If you have a 4th-gen iPod nano you might be interested in this. The 1.0.3 update is out! The new patch includes Cover Flow issues as well as the Apple in-Ear headphones support with Remote and Mic support. The greatest thing about the patch is that it fixes Cover Flow when using TV out slideshows making it easy for you to turn it off when rotating the iPod into landscape position.

So go grab your software update today! It’s only 53MB!

Tags: Headphones, ipod, MP3 Players, Nano, software, software

Here’s a weird but pretty big bug reported by Android users. Basically, at any time that you would happen to type the word “reboot” from your keyboard the Android device, the G1 will do exactly so, it will reboot itself. Firmware 1.0 TC4-RC29 or earlier is affected by the bug so watch out what you start typing. Besides the whole reboot thing you should also be aware that combination of “rm and rf” might trigger some responses from the G1.

If you got the RC30 upgrade for your G1, you might be safe, but you’d better test if, just to be sure.

Tags: Android, bug, firmware, G1, Google, Mobile News, software

Besides iPhone firmware 2.2 beta 2, we heard that the Windows Vista SP2 is coming to town. Is it going to fix any problems? Well, did the last SP1 fix any significant problems?

We don’t know when the new update is actually set to arrive and we don’t know all of its features but we have a general idea. The SP2 is said to add Windows Search 4.0, Bluetooth 2.1 Feature Pack, ability to record data on Blu-ray medua and Windows Connect Now for simpler WiFi configuration. Wow!

Tags: microsoft, Mobile News, software, software, SP2, vista, windows

Version 2.2 beta 2 of the iPhone firmware we’ve grown to hate is ready for developers. It looks like just yesterday we were talking about version 2.1, doesn’t it? Not much has changed! There’s no copy paste, no email typing in landscape mode, no MMS and no push notifications for third party applications.

What’s new now is the Google Maps with street view. That’s not something I would actually want to do while using the iPhone’s GPS support. But I would like to copy paste stuff! Maybe some developers will put this firmware to good use and come up with some apps to deal with the issues mentioned above.

Tags: Apple, Apple, firmware 2.2, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Other Brands, software

It looks like there are various Window 7 versions available so far and you can choose the one that fits your needs. And we have quite a few versions up here. From Starter we went through the menu and we found the  Home Basic, Home Premium, Home Basic Premium, Home Premium Basic, Tablet Edition, MID edition, UMPC Edition, Fancy Smartphone Edition and Cash Register Edition, Voting Machine, Business, Small business and Big business, Secure Edition, Institutional Edition and Supranational Entitiy Edition, Gaming edition, Ultimate and Penultimate and we ended the list with the Pirated Edition. Feel free to read all the descriptions above in order to pick your custom Windows 7 edition!

My favorite would be the Penultimate Edition although I am pretty sure that Cash Register and Pirated Edition are pretty cool too. They should be available in stores soon!

(This post is unmistakably a mock-up and should be treated accordngly!)

Tags: software, Uncategorized, Windows 7

It looks like the BlackBerry Storm can do copy-paste. I remember needing something like this for another phone. And I remember not being able to do it. Which phone was that…

According to leaked Storm documents obtained by BGR, the copy paste function exists on the Storm and it actually works. Simply use your fingers to select the text you want to copy. Slide the fingers to highlight the much needed selection, go to the Menu and select Copy. Paste it wherever you needed it pasted. Voila! I knew all along that this wasn’t rocket science! If I could only test it under my own eyes now…

Storm: 1 - iPhone: 0.

via BGR

Tags: copy paste, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Research In Motion, RIM, software, Storm

Remember when we told you about T-Mobile’s future app store? Well it appears it’s almost ready. In the mean time the devPartner Community Beta is now ready for you to give it a try. This program was conceived in order to help your application get approved faster to be released to the future store.

Developers should register and follow the steps needed to be done in order to have their apps approved. The whole process is free of charge so anyone can already start creating accounts. (more…)

Tags: Android, App Store, Google, java, Mobile Games, Mobile News, Mobile Software, software, software, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

Mobile banking is about to be redesigned over in Korea. The sub-committee on Financial Digitization of the Bank of Korea has decided to use the Universal Subscriber Identity Modules or USIMs at CD and ATM networks across the country. The service might be available this November although there aren’t clear instructions on how it will work. (more…)

Tags: korea, Mobile News, Mobile Software, software, software, USIM

Thanks to Devin Coldewey we have a pretty clear video about one of Zune’s 3.0 features. The Wireless Marketplace is a good tool for getting yourself some music but it could surely be improved. By getting I mean of course purchasing. What did you think this is? Napster?

Audiobooks, games and a new clock are all included in the new software. The ability of sharing new tracks with friends has been improved. Do you ever do that? Do you have a Zune? Happy with it? As you can see I am really trying to cut Microsoft some slack today. After all I do need a new clock!

Tags: microsoft, Mobile News, Mobile Software, MP3 Player, MP3 Players, software, zune, Zune 3.0

It looks like everyone is getting an App Store following Apple’s big hit. T-Mobile is the next name to be interested in an application store in order to offer more content to its subscribers. And it’s not the Android Market which will be a totally different thing despite the fact T-Mobile is going to be the first carrier to sell an Android device.

While the program is still very secret, T-Mobile’s officials have been interviewed at the CTIA and they did mention some of the features of the future virtual store. The store will evidently offer both free and paid applications but nothing which would contain any advertising. No Adroid or Sidekick applications will be allowed and the developer agreement will appear on T-Mobile’s website next week or so. T-Mobile will provide demo handsets and a virtual lab for testing out future applications. No API will be made available from the first day but it will be considered as an option for the future.

As for revenues and prices, free applications will be allowed at no cost to developers but bandwidth limitations will be in place. If the apps are priced the revenue split starts at 50/50, but various factors can help the developer obtain a 70/30 split.

That’s it for now, hopefully more details are going to arrive down the road.

Tags: App Store, Mobile News, Mobile Software, software, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

This one goes to all those paranoid minds out there ready to create conspiracy theories out of everything. It looks like your friendly iPhone is kind of watching your every action. What it does is take a snapshot of the current screen and caches it every time you push the home button, but only for a few seconds. And since that’s the most important button, since its’ the only one, to be pushed, I’d say you end up pushing it quite a lot.

Is it dangerous for you? Hardly! You have probably more chances of ending up in a local black hole than having your most personal, yet dirty secrets revealed by a smart thief who manages to pull up those screenshots you took with your home button. I know I said it caches them for a few seconds but a mac-savvy mind will find them sooner or later. And I really doubt that a smart thief like that will steal your boring phone instead or phishing for something else.

Tags: 3g iphone, Apple, Apple, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Other Brands, security, software

Who would have imagined that genius comedian Jerry Seinfeld would be approached by Microsoft and hired for one of the biggest advertising campaigns in Microsoft’s company. But I guess it takes a comedian to sell a product which has been laughed at for such a long time now.

Seinfeld will get about $10 million to star in a few new commercials. Joining him will be none other than retired Bill Gates. The new commercials will air starting with September 4th and we’ll serve them to you a minute later, as soon as they hit YouTube or similar sites. Microsoft will do anything to revitalize Vista until Windows 7 hits the market. Will we be fooled?

The funny things is that Jerry Seinfeld, the main character of the popular Seinfeld show always happened to own Macs. I wonder what computer does the real Jerry Seinfeld use.

Tags: microsoft, software, windows vista

Dell is preparing to launch a couple of MP3 players and it appears that they plan an iTunes-like service. No less than 120 engineers are said to be working on a Dell Tunes software solution to compete against Apple’s iTunes hit.
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Tags: Apple, Dell, iTunes, Laptops, Mobile News, software

iPod Touch owners have been waiting also for their firmware 2.0 update. Although it’s not free like for the iPhone and you will have to pay the previously announced $9.95 price.

The iPhone 2.0 Software Update for iPod Touch is available now from the iTunes store. You will have support for Mail, Contact, Calendars, MobileMe and Microsoft Exchange Active sync. This update apparently includes all of the January Software Update applications and features.

Needless to say you will have complete access to all iPhone applications in the App Store after your updated your Touch.

Tags: 3g iphone, Apple, Apple, iPod Touch, Mobile News, Mobile Software, software

I was telling you yesterday how the iPhone Dev Team managed to unlock and jailbreak the 3G iPhone already. They are preparing their Pwnage Tool 2.0 which will have support for Firmware 2.0.

It’s not available yet and it won’t be released over this weekend, but in the mean time you can enjoy the video above. Next step should be trying to get out of that plan you have already purchased. No matter where you find yourself at this time.

Again, Apple, what are you going to do?

Tags: 3g iphone, Apple, Apple, jailbreak, Mobile News, Mobile Software, software, unlocked

Dell has finished a study according to which about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports on a weekly basis. Not around the world, but around the nation. That’s a huge number. Multiply it by 52 and you get more than 600,000 laptops lost every year. I never wondered how many laptops are lost a year, but isn’t that figure a bit too much?

After all people tend to pay quite a sum for their laptops. And even if they have received them for free from their company, they usually pay attention to what happens to them. Besides loosing the laptop itself, you lose all the precious and sometimes confidential personal data. Not to mention any files you were working on and didn’t have time to back up.

Or this is just another intelligent strategy to make us, you know, the people that don’t usually lose our laptops, look for programs and utilities which would protect data once the notebook has been stolen or lost?

We’ve introduced new Dell ProSupport Mobility Services to help costumers protect their laptops and the data that resides on them. Offers included are things like laptop tracking and recovery and a remote data delete option so that if your laptop does go lost or missing we’re able to reach out and remotely delete that sensitive data so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

Dell says that 70% of those stolen laptops never get reclaimed. Why oh why? Furthermore 53% of people interviewed said they had confidential data on their laptops with as much as 65% of those not protecting it accordingly. If you do the math, you will get a rather large number of laptops wandering around with other masters, sharing secrets from their previous owners.
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Tags: Dell, Laptops, Laptops, Mobile Software, Notebooks, Portable Devices, software, survey

One of the previously reported problems with the first iPhone was the inability to fully erase all your personal data from your phone. Imagine your iPhone being stolen with all your private data. I am talking about passwords, online banking accounts, company emails. Same thing if you wanted to sell your first generation iPhone. You’d have to go through a lot of trouble to erase some of that sensitive data.
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Tags: 3g iphone, Apple, Apple, Mobile News, Mobile Software, software

While it’s very easy to Google your way in this virtual world people like to call the Internet, it’s hard to find lost stuff in the real world. If you think about it, how many times have you lost your car keys? What about your cell phone set-up to silent mode?

Apple is going to help with that. Apparently they have filed a patent for developing a service/software that will enable your Bluetooth smart device to pinpoint to a certain location where you would find your keys, cell phone or long lost jacuzzi tub.

The patent called “Location discovery using Bluetooth” will make your iPhone google for stuff in the real world By sending out a Bluetooth signal. After being received by the lost object, a sound will emerged and/or some kind of bright light.
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Tags: Apple, Apple, Apple iPhone, iPhone, Mobile News, Mobile Software, software

Sybase will start selling software that lets people securely distribute email to the iPhone. And here I was, thinking SSL is already invented and implemented in the iPhone. Anyway, the aim here is to please the “business peoples”. The Sybase software will feature security similar to that available on BlackBerry, Treo and other business smartphones.

The software will enable the IT folks to manage the phones remotely, with a healthy does of keywords like “secure enterprise grade” thrown in. Sybase is working on a similar piece of software for the Google Android platform.

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Tags: Apple, BlackBerry, Cell Phones, enterprise, software

The all new Opera Mini 4.1 Version is ready to rock your mobile phones. The proof of its immense popularity is the fact that currently over 44 million people are using it. The latest version is 50% faster as compared to the older 4.0.

Enhance your mobile web browsing by Opera Mini 4.1. It lets the users stay in touch with their friends, do online banking and check mails. With the URL completions’ support you can type address quickly.

It also offers the function of saving pages for offline viewing. You can download Opera Mini and enjoy faster browsing.

Tags: Mini 4.1, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Opera, software