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Want to lock your PC when you move away from your computer? Here is a small, free application, Blue Lock that locks your computer if your Bluetooth enabled Mobile Phone (or any Bluetooth enabled device) is not detected. .For example, if you register your Bluetooth Mobile Phone with the program but then move away from your computer desk, the program will detect your phone is out of range and automatically lock your system, requiring the password to be entered to reactivate the system. The system locking is a standard Windows API call and is perfectly safe; it's just the same as if you locked the system with CTRL-ALT-DEL.The application works with Windows XP/Vista and requires no installation, and the only thing required is to take Bluetooth from the PC and the mobile phone, and link the application with a mobile from the PC.
Instructions: Start Blue Lock, and after about half a minute a list of discovered Bluetooth devices will be displayed in the window on the right of the screen. Click on a device and its ID and hardware address will be copied to the "Lock Device" field at the bottom of the screen. The program will now loop continuously, and if that device is not detected the system will immediately lock up. Note that many Bluetooth devices have a long range and therefore it may still detect your device even if you are the other end of your office. Download
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Take photos of any document, written or printed , with your Cell phone or Digital camera and email or MMS to Qipit and it will deliver a clear and crisp digital copy of your document.

Use your camera phone to copy written or printed documents when you are on the road. Upload these images to your personal account at Qipit and it will convert these images in to PDF file which is more clear and easy to read.

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License: Free
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WidSets allows you to get favorite web content straight on your mobile phone. You can stay in touch with email and blogs, play games, find news and information, share pictures and more from your mobile phone.

It uses over 2000 different small widgets to push updates from your favorite sites directly to your phone. You can also create your own widgets of your blog or sites

WidSets supports Java-enabled mobile phones and works on over 300 models from all phone manufacturers.

For full details and download visit WidSets

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Plusmo is a free service that lets you run cool mobile widgets on your phone like Google news, YouTube etc. There are over 20,000 widgets on Plusmo, most of them created and shared by users.

All you need is a browser on your mobile device. Just go to plusmo.com/m from your mobile phone browser and download the client. Plusmo supports all J2ME MIDP 2.0 and MIDP 1.0 enabled mobile phones, RIM/Blackberry devices, Windows Mobile Smart phones and Pocket PC enables PDAs.

The service is free, but, your mobile operator may charge you for data downloaded if you do not have a data plan.

Visit Plusmo for full details.

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Nokia 5300 has a sporty slider design and a focus on music. The phone has dedicated external music keys that play / pause, forward and rewind, stereo Bluetooth, and expandable memory up to 2GB all for music.

Features of the phone:

Display -TFT QVGA 320 x 240 pixels 2" size

Band -900/1800/1900

Camera -1.3 Mega pixel, Video recording and playback (3G format)

Multi media -MP3/AAC/eAAC+/AAC+/WMA/Midi format.

-Visual Radio- listen and interact with your favorite radio station

-Skins for music player.

Memory -32Mb flash and 16Mb RAM, microSD up to 2GB.

Browser -xHTML over TCP/IP, GPRS, HSCSD

Messaging -Email-SMPT, POP3 IMAP4 and APOP

Other Features: Animated color screensavers, Changeable color themes, user defined themes, Nokia Sensor, Flash lite player version 2.0, Nokia Audio Manager and Windows Media Player.

Talk time- 3.2 hrs, Music- 12hr.

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Canon has announced a high-end 10-megapixel digital SLR- the EOS-1 D Mark III which can take clearer photos in dim light. The CMOS has bigger micro lenses over each picture element, which can record more light from the object.

The EOS-1D Mark III can deliver 10 frames per second at 10.1 Mega pixels for a maximum burst of 110 Large JPEG images.

Canon introduced its first live-view LCD screen on a digital SLR with Mark III. This will give users the ability to compose shots in the camera's 3-inch LCD view screen as well as the optical eyepiece. The camera is compatible with USB 2.0 and includes the EOS Integrated Cleaning System which vibrates for 3.5 seconds to clean off dust.

Basic Specifications

Resolution: 10.10 Mega pixels

Kit Lens: N/A

Viewfinder: Optical/LCD

LCD Size: 3.0 inch

ISO: 50-6400

Shutter: 30-1/8000

Max Aperture: N/A

Mem Type: CF1/CF2/SDHC

Battery: Custom LiIon

Dimensions: 6.1x6.2x3.1in (156x157x80mm)

Weight: 40.4 oz (1,155 g)

Price: $4,000

Availability: 04/2007

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Sony Ericsson has announced a new Walkman phone, the W660, with a good style and feel. To be available in black and red colors, the W660 can store up to 470 full-length songs (in eAAC+ format) on the bundled 512 MB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card.

The phone also sports 3G support, a 2-megapixel camera with 2.5x digital zoom and Picture Blogging capability. It can deliver RSS feeds straight to the phone's desktop to keep users up-to-date on the latest news and gossip.

The phone's Walkman player comes in version 2.0 with support for Album Art and TrackID, which allows you to record & upload clips of unrecognised tracks to Gracenote, from where you’ll receive back the name of both track and artist.

W660 also supports Music Bluetooth Receiver MBR-100, or the Stereo Bluetooth Headset HBH- DS970. A FM radio has also been incorporated, and the battery life is claimed to deliver 25 hours of music listening when the phone's GSM/UMTS radio is shut off.

Specifications:

Screen size: 262.144 color TFT, 176x220 pixels.

Memory: Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™), Phone memory 16MB.

Phone sizes: 1 02 x 46 x 14.5 mm, 4 x 1.8 x 0.6 inches.

Weight: 93 grm.

The W660 Walkman phone is a UMTS 2100 and GPRS 900/1800/1900 handset and will be available from Q2 2007.

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LG has unveiled a new hand set Prada (LG KE850) -looks like Apple's iPhone with touch screen-controlled snazzy graphical user interface.

Fashion designer Prada is responsible for the looks of the phone, the design of the advanced touch user interface, ring tones, accessories and the content comes with the phone.

LG KE850 PRADA is a tri-band GSM phone with GPRS and EDGE, a large 240x400 pixel touch-sensitive display that can playback widescreen video clips, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD expandable memory, and has an FM radio and a two mp camera.

The LG KE850 PRADA comes with MP3, AAC, WMA and RealAudio, MPEG4, H.263 and H.264 video. The KE850 has a web browser with Adobe/Macromedia Flash support, a document viewer (supporting text, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat file types), an email client and messaging applications. Size: 99x54x12mm, 85grms.The price of the phone may be around €600 / £380.

Main drawback of the phone is it doesn’t have WiFi and have only 8mb internal memory.

LG say that the PRADA phone will be available in selected dealerships in the UK, Germany, Italy and France from late February, and then in Asia from late March.

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Motorola introduced a new Mobile RIZR Z8 in 3GSM World Congress. Like the recently announced RIZR Z6, the Z8 does away with Motorola's conventional operating system. But instead of the Java/Linux OS that the Z6 got, the RIZR Z8 is actually powered by Symbian. A new UI sits on top of the Symbian software, so it doesn't look like a Nokia S60.

More interesting than the OS is that the Z8 is Motorola's first "kick slider". That means instead of sliding straight up, the Z8 actually curves to better contour to a face.

Network : GSM900 / GSM1800 / GSM1900 / HSDPA

Display : TFT, 16M color – Size 240x320 pixels.

Screen savers, wallpapers and downloadable Logos

Memory : Shared memory 90Mb, Photocall, MicroSD

Networking : GPRS, HSDPA, 3.6Mbps, USB 2.0, WAP2/xHTML

: E-mail client, IM, Symbian based

Features : Camera- 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video, flash; secondary VGA video call camera

SMS, MMS. Java, Games, Clock, Alarm, Calculator, Voice dialing, Voice memo, T9

Hands free-MP3/ACC/ACC+Player, Organizer
Battery : Li-Ion, Stand- by Time 380hrs, Talk- time 5hrs

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The most popular walkman series offered by Sony Ericsson is W800i with greater functionality and increased memory storage in the form of a 512Mb memory stick Duo Pro.

It has a sizable amount of built-in memory too -38 Mb. The zippy interface has controls that compliment the phone’s core function of being a competent media player. The phone’s ‘walkman’ button takes the user directly to the play list.

The phone also boasted a built-in hand free with a powerful loudspeaker. True to a multimedia player, it supports popular audio formats like MP3, WAV and AAC.

Except for not having EDGE support, this phone packed in some really good features in its sleek candy bar frame. In the imaging area it is able to take praiseworthy pictures with its 2-megapixel camera. The camera can auto focus on objects and produce good quality photograph in different light settings and white balance option.

The W800i even records video in MPEG 4 as well as AVI format on the fly. Add to that a very reasonable battery life, around 18 hrs in media player mode.

Dimension (W x H x D):46 x 100 x 20 mm.

256k color display (1600 x 1200 pixel)

512Mb Memory stick

2.0Mega pixel camera with optical focus

Network: GSM/GPRS (900, 1800, 1900 tri-band)

Weight: 104 g.

Data link: HSCSD, GPRS, WAP, Bluetooth, Infrared, JAVA 2.0

Price: Rs 20000 (India)

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Microsoft’s next version of Windows Mobile, codenamed Crossbow, has been officially announced by Microsoft. The new version of it's Windows Mobile operating system (OS), Windows Mobile 6, which has the look of Windows Vista, plus features that were earlier available only on PCs.

Windows Mobile 6 promises to take advantage of features in Exchange Server 2007, as also provide a richer e-mail experience on device reportedly, the new version includes Windows Live, offering instant messaging with more than one person at a time, as well as sending files/images and record/send voice notes.

Another new feature that comes from Exchange Server 2007 is the ability to reply to meeting requests made in Microsoft Outlook in various ways such as email reply and forwarding the message to someone else from the mobile device. Presently, a user can either just accept or decline the invite. It now also supports direct e-mail push technology to receive and send e-mails faster.

Windows Mobile 6 also introduces the ability to view e-mails in their original HTML Internet format with live Web links from smart phones.
Moreover, it allows viewing, navigating, and editing documents in original Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint format, without affecting tables, images, or text. Other features include support for synchronization with Vista via the new Windows Mobile Device Center, improved search, encryption of data stored on removable memory cards, .NET Compact Framework, SQL Server, and usability of the device as a modem for notebook PCs.

According to Microsoft, Windows Mobile 6 will be available in the second quarter of 2007. And, manufacturers that are expected to come out with new devices supporting Windows Mobile 6 include Toshiba, Lenovo, LG Electronics, and Samsung Electronics.

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Samsung unveiled a new range of mobile phones called "Mobile Tracker Phones" excl

usively for the Indian market.

Because of the rapidly growing mobile phone usage in India, the safety and responsible usage of it is also growing. To deal with this, Samsung introduced a new range of mobile phone ca

lled Mobile Tracker Phone. The company targets all segments of the society with three models- SGH-C140, SGH-X520, and SGH-E250 are entry level and mid-range models.

The main feature of the phone include new security features such as mobile tracking (MT), emergency SMS, and privacy lock, thus empowering consumers with security during mobility

The MT (Mobile Tracking) detects the unauthorized usage of the handset. When a different SIM card is inserted, the MT-enabled phone automatically sends an SMS to up to two numbers pre-defined by the original user revealing the IMEI number of the phone along with the new SIM number, thus helping in retrieving the handset back.

The emergency SMS feature helps the user to send an SMS for help when in distress or some kind of emergency. The user has to push the volume key four times consecutively to activate the feature. Once activated, it automatically sends an SMS to up to 10 predefined numbers with text saying "Emergency. Help plz", and after that the phone goes into the 'emergency receiving mode' where user can only receive calls from the 10 predefined numbers. Further, when they call back, the phone automatically receives the call with one vibration.

Lastly, the privacy lock feature enables user to lock all the files and folders inside the phone, thus safe guarding the information against unauthorized access.

During the occasion, Samsung expressed its commitment to continue launching global phones with localized features. In addition, the company also promised to incorporate all the three security features in all its new and upcoming mobile models.

Other features of the phones:

SGH-C140 - This is an entry-level phone in a compact and stylish design. 65K color LCD, speaker phone for Hands free communication, and 16 polyphonic ring tones. It has a screen measuring 3.8cm with a resolution of 128x128 pixels, and the phone comes with an internal memory of 700 KB.

SGH-X520 - It has been tagged by the company as the chic slim phone with extra seduction of stunning colors such as Indigo Blue and Wine Red. Its features include FM radio, VGA camera, and 65 K color CSTN LCD screen measuring 4.8cm with a resolution of 128x160 pixels. It comes with an internal memory of 2.8 MB.

SGH-E250 – The phone is embedded with VGA camera and the latest multimedia features. Further, it features a 5cm TFT screen, stereo FM radio, video recording, Bluetooth wireless support, 12 MB internal memory and Micro SD slot expandable up to 2GB.

All the three newly launched Samsung mobile phones SGH-C140, SGH-X520, and SGH-E250 are available at a MRP of Rs 2,579; Rs 6,149; and Rs 8,299 respectively.

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