The coolest gadgets to be launched in this decade has to be the iPhone and the iPod which have taken cellphone usage and music listening to places that we could not have imagined earlier. Science and technology would surely take us to different places and over time we will get to use better products than what we are using today. However, the iPhone and iPod will surely remain popular for a long time.

The Combo Charger is a cool new charger that can be used to charge not just the iPhone and iPod when at home, but you can use it even when you are travelling or when you are outside. It comes with both AC and Dc compatible 12V power supplies. It comes with really fast high-speed USB ports and it can be used in the fastest possible way.

The Combo Charger is compact and lightweight and costs just $39.95 which makes it an ideal gadget to be bought this Christmas if you are penny broke. It looks good, works great and functions well and hence there is no reason why you should not buy it. I would say, go and grab it right away without any delay. You can rest assured that your iPod and your iPhone are charged always.

Via: go in case

Two months ago, Google CEO, Eric Shmidt said in an interview that the worst of the recession was over and that Google would come back to buy companies as before. Yesterday this statement was confirmed.

The Mountain View giant announced it will buy AdMob, a company specializing in the sale of ads on mobile platforms, including iPhone and Android.

Omar Hamoui, CEO and founder of AdMob, said that so far the area of mobile advertising was treated as secondary in relation to others and that the company’s purchase by Google changes the landscape. Hamoui also states that the business has a debt of gratitude to Apple for it to have created the iPhone, and through it, solving several problems in the area.

Since Susan Wojcicki and Vic Gundotra, authors of the post announcing the purchase on the official Google blog, they state that everyone has to gain from the agreement. For website owners, it means better products and more effective tools for monetizing content. For advertisers, ads more relevant and more comprehensive, and the possibility of more interesting formats. And for users, ads that will show more useful information.

Shareholders of both companies approved the transaction whose value is U.S. $ 750 million.

Via: AdMob.

Parenting a stressful thing and figuring out why your baby is crying can be a bit of a challenge for most parents across the planet, especially for those dealing with their very first newborn. While one might say that decoding baby talk and their behavior needs experience, Cry Translator creators Pedro Barrera and Luis Meca would say that all it now needs is an iPhone and the new app they devised specifically for the task. It is very easy to be skeptical about software such as this, all the more so because it concerns little kids about whom we are ultra-protective and it involves a mobile phone that is supposed to be more about bling than parenting.

But all such doubts will be put to rest when you consider that six years of extensive research has been put into the project and the development of the app. Those behind the latest technology claim that 90% of the bay cries across the planet are all the same despite the social and cultural differences. For example, a stressed cry has a strong, short sound, falls slowly and then rises again, whereas a hungry cry is high-pitched and energetic. Such data coupled with the right technology means the Cry Translator could be a great aid to those who are concerned about parenting skills!

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The NBA, professional basketball league in the United States will transmit full games live on mobile phones including the iPhone, for U.S. $ 40 per year.

Until now, the NBA offered only highlights of the Games on mobile phones. The association already offers subscription packages to watch the games live on computers, as well as plans for cable TV and satellite. Research firm IDC estimates that there are potentially 59 million phones in the U.S. who can adopt the new package.

The NBA package allows fans to watch more than 40 live games each week. The package also offers technology for digital video recording to pause and rewind 30 seconds of images, as well as access to games played until two days before. Users can also check statistics while watching a match.

Among the telephone companies involved are AT & T, exclusive carrier of the iPhone, and T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom which sells devices that use the Android software from Google.
Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile operator, will begin offering its first phone with Android software in November. By the end of the year, the product of the NBA will also be available to users of RIM’s BlackBerry.

Via: Folha.

Google announced its new product Google Maps Navigation will provide navigation instructions in real time directly to phones that operate with the new version of its Android software.

The navigation product, which offers voice recognition and screen guidance that incorporates the online archive of photographs of street Google represents a further step to “fight” iPhone, Apple, and Windows Mobile software from Microsoft, with its Android operating system for smartphones.

Google executives told reporters that the company decided to offer a navigation information for drivers, as part of its mapping service launched four years ago because that was the most requested feature by users. However, the chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, said the expansion into a new market with new competitors, was not among the reasons for the company.

The decision represents direct competitive threat to companies like Garmin and TomTom, which sell navigation devices with specialized software. TomTom also produces a navigation application for the iPhone, which is sold by for $ 99.99 in the United States. “This is a tactical problem that occurs after the definition of a strategic objective, namely to offer something that works with some magic in portable devices…,” Schmidt said.

The new navigation service will work with the new 2.0 operating system Android.

Via: Folha.

After leaking the pictures of the new version of the operating system for mobile devices from Google, now it was time for official “leaking” information.

Google announced the SDK Kit (Software Development) for the Android version 2.0, codenamed Eclair, and along with it some new features were discovered. Not only that, apparently on November 6 will be released Droid and Droid Eris by Verizon Wireless.

Here are the main highlights of the Android 2.0:

• Multi-touch Interface!
• Sync to multiple email accounts, including Exchange and contacts. But there in the fine print: “The device manufacturers can choose whether or not include support for Exchange on their devices” …
• A mailbox e-mails combining all accounts.
• Developers can create synchronization adapters for additional sources of data.
• Ability to send email, SMS or make a call to a contact by tapping his photo. Called Quick Contact, this widget can reside in multiple applications such as email, messaging and calendar.
• Improved camera controls, with digital zoom, scene mode, control of white balance, color effects, and macro.
• A redesigned layout of the virtual keyboard, providing faster and more accurate typing. In the words of Google, “the multi-touch support ensures that keystrokes are not lost when typing fast with two fingers.”
• A smarter dictionary, learning as the device is used and automatically suggests contact names.
• Bluetooh 2.1 with OPP (Object Push Profile) and PBAP (Phone Book Access Profile).
• Search for all SMS and MMS, as well as auto-deletion of older messages in a conversation when a pre-set limit is reached.
• redesigned interface with improved search and navigation, and bookmarks with thumbnails, support HTML5 and zoom with dual-touch (like iPhone).

Via: I4U, Mobile Crunch and Appscout.

You need to hang ReNu panels in sunlight and then drop into a variety of different portals to charge rechargeable batteries, which then charge your gadgets. The device ReNu can also be used to charge phones and task lighting. The battery can charge an iPhone twice over, which means you get double its original benefit. It will be out in the market early 2010. It may cost $ 199 USD.

Regen Inc plans to merge more sleek designs with solar technology for cutting-edge gadgets.
Via: Treehugger, Regen

Apple faces the prospect of having to pay up to $ 1 billion to Nokia, the biggest cellphone manufacturer  in the world, for the use of the technology of the Finland’s company in all iPhones sold so far, if Apple lose a lawsuit filed by Nokia, analysts say .

Nokia filed the lawsuit in the United States on Thursday, claiming that Apple had infringed 10 patents and accusing its manufacturer’s iPhone trying to take advantage of investment in technology, Nokia.
Apple, which came late to the mobile phone market, gobbled up a considerable market share of high standard, but has little intellectual property compared to its competitors in the industry, working under agreements to share licenses.

Analyst Niel Mawston from Strategy Analytics, said that Apple could end up paying for Nokia any value between 200 million and 1 billion dollars for patents used in 34 million iPhone sold so far. Analysts say that Nokia has good arguments to prove their right to compensation, since it is one of the main holders of patents on mobile technologies, along with Qualcomm and Ericsson.

Nokia said in its application that offered several different prices to Apple, both for each individual patent as a package, but the U.S. firm rejected the offer.

That’s a big dog fight!

Via: Folha.

Deciphering the plays of William Shakespeare in a school essay was apparently not enough for two students, who wrote a book with phrases that sum up Twitter and satirical works of literature.
The “Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter”, which will be released by Penguin in November in the United Kingdom is a collection of 20 irreverent comments, profane and sometimes on bright ideas and themes for each of 60 selected classics of literature.

“It’s funny if you have read the books,” said Rensin, who read all the novels described until the age of 19. Rensin is studying English and Philosophy at the University of Chicago, and another author of the book, Aciman, has a degree in Literature.

American students had announced the launch of the book as early as June. The “tweets” from Emmett Rensin and Alexander Aciman combine English language with the abbreviations of text messaging by adolescents.

The authors make it clear that the book is not intended to help students understand the “Paradise Lost” of Milton, or “The Metamorphosis” by Kafka, but to provoke laughter. Take for example the “Inferno” of Dante, – which the authors summarized in entries on Twitter up to 140 characters: “I’m having a crisis of middle age. Lost in the woods. I should have brought my iPhone.”
The goal was to make people laugh, not offend the defenders of great literature, the authors say.

Via: Folha.

In an effort to make its blogs more visually pleasing on mobile platforms, Wordpress released on Tuesday two themes that will be displayed automatically when a blog hosted on Wordpress.com is accessible from smartphones and other mobile devices.

According to the company, two types of mobile themes are available, and the type of browser used will determine which theme will be shown.

According to the site CNET News, those who access blogs from iPhone or Android devices to see the site in the subject and can access WPtouch posts, pages and files, and get support for comments and posts based on AJAX. If there is image header, this will be scaled proportionally to the size of the screens. Users of other devices will not have many visual benefits, because the focus will load the content as quickly as possible.

The decision to display automatically adapted subjects was taken from the success of mobile devices, which are now responsible for about 60 million hits per month. Previously, the content was loaded slowly, and sometimes was not displayed completely. With the new measures from Wordpress, these problems should be minimized.

To view the themes for mobile devices is standard, and can be disabled by users who do not want to see them. According to the site Mashable, this is a very interesting feature, and it’s unfortunate to be available only for blogs hosted on Wordpress.com, as it would be something very useful to those who use the Wordpress.org platform in their own accommodation.

Via: CNET.