S60

If you live in a country where Twitter does not automatically deliver your directs and mentions via SMS you may still have an opportunity to get them delivered if you have a Nokia S60 phone. The magic is done by Synble, a piece of software that runs in the background on your mobile device. The...
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Go on admit it, you’re po’d that Google Voice (GV) is available to people living in the United States only. It may be for friends or business interests, whatever the reason the ability to call U.S. telephones (both fixed and mobile) for absolutely zip, zero, nada appeals to you. Conversely, U.S. residents can also...
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The launch of Symbian’s Zoom OMAP34x-II MDP development platform signals that the open source OS will power some high-end smartphones. By Marin Perez,  InformationWeek April 15, 2009 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500914 The Symbian Foundation is looking to bring in more developers for the upcoming open source Symbian, and it has created a new development platform based on Texas Instrument’s OMAP...
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Hidden iPhone Tethering Feature Exposed I came across this story recently and it made me realise just how backward the iPhone really is. Lack of MMS, no incoming VOIP notifications, no copy and paste and now this! This “hack” is widely available as standard on any S60 phone. How primitive.
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Part 1. OK, VoIP – you’ve heard of it and maybe you’ve dabbled with it, but you also know that what you don’t know is likely to come back and bite you, usually when money has already changed hands and not long after your 30 day money back offer expires. If you’re like me when I...
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This is a useful service and is absolutely free. As you might expect you automatically receive responses to your tweets directly via SMS to your phone but there is another feature I find quite useful – namely a clipping service. You can specify a keyword that you are interested in, for example I used the...
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CIOs attribute their interest to the minimal amount of capital needed to get started and the higher level of flexibility that open source applications generally present. URL: informationweek.com Hard economic times have resulted in good economic news for makers of open source PBXs. In a study released by the Eastern Management Group based on a survey...
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Here is a GPS phone tracking app for S60 phones I look forward to testing. I like the sound of “Intelligent Update” as internal GPS really drains battery life. Of course with our lousy data plans available in Ireland we have to be careful when we use such features.   Quoted from http://phonelocator.mobi/: phonelocator.mobi – locate...
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