Earlier in September, Microsoft revealed that the first batch of smartphones running Windows Mobile 6.5 would start shipping on 6 October. According to Benjamin Tan, senior director, GCR mobile team unit, Microsoft China, there will more than 30 smartphones running on Windows Mobile 6.5 by the end of 2009, as reported by Cnet News. The devices would come from more than 15 handset manufacturers. LG, Samsung, HP, Acer, and Toshiba have voiced their support for Microsoft’s mobile OS as well as carriers worldwide, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, and Telus.

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Mozilla released the latest alpha version of their new mobile browser Fennec for Windows Mobile. It brings many new features and fixes, such as improved startup time and a caching system to help scrolling on a page. They have also added support for a wider range of screen resolutions, and for those of us running an HTC Touch Pro support for zoom via the directional pad has been included in this release. Being an alpha release, it’s still a bit on the buggy side, but is very a promising browser for mobile phones. The final release should give other…

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Traffic monitoring has been available on Google Maps for some time, but has been limited to highways and major roads. According to the Google LatLong blog, traffic tracking support is now available for smaller surface roads in select cities. The data is gathered through mobile phones running My Location. Anybody wishing to help out can sign up their phone and opt into My Location to participate in the anonymous data collection. Now you won’t have to gamble on whether or not your back road alternative route is congested when there’s construction on the freeway. Dash tried something similar with…

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Adobe Flash Player is the high performance lightweight highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems browsers mobile phones and devices

Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA Just like KaZaA Skype uses P2P peer to peer technology to connect you to other users ndash not to share files this time but to talk and chat with your friends The technology is extremely advanced ndash but super simple to use You rsquo ll be making free phone calls to your friends in no time Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennstr ouml m and Janus Friis Skype created a little piece of software that makes communicating with people around the world easy and fun With…

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What are vlogs exactly? The general term refers to a number of web pages that choose to use videos as journal entries instead of articles. Presented in a reverse chronological order, they find a great support in the use of photos and text; depending on the nature of the videos, there may be need of additional comments to make information relevant. The great part about vlogs is that they perfectly meet the present-day tendency of communicating via the Internet on a very familiar basis: when you see the person behind the text, the blog seems to actually live in from…

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