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Motorola Mobile Acquired by Google

Ceasar — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:19:15 +0000

In the never ending move to expand it’s empire, and hopefully step on less toes in the computing industry, search engine giant Google expands yet again by acquiring Motorola Mobility. This may be a sign of their race to get some share of the mobile market ruled by Apple Inc. and others who are using their Android platform but it may simply be a move to end their never ending nagging with them regarding patents and others.

The acquisition gets Google Inc. and additional 17,000 patents with 7,000 under process/application that were previously owned by Motorola. They may simply have had enough of the patent fights, bickering and decided to take the fight to them in the market they oh so love and rule.

Palm Inc. – Dead in the Water

Ceasar — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:21:32 +0000

With the company stalled and it’s current owner deciding to discontinue it’s foray into the mobile and tablet market Palm, one of the first pocket pc’s around is dead in it’s tracks. There are but few details regarding the decision of the world’s largest computer maker on the move, that has also by coincidence moved to place it’s PC manufacturing arm up for sale.
The PC giant has re-aimed it’s focus on the services only market like IBM and many others who have been faring well in spite of economic turmoil. PC, mobile and tablet sales are mostly dependent on the economy, a bump here and there equals to huge losses. The move was a surprise indeed with shares of the company dipping well below expectations, only time will tell if their decision is based on sound analysis of the market’s status.

Nokia, Microsoft announce partnership

Ceasar — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:27:19 +0000

Nokia recently announced that it is going to form a partnership with Microsoft as a way of mounting a stiffer competition with Android equipped mobile devices and Apple’s iPhone. The partnership indicates that Nokia will now make Windows Phone its main smartphone strategy. Basically, Microsoft will be handling the software innovations while Nokia will be in charge of hardware development. But the partnership will also include such technologies like Nokia Maps, which will also be integrated into some of Microsoft’s products like the Bing search engine.
Only time will tell if the Nokia – Microsoft partnership will be strong enough to pose a real threat to the iPhone and Android dominance in the market.

Blackberry’s re-made but nobody’s paying attention

Ceasar — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:19:36 +0000

The struggling Blackberry, the forecast mobile for the serious businessman has long been in a losing fight against the battle with Apple and their iPhones/tablets and other manufacturers who run on Google’s Android platform. They have managed to come out with seemingly improved models that are aimed to make them a tad bit more pleasing for users but it seems their move has fallen on deaf ears.

Similar to events that have struck Palm, one of the first mobile computing pioneers around that has closed shop as HP, it’s current owners try to find direction in the evolving markets. Blackberry is still managing to hold on to some businesses and their employees but for how long, hopefully enough for a few more years.

“Drucker”-Palm Treo 800w

Ceasar — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:07:00 +0000

The new Palm Treo 800w, with its code-name “Drucker,” will soon be released in mid-2008 as the successor to the old Treo 750. The Drucker is a Windows Mobile 6 Professional (touchscreen) Smartphone, with Windows Mobile 6.1 as its OS.

According to information, the Drucker will feature a 320×320 touchscreen display and a 2MP digital camera. There’s no word yet on processor speed or system memory capacity, but given its other specs, each will likely be on the higher end of the available spectrum.

The Palm Treo 800w “Drucker” is scheduled to be released on July or August 2008, though availability could well be moved forward or back. The first 800w will initially be released in the United States as a CDMA handset on the Sprint wireless network with EV-DO Rev.A wireless broadband; a GSM version will also be made available in the U.S. at some point.(Source:Pocketpccentral.net)

Access your mails amidst the wildness of Amazon in Brazil

Ceasar — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:04:03 +0000

Brazil has enthralled vacationers with its white-sand beaches, creased with palm trees fronting the beautiful Atlantic sea. Brazil also lures travelers with its grandiose waterfalls, and see-through rivers. And when talking about Brazil how can we forget about its most famous attractions, viz., the Amazon and the Pantanal, which is abode to a variety of flora and fauna, natural surroundings, and all-embracing natural wealth. Yet, whether you are traveling to Brazil or live and work there, it is extremely important that you can access your business email, on Exchange 2010 hosting or on Microsoft Exchange Server with an MS Exchange provider. If you have BlackBerry, you can access your BlackBerry Exchange Server email on a phone or from a cyber cafe.

The facility to contact hosted Exchange service on a mobile phone is largely based on the kind of mobile device that you are carrying. The phone that you carry should have compatibility with the local wireless providers.

Brazil is a country with a population of 185,712,713 and the main spoken languages of the country includes Portuguese. The fine aspect of Exchange Hosting is that it is accessible in many tongues letting populace of Brazil to have the benefit of hosted Exchange 2010 in their personal tongue.

Vivo Participacoes, TIM Participacoes, Claro Brazil, and Oi are the leading wireless providers in Brazil. Thus, before synchronization your phone with Microsoft Exchange Server, you should check these providers’ websites to make out the range of data plans they have on their platter. If you are travelling from another country, you should check with your home country’s wireless provider as well if they have data roaming arrangements with Brazilian carriers.

Pocket PC Software

Ceasar — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:55:13 +0000

Pocket PC 2003 will be releasing fresh line up of new iPAQ models only from HP! Microsoft’s up-coming Pocket PC platform, the Pocket PC 2003 is known as Ozone. HP is doing everything in their preparation on updating its entire product line. First to be released is the highly anticipated h2200 series. The h2200 series is a combination of the thin, lightweight styling of the h1900 series with several high-end features found on the h5000.

It will have 64MB SDRAM or greater, 32MB ROM or greater, a 900mAh Lithium ion battery and has a 3.5″ color display. This series also has dual slots for CompactFlash and Secure Digital, an SDIO support and also Bluetooth on few select models. This new innovation will run on the Intel XScale-based Cotulla processor at either 200MHz or 400MHz.

Text-to-Speech for Business Telephony with Asterisk PBX

Ceasar — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:32:04 +0000

It is expensive and wasteful to hire humans to answer or guide callers. This is when the beauty of automated natural sounding text-to-speech software is realized. Text-to-speech conversion with high-quality, natural sounding voices for hand-held, desktop, and server applications adds a lot of value to business telephony with Asterisk PBX.

Text-to-Speech voices are available in 6 languages and 18 different characters including “Allison” the standard Asterisk voice. These voices are sizable and can range from 4 MB for embedded applications, to 100 MB for server-based installations. Text-to-Speech voices are tested on all major telephony platform operating systems including: Windows Server, Windows XP, Linux (32 & 64 bit), Solaris (Sparc and x86), and Mac (PowerPC and Intel).

The benefit of using text-to-speech voices with hosted Asterisk solution is that you can select a voice that fits your requirement, optimize it for your application, or even have voices built for a particular character or delivery. The voices run on the text-to-speech technology are petite and swift enough to run on handheld devices or distribute over the network.

The text-to-speech voice facility is not only limited to the telephony industry. In fact it is used across sectors such as health, navigation, mobile, toys & games, Government, industry, assistive, and many more. Now with Asterisk VOIP PBX, text-to speech functionality is available for really affordable prices to small and medium sized businesses. Also, don’t forget to enjoy the benefits of the best application hosting solutions, such as hosted VOIP PBX, Exchange, SharePoint, etc., which has become the preferred way for companies to implement business software.

AutoProfiles 1.0

Ceasar — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:14:13 +0000

The latest product from SymbianGuru that will improve everyone’s mobile productivity was just released in the market. The product is called AutoProfiles 1.0. It is a profile scheduler that works with Series 60 3rd Edition Symbian phones. The AutoProfiles 1.0 routinely allows the changing of mobile profiles depending on the customized schedule and calendar of your mobile. AutoProfiles 1.0 has an easy receptive interface and is very useful to business people who can no longer find time adjusting the settings because the most commonly used settings are already preset. The profile can also be automatically changed based on the defined schedule of the user.

SharePoint 2010 Multi-lingual User Interface

Ceasar — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:43:46 +0000

Multi-lingual User Interface—the name says it all! Isn’t it? Yes, SharePoint Server 2010 has introduced the Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI), which is available with every type of site—even the SharePoint Server Central Administration site. The Multi-lingual User Interface should not be considered as a translating tool, instead it is tool that allows users to select a display language for a site and then display the Site title and description, SharePoint out-of-the-box menus and actions, Out-of-the-box columns, Custom columns (list or site), Navigation bar links, and Managed Metadata services in different languages.

In order to use the Multi-lingual User Interface, you should install the language pack on your server. After you install the necessary language packs you will have the option to enable the multilingual user interface on a per site basis using site settings. Once you enable alternate languages, users will see a language picker control in the top right of the page where they can switch the site to the language of their choice. Even SharePoint Foundation 2010 enjoys this feature.

Below given parts of the SharePoint user interface are actually impacted by the Multi-lingual User Interface:
* All the standard SharePoint user interface elements are translated
* Navigation menu’s also support multilingual scenario’s with the MUI – if you switch your language and translate specific menu nodes in your navigation – these changes are language specific
* The headings for list columns
* The managed metadata field type also supports multilingual scenarios.
Note that the English language is used for the following out-of-the-box labels: Site Actions, Browse, Page, Home, Libraries, Lists, Discussions, Recycle Bin, All Site Content.

Take advantage of SharePoint Multi-lingual Interface and other features included in SharePoint family of products including Microsoft SharePoint 2007, SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation, and associated free SharePoint templates and web parts.