Chat Panel About Startup Financing

MiFi and 3G router for on-the-go

Wi-Fi Everywhere And In Your Pocket

Interesting device is on the market ( or will be ) in the US and the UK. Verizon Wireless launched ( Sprint too ) Mifi 2200 card for personal and mobile hotspots, and 3 UK is doing the same in the UK.
The need certanly exist. You can connect up to 5 devices to your personal mobile broadband network.
This brings another good point in the connectivity puzzle. As Reuter's editor explains in a short video:



Related news and blog articles:
The Telegraph about MiFi journalism

EWeek about MiFi

Working from the pub with MiFi

QR code in the sand

Via Picturephoning

Free , really free

Watch out, it's a bit hyped right now :)

Extremely good review of Chris Anderson's new book called ''Free''.
Chris might be pinpointing some extreme trends in the digital marketplace. I just downloaded free audio version, although there's a book at Amazon.

Apple and RIM are profit cows

5 % market makes total of 58 % operating profits

Wall Street Journal: Smart indeed

The two accounted for only 3% of all cellphones sold in the world last year but 35% of operating profits, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff. The disparity will become even starker this year when, he estimates, the two will take 5% of the market in unit terms but 58% of total operating profits.

One Palm Pre, 2K photos

Thomas Lopez (@tmomaslomez) has been busy with his Pre. Last night he tweeted "My fav photo from our trip to SF http://post.ly/1Gav nearly 2k more taken with my Pre."

Check his photo gallery and you'll find he's been busy -- and has been producing some high quality as well as huge quantity.

Palm Pre in Europe

New message via Facebook

Palm Pre will arrive in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain on local Telefónica networks in those countries. Scheduled to be available in time for the holidays, Pre will be offered in the UK, Ireland and Germany on Telefónica's O2 network, and in Spain on Telefónica's Movistar network. You can read more about the announcement here.

Customers who would like to register to receive additional information about Palm Pre and be notified when it's available can register at:

* UK and Ireland: http://www.palm.com/uk-pre-notify
* Germany: http://www.palm.com/de-pre-notify
* Spain: http://www.palm.com/es-pre-notify

Jon Zilber

Smartbooks Revue, Voila !

Latest from the final frontier

Samsung / LG readies Smartbook ?

Qualcomm is hoping to boost the processing speed of more mobile devices after it announced it will be bringing a smartphone and smartbook based on its superfast Snapdragon chip.

For those that don't know / don't care about the smartbook category, it's a device that bridges the shrinking gap between a smartphone and a netbook, so basically high performance in a smaller package. (And yes, we hate the name too).

Compal's Snapdragon-powered smartbook

As if it wasn't clear already, smartbooks are one of the big trends (if not the biggest) to emerge out of this year's Computex, be they Snapdragon or Tegra-powered. Just as interesting as the devices themselves, however, is the fact that a number of manufacturers are looking at using Android as an OS for 'em, including big players like ASUS, and now Compal. While's ASUS' Snapdragon-based offering was impressive enough, Compal looks to have slightly outdone it by adding a customized interface at start-up, which is apparently just a taste of further "optimizations" to come

Nokia and Intel in a partnership that will define smartbook market ?
The companies will work on a new class of devices for the emerging smartbook or MID space


4 companies leading the mobile revolution. Qualcomm is one of them

QCOM is bridging the gap between smartphones and notebooks by creating a device called a smartbook. Smartbooks are mini-laptops that are similar to netbooks, but differ such that they operate on mobile phone chips (thus QCOM chips) as opposed to PC microchips, such as Intel’s (INTC) Atom microprocessors. This device will have “the portability and intuitive feel of a smartphone combined with the versatility and capability of a notebook.” Smartbooks will come in various forms “from larger, sub-notebook designs to compact, touch-screen tablets.”

New smartbook offerings coming this year on the wings of Intel / Nokia deal

"We would expect new netbook/smartbook offerings in coming months from other traditional handset vendors such as Motorola, Samsung, and LG. Intel announced a MID deal with Korean handset maker LG at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February of this year, with the launch of the first Intel MID by LG expected in 2010. In addition, we expect traditional PC players such as Acer, Asus, Dell, and HP to come forward with smartbook/smartphone like devices using applications processors from Intel, Qualcomm, and Nvidia in the next few months."

Nokia order Snapdragon smartbook

As for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset, that caused no small amount of fuss back at Computex for its role in the new ARM-based smartbook niche. A rival to Intel-based netbooks, smartbooks promise all-day battery life together with full wireless connectivity and HD media playback with HDMI connectivity.

After unhappy netbook users, there's place for happy smartbook users

The Linux segment is far from dead -- it's just getting started. But that's technically a "smartbook"..

Apple Smartbook In The Pipeline Or Is It iPhone 4G ?

Wireless patent

According to some reports about new Apple granted patents, there's got to be something at Apple about unknown wireless electronic device:

The twist however, is that the patent is about a hybrid antenna consisting of one antenna for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth and the other for 3G data communications. When combined within the framework of a subnotebook that could run software such as an internet browser, voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) telephone call applications, email applications and media playback applications, we are then presented with the classic definition of what a smartbook is.

Chat With Automatic Translation In 45 Languages

Google tech solved century-long problem. Tower of Babel doesn't exist anymore.



I like magic-like web services. BabelWith.me is certanly one of those. Just imagine having one of those pocket devices with something similar ( software ) just audio-based. Truly global !

BabelWith.Me is a new service which creates disposable chat rooms where you can have quick conversations. However, unlike many other disposable chatroom creators, it not only creates a disposable chatroom but also lets you chat with people knowing language other than yours by automagically translating your conversations into over 45 languages as per your selection.

Smartbooks are coming

Franken products showcased at Computex fair

Very well written and informative article about recent Computex fair in Taiwan.
So much new products are coming on the table. Many of them are so called Franken products and the trend is divergence.
Some points to highlight:

A small laptop with an Intel chip is normally called a netbook. But a netbook with a cellphone chip is called a smartbook, according to some companies

But based on what’s coming soon to a store near you, it seems that “divergence” may be the more apt moniker. There is now a quasi-laptop for just about every need and want.

Roger L. Kay, one of the most prominent analysts of the PC industry, described the new generation of machines as “Franken-products,” a reference to the monster cobbled together from various parts.

Globetrotter mind

On the go

My recent ( last few months) VR tours around the World. Recent destination were:

Toronto, Canada
Munich, Bavaria
New York, NYC
Philadelphia, PA
Birmingham, Alabama
Singapore, Asia

There's a lot of tweets about my impressions and thoughts when I was traveling and discovering these cities.

Palm Pre - Day 1

The New New Email

Real-time email and search

Google Wave: Re-inventing e-mail.

People behind Google Maps are doing it. Application is open source.

He proposed this thing called “hosted conversations” (this is what we call waves now). He listed them in a big series of benefits over existing systems. The thing that caught me was with these hosted conversations, you could do both email type conversations and instant messaging type conversations, in the same tool.

A core part of the product is the “liveness.” And you can see what people are doing all the time. Waves become active and unread and pop-up in your search panel all the time, and you need to learn when that’s useful for people and when it’s not, and how to present information to them in a way that’s useful and so they know what’s important and what to deal with

South Korea Mobile

Charging your mobile phone bill

New York Times: All things mobile in South Korea.

Each month last year, four million South Koreans bought music, videos, ring tones, online game subscriptions and articles from newspaper archives and other online items and charged them to their mobile phone bills, without going through any bank or credit card. The amount totaled 1.7 trillion won, or $1.4 billion at current exchange rates, last year. South Koreans have done this since 2000.

Weekend video

Biz Stone's story about Twitter and micro status networks

Eric Ries : The lean startup

Nokia Ovi Maps

News from Where 2.0 conference

Nokia: Ovi Maps API

With the introduction of the Ovi Maps Player API developers can bring Ovi Maps to their websites, complete with cutting edge features such as 3D view, satellite and terrain views and customizable visuals. The Ovi Maps Player can also be mashed up with content from other services, such as the terrific content from the Associated Press.

Find and forget

Who wants to know or own my place under the sun ?

Where 2.0 conference presents leading trends about location aware tech.
Here are some interesting links spotted in my gReader about this topic:

* Yahoo Placemaker

* Google Maps API data

* Location data and privacy

* Day 1 and ignation

Non Disclosure AgreemenT - Parking Access

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4 shorts

Gizmodo: Comparison of all the smartphone app stores

Yahoo Mobile: Abandons BB app. Focus on iPhone

El Reg: Second-generation of BlackBerry Storm with pictures

Prototype: Good looking Android phones could change the game. Design please.