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Rumor: Zune Phone “Officially” Exists in Zune Software Driver

While there isn’t any confirmed detail schedule for the next Windows Mobile OS, a great find from istartedsomething is revealing a mystery “Phone” device. Strings of “%Phone.DeviceDesc% = ZuneMTPZUSB, USB\VID_045E&PID_0640″ has been found inside the Zune software driver’s inf file. So what’s up with Microsoft with the 3 lines of “Zune Phone” string in 3 different product ID? We can expect to see an official showcase in the coming Mobile World Congress next month.

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Mobile Phone Use When Driving Doesn’t Reduce Crashes?

Okay, anyone with an ounce of brain matter knows that if you make a call from your mobile phone when driving the chances of crashing increase, stands to reason, if you’re concentrating on your call you’re not concentrating fully on your driving, thus the risk of smacking your vehicle into an oncoming vehicle, tree or lamppost increases right?

Well apparently not, according to a study by the Highway Loss Data Institute, which found that comparing the numbers before a ban on mobile phone use when driving to the numbers after the ban, there was virtually no difference, reports an article over on the NYTimes.

The study was the first look as the results of the mobile phone ban while driving in California, Connecticut, Washington and New York, and the researchers are quite surprised at the results.

What is it with figures and the States? No one needs figures to know that using a mobile phone when driving increases the risk of having a crash, its simple common sense. Obviously people are ignoring the ban, which is probably due to the penalties not being severe enough.

No matter what any figures say, when you use your mobile handset while driving you risk your life and the lives of anyone else in your vehicle and the lives of other road users, I don’t need any figures to tell me that, just an tad of grey matter.

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Tablets and Three Bears

According to Bob Garfield, co-host of On The Media (MP-3), we are in the midst of a new world order.
In his book, The Chaos Scenario, he digs into the digital revolution that he says will devastate mass media, and make you the next mogul.

The age of the mainstream media is passing. The new […]
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Motorola Completes Acquisition of SecureMedia

Enhances Motorola’s IP-based video security and digital rights management capabilities

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Reminder: Live Apple Event Coverage on SlashGear

Starting in less than 2 hours time, SlashGear liveblog coverage is bringing you the first hand info on the new Apple tablet and might include the announcement of its next iPhone OS 4.0 with native multitasking support. The event will start on time from 10am PST (6pm GMT), remember to get ready for the live coverage soon at http://live.slashgear.com!

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No iPhone 3GS for India?

India gained the iPhone 3G way back in 2008 shortly after its US launch and was supplied via Vodafone and Airtel in 8GB and 16GB models; since then India has been patiently awaiting the iPhone 3GS to hit their shores.

However, it now appears that India will not be gaining the iPhone 3GS as according to an article over on expressbuzz they have been told by a company official that there are no plans to deliver the iPhone 3GS to the country.

Apparently the reasons for this are the response from the Indian market, which for the iPhone 3G fell below expectations, consumer spending fell due to the economic climate, and the delay in India’s auction of 3G spectrum.

So there you have it, it looks as if either India has a very long wait for the iPhone 3GS to appear or they won’t be gaining it at all.

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Apple Launching Pad

There’ll be no shortage of coverage of The Big Event from Apple today. C/Net, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Digg, JKOnTheRun, and ArsTechnica and others will be liveblogging.

The Neiman Journalism Lab will have a journalism-centric perspective. With the Apple Tablet, Print Media Hope for a Payday says the NY Times. Apple’s tablet could mark the end […]
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Motorola Ships 100 Millionth Digital Entertainment Device; Celebrates 50 Years of Video Innovation

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Resco Releases Resco Explorer 8 for Windows Mobile

Resco officially announced the release of Resco Explorer 8.0, new version of a popular file manager uniting and utilizing all the key features of each Windows Mobile device. Most of the changes go head to head with improvements of not a long time released new version of Resco Photo Manager. Resco team enriched Explorer with the popular feature of uploading images to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Picasa, MySpace and Photobucket. Next main improvement is the introduction of thumbnails view mode. It improves navigation and helps to find the right image.  The last improvement affects Explorer’s Today plug-in. The old one has been replaced by a new totally customizable plug-in with Task Manager and other handy tools.

New features in Explorer 2010

• Image Upload to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Picasa, MySpace and Photobucket
• Thumbnails View Mode
• Interaction with Resco Photo Manager
• Totally Customizable Today Plug-in

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Is a Galaxy 2 on its way from Samsung?

It looks like Samsung may be turning a bit more serious where the Android platform is concerned; the original Samsung Galaxy was that much of a good looking handset, but it appears Sammy is rectifying that with a Samsung Galaxy 2.

According to an article over on androphones, what we have here is a render of what they believe is the Samsung Galaxy 2, which apparently packs some decent specifications.

Thos specs are rumoured to be a 3.7 inch AMOLED touch screen, Android 2.1 operating system, a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, 3.5mm jack and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Although Sammy make their own system on chips so not sure why they would be sourcing from Qualcomm.

Anyway, the word is we can expect to see the Samsung Galaxy 2 hit release sometime in Q2, and it is expected Samsung will make an official announcement of the Samsung Galaxy 2 at MWC 2010.

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