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VITO Tech announces VITO Ringtone Editor

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VITO Technology announces its brand-new product VITO Ringtone Editor. With VITO Ringtone Editor you can easily create your own ringtones. It supports Smartphones and Pocket PC with Windows Mobile 2003 and higher.

VITO Ringtone Editor is the quickest way to create your own ringtones. All you need to do is listen to the melody and choose the part of it you want to assign as a ringtone. User-friendly intuitive interface simplifies the process greatly. After you have started VITO Ringtone Editor, browse the folders to find the necessary music file in MP3, WAV or OGG format and start playing it.

While the melody is playing you mark the beginning and the end of a ringtone: just a matter of two presses. The ringtone is created! Now you can immediately assign it as a default ringtone or just save it. You can also replay the ringtone and if it doesn’t meet your expectations you can play the original file once again to select a different part. Create your own collection of ringtones with ease!

VITO Technology ltd. is known for its high-tech products in the field of Pocket PC and Symbian software, GPS navigation and custom projects. Introduced in the present article VITO Ringtone Editor is a useful utility for creating custom ringtones for Smartphones and PPC.

Google Earth Beta 4 Released

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Google Has released GoogleEarth Beta 4.

In this new version, according to the Google Earth 4 download page:

We've released versions of Google Earth in French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
We've made improvements to our GPS support (Google Earth Plus only)
We've improved the terrain, so peaks and valleys are more realistic

Ten Products Google Should Develop

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As we all know, Google has slowly but surely become a part of the lives of anyone who touches the internet in any way. For those of us who us the net on a daily basis for work or research, then this is even more true.

On his site, Google Watch, Mark Otuteye has a very interesting list of the next 10 products Google should (maybe will) develop.

I particularly like the Google Barcode & Google Storage.

Skype Teams Up With Dell to Make Internet Calling Even Easier

This entry was posted in the following categories: Home / Office, News

Skype and Dell have teamed up to make it easy to stay in touch. Skype has announced an agreement with Dell to ship Skype software with new Dell XPS mobile systems - the XPS M1210 and XPS M2010.

The agreement will allow Dell to provide its customers with easy access to Skype's voice and video Internet calling software. Dell will be able to pre-load Skype on the XPS 2010, a unique mobile entertainment system featuring a 20.1-inch high-definition display with integrated webcam.

The XPS 1210 can be configured with Skype as part of an optional audio-video communications package that also includes an integrated rotating webcam, noise-isolation earbuds and mobile broadband capability.

With Skype, customers can talk for as long as they like with other Skype customers across the world without worrying about the cost or the distance of the call. The Dell XPS M1210 and M2010 are available immediately worldwide.

Source: [TechZone]

Verizon Wireless to offer SMS to Landline Phones

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Verizon Wireless is among several carriers planning to launch services that let subscribers send text messages from wireless phones to landline phones
Unstrung.

"Verizon Wireless will use TeleMessage 's SMS product to convert typed text messages into audio messages that play to a recipient's landline phone. "

Verizon Wireless is planning to launch the service in mid-June, according to sources at TeleMessage."

Adobe's has a spat with Microsoft

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Microsoft Corp. said it has canceled plans to include an automatic way to save documents in the popular PDF format in the next version of its Office software, amid an ongoing dispute with Adobe Systems Inc.

Instead, users who purchase Office 2007, due out to consumers in January, will have to download separate, free software to save documents created in Office products such as Word and Excel as PDFs.

The spat with Adobe, which developed the popular PDF, or Portable Document Format, comes as Microsoft is preparing to launch its own competing format for saving documents that cannot be easily modified. Microsoft's technology is called XPS, which stands for XML Paper Specification.

Microsoft had previously said Office 2007 would be able to save PDFs. But on Friday, a Microsoft lawyer said Adobe had objected to Microsoft's plans and discussions between the two companies had broken down.

David Heiner, Microsoft's deputy general counsel, said Adobe had wanted Microsoft to charge customers for the ability to save Office documents in either the PDF format or Microsoft's new, competing XPS format.

Heiner said Microsoft would not agree to charge for the capabilities, but did decide to offer them as separate, free downloads.

He said Microsoft expects Adobe to take legal action, perhaps in the European Union.

In an e-mail to The Associated Press, Adobe spokeswoman Jodi Warner said: "As our CEO Bruce Chizen has stated numerous times in the past, Microsoft has a monopoly and we are always concerned about the possibility that they might abuse that monopoly."

Warner said Adobe has discussed those concerns with both Microsoft and regulators, but she declined to comment on the details of any discussions with the software maker.

A spokesman for European Union antitrust regulators said they are not involved in the dispute at this point.

"It is an intellectual rights issue, not a competition issue," said EU spokesman Jonathan Todd.

Adobe's PDF format is popular with government agencies and businesses in part because it allows users to share documents that can't easily be edited or changed. Also, users do not need to have a copy of Microsoft Word or another paid product to see documents, and reader software is available for a wide range of computers.

Currently, creating a PDF file from Office requires separate software, ranging from the $449 Adobe Acrobat Professional to free products like Pdf995. Other word-processing products also ship with tools for savings documents as PDFs.

In the closed-door discussions between the Microsoft and Adobe, Heiner said Adobe also raised concerns about new technology being built into the forthcoming version of Microsoft's Windows operating system that would let people save documents in Microsoft's competing XPS format.

Heiner said Microsoft agreed to let computer makers remove that functionality if they wanted to. Microsoft also offered to ship Adobe's free Acrobat Reader, which lets people view PDF documents, with the new version of Windows, called Vista. He said Adobe was considering that request. Microsoft had also offered to include a PDF creation tool.

After many delays, Vista also is scheduled to be released to consumers in January. Heiner said he thought it would be possible to include the free Adobe Reader in Vista and still make the planned January consumer launch, although he said things would have to move quickly.

"We're saying to Adobe, if you have any concerns about Microsoft shipping XPS software in Windows, we will ship anything comparable you want," Heiner said.

Source: Dallas Morning News

JetBlue to offer Wi-Fi on Flights

This entry was posted in the following categories: Mobility, News

While the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has not authorized Wi-Fi on domestic flights within the United States, they are now allowing JetBlue to have Wi-Fi on international flights, after JetBlue won an auction that licensed Wi-Fi in-flight.

For $7 million, JetBlue was given a 1-megahertz wireless license, according to the Wireless Report. JetBlue already offers live satellite television in flight, and they plan to integrate Wi-Fi into that offering.

JetBlue could become the flight-of-choice for people looking to use the Internet while on a plane.

While it may only be used while on an international flight, I'm sure that this is the first step to having Wi-Fi on every flight, regardless of the destination. JetBlue is one of the few profitable airline companies around, and they are doing a great job of making flying an even more enjoyable experience for their passengers

Souce: AMCP Tech Blog

Interoperability between Yahoo and Messenger Soon

This entry was posted in the following categories: Home / Office, News

In October 2005, Yahoo and Microsoft announced that they will soon be adding interoperability between their instant messaging offerings - Yahoo Messenger and Live Messenger.

As reported, interoperability between the two competing services would occur in Q2 (Quarter two) of 2006. Now that it is Q2 of 2006, we should be expecting these new capabilities soon, according to Leah, a MSN Product Manager.

Google spreadsheet soon

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As has been reported across the web, Google will be releasing an online spreadsheet presumably today 6/6/06.

Probably limited signup initially, but keep an eye on spreadsheet.google.com.

You can sign-up & (they’ll email you when it’s available).

A few of the features highlighted on Google's site are:

Create basic spreadsheets from scratch.
Upload your spreadsheet files.
Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze.
Choose who can access your spreadsheets.
Share documents instantly.
Edit with others in real time.
Edit from anywhere.
Never lose your work.
Easily save and export copies.

VITO Tech announces VITO Ringtone Editor

Google Earth Beta 4 Released

Ten Products Google Should Develop

Skype Teams Up With Dell to Make Internet Calling Even Easier

Verizon Wireless to offer SMS to Landline Phones

Adobe's has a spat with Microsoft

JetBlue to offer Wi-Fi on Flights

Interoperability between Yahoo and Messenger Soon

Google spreadsheet soon

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