Nokia breakes boundaries with three new mobile phones

Nokia presented three new mobile phones at this years` 3GSM mobile phone trade show in Barcelona.
The 6136 flip phone is expected to be among the first Wi-Fi/celullar terminals. It uses UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access), a technology that makes any Wi-Fi hotspot work as an extension of the cellular network. This phone will probably be available in the T-Mobile network. The 6136 has a 1.3 megapixel camera, card slot, FM radio and will be available before June for around €275.
Nokia 6131 is also a flip phone made of a velvety, soft at touch plastic and having a 320 x 240, 16 million colors internal display and a 262,000 colors external display. The card slot, 1.3 megapixel camera, FM radio and an e-mail client are also features of this phone.
The Nokia 6070 is not such a high-tech equiped phone and is created for a more basic mobile phone user. It is a candy-bar style, color phone with FM radio and VGA camera and very easy to use. This phone will be available for only €135.
Nokia stated that WiMAX technologies are under development but can not be expected earlier than 2008.

If you are in UK turn on your mobile phone to whatch TV

Virgin Mobile is the company that has announced will be the first mobile operator that offers it's clients digital television on their terminals.
The union of Virginia Mobile BT and Microsoft for this project was announced at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona. The service is expected to make available a wide range of TV programmes and more than 350 radio stations. This service will require paying a fee of about £8.
On the other hand the competition, Vodafone announced a joint venture with Google to offer its clients a mobile version of the well known search engine.

BMW.de removed from Google

The BMW official site has just been blacklisted by Google for using so-called "doorway pages". To be more exact they used terms like "new cars" and "used cars " to increase the ranking in the search engine's result list. Google said it will suspend any site that breaks the rules and BMW.de was and will not be any exception. Google commented that it can not tolerate sites trying to manipulate search results as they are aiming to provide the most relevant information about any searched terms.

However BMW does not admit breaking any rule.

Sony Ericsson announces M600

The M600 is the newest gadget featuring touch screen and handwriting recongnition technologies, it is a powerfull email toll an a mobile phone.
It is equiped with a bunch of email applications developed by AlteXia, iAnywhere OneBridge, Intellisync, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Ericsson Mobile Office and others.
The M600 has a 2.6 inch 262K colors QVGA screen, 80 MB onboard memory (+ 64MB Memory Stick Micro). It is able to video playback at 30 fps. SMS, MMS, POP3 e-mail, media player with support for MP3, AAC, ACC+, E-AAC+ and m4a, OMA DRM phase 1, streaming audio/video, audio-out over system connector, 3D games and Java MIDP 2.0, 40 polyphonic ring tones, dual-mode UMTS 2100 MHz triple-band GPRS 900/1800/1900MHz, stereo Bluetooth support, infrared SIR, full HTML browser Opera 8 and RSS feeds are all rolled into this slick designed gadget.
You will be able to get your hands on this jewel starting the second quarter of 2006.

Google agreement to censor the web for China

We all think the web is a great global network that we can all use and find the truth and transparency of every aspect. But the Internet is not the same for all of us.
In China the Internet is censored. Web giant Google has just launched a Chinese version of itself Google.cn that shows only what the Comunist Party desires. The chinese government has about 30,000 internet censors working around the clock blocking acces to sites that express non-approved opinions.
What did Google actualy acomplish with this deal with China, did it break its code, its unwriten motto and put a price on moral values ?

Dell gives up competition with Apple

Although for some time Dell's line of hard drive portable audio players has disappeared from their website, only now they have oficially announced them dropping manufacturing their iPod alternative. However they continue producing the flash players Dj Ditty that seem to do just fine.

James Bond becomes reality

Cops fire small GPS devices on to the criminal speeding car to fallow it via satellite. This is not about a movie as it just became reality.
The Los Angelos Police Department will become the first law enforcement agency to be equipet with such a device.
The department will install the StarChase LLC device on the cars this autumn.
The police car will fire one of the two tracking devices installed consisting of a battery and a radio transmitter embedded in an epoxy compound that will stick to the criminal car. The information will be sent via satellite to police headquarters, processed and made available for authorized users with the help of a protected Web portal.
This entire project has benn aproved by the NSA.

Google and Volkswagen develop car navigation system

The two famous companies are working on a project two replace the classic map based GPS system by using high quality images instead of simple lines and dots. Along with them NVidia is also part of this project, they already having presented a prototype in last month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
If they succed we will see in our cars the way to our favourite shopping mall, office or house by wathcing real images on the car computer downloaded from a database of pictures updated each 30 days with the help of sattelites.

Apple sued for hearing loss

Claiming that iPods are "inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss." John Patterson from Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against Apple.
He claims that the famous music player can produce more than 115 decibels causing hearing damage on the long term.
Although he did not suffer any damages caused by Apple's products his lawyer explained that he's client bought a product that is not safe to use, so he payed for a defective product that Apple willingly put on the market.
The manufacturer already has a cautionary notice accompanying the product but John Patterson does not see that as enough.

Cingular offers Motorola phone with iTunes

U.S. mobile provider, Cingular is now offering its customers an extremly thin phone, made by Motorola and has clear aspects in common with the famous, very well sold Razr.
The Slvr is subject of an agreement that makes Cingular to be the only operator to sell it for an undisclosed period.
The phone, although it has the famous iTunes sofware installed can not be used to wireless download music, the consumers needing to trasfer songs from their computer via cable. This is because Cingular does not have such a service available unlike it's rivals Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless.
Motorola said they plan on expanding the Slvr beyond GSM technology but did not give am exact date.

Xbox 360 patch

Surprisingly fast Microsoft has just released the first patch for it's latest game console Xbox 360. Although the update fixes some deficiencies the console has it only means it has weak points and chances of it getting hacked increases. However this patch does't bring with it the famous camera for the Xbox that we are all so curious of putting our hands on.

Full auto-pilot system on the new Honda Accord

A system that can mantain a certain speed of the vehicle and slow down when you get too close to the car in front of you is not news for some time.
However Honda's Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) doesn't only manage speed but is also designed to make turns. The system uses cameras on the rear-view mirrors that watch the white lines and turn along with them.
This is a definete improvement of auto-pilot system for cars but even with ADAS from Honda the driver can't lie in the back seat while the car drives him around as ADAS will beep every 10 seconds to make sure you are still watching the road, requiring you to tuch the steering wheel.
There is a little more time before you can fire your driver and read your newspaper on the way to work

EMI iPod compatibility issues

Apple has recently denied EMI`s statement that its copy-protected CDs will be compatible with iPods.
The record label announced that Apple is making vital changes to its leading world famous music player so it will play DRM-encoded tracks from CDs. After this statement that consumers will soon be able to legitimely port music from protected discs to the iPod Apple announced that neither iTunes nor iPods will be compatible with EMI's software. Apple stated that they do not know why EMI would make such an announcement.
The DRM will allow users to rip the CD on a computer in WMA format (a single time), transfer it to a player, make 3 full CD copies or copy single track up to 7 times. EMI has been asked whether this will also be available with Macs and the response is still awaited.

Google changes name for books project

Google's efforts to scan millions of books will result in the Google Book Search as the name was recently changed from Google Print. The name change does not affect some groups opinion that this Google project is against copyright laws, issue that Google had been sued for.
Google announced its plans of scaning books and creating a most comprehensive database in collaboration with famous universities as Harvard, Michigan, Oxford and Stanford. Since then similar projects have been started by Yahoo! and Microsoft.
Google has already released a first set of searchable books, mostly without copyright protection.