Currently, Google Sync is only able to keep your Calender and Contacts updated, effectively leaving Gmail in the dark. Luckily, it was recently announced that the service will now allow for Gmail syncing as well, if you have an iPhone or Windows Mobile handset, that is.

To read more about the update including how you can activate Gmail syncing, head here.

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If you’re one of this fans that has to absolutely contact his or her favorite movie star then you should have purchased a certain BlackBerry that was on sale on eBay. It contained contact information for about 50 celebrities like Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Kevin Spacey or Julie Walters. The phone was acquired for only $23 by a certain Kent Devey. Imagine his surprise to actually find those phone numbers and realize they were not a prank. Devey returned the phone to Working Titles Films, which is more than many others won’t do! So what did we learn today smartphone users? Make sure you completely erase all personal data if you want to sell your phone.

via Telegraph

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Microsoft has announced that it will release a new service that synchronizes information on a user’s cell phone. Contacts, text messages and photos will all be available to be managed at a password-protected Microsoft Web site. By subscribing to the service, called My Phone, cell phone users will no have complete data storage and back-up online, so that if the phone is lost or destroyed all the cell phone data can be retrieved and downloaded to a new phone. Subscribers who use the My Phone service could also post information on the My Phone Web site that will then appear on their cell phone.

The Microsoft My Phone service will be free, but will only work on phones that run Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6 operating system. Microsoft is offering up to 200 megabytes of free storage on the My Phone site. Full details will be released at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which will start Feb. 16.

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