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Mabir.A -- An Agressive Cellphone Virus

Make sure you have your bluethooth turned off on your cellphone when you're not using it or you could get an unwanted and surprising dose of Mabir.A from a nearby infected user. And if you get the "Install caribe?" message, whatever you do, DO NOT accept it. Just another reason to not allow installations of anything on your cellphone you're not sure about.
"Mabir is a worm that operates on Symbian Series 60 devices, the Mabir worm is capable of spreading both over Bluetooth and MMS messages.
When Mabir.A infects a phone it will start searching other phones that in can reach over Bluetooth and send infected SIS files to the phones it finds."
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Angelina Jolie on your Cellphone Anyone?

By: Robert Armstrong
The titanic developments in new technology have radically
changed the way we watch TV and movies at home. Gone are the
days when the TV set was a box in the corner with a 20in screen
and a tinny speaker. Now most of us prefer to watch movies and
sports casts on a widescreen that’s at least 28in from corner to
corner. If you are a fan of home theater then that screen will
almost certainly be bigger and be accompanied by a surround
sound speaker system to maximise the aural effect and immerse
you in the action. As technology improves and equipment becomes
cheaper, more and more people will have high definition TVs and
home theater set-ups.

However, if Sony has its way, we’ll all be enjoying a completely
different movie-watching experience, on a 2inch mobile phone
screen. Sony wants to see an iTunes-style download service for
movies so we can download them and watch them on the move. Would you watch a film on a cellphone? I wouldn’t. (continued...)

Imagine it. Out would go the immersive, involving experience of
the movie theater that we’ve tried so hard to create at home,
and in its place would be a screen so small that it would be
difficult to make out what was going on. That in itself would
create a dilemma for film-makers. If a sizeable number of people
who pay to see a movie do so by downloading it on their mobile,
will directors have to take this into account when making it?
Will studios reject cuts because they contain too many subtle
facial expressions or movements that can’t be detected on a tiny
screen? Will the muted colors of a Saving Private Ryan have to
replaced with more lurid and brightly colored scenes to make
them more easily visible on a cellphone?

And what of the audio? Is their any point in spending time and
money developing a detailed and textured surround-sound
experience if a significant portion of your audience will be
listening on earbuds while travelling on a train?

These examples may be extreme, but they do highlight the
differences between the way a music download service works and
the way a movie download service would. Music, by its nature, is
immensely portable. OK, the sound quality from an iPod over a
pair of earbuds may be nothing compared to that from a decent
hi-fi set-up, but for most people most of the time, it’s a close
enough approximation. That won’t be the case with movies. Why
did those tiny, battery powered, pocket TVs never really
take-off? For the same reason.

Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, who knows a thing or two about the movie
industry through his stewardship of Pixar, has often said that
he’s not interested in producing a video iPod because no-one
wants to watch movies on a small screen. Jobs is right about
most things, and I think he’s right about that. Sony disagrees.
It will be interesting to see who’s right.

About the author:
Robert Armstrong is a contributor to The HDTV Tuner- a guide to the kit, the technology and the programming on HDTV.

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New Nokia 9300 - For Advanced Users

I love SmartPhones and it's nice to see top-selling manufacturer Nokia giving us a unique offering with it's new Nokia 9300.
Take a look at the features:
1. Advanced voice features: handsfree speakerphone and conference calling capability
2. Full keyboard and two 65,536-color displays (continued...)
3. Messaging options: email with attachments, SMS, Instant Messaging and MMS1,14
4. Office applications: Documents, Sheet, and Presentations (supports the most common features of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint; Microsoft Office 97, 98, 2000, XP and 2003)
5. Organizer (calendar, contacts, tasks) and email with PC synchronization via Nokia PC Suite software4
6. Large memory storage: 80MB built-in memory plus Multimedia Memory Card (MMC)
7. High-speed data connectivity; up to 53.6 kbps GPRS, up to 236.8 kbps EGPRS (EDGE)
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Trojan Destroys Mobile-Phone Data, Forces Owners To Reformat

A new Trojan horse hitting Symbian 60 Series handsets makes the phones useless until they're reformatted, deleting all the stored data, a Finnish security firm said Wednesday.
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Identity Theft

Data stored on mobile devices is often at greater risk than data communicated over the air, due to the ease with which those devices can be lost. To dramatize the problem, Pointsec conducted a nine-nation survey of cab companies to see how frequently devices are left behind. A Chicago cab company reported the highest number of losses in the survey. On average, 3.42 mobile phones and .86 PDAs and Pocket PCs per cab were left behind each day. Over six months, the survey estimated that Chicago cab riders lost 85,619 mobile phones; 21,460 PDAs/Pocket PCs; and 4,425 laptops. (continued...)
Are you walking around with unsecured data on your Pocket PC?
There are many password protection products out there but the one I've been using is 9.95 PASSWORD MANAGER, the personal information organizer for Pocket PC handhelds that safely and securely stores your confidential data such as user names, passwords, credit cards, PIN codes, bank accounts, frequent flyer numbers, calling cards, and more. Your data is stored in a secure, encrypted format and can be retrieved by entering a single password.
I've been using this product for around a year and find it to be worth the $9.95 I spent. It gives me an easy way to remember my passwords and the desktop backup feature ensures that I'll be able to recover them in the event of loss of my PDA. The encrytion is rock-solid so I'm not worried if anyone but myself finds it. The company does not offer a trial (not sure why) but they do offer a 30 day money-back guarantee.
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Pocket DVD Wizard 2005 Update -- Movies To Go

Pocket DVD Wizard is a great program for converting your DVD movies for playback on your Pocket PC. I first tried it over a year ago and since then I've converted some of my favorite DVD movies for viewing while travelling abroad.
It now sports these new performance and interface improvements.
Added support for Windows CE devices.
Memory card size can now be targetted (no predeterminted steps)
Audio now CD quality. (continued...)
New support for high resolution devices.
Added option to increase brightness of video to compensate for devices with power saving backlights.
Specific start and stop times can now be entered.
Conversion of DVD, AVI, Mpeg and DivX Video.
Support for 750kbs bitrate video and 1Gb memory cards.
Performance improvements.
Any drive or folder can now contain the temporary files.
Network enhancements.
Minor bug fixes
Added Windows 98 / ME support
Enhanced Windows XP performance
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New Smartphone Worm Spreads Via MMS, Bluetooth

Read The Article: "A variant of a previous smartphone worm is now spreading not only via Bluetooth, but also via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) messages, anti-virus vendors reported Monday. "

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Free Motorola MPX220 SmartPhone

If you need cellular service and would like a Free SmartPhone, this may be a good opportunity to pick up a deal.
Motorola MPX220 (Video Phone)
for Cingular Wireless
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with new service plan
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* Smartphone With Windows® Mobile Suite
* Bluetooth Wireless Technology
* Quad-band GSM
The cutting-edge Motorola MPx220 is Motorola’s first Smartphone with Microsoft® Windows Mobile 2003®. Fully loaded with familiar software – like Pocket Outlook®, Pocket Internet Explorer® and Windows Media Player® – this phone is super-easy to synch with your PC or laptop for a true connected experience. In addition, this phone packs serious technology like Bluetooth wireless, quad-band GSM, high-speed data download via GPRS, and expandable memory up to 512MB! If you like cutting-edge technology, the Motorola MPx220 is for you!

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Best Practices for Empowering Today's Mobile Work Force

Adesso Systems has published a white paper about always available computing. It has some interesting statistics and may give you some insight on how to best leverage mobile computers in your business. You can read an overview and get the link to the free white paper here. Read the Article

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Google Doubles E-Mail Space, Promises More Capacity To Come

Who says competition isn't good for consumers. A year ago when Gmail launched offering 1gb email storage, Yahoo mail was only 4mb storage. Now that Yahoo and others have countered with their own 1gb storage, Google is doubling Gmail to 2gb with plans to keep bumping up the limits in the future. This is great news for mobile users too since many of them can access their web mail accounts, like Yahoo mobile, from their devices giving them the possibility of unlimited email capacity for free in the future.
Will the "Email Wars" continue? Let's hope so.
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PDAparts.com - Palm, Visor, Clie, iPAQ & PDA Parts, Accessory & Service

Need a spot to order replacement parts for your PDA?
Here's a website I found that handles a large variety of manufacturers and models including but not limited to Axim, iPaq, T-Mobile, Toshiba, Orange and many others. This site is replete with just about anything you might need including accessories.
I found it while looking for a new battery for one of my older iPaq's. Sure enough they carry it and the price is reasonable.
One thing that I really liked is that if they're out of stock you can sign-up to a waiting list for the item and they'll notify you when they have it back in stock. They also seem to be able to handle international orders whuch is nice. Surf by and give it a try.
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Dell Axim Group On Yahoo.com A Great Support Resource

Dell has a great product line-up called the Axim Pocket PC. They're well equipped and they have terrific price points on the various models they sell. And they have sold millions and millions of them.
Dell support is very good but there are plenty of holes in their system which is why if you look around you'll find lots of third-party support in the form of online discussion forums and user groups.
The Dell Axim Group on Yahoo.com is a community I started a couple of years ago so that people could have an alternative place to get their problems solved without having to deal with Dell employees who must follow the "party line". (continued...)

Over the last couple of years, I know that hundreds of people have been helped by the members of this forum and it has thousands of message posts in it's searchable archive.
It's been so effective that I personally know of a few occasions where frustrated Dell support staff referred customers directly to the Axim group where their problems were resolved.
Today there are around 4000 members and is very active so if you're looking for a new place to get support for your Axim, or even if you're just curious, you should check us out.
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