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Today’s availability of Palm® Pre™ Plus and Palm Pixi™ Plus will bring the Palm webOS™ experience to the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless 3G network. The reach and reliability of Verizon Wireless’ 3G network will provide customers with a 3G advantage when they use Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus to:
· Download and use cool apps, from mobile social networking portals to streaming radio
· Browse the Web to keep up with news, sports, stock quotes, Hollywood gossip and more at faster speeds
· Stream must-see video
· Share e-mails with friends, family and coworkers that include picture and video attachments
· Download and play vivid, rousing games
· Quickly download and play music favorites from top 40 to classical
· Work on the go with rapid file sharing
Palm Pre Plus is $149.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate, and Palm Pixi Plus is $99.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate, each with a new two-year customer agreement. Buy a Palm Pre Plus or a Palm Pixi Plus and get a Palm Pixi Plus free after a mail-in rebate through Feb. 14.
Learn more about the features of the new Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus at http://news.vzw.com/news/2010/01/pr2010-01-07c.html and http://news.vzw.com/news/2010/01/pr2010-01-21.html.
About Verizon Wireless’ 3G Network
DDH Software has just updated its iPhone HanDBase rational database application for the iPhone to 4.1.0. New for the version is a the Carbon Fiber theme, snazzy icon, and a choose database file cabinet screen with collapsing folder Pop-up Bubbles. The cabinet bubbles are for selecting Views, Popup values, Field, and Database actions. Other enhancements include database sorts can now use a right side quick index. You can run reports with graphs and all! A new security feature allows you to protect databases on the phone when accessed via Desktop Connect.
To learn more about HanDBase for the iPhone, visit DDH Software’s site
Today at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, Verizon Wireless and Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) announced the Jan. 25 availability of Palm® Pre™ Plus and Palm Pixi™ Plus, bringing the Palm webOS™ experience to customers on the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless 3G network.
Palm Pre Plus has a large, vivid touch screen; high-performance processor; and slide-out keyboard. The Pre Plus keyboard makes for quick and easy typing, while the unique gesture area provides a sleek look and intuitive navigation. Pre Plus also comes with the Palm Touchstone™ Back Cover, making the phone compatible with the revolutionary inductive Touchstone Charging Dock (sold separately). Verizon Wireless Pre Plus customers will also get 16 GB of storage (approximately 15 GB user available) for applications and media.
Feature-rich, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus offer Verizon Wireless customers greater flexibility for access to the Internet with Wi-Fi. In addition, the all-new Palm mobile hotspot, a webOS app that can be downloaded from the Palm App Catalog, gives customers the option of creating a personal Wi-Fi cloud capable of sharing the reliability and high-speed Internet connectivity of the Verizon Wireless 3G network with up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as notebooks, netbooks, cameras, gaming devices or portable media/MP3 players.
Social communicators and first-time smartphone buyers who want an affordable and customizable phone and instant access to messaging and Web content will love Pixi Plus. Customers have a host of options for personalizing their phones with the separately-sold Palm Pixi Artist Series Back Covers (www.palm.com/artistseries) and new color Pixi Touchstone Back Covers, which will be available in pink, blue, green, orange and black.
“The Palm experience is all about helping our customers stay connected so they never miss a thing,” said Jon Rubinstein, Palm chairman and chief executive officer. “We’re constantly enriching this experience with new features and innovations. The Verizon Wireless launch of Pre Plus and Pixi Plus is the next phase in delivering this unique Palm experience to more people.”
“The Palm webOS family is a great addition to Verizon Wireless’ robust line-up of smartphones,” said John Stratton, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless. “The outstanding capabilities and functionalities on both Pre Plus and Pixi Plus give customers a wealth of customization options to help them manage their lives. Customers get the latest technology from Palm along with the nation’s largest and most reliable 3G network for an unsurpassed mobile experience.”
Following are key features and specifications available on both Pre Plus and Pixi Plus:
· webOS – Allows customers to run multiple applications simultaneously and provides over-the-air software updates delivered automatically to their devices
· Palm Synergy™ – Brings customers’ information from the many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view
· Unobtrusive notifications and universal search
· Palm App Catalog – Currently offers more than 1,000 webOS applications for download
· High-speed connectivity
· Gesture area – Enables simple, intuitive gestures for navigation
· Full QWERTY keyboard
· High-performance, desktop-class Web browser
· Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
· Integrated GPS
· Robust messaging support (combining IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)
· E-mail, including EAS (for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers) and personal e-mail support (Google Gmail™ push, Yahoo!®, POP3, IMAP)
· VZ NavigatorSM – Allows customers to get audible turn-by-turn directions to more than 15 million points of interest and share the directions with others
· USB mass storage mode
· Proximity sensor – Automatically disables the touch screen and turns off the display when consumers put their phones to their ears
· Light sensor – Reduces power usage by dimming the display if the ambient light is dark
· Accelerometer – Automatically orients Web pages and photos
· Ringer switch – Easily silences the device with one touch
· Removable, rechargeable battery
· Multimedia options, including pictures, video playback and music as well as a camera with LED flash and a standard 3.5 mm headset jack
· Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
· Charger/microUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Additional Palm Pre Plus Specs
· 3.0 megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field
· Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
· Dimensions: 2.35” x 3.96” x 0.67”
· Weight: 4.89 ounces
Additional Palm Pixi Plus Specs
· 2.0 megapixel camera with LED flash
· Fixed QWERTY keyboard
· Dimensions: 2.17” x 4.37” x 0.43”
· Weight: 3.26 ounces
Availability:
· Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores beginning Jan. 25. Pricing will be announced closer to launch.
· 3G mobile hotspot is a separately-purchased feature added to a voice and data plan.
· For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.
GOGII, Inc. announces today the launch of textPlus, its popular next generation texting application, on the Android Market. Previously available only on the Apple App Store, the unique textPlus app now brings sponsor-supported free and unlimited messaging to Android users and allows them to have instant group “conversations” in text with friends on most U.S. carriers.
“We’ve already seen overwhelming consumer response to the textPlus app in the Apple App Store thanks to the millions of consumers who’ve embraced our game-changing features – from casual texters to the staggering number of consumers who text as their primary mode of communication,” said Scott Lahman, CEO and co-founder of GOGII. “We’re pleased to make textPlus available to Android users, and offer even more text-happy mobile consumers this tricked-out, next generation texting service.”
By leveraging GOGII’s interactive messaging technology, textPlus allows both old-style texting – one-to-one conversations – and next generation texting – rich, engaging environments and instant group text conversations. A useful ‘reply-all’ feature, similar to email, turns texting into a chatroom that lets users make plans with several friends at once, introduce people to one another or just carry on a group conversation – all in text and all for free.
Additional features make it easy for Android texters to make textPlus their preferred SMS service, including the international ability to send free messages from abroad to friends in the U.S. using a U.S. 10-digit phone number and free Notifications when messages come into the app, even when closed. What’s more, textPlus lets Android users communicate with friends who aren’t using the app – they simply pay for texts through their existing carrier plan.
GOGII expects the textPlus Android app to be met with the same degree of consumer fervor on the Android Market that it has on the Apple App Store. To date, the textPlus app has already seen almost 3.5 million downloads, and over 350 million messages have been sent using the service since June. And while only the top 5% of applications in the Apple App Store reach 100,000 unique monthly visitors, textPlus exceeded that by over 7 times in its second month of release.
Coming soon to Android are textPlus “text addresses,” which let users personalize texting and facilitate conversations, all without requiring a phone number.
The textPlus application can be downloaded for free from the Android Market.
Specifications – eStarling 802.11n Touchscreen Connected Frame
” Touchscreen: Full screen touch-sensitive screen for easy navigation
” LCD Display: 10.2 inch 16:9 (800X480) pixels Digital LCD with split-screen design for right sized image presentation and built-in high speed JPEG decoder/rendering engine
” Communications: WiFi 802.11b/g/n (WEP64, WEP128, WPA1, WPA2) connectivity and capable RJ45 Ethernet wired connectivity
” Interface: SD media card supported
” Memory Size: 2GB on-board FLASH Memory
” Power Source: External AC Adapter (Input: AC110~240V 50/60Hz, Output: 9V 1500mA)
” Weight: 2.4 Lbs
Features
” Independent Internet Appliance Design: The frame requires no computer for setup.
” Social Network Integration and RSS Support: Social network frame design allows frame to automatically access photos through Picasa, Flickr, Facebook, and more including a Twitter client to view your Twitter stream live.
” Immediate Direct Photo Emailing to Frame: Each frame has its own unique Gmail address so photos can be received from computers or mobile phones. A built-in email filter protects against unwanted photos. No setup is required for senders to send photos.
” Connected Video: All frames can receive videos up to 20MB in size that can be e-mailed directly to the frame.
” Automatic Firmware Updates: All active frames will receive automatic over-the-air firmware updates as new features and upgrades are added to the firmware.
” Dual Use Mode: If no Wi-Fi connection is available, the eStarling frame can operate as a stand-alone digital photo frame.
” Auto Power Saving: RTC-powered automatic shutdown feature for reliability and energy-saving
Contestants are now lining up around the U.S. to audition for Randy, Simon and someone other than Paula – but now anyone can audition before the entire world with iSing, the worldwide talent show via iPhone and iPod touch. iSing, created by games and entertainment producer Island Labs, enables anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch to record a 30-second audition, publish it, then watch their recording climb the charts as their “fans” vote for (or against) it in this worldwide competition for stardom.
“iSing is karaoke meets talent show meets social networking,” said Morgan Slain, CEO of Island Labs. “We are very excited about providing a fun, lively venue on the mobile web for people to sing, share and compete for fame on the iSing talent show.”
Upon launching iSing, users are presented with a list of song entries by iSing contestants. To listen to an entry, they simply tap on the thumbnail picture of the contestant, and use “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” buttons to vote. Users can also find entries by searching for the latest, best and worst of the current month, best and worst of all-time, or by location, which will present all the entries from a particular city.
Users can also search for specific friends and build their own network of iSing contestants.
Over time, they will be able to track which contestants soar to the top, and which sink to the bottom.
Competing in iSing is very simple, enabling contestants to record a 30-second audition with the tap of a button. After recording, the singer can review and re-record the song prior to being submitted to Island Labs for review. Once approved, the contestant will receive an email letting them know their audition is now “live” and they can share it with friends who will vote for it.
A video demonstration of iSing can be viewed at www.isingoniphone.com/video/intro. iSing is available for iPhone and iPod touch in the App Store for US$0.99.
With the proliferation of innovative online rental services like Netflix, GameFly, BabyPlays and AudioBookWorm, consumers currently rent a wide variety of products directly through their computer. The reason is simple: consumers continue to seek out ways to get the products and services they want, quicker, easier and at a significantly lower price.
Now, tens of thousands of college students are turning to Chegg.com – a cost-effective alternative to the high priced on-campus bookstores that can help save up to 85 percent off the retail price. Instead of purchasing costly books and then selling them back for just pennies on the dollar, students can now save hundreds of dollars each semester by renting textbooks.
Chegg.com, the nation’s leading text book rental service, has already been used by tens of thousands of students on more than 6,000 campuses across the country, saving them more than $41 million since 2005.
Data Points:
• Since 1980, college textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation (according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office) – indicating the need to find cost effective alternatives
• More than one-quarter of college students do not buy all their required textbooks because they simply cannot afford them (according to the Illinois Board of Education)
• Chegg’s revenue in 2008 was more than $10 million. This year, Chegg surpassed that in January alone
SyncMate is offered at two versions, Free and Expert, and provides all users with even more synchronization possibilities than before. SyncMate Free Edition enables you to sync Address Book and iCal entries in your Mac with their analogues in supported devices and back up these data to Online Storage Account. Google Contacts and Google Calendar synchronization is also available.
Additionally to sync features, SyncMate Free Edition provides you with opportunity to read your SMS right from Mac OS X computer, share Internet between Mac and Windows Mobile devices and visually analyze detailed information of the Windows Mobile devices connected (battery state or memory usage).
SyncMate Expert Edition provides all users with a full access to all synchronization features. Sync iTunes&Video, iPhoto, Safari and Firefox Bookmarks, Entourage and mail Notes, ToDo’s, Mail and even separate folders between your Mac and Windows Mobile devices, create, send or delete SMS right on your Mac computer.
With Expert Edition all users can install any .cab files to Windows Mobile devices right from Mac computer.
SyncMate Expert enables you to analyze Nokia S40 devices Calls history directly on your computer. You can also back up ToDo’s, Safari Bookmarks, Entourage and Mail notes to your Online Storage Account with Expert Edition.
SyncMate Expert allows synchronizing To Do’s, Safari bookmarks, Entourage and Mail notes and separate folders between two or more Mac computers.
And of course all features of SyncMate Free Edition are available at Expert Edition.
SyncMate installation is very easy. There is no need to unlock device in order to install SyncMate. Mac can be connected to Windows Mobile device via USB or Wi-Fi, Mac to Nokia connection is available via Bluetooth, and you can sync your Mac with another Mac via Ethernet.
SyncMate Compatibility.
SyncMate is compatible with Mac OS X platform (Mac OS X 10.4 and higher, Mac OS X 10.5). Device compatibility: Windows Mobile Pocket 5, Windows Mobile Smartphone 5; Windows Mobile 6 Standard, Windows Mobile 6 Classic and Windows Mobile 6 Professional; Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Mobile 6.5; Nokia S40 devices.
Additional information about SyncMate, along with detailed technical documentation, online help, changelog, upgrade policy as well as free installation package can be found at: http://www.sync-mac.com/
You can download SyncMate 2.0 here http://mac.eltima.com/download/syncmate.dmg
Wrapping up the school-year in photos can be done beautifully in a photo book for as little as $9.99. Budget-minded consumers will also appreciate that through June 30, 2009, Picaboo is offering a Buy One Photo Book Get One Free special*. In addition to being easy on the pocketbook, making photo books with Picaboo is fast. Busy parents may opt to utilize the auto-create feature that allows rapid photo book creation, often in a matter of minutes.
Photo Books Made Simple
To help pique creativity and set direction for topical photo books, Picaboo offers advice and sample albums within its Idea Center (http://www.picaboo.com/ideacenter/). Relevant topics like Graduation and School Years can be found here. Customers can tap hundreds of page layouts, thousands of page backgrounds, numerous fonts and text colors – for a highly customized photo book.
Photo book pricing starts at just $9.99 and shipping is additional. Once made, Picaboo photo books can also be easily shared online free of charge. In order to secure the most affordable photo book shipping, U.S. customers should allow 3-5 business days for ground shipping, while also allowing 3-5 business days for photo book production.
*Use coupon code JUNEGF at checkout. Buy any qualifying photo book(s) and get one of the exact same photo book(s) for free when the coupon is applied (for example, order one Large Classic book, get a second copy of the same Large Classic book for free). The cost of the free book(s), including extra pages, will be deducted from your order total. All Classic, Classic Leather, Classic Custom, and Regency photo books are eligible for this offer. The discount does not apply to taxes or shipping fees. Coupon does not apply to additional shipping costs for the free book(s). Coupon expires June 30, 2009 at 11:59 PM (Pacific Time). Valid for US and Canadian customers only. Cannot be combined with any other coupon or offer. Picaboo reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of this offer without notice.
Today, LaCie announced a merger with Caleido AG, the creators of the innovative online storage service, Wuala.
Luzius Meisser, Co-Founder of Caleido said, “Wuala is an exciting technology that builds its reliable and secure cloud storage by harnessing idle resources.”
Wuala assembles centralized and distributed storage; the result is a reliable and scalable service. Once files are placed in Wuala, they are securely encrypted before being cut into several redundant fragments disseminated and stored on a cloud of computers.
“Users will gain online storage while trading disk space; that way, they will securely protect their valuable data. They can access it from anywhere and easily share files with selected peers. As privacy tends to be a major issue when talking about digital life and data management, everything is encrypted and a robust rights management system protects files from unauthorized access,” said Dominik Grolimund, Co-creator of Wuala, “We will also bring this technology to enterprises and professional customers, who will soon take advantage of our services with both cloud and data center-based storage.”
LaCie has plans to implement this first real “cloud storage” technology into its ranges of storage devices, offering a powerful and combined solution for storage–local storage on devices for fast access, and secured remote storage on the cloud, for easy sharing and complete data versatility.
“For 20 years, LaCie massively promoted hard drive technologies; today, as a leader on storage market, we will be a first mover in the next leading technologies: flash-based storage, and cloud storage. With this merger, LaCie will morph from a pure hardware manufacturer to a solution provider. These new technologies will be amazing for our customers and will enhance their experience,” Philippe Spruch concluded.