Technology has been known to perk up businesses and this time around, Vocera has unveiled its own batch of smartphones, aiming to assist medical professionals and staff in rendering efficient patient care and flexible mobile communication as well. The Vocera smartphone was jointly developed with Motorola, offering a one-touch voice-user interface running on the Mobile 6.1 operating systems.

With this new device, doctors and clinical personnel will be able to access business applications as well such as clinic system alerts, asset tracking and medical reference. It even allows them to communicate since it has corporate e-mail provisions as well.

(Source) Press

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Spotify, a music streaming service is now available for mobile phones. The new service is compatible with Android operating systems and iPhones, providing access to users with over four million tracks. Additionally, users will be able to save over 3,000 songs when they are offline, enhancing the mobile entertainment demands that people are getting into these days.

A short note, the service is not free. A specified subscription fee will be required to download and save the music from the said Spotify service. The subscription fee is said to be £10. The Spotify service aims to rival the popular iTunes store of Apple, obviously for iPhones and iPods.

(Source) BBC News

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People who are looking for reliable and speedier reading USB flash drives are in for a treat as Oyen Digital formally released its 32GB Dash USB Flash drive series. These new portable flash drives boast of a new chipset which can provide an ultra-fast 32MB/sec read speed. It is measured at only 2.5-inches x .68-inches x .19-inches, making it one of the smallest flash drives ever to hit the market.

The flash drive is compatible with most Windows, Mac and Linux OS and also include a handy ovaStor NovaBackup 10 (Windows) or Prosoft Data Backup 3 (Mac OS X).

The Oyen Digital 32GB Dash USB Flash Drive Series are now available for purchase at $59.99.

Details:

• Capacity: 32GB
• Dimensions: 2.5″ x 0.68″ x 0.19″
• Transfer Rate: Up to 32MB/sec read; up to 9MB/sec write
• Guaranteed: Lifetime warranty
• Compatible Operating Systems: Windows 98SE/2000/XP/Vista and higher. MAC OS 9.2 and higher, Linux v.2.6.x and higher
• Part Number: DASH-32-BK

(Source) Press

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It looks like Acer is looking beyond the standards Windows platform for its smartphones. Acer is planning to produce smartphones running on platforms besides Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS by the end of the year, the company confirmed.

Acer representatives in Taipei, Taiwan, confirmed that they will launch handsets running on alternative platforms before the year is out, but declined to say which operating systems the phones would use. When Acer launched their lineup of smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, company officials hinted that Acer was thinking of launching phones using Google’s Android platform.

All of Acer’s phones run on a widget-based version of Windows Mobile 6.1. Acer has said it plans on releasing phones later this year, most likely in the third or fourth quarter, running on Windows Mobile 6.5.

(Source) Fierce Wireless

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For people who seek better quality video streams on their mobile phones, Ideaworks3D Ltd today announced that CRI Middleware have ported their Sofdec advanced video streaming technology to Airplay, and thus to a wide range of smartphone platforms.

Airplay is a unique cross-platform technology for creating best-in-class native applications on mobile and handheld devices, enabling developers to build a single application binary and deploy it unmodified to all supported operating systems and devices.

CRI Sofdec is an industry-leading high performance software movie decoder for games, which has been optimized for the underlying platform and CPU architecture to realize the highest possible quality movies on game consoles, mobile devices and embedded systems. CRI Sofdec enables more than simple movie playback; other unique features include in-game effects such as scene compatibility with movie and multi-stream movie playback.

Airplay was nominated in the “Technical Innovation” category, alongside leading PC and console middleware, at the European Develop Excellence Awards 2008.

(Source) Press

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Intel unveils a superb media phone that covers practically everything included in a person’s daily itinerary. And we are talking about personal lives and not business.

We see most phones try to satisfy one aspect of our lives like communication or interactive media but with this new Intel Media Phone, it seems to cover everything from making calls to entertaining us.

Features:

• Dimensions : 5.4 inch x 9.6 inch (137.3 mm x 243.7 mm)
• Processor : Intel Atom processor Z5XX 533 MHz FSB
• Chipset : Intel System Controller Hub (SCH) US15W
• Supported operating systems : Moblin
• Memory : 1 GB DDR2 533 MHz SODIMM
• Storage : 8 GB Compact Flash; 1 SATA optional
• Display/Video/Graphics : 8.9-inch resistant-touch LCD (16:9 aspect ratio LVDS)
• Audio : HD audio, up to 4 audio streams

(Source) Le Journal Du Geek

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Acer seems to be holding on to its promise of introducing two new phones and it looks like they have been revealed in the DX650 and X960 mobile phones which run under Windows Mobile 6.1 operating systems.

Both phones come with a wide range of capabilities, including GPS support, HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth, connectivity, as well as miniUSB capabilities and a microSD card slot for additional storage space. They are are powered by a 533MHz Samsung S3C6410 processor and also feature hardware graphics acceleration, 256 MB of ROM and 128 MB of RAM.

One of the differences between the Acer phones is that the X960 comes equipped with a 3.2-megapixel camera, while the DX650 only includes a 2-megapixel snapper.
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