Forecast.

For the discerning Vista power user, the Mini-Forecast gadget packs all the weather data punch of the original Forecast gadget in a sleek, highly compact package. It can be opened for 5-day forecast information or docked for unobtrusive access to current conditions. Feature highlights: Up-to-date severe and winter weather alerts, Current Conditions (worldwide), 5-day forecasts (worldwide), and easy access to worldwide forecasts, weather videos, and severe weather alerts (U.S. locations).

Posted on: March 30, 2007 9:00 am