Opera Software today announced that Opera Mini is going to Africa. Opera Software has partnered with MTN, the leading telecommunications company in Uganda, to bring the mobile Web to the company's nearly three million subscribers. By expanding into Africa, Opera is strengthening its strategy to make the Web available to more people, on any device, from anywhere in the world.
"Africa has tremendous growth potential in Web browsing and MTN is a major communications company focused on the African continent," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. "We believe that everyone should have access to the full Web no matter the location or the device. MTN and Opera Software share the vision of ushering in a new era in connectivity across the African continent."
Opera Mini is built on Opera’s industry leading browser technology and is the world’s most popular mobile Web browser. According to Opera’s latest "State of the Mobile Web" report, 15.8 million people actively used Opera Mini in July 2008, with 233 pages browsed on average.
People in Uganda have already discovered the power of Opera Mini to view the full Web on their mobile phones. Consumers desire a rich Web experience regardless of the device they use. With all of the top ten sites being non-WAP oriented, it is clear that WAP will continue to diminish as more capable Web browsers are able to display full Web content on mobile phones.
Top ten sites on the mobile Web in Uganda based on unique users, July 2008:
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
www.facebook.com
en.wikipedia.org
news.bbc.co.uk
mail.google.com
www.newvision.co.ug
www.bbc.co.uk
www.cnn.com
www.monitor.co.ug
"MTN has been at the forefront of bringing our customers the most innovative and efficient ways of having the world at their fingertips. With this latest addition to MTN’s solutions portfolio, we are confident that customers will find web browsing a much easier and more pleasurable experience." said Noel Meier, MTN’s CEO. He added, "Partnering with Opera Software will enable MTN to provide this experience to our customers therefore re-affirming our commitment to being a total telecommunications solutions provider in Uganda."
About the MTN Group
Launched in 1994, the MTN Group is a multinational telecommunications group, operating in 21 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The MTN Group is listed on the JSE Securities Exchange in South Africa under the share code: "MTN". As at 31 March 2008, MTN recorded 68,2 million subscribers across its operations in Afghanistan, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Republic, Iran, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville), Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia. The MTN Group is a global sponsor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ and has exclusive mobile content rights for Africa and the Middle East. Visit us at www.mtn.com and www.mtnfootball.com.
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Smcity 3000 was my favorite game after Command and Conquer Generals that is, bringing back nostalgia is Korea based Citus with Rusen a 3D navigation software. As seen in the screenshot the driver’s position is shown in real time along with the surrounding buildings. Using the onboard controls the view can be rotated from top to bottom or left and right just as in any 3D game. Companies are working to add traffic data based on traffic statistics collected over the time, however it is still under development and a long time away from turning into reality.
From newlaunches
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AMD has announced support for three new games. The graphics cards will be used in EA Phenomic Studio’s game Battleforge, Sega’s Stormrise, and NHN Games’ Cloud 9. All three of the games will be using DirectX 10.1. The games that are expected to use the cards and Direct 10.1 together range from strategy games, to a sci-fi title.
Computers need to be using Windows Vista in order to take full advantage of DirectX 10.1, but DirectX is compliant with AMD’s 3000 and 4800 series cards. According to the companies public statement “Only AMD graphics offer top-to-bottom DirectX 10.1 support”.
This Ping Pong Demonstration can give you a good look at what sorts of new features you can expect from the new games. The demo “shows off a new lighting technique known as real-time global illumination, together with a scalable physics simulation optimized for multi-core systems.” Check it out here.
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Deal with MyNet opens GyPSii up to 480 million+ China Mobile subscribers
26th August, 2008, Salo, Finland and Amsterdam, The Netherlands: GeoSentric Oyj’s
(NASDAQ OMX: GEO1V), GeoSolutions BV Business Unit (GyPSii), the market-leading
mobile digital lifestyle application and geo-mobility social networking platform, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Nanjing MyNet Ltd to make the GyPSii mobile social networking platform available to customers of China Mobile, the world’s biggest mobile phone operator by subscriber numbers.
MyNet provides mobile services and applications to China Mobile’s 480 million+ subscribers. The agreement with GyPSii means that MyNet will offer the full suite of GyPSii location and mobile social networking features and services to China Mobile customers.
The agreement has provisions for GyPSii to share revenues based on current businessmodels for mobile social networking that provide a highly flexible and wide range of revenue streams, including both subscriptions and advertising revenues as the market evolves and matures."
“We’re very pleased to offer the GyPSii set of applications for mobile users in China to access and use via China Mobile WAP distribution channels,” said Yang Guang General Manager of Nanjing MyNet Ltd. “We’re confident that GyPSii will be very popular with our customers, enabling them to communicate with others, capture, record and share moments as they happen, and connect with their surroundings wherever they are, in new and fun ways.”
GyPSii is the only mobile centric application on the Chinese market to uniquely incorporate a broad range of location-specific functions and mobile lifestyle services - including user generated content, content-sharing, mobile content search and social networking, as well the ability to view it all on a map - in a single platform. Using GyPSii, users can access and enjoy “real-time” mobile features on their device, such as “Locating Friends” and sharing information on nearby point of interests, including places – restaurants, bars and clubs – contributed by friends and fellow GyPSii users.
GyPSii’s PlaceRank™ technology will be utilized to deliver highly contextual and personally relevant user generated content, regional POI (points of interest) and location-targeted advertising to users.
“We’re delighted to add MyNet and China Mobile as a partner in China,” said GyPSii CEO Dan Harple. “This new relationship expands GyPSii’s reach deep into the Chinese mass market accessing the largest global subscriber base, and represents yet another material deal for GyPSii. With our growing global footprint, our extensive language support, and our unmatched infrastructure and resources worldwide, GyPSii is blazing a trail in the fastgrowing market at the intersection of geo-location and mobile social networking.”
About GeoSentric Oyj (GyPSii)
GeoSentric’s GyPSii is the market-leading mobile digital lifestyle application and geo-mobility social networking platform: connecting people, places and communities across networks and devices. GyPSii provides a geo-location social networking platform and services for mobile and web Internet-connected devices. Based in Salo, Finland and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, GeoSentric operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. GeoSentric is listed on the Nordic Exchange (NASDAQ OMX: GEO1V)). For more information, visit www.gypsii.com or www.gypsii.com.cn
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Paragon has updated its drive and system backup tool - and the new version is now available to download for free.
Drive Backup 9.0 Express offers basic backup and recovery tools as well as the ability to create a bootable flash drive, which means that PC users can recover all of their data if their machine goes down.
The software basically allows you to create an exact “image” of your PC - such as the operating system, applications, user settings and all data files.
If your machine is attacked by a virus or the drive fails, you can then restore it from this “image”, which can be saved to a USB flash drive or CD/DVD.
The software also includes a live backup tool, which creates backup images without restarting Windows as well as allowing you to keep your computer and back-up files in sync.
From pocket-lint
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The Missing Sync for Symbian syncs your Nokia,
Sony Ericsson and
Motorola Symbian OS mobile phones with your Mac. Automatically synchronize personal contacts, calendars and tasks, plus your favorite music, photos, videos and files.
Wirelessly synchronize contacts, calendars and tasks
Connect your phone with Mac OS X and synchronize contacts, calendars and tasks with iCal, Address Book and other applications such as Microsoft Entourage and Market Circle Daylite that support Apple Sync Services technology. Don't worry about missing a meeting or forgetting an important task. The Missing Sync manages all your information — almost like magic.
Automatically synchronize your phone with your Mac
The Missing Sync for Symbian is the first Mark/Space product to feature Proximity Sync™ technology. This new approach to synchronization uses Bluetooth to sync data automatically when your Mac and phone are close to each other. The Missing Sync keeps your vital information the same on your phone and your Mac — always.
Synchronize your favorite music, videos, photos and files
The Missing Sync works with applications on your Mac so you can take music, photos and more with you wherever you go. For example, the Missing Sync downloads iPhoto albums to your phone and resizes each image to fit the screen. Import video and pictures you take with your mobile phone's camera into iPhoto, easily. And, synchronize documents so they can be viewed and edited with handheld applications such as Quickoffice or Adobe Reader LE.
Archive your phone's text messages and call history
With the Missing Sync for Symbian, you can archive text messages and call logs to your Mac.* Search, sort and view your call history for billing purposes or to see who you called last. Plus, when you need to find information in a thread of text messages, the Missing Sync makes it easy for you to search and browse your SMS archive and find what you're looking for, fast.
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If you want to keep a traditional journal–you know, not a blog?–but have apprehensions about keeping your personal thoughts in an insecure book, Secret Diary might be the right software choice for you. With an all digital diary, your secrets are safe yet easily accessible to you for the future.
The Secret Diary looks like a particularly girly USB flash drive, but it’s really your journal. In order to view its contents, you have to type in a 4 digit PIN number on the numeric keypad. This data is encrypted and store on a 256-bit AES crypto.
Interestingly enough, if anyone ever attempts to hack into your journal, the contents will self-destruct. But in everyday normal use, the software provides plenty of features to keep your thoughts organized and personalized.
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Send in updating the popular mobile messenger QIP PDA for PDA and smartphones based on operating system Windows Mobile 5 and 6. QIP PDA Build 2040 includes a number of additions and changes. Download new versions here.
Changes in QIP PDA Build 2040:
Added support for smartphones with Windows Mobile 5.0 (Build in 2040 Smartphone edition)
Added Antiphishing bot
Added going servers in ICQ
Added download / preservation of color set to file
Modified network module (support toonel.net, support system proxy settings, more detailed bug reports)
Optimized rendering stories of communications
Improved rendering smilies into pop-up messages
Corrected confirmation of the delivery of messages in ICQ
Written by Maximus on August 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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