Archive for the ‘Mobile News’ Category

Yahoo Blows Up Mobile Voice Search

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Yahoo  is amplifying its mobile voice search onto multiple Nokia  and BlackBerry phones.
Users of some Nokia S60 handsets like the N95 can now apply voice recognition with Yahoo’s oneSearch 2.0 home-screen shortcut. Once set up, users can talk to find stock citations, sports scores, and more. It also includes search assist, spelling suggestions, and real-time related concepts for more polished search results.

Additionally, Yahoo Go 3.0 will incorporate the voice search, and it can be downloaded onto select BlackBerry and Nokia S40 and S60 devices. The voice-recognition technology is currently available in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Singapore, the Philippines, and Canada only.

On the mobile search side, the company tracks Google by a substantial edge, but Yahoo bears on to make headway in that space with its oneSearch offerings, and it lately signed a deal to be the default search provider for most of AT&T’s cell phones.

Virtualization To Supply 1.8 Million Students With Computer Access

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Virtualization will give 1.8 million students in India access to computers. NComputing just announced  that it would supply computing power to 5,000 schools in the state of Andhra Pradesh, the largest and most exceedingly populated state in southern India. The company is one of numerous IT businesses allowing low-cost technology to construct computer laboratories.

NComputing produces manifold desktops on a single PC so numerous users can access and partake unused capacity. Its X300 system, lets seven users to share one PC. Each lab will contain two desktops with virtualization software, which will enable 10 slim clients with their own monitors, keyboards, and mice. The software works with Linux and Windows, which serves as the operating system for the labs.

NComputing  capitalizes on* the fact that most PC users take in up to 2% of the capacity of their PCs, with peaks up to 20%, through multimedia applications, e-mail, and Web browsing.

Video Editing Like A Pro

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Our software smackdown compares Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple iMovie, Pinnacle Studio, and Corel VideoStudio, with tips on the finest package for making your digital camcorder movie masterpiece.

Since Camcorders are getting more inexpensive and  powerful, video-editing software becomes more appealing also.  Fortunately, products are accessible for whichever situation you are in. If you want a software that will let you make a fast movie with simple modulations, some title screens, and audio overlays? iMovie for the Mac or Corel VideoStudio perhaps is perfect. If you’re searching for something a little more polished, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Premiere or even Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12 will best suits you.

All software package contains a set of features that will meet the video editor in each of us. Even better, they come in at a range of prices, which lets you decide what’s best: more features or a lower price.

Advanced Mobile Video Calling

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Global IP Solutions brought out a video engine that can deliver quality P2P videoconferencing on smartphones.

With Global IP Solutions’ current release, videoconferencing from a mobile handset will be available in the near future. The company’s VideoEngine Mobile for the Windows Mobile platform enable P2P video calling and multiport videoconferencing on cell phones.

Mobile VoIP is progressively bringing significant service for users who wants to maximize the value received from mobile phones. With video calling,  mobile operators can now deliver the full benefits and innovations of IP communications, granting them  more value-added services to customers while increasing their profit streams.

Some smartphones can already manage video calling, but GIPS said the current products use separate engines for the video and voice function, resulting to jittering and packet-loss issues. GIPS said its VideoEngine Mobile can figure out matters like lip synchronization even under adverse network conditions.

Digging Into Silverlight 2.0

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Microsoft, the software giant  hopes the Silverlight upgrade will promote acceptance of the plug-in closely enjoyed by its present rival, Adobe Flash.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) declared Monday the impending accessibility of Silverlight 2.0, the company’s rich Web application plug-in that today contends mainly with Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash.

With Silverlight 2.0, Microsoft is desiring to push Silverlight beyond Flash rivalry along  its plug-in much further than it did with the mostly video-focused first version. Silverlight 2.0 hasn’t only enhanced video support, but includes a subset of the company’s hot Net Framework; supports new programming languages like C#, Python, and Ruby; and can call Web services and Atom endpoints to support componentized Web apps.

This will be available for download on Tuesday, with automatic updates for those with earlier versions due in the next few weeks . Silverlight will run in Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer on Windows and Mac OS, and Novell (NSDQ: NOVL) is working on a version for Linux.

Moblile Broadband - Big News forLaptop Lovers

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

To avail drive revenue, laptops with blended 3G mobile broadband will bear a service mark, a logo coloured with the words “Mobile Broadband” and two flying birds. The trade name should help consumers well distinguish PCs ready to connect to 3G out of the box.

Few of the world’s largest mobile operators, PC manufacturers, and chipmakers revealed last Sept. 30 that they are connecting to pre-install back up for high-speed mobile information services into notebook PCs.

If the plan works out, it could advance third-generation [3G] mobile broadband in much the same way that Wi-Fi blew up after Intel (INTC) built support for it into the Centrino chipset. Consumers will have a more comfortable time getting internet while on the go. Instead of being forced to search for a Wi-Fi hotspot, owners of laptop computer furnished with the new technology will be able to link wirelessly to the Internet wherever they are.

Motorola-Scouting To Employ Hundreds Of Android developers To Cash In

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Motorola is reportedly looking to fortify its Android development team, maximizing its size from 50 to 350 people in anticipation of delivering on the latest Google buzz. Accounts from insider leaks state the handset manufacturer is forming with a recruiter to find developers for Google’s open-source mobile operating system. Some thought over that this move could set a striking shift in the struggling company’s scheme.

There is assumption among analysts as to whether a campaign toward Android will spare Motorola. Analysts are convinced other mobile-industry players will propel rapidly to tap into the buzz.

Based on the response Android did receive , it’s definite the platform plays a new chance in the marketplace. But for Motorola it means switching strategies away from Windows Mobile and its own Java-Linux strategy, and obviously that means hiring a heap of Android developers.

Citrix Releases XenServer 5 Cloud-server Platform

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Citrix Systems has released the XenServer 5 server platform, which intents to simplify server virtualization through intuitive interface. Citrix’s XenServer 5 assures to bring down the storage footmark for basic enterprise chores by up to 80% t. Citrix says it has appended 100 new virtualization-management features to the XenServer 5 platform.

The platform’s high-powered workload-provisioning capacities will allow hundreds of workloads to be in a flash booted and handed over from a single picture with one click — even when the object servers have no locally connected disk or hypervisor. XenServer 5 is moving to entirely change the way a lot of people imagine about server virtualization

XenServer 5 features built-in replica for virtual machine metadata information, which should make it lighter for data-center administrators to retrieve virtual machines and applications in the heat of a tragedy or location failure. The platform’s management console also provides back up for NAS, DAS and SAN data storage systems.

Xpaper reliefs Digitizing of paper Documents

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Talario has eradicated the need for loading specialized paper, several business office should give this modern product a test.

The need of the paperless office have been diffusing ever since the first IBM clones began showing up on desks in the early 1980s. Offices are still bound to printed documents and there’s no indication that it’s going to be otherwise.

With that idea, the Xpaper PDF digital writing system from Talario Inc. is fashioned to better a data processor-relationship with the paper document.

With the Xpaper scheme, you can simply publish a document and use the digital pen to sign on the sheet.

This fresh, more effective version permits users to create encoded copies of any document with their personal printers and scribble in a signature, initials or other handwritten notations using an enclosed Logitech pen that’s partly digital, part ballpoint.

Lenovo announced programs for a 1-inch-thick IdeaPad netbook

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Lenovo, the Chinese company with worldwide headquarters in Morrisville, N.C., is the newest to Jump into Netbook Market — also known as Internet PCs. This month, Lenovo announced designs for a 1-inch-thick IdeaPad netbook with a 10-inch screen. The educational marketplace is seen as premier dominion for netbooks and Lenovo is planning a framework designed specifically for educational establishments.Starting price: $399. But Lenovo will have pile of rivals in the netbook family, which was jumpstarted last year when Taiwanese computer manufacer Asus introduced the $300 Eee PC. By contrast, high-end laptops go for more than $2,000.

Lenovo isn’t gear up to point its marketing projects but says since the netbook is configured mainly for Internet use, one direction of its crusade will be social networking sites.

Lenovo’s launching will start shipping next month.