Navicore, one of the leading European providers of GPS navigation software for mobile phones and devices recently declared that Navicore Personal will be made available for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, also recently released by Nokia. New upgrades to the GPS navigation system includes maps of North America, Australia, the Middle East, and South Africa, though I don’t personally know anybody planning trips to places such as the Middle East.
There are many benefits that come from the partnership between Navicore and Nokia, including the latest and greatest features of navigational software, internet enhanced navigation, and high resolution wide-screen display. The portable internet access enables consumers on the go to have access to a variety of internet services directly on the Nokia N800 tablet, along with clear voice guidance. The new system is designed specifically for connected mobile devices that is not only convenient for road trips and bike rides, but also an awesome pocket guide to the thousands of points of interest located in your area. Find restaurants, hotels, gas stations, and local hot-spots in your vicinity using this GPS system. Once the software is installed on your mobile device, it is free of charge. the maps and everything you need is stored on a memory card and no network operator is required.
“With its impressive widescreen display and extremely fast mobile Internet connectivity, the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is the ideal platform for consumer friendly GPS navigation. By combining the award-winning Navicore Personal with the innovative Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, we can offer a superior navigation user experience that further extends fun and functionality, as well as control and confidence for the mobile lifestyle,” said Juha Murtopuro, CEO of Navicore.
Maps for this GPS navigation system are provided by TeleAtlas and provide highly accurate street maps with rich digital content. The current Navicore Personal 2007 version is available now at http://shop.navicoretech.com. The 2007 version for the N800 Tablet will be available next month through selected outlet stores and at www.nokia.com.
As a guy that has been on the Internet since 1991, I can tell you that I’ve seen just about every form of filtering out there. The majority of them just don’t work. Plus, savvy kids that have grown up with the Internet know how to usually get around the filters as well. In short, none really are worthy of any price they charge. That is until I found Safe From Sites.
Founder Shaun, whose last name we’re withholding to protect him from the porn industry, ran into a situation at his employers while in charge of its IT infrastructure. The employees were visiting porn sites which in turn brought to the network virus issues. Trying to figure out how to resolve the problem from a central point, for easier manageability, Shaun went to the source: DNS. DNS, or Domain Name Server, is what translates the SvenOnTech.com and other sites into numbers which the computers need to connect to a site. By changing ones DNS to point to Safe From Sites servers, this then gives the ability for Safe From Sites to weed out the objectionable sites and send you to door mat on their site stating you’ve been prevented from going to a naughty site. Protecting you from porn, viruses, phishing, and other harmful sites, Safe From Sites does what it says.
With hundreds of thousands of sites blocked daily, Safe From Sites really does work. SvenOnTech tested it for weeks on end and found very little legitimate sites being blocked. Safe From Sites was quick to make the needed corrections to their servers and we must note that we were using it during the beta phase of development, too. We were pleasantly surprised to find even certain pictures on “safe” sites such as AutoBlog blocked (and based on the revealing captions, we knew the block was from Safe From Sites.)
Not only is Safe From Sites great for home users but essential for businesses. With sexual harassment a sticky thing to deal with in the work place, removing any objectionable material from ones screen will aid in reducing reports to HR. Since Safe From Sites works using DNS, this solution works for all devices from PDAs, to cell phones, to PCs, to Macs, to even X-boxes and PlayStations. Configure once, block all.
Safe From Sites is an affordable alternative to other filters and this one works. ISP and IT departments can also join Safe From Sites profit sharing program.
There has been much concern over all the things people can do over the Internet, especially children. Parents are and very well should be concerned about what their kids are doing and who they are talking to on the World Wide Web, especially with websites like MySpace and Xanga.
One British company in particular has realized this and released a security device that can help parents keep their children safe from online predators. The new device, XGate, was developed by Manchester based Global Security One (GSEC1) and gives parents the ability to monitor what kids are doing on the internet via mobile phone. Act as the fly on the wall and see what conversations kids are having, block access to and even shut down online chat rooms, or the PC itself if you are uncomfortable with the situation. Do all this with your mobile phone from your office, couch, supermarket, car, or wherever you are on the globe. All with the touch of a button.
XGate is compatible with all broadband requirements and can be connected to a maximum of 4 computers at once and it’s innovative technology will actually stop the threat before it reaches the computer. XGate can do this because of the extensive research on pedophile behavior. It’s database can detect the grooming language used by pedophiles and other predators. Unlike other programs, XGate is not a piece of software that you have to install on the PC that eventually just slows down your computer. Instead, it just plugs right into the computer with an ADSL modem, providing safe and secure internet use that can be monitored from anywhere on the globe.
Mark Brooks, International Technology Marketing Manager of GSEC1 said this about the new product:”The fact that I have a four year old son makes me particularly sensitive to the threat posed by pedophiles who stalk the Internet to groom unsuspecting children. I am proud to be able to say that I have been involved in the XGate project which will save children’s lives. We are launching the ADSL compatible version now as our research highlights that the greater proportion of the country has that type of Internet access and so we can offer a wider population of children the protection they need. The next iteration of the XGate will be compatible with cable Internet connectivity and wireless.”
Not only does XGate provide parental monitoring of chat room use, but also Identity protection, keeping your information (such as credit card numbers) safe from spyware and hackers. Also included is virus and firewall protection, Email and web filtering, secure gaming, and even remote access. For example, you can access your work computer from home, with all the protection you need from viruses, spyware, and hackers.
XGate is available now for about $195 at Amazon.com. For more information on XGate and how to order, check out www.xgate.com.
If CES, Macworld, WWDC, WinHEC, and the Beauty Revolution shows aren’t enough to fill your calendar, well then you’re headed to Boston this fall! A 3-day conference to be held November 13-15, 2007, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass. will highlight, well, mobile stuff. The Mobile Internet World Conference & Exposition will highlight the, “Evolving wireless and mobile broadband technologies are now enabling the next major wave—the Mobile Internet.”
“We are extremely pleased to announce today the launch of Mobile Internet World Conference & Expo,” said Eliot Weinman, President of Trendsmedia and conference co-chair. “During the next decade, the expansion of the Mobile Internet will likely represent the single largest definable growth marketplace in the telecommunications industry. Trendsmedia and Yankee Group have developed this event to assemble the entire ecosystem of emerging Mobile Internet companies. They will come together to examine the dynamics, trends, and ultimately, how to accelerate the development of profitable business models.”
Get your tickets now!
James Bond has had some pretty cool gadgets but I can never recall a more functional yet sexy gizmo as the Motorola Q in Bond’s collection. We got to play with the Q for over three months to really give it a thorough test and we’ll tell you right now, what we thought was just another gimmick turned out to be a surprising useful and enjoyable tool. With it’s built-in Internet EV-DO capabilities and the ability to let MacBooks attach to it and surf the Internet via Bluetooth, this has become one very special little guy to us. Too bad we have to give it back.
Read the entire (and very in depth) review on our Reviews page.
We live in an age where security doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg and where you can now monitor your home or office from anywhere in the world. Well, anywhere with broadband.
Swann Communications Do-It-Yourself (DIY) security kit aided a man in nabbing a thief in the heat o the moment…from the other side of the Atlantic! Joao Pedro Wettlauser is a businessman from Brazil and was in Cologne, Germany last week on business. He was alerted by his security system at home in Brazil of some fishy stuff to which prompted him to take a look from his laptop. What he found was a robber in the act of criminal ongoings thus prompting Wettlauser to contact his wife, not at home, and notify the police. The police surround the house and nabbed the thief. Nice!
SvenOnTech informed you of one way to watch Flash-based movies from your Mac last week and this week we’ll show you another one entitled Democracy Player. As America spoke yesterday with swinging the House to the Democratic party, the Participatory Culture Foundation has cleared its throat and brought to the Mac, Windows, and Linux world an interesting player for us all to enjoy and love for free.
Democracy Player is an open-source player that brings all sorts of content to you. With over 700 channels to chose from, you could spend a lot of time with this nicely laid out player. If you find a channel that you really enjoy, you don’t have to even view the movie in a small window. With a flick of a few keys or a click of a mouse, you can delight it in full screen.
But what really is Democracy Player? Well, the authors themselves tell us that it is a player that lets you get, “the best internet TV shows in one powerful application: any video RSS feed, video podcast, video blog, or BitTorrent file. Fullscreen, high resolution, 100% free and open source. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide.”
In a nutshell, that’s it. Using the freeware Quicktime plug-in Perian, the Democracy Player will bring you hours and hours of fun to your Mac, PC, or Linux host for sure. Now go download it and waste esteem some time!
You know, we joked about the security thing in our IE 7 release announcement, but truth is, it was only half-joking since Microsoft just really isn’t known for “security”. Well looks like security experts Secunia have called Microsoft to the carpet and called its IE exploit found last November an Internet Explorer exploit and not an Outlook Express one that Redmond is claiming.
“Microsoft claims the recent IE7 vulnerability is an Outlook Express vulnerability,” Secunia CTO Thomas Kristensen’s statement claims. “This may be true, from an organizational point of view within Microsoft. However, the vulnerability is fully exploitable via IE, which is the primary attack vector, if not the only attack vector.”
Secunia won’t let up, either, and still has the exploit listed on its site for Internet Explorer 7.x. “Secunia finds it necessary and reasonable to flag Internet Explorer as being vulnerable if Internet Explorer provides a clear direct vector to a vulnerable component, which is included by default in a fresh clean install of Microsoft Windows,” Kristensen writes.
But to make things even more interesting, BetaNews tested this theory and installed IE 7 on a fresh install of VirtualPC and found, “The browser failed the MHTML content retrieval test. The issue involves redirecting the Web browser to a local resource.”
So the plot thickens and SvenOnTech will only continue to warn you to use IE of any sort with extreme caution. Use Firefox if you must use a PC at all or just get a Mac and forget all this nonsense. 
[Via jCXP.net]
You waited long enough (like over five years!) and now it’s time to get that new IE for your desktop. Microsoft has proudly announced Internet Explorer 7 as, “A major step forward in ease of use and security.” It encourages you to explore the tabs, a tongue-and-cheek statement in reference to a new feature, on the web site to discover what’s new.
So what is new? Well, we’ve already told you tabs, which is not really new since Opera was the first with that years ago and then pretty much everyone else but Microsoft had it (until now.) You also get better printing (which is really good,) built-in RSS, and searching from multiple sources. Oh ya, the last tab is about security, but we won’t be a sucker for that one. 
If you’re curious to what IE 7 is all about and want to have installed before it shows up on Microsoft Update on November 1st, then visit the Internet Explorer 7 page or go to its download section direct.
Good news Apple MacBook Pro users (and those with PCs equipped with an ExpressCard slot.) Dell is rebranding the Novatel’s Merlin XV620 with its own Texas sized name. Why would I tell all y’all that Dell, a PC manufacturer, is a good thing for Macs? ‘Cause the ExpressCard its putting out for sale at $179 is going slide right into your MBP and allow you to cruise the Internet at 500kbs to 1mps speeds. Good news for those not lucky enough to have the XV6700 hack I must say. Don’t worry about the high ticket either, ’cause y’all get one month of free Verizon based EV-DO access. After that, you’re frontin’ $59.99 a month if all y’all gots a Verizon voice plan or $79.99 a month if you ain’t. No worries on the drivers either, Hos, OS X rev 10.4.7 has got the needed drivers. Giddy up!