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There are still a lot phones that lack support for Internet browsing or Facebook applications and for mobile users of these devices, messaging is the easiest way to get access to the social-networking site, according to Vesa Lindqvist, development manager for Mobility Services at TeliaSonera Finland, Sonera's parent company.

Using SMS (Short Message Service), users will both be able to update their status and get messages from friends. The "Text Me" service lets users receive messages from friends. The first 20 messages per month are free, and users can buy an additional 50 messages for €1.90 (US$2.40), TeliaSonera said in a statement.

Using SMS and the "Text Your Status" service users can update their status by sending a message to a special number. In this case they are charged €0.79 per SMS, according to TeliaSonera.

Now that I have been a Kindle owner two weeks, I am sold. I believe the device and seamless user experience is a winner - particularly as it synchronizes across phones. However, more importantly, the Kindle 2.0's debut is a watershed moment for print media. You have one last solid shot to monetize your digital content - if you move quickly.

The iPod was the last digital great white hope. And thankfully, the music and movie companies (reluctantly) jumped on board.

The Kindle, like the iPod, is an emerging critical mass device that actually encourages people to pay for content rather than get it for free. When Apple launched the iTunes Music Store, people were skeptical that people would shell out cash for music they could snag for free from file sharing networks. They did. The same was true when Apple, and later others, rolled out movies. However, today millions rent or buy movies online.

The Kindle offers a similar experience in a much larger market - text. This one is tougher to monetize. In the digital age books have managed to remain premium content. However, beyond books, magazine and newspaper content is available in abundance online for free. Yet, I still believe that people will pay to receive some of their favorites on their Kindles or their Kindle-enabled phones. Meet them there now while you can.

What happened was something entirely different. When Asustek launched the Eee PC in fall 2007, it sold out the entire 350,000-unit inventory in a few months. Eee PCs weren't bought by people in poor countries but by middle-class consumers in western Europe and the US, people who wanted a second laptop to carry in a handbag for peeking at YouTube or Facebook wherever they were. Soon the major PC brands—Dell, HP, Lenovo—were scrambling to catch up; by fall 2008, nearly every US computermaker had rushed a teensy $400 netbook to market.

All of which is, when you think about it, incredibly weird. Netbooks violate all the laws of the computer hardware business. Traditionally, development trickles down from the high end to the mass market. PC makers target early adopters with new, ultrapowerful features. Years later, those innovations spread to lower-end models.

But Jepsen's design trickled up. In the process of creating a laptop to satisfy the needs of poor people, she revealed something about traditional PC users. They didn't want more out of a laptop—they wanted less. ...

By the end of 2008, Asustek had sold 5 million netbooks, and other brands together had sold 10 million. (Europe in particular has gone mad for netbooks; sales there are eight times higher than in the US.) In a single year, netbooks had become 7 percent of the world's entire laptop market. Next year it will be 12 percent.

"We started inventing technology for the bottom of the pyramid," Jepsen says, "but the top of the pyramid wants it too." This bit of trickle-up innovation, this netbook, might well reshape the computer industry—if it doesn't kill it first.

I wrote this story on a netbook, and if you had peeked over my shoulder, you would have seen precisely two icons on my desktop: the Firefox browser and a trash can. Nothing else.

It turns out that about 95 percent of what I do on a computer can now be accomplished through a browser. I use it for updating Twit

Available from April, the O2 Joggler is a device with a 7in touch-screen designed to sit on a table or desk. Its chief function is a calendar, showing at-a-glance what everyone in the family is doing, and it can send text message reminders for events to the phones of family members. ...

The Joggler will send reminders to family members' phones via SMS at the appropriate time, but only to handsets on O2's network. "We want to bring customers to our network," said Pickford.

O2 is considering adding support for email reminders in the future. Also in the pipeline is an internet radio player, and the ability for customers to send up to 50 free text messages per month from the Joggler.

The device uses its internet connection to receive news feeds from Sky, a weather feed, and traffic information from Trafficmaster.

It also doubles as a media player capable of showing digital photos and videos, and playing music. This can be loaded into the Joggler's 1GB of memory via a USB Flash drive, or streamed over the network from a Windows PC for more tech-savvy users.

O2 has launched a new initiative called o2 families that hopes to make life easier for busy families always on the go.

The spearhead of the new campaign will be a digital touchscreen photo frame that allows families to manage a diary that can be accessed via your mobile phone when you are out and about.

“We’ve developed the O2 Joggler with today’s busy families in mind. It has been purpose built to help families better organise their lives,” said Alistair Johnston, Marketing Director, Telefónica O2 UK.

Called the o2 Joggler, because family lives are constantly moving as if you are jogging, the core focus of the 7-inch screen, Intel Atom powered device made by Open Peak in the US, will be the o2 Calendar.

Although it doesn't yet support the iCal calendar open standard as used by Google and Apple, it is hoped that users will be happy to punch in their daily wearabouts so any other member of the family can see what's happening when.

Meh. Kindle app for iPhone only US. Here we go again. Stupid publishers. Aaaaargh. It's 2009 people. Why don't they get it??

Meh. Kindle app for iPhone only US. Here we go again. Stupid publishers. Aaaaargh. It's 2009 people. Why don't they get it??

But Amazon said that it sees its Kindle reader and devices like the iPhone as complementary, and that people will use their mobile phones to read books only for short periods, such as while waiting in grocery store lines.

“We think the iPhone can be a great companion device for customers who are caught without their Kindle,” said Ian Freed, Amazon’s vice president in charge of the Kindle.

Mr. Freed said people would still turn to stand-alone reading devices like the $359 Kindle when they want to read digital books for hours at a time. ...

The developments also suggest that, true to his word, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, has little interest in the market for digital books. Mr. Jobs once dismissed the Kindle by saying “the whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”

Unlike other forms of media like music and video, which Apple sells itself to iPhone owners through its iTunes store, Apple appears to be ceding the e-books market to Amazon and other companies that offer e-book applications.

“Apple is consciously skipping the e-book market,” said Evan R. Schnittman, vice president for business development and rights at Oxford University Press. “I think it’s pretty significant.”

But Amazon said that it sees its Kindle reader and devices like the iPhone as complementary, and that people will use their mobile phones to read books only for short periods, such as while waiting in grocery store lines.

“We think the iPhone can be a great companion device for customers who are caught without their Kindle,” said Ian Freed, Amazon’s vice president in charge of the Kindle.

Mr. Freed said people would still turn to stand-alone reading devices like the $359 Kindle when they want to read digital books for hours at a time. ...

The developments also suggest that, true to his word, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, has little interest in the market for digital books. Mr. Jobs once dismissed the Kindle by saying “the whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”

Unlike other forms of media like music and video, which Apple sells itself to iPhone owners through its iTunes store, Apple appears to be ceding the e-books market to Amazon and other companies that offer e-book applications.

“Apple is consciously skipping the e-book market,” said Evan R. Schnittman, vice president for business development and rights at Oxford University Press. “I think it’s pretty significant.”

Today about 5 billion devices are connected to the web, but by 2015 there will be 15 billion. And Intel wants Atom to be in every one. Doug Davis, VP of the Digital Enterprise Group and general manager of the Embedded and Communications Group at Intel, said the chip giant believes it has the developer network, the software, and the performance to offer industrial designers a better experience than current MIPS, ARM or PowerPC-based products used in some embedded designs today.

Translated, that means Intel is hoping that the amount of software already designed for its x86 architecture means will persuade developers to ignore the relatively high power requirements Atom has compared to other embedded chips and design it into systems for a variety of devices. Intel listed several applications, such as a car entertainment center, a media phone that resembles the Verizon Hub, and an Atom-powered System on a Chip that is used for tracking railroad cars. The coolest part of the announcements was that the devices for the railroad cars are powered by the cars’ motion.

Today about 5 billion devices are connected to the web, but by 2015 there will be 15 billion. And Intel wants Atom to be in every one. Doug Davis, VP of the Digital Enterprise Group and general manager of the Embedded and Communications Group at Intel, said the chip giant believes it has the developer network, the software, and the performance to offer industrial designers a better experience than current MIPS, ARM or PowerPC-based products used in some embedded designs today.

Translated, that means Intel is hoping that the amount of software already designed for its x86 architecture means will persuade developers to ignore the relatively high power requirements Atom has compared to other embedded chips and design it into systems for a variety of devices. Intel listed several applications, such as a car entertainment center, a media phone that resembles the Verizon Hub, and an Atom-powered System on a Chip that is used for tracking railroad cars. The coolest part of the announcements was that the devices for the railroad cars are powered by the cars’ motion.

The proposal, known as Project Canvas, is a joint bid between the BBC, ITV, and BT to develop a shared set of parameters by which catchup and on-demand services such as the iPlayer and ITV Player would be delivered via Freeview and Freesat.

The new set-top boxes, which the BBC forecasts will cost between £100 and £200, could create a service in which viewers would be able to browse the iPlayer in the same way as they flick between television channels.

The three parties believe that the service could be achieved with a broadband connection of 1.6 Mbps. Although BT is the only internet service provider on board at the moment, others will be invited to join, and are likely to create special “Canvas tariffs” for consumers to sign up to, with guarantees that they will get a connection that will allow a good service.

The proposal, known as Project Canvas, is a joint bid between the BBC, ITV, and BT to develop a shared set of parameters by which catchup and on-demand services such as the iPlayer and ITV Player would be delivered via Freeview and Freesat.

The new set-top boxes, which the BBC forecasts will cost between £100 and £200, could create a service in which viewers would be able to browse the iPlayer in the same way as they flick between television channels.

The three parties believe that the service could be achieved with a broadband connection of 1.6 Mbps. Although BT is the only internet service provider on board at the moment, others will be invited to join, and are likely to create special “Canvas tariffs” for consumers to sign up to, with guarantees that they will get a connection that will allow a good service.

CBS Mobile has released TV.com, a free new mobile application that allows iPhone and iPod touch users to watch full episodes of select CBS shows and other programming over WiFi or 3G mobile networks.

The new app (Free, App Store link) is the first example of an iPhone application providing free TV content directly from a TV studio in the US; the BBC already streams its free content to iPhone users in the UK using its iPlayer app.

TV.com currently offers a selection of CBS shows, including CBS News and CBS Sports programming and episodes of "Late Show with David Letterman, "Star Trek: the Original Series," "CSI," and "The Young and the Restless," among many others. The mobile application also serves up a selection of shows from the CW including "Smallville" and "90210," a half dozen shows from Showtime including "The L Word" and "The Tudors," and a variety of CNET and GameSpot podcasts.

CBS Mobile has released TV.com, a free new mobile application that allows iPhone and iPod touch users to watch full episodes of select CBS shows and other programming over WiFi or 3G mobile networks.

The new app (Free, App Store link) is the first example of an iPhone application providing free TV content directly from a TV studio in the US; the BBC already streams its free content to iPhone users in the UK using its iPlayer app.

TV.com currently offers a selection of CBS shows, including CBS News and CBS Sports programming and episodes of "Late Show with David Letterman, "Star Trek: the Original Series," "CSI," and "The Young and the Restless," among many others. The mobile application also serves up a selection of shows from the CW including "Smallville" and "90210," a half dozen shows from Showtime including "The L Word" and "The Tudors," and a variety of CNET and GameSpot podcasts.

All of this is part of something I call the coming online video backlash. It’s going to take this whole year, and it’s going to inspire a lot of hasty moves on the part of TV executives to pull previously available content. And consumers are going to hate it.

I don’t envy Hulu’s position in this. It has to keep the lines of access open to the providers of top TV content, but it has to make good on its promise of serving viewers. So far, it has done a great job, but at some point, it’s going to be forced to do something that will begin to tarnish its brand. I don’t personally think the Boxee removal qualifies — only a few tens of thousands of us are nerdy enough to have hacked our Apple TVs — but sometime soon, somebody at Viacom or Fox or Sony Pictures will recall content that was previously available. Expect it to happen around sweeps weeks or the season finale weeks. It’s gonna get ugly.

All of this is part of something I call the coming online video backlash. It’s going to take this whole year, and it’s going to inspire a lot of hasty moves on the part of TV executives to pull previously available content. And consumers are going to hate it.

I don’t envy Hulu’s position in this. It has to keep the lines of access open to the providers of top TV content, but it has to make good on its promise of serving viewers. So far, it has done a great job, but at some point, it’s going to be forced to do something that will begin to tarnish its brand. I don’t personally think the Boxee removal qualifies — only a few tens of thousands of us are nerdy enough to have hacked our Apple TVs — but sometime soon, somebody at Viacom or Fox or Sony Pictures will recall content that was previously available. Expect it to happen around sweeps weeks or the season finale weeks. It’s gonna get ugly.

Smerter i nakken, skuldrene, albuerne og håndleddene. Og på sigt slidgigt. Det kan være konsekvensen af at bruge en bærbar computer - både på jobbet og derhjemme - hvis du ikke passer på.

Nye tal fra markedsanalysebureauet IDC viser, at der sidste år blev solgt over én million bærbare computere i Danmark, mens der til sammenligning kun blev solgt 400.000 stationære. ...

»Tastaturet på en bærbar er kun cirka halvt så stort, og skærmen er også mindre end på en stationær computer. Det indskrænker arbejdsfeltet utroligt meget. Hvis man sidder med den bærbare en hel arbejdsdag, eller bruger den meget i fritiden, kan det gå rigtig galt,« advarer arbejdsmiljøkonsulent i HK Svend-Erik Hermansen og pointerer:

»En bærbar duer kun til at tjekke mail i sommerhuset eller til at arbejde på i en halv time på togturen. Hvis du bruger den for meget, risikerer du at få så ondt i for eksempel håndleddene, at du ikke kan vride en karklud uden at skrige af smerte.«

Smerter i nakken, skuldrene, albuerne og håndleddene. Og på sigt slidgigt. Det kan være konsekvensen af at bruge en bærbar computer - både på jobbet og derhjemme - hvis du ikke passer på.

Nye tal fra markedsanalysebureauet IDC viser, at der sidste år blev solgt over én million bærbare computere i Danmark, mens der til sammenligning kun blev solgt 400.000 stationære. ...

»Tastaturet på en bærbar er kun cirka halvt så stort, og skærmen er også mindre end på en stationær computer. Det indskrænker arbejdsfeltet utroligt meget. Hvis man sidder med den bærbare en hel arbejdsdag, eller bruger den meget i fritiden, kan det gå rigtig galt,« advarer arbejdsmiljøkonsulent i HK Svend-Erik Hermansen og pointerer:

»En bærbar duer kun til at tjekke mail i sommerhuset eller til at arbejde på i en halv time på togturen. Hvis du bruger den for meget, risikerer du at få så ondt i for eksempel håndleddene, at du ikke kan vride en karklud uden at skrige af smerte.«

The company, which has significant mobile properties in Asia and is ranked seventh in the world, said more details would be available shortly. No mention was made as to whether this distribution deal had any exclusivity attached to it.

This news came as the company said it would appeal against a ruling in a Siberian court that it must pay US$1.7 billion in damages in a case brought by a fellow shareholder in the Russian operator VimpelCom. This ruling is the latest in a long series of struggles by Telenor to protect its near 30 per cent holding in the company, Russia's second-largest mobile operator.

The company, which has significant mobile properties in Asia and is ranked seventh in the world, said more details would be available shortly. No mention was made as to whether this distribution deal had any exclusivity attached to it.

This news came as the company said it would appeal against a ruling in a Siberian court that it must pay US$1.7 billion in damages in a case brought by a fellow shareholder in the Russian operator VimpelCom. This ruling is the latest in a long series of struggles by Telenor to protect its near 30 per cent holding in the company, Russia's second-largest mobile operator.

The research, from analytics firm Pinch Media, showed that only 30 per cent of people who downloaded an application from the Apple App Store actually used it within a day of installing it, and the figures were even worse for software that was free.

Paid applications generally retain their users longer than free applications, although the drop-off is still pretty steep, said the company.

Users stop using the average applications pretty quickly. Long-term audience are generally one per cent of total downloads.

The research, from analytics firm Pinch Media, showed that only 30 per cent of people who downloaded an application from the Apple App Store actually used it within a day of installing it, and the figures were even worse for software that was free.

Paid applications generally retain their users longer than free applications, although the drop-off is still pretty steep, said the company.

Users stop using the average applications pretty quickly. Long-term audience are generally one per cent of total downloads.

Telenor har inngått en avtale med Apple om å selge iPhone-mobiltelefoner i Norge, Sverige og Danmark.

NetCom mister dermed monopolet på å selge den populære mobiltelefonen i Norge.

Salget vil starte i løpet av de kommende månedene.

Telenor har inngått en avtale med Apple om å selge iPhone-mobiltelefoner i Norge, Sverige og Danmark.

NetCom mister dermed monopolet på å selge den populære mobiltelefonen i Norge.

Salget vil starte i løpet av de kommende månedene.

Imagine you've headed out for a two-week vacation and suddenly realize you left your thermostat at 70 degrees and forgot to turn on the home security system. Plus, it's pouring rain back home and you still have your lawn sprinklers programmed to run every morning.

If a new chip from startup ZeroG Wireless catches on, people may be performing such chores via the Internet with a few taps on a laptop or smart-phone. Meanwhile, companies may use the chips to collect usage data on all kinds of electronic appliances.

Such is "the Internet of things" that is envisioned by ZeroG, a Sunnyvale startup founded by Stanford computer science Professor Thomas Lee and backed with $30 million in venture capital.

At a time when computers are packing more brainpower into ever smaller devices, ZeroG promotes the idea of adding a tiny bit of Wi-Fi connectivity to literally billions of electronic devices that today are unconnected.

Imagine you've headed out for a two-week vacation and suddenly realize you left your thermostat at 70 degrees and forgot to turn on the home security system. Plus, it's pouring rain back home and you still have your lawn sprinklers programmed to run every morning.

If a new chip from startup ZeroG Wireless catches on, people may be performing such chores via the Internet with a few taps on a laptop or smart-phone. Meanwhile, companies may use the chips to collect usage data on all kinds of electronic appliances.

Such is "the Internet of things" that is envisioned by ZeroG, a Sunnyvale startup founded by Stanford computer science Professor Thomas Lee and backed with $30 million in venture capital.

At a time when computers are packing more brainpower into ever smaller devices, ZeroG promotes the idea of adding a tiny bit of Wi-Fi connectivity to literally billions of electronic devices that today are unconnected.

... PacketVideo (PV) this week is demonstrating its patented new pocketable mobile broadcast receiver that turns WiFi-enabled phones and personal media players into mobile TVs. ...

PV’s mobile receiver device decodes a digital TV signal and repurposes it for use on the phone, sending it via a wireless signal, such as WiFi, to a playback device. The receiver uses specific, patented protocols to ensure optimum rendering of the TV signal on the playback device, and provides secure access to premium channels. This allows mobile subscribers to upgrade to advanced mobile TV services without changing their current handset.

The mobile broadcast receiver will be available in versions for all major mobile broadcast standards, including TDtv, DVB-H and MediaFLO as well as for WiMAX.

... PacketVideo (PV) this week is demonstrating its patented new pocketable mobile broadcast receiver that turns WiFi-enabled phones and personal media players into mobile TVs. ...

PV’s mobile receiver device decodes a digital TV signal and repurposes it for use on the phone, sending it via a wireless signal, such as WiFi, to a playback device. The receiver uses specific, patented protocols to ensure optimum rendering of the TV signal on the playback device, and provides secure access to premium channels. This allows mobile subscribers to upgrade to advanced mobile TV services without changing their current handset.

The mobile broadcast receiver will be available in versions for all major mobile broadcast standards, including TDtv, DVB-H and MediaFLO as well as for WiMAX.

Wi-Fi's existing large installed base in mobile PCs and home networks means that it is likely to be a primary connectivity solution for new consumer electronics (CE) devices, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.

Attach rates for Wi-Fi among game consoles are already approaching 80 percent. In-Stat expects DTV to be another high volume driver, reaching nearly 21 million units shipped with Wi-Fi by 2012.

While growth rates and penetration of Wi-Fi in the living room is growing, Wi-Fi is still dominated by the huge volume of mobile Wi-Fi devices.

Wi-Fi's existing large installed base in mobile PCs and home networks means that it is likely to be a primary connectivity solution for new consumer electronics (CE) devices, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.

Attach rates for Wi-Fi among game consoles are already approaching 80 percent. In-Stat expects DTV to be another high volume driver, reaching nearly 21 million units shipped with Wi-Fi by 2012.

While growth rates and penetration of Wi-Fi in the living room is growing, Wi-Fi is still dominated by the huge volume of mobile Wi-Fi devices.

Want to convert your videos so you could play them on your Ipod or Iphone? iPodMe is a handy little program that can do this for you. iPodME is built around a handful of pre-determined conversion "profiles" designed to make it easy for users to decide on what kind of conversion they want based on 3 parameters: the desired speed of conversion (slow/fast/turbo), and whether to optimize for video quality or for optimal video size. It also offers a "custom" profile for user who, like me, prefer to have more control over what the conversion parameters are.

Want to convert your videos so you could play them on your Ipod or Iphone? iPodMe is a handy little program that can do this for you. iPodME is built around a handful of pre-determined conversion "profiles" designed to make it easy for users to decide on what kind of conversion they want based on 3 parameters: the desired speed of conversion (slow/fast/turbo), and whether to optimize for video quality or for optimal video size. It also offers a "custom" profile for user who, like me, prefer to have more control over what the conversion parameters are.

Telias Homerun-app var ju det sämsta jag sett. Oerhört pinsamt Telia!

Telias Homerun-app var ju det sämsta jag sett. Oerhört pinsamt Telia!