How many times have you called someone from your mobile phone instead of sending an email because you didn’t want a “paper trail?”  Maybe because you didn’t want an email to be forwarded on because the information was confidential.  Perhaps the message you chose to conduct over a direct phone call from your mobile contained key product or shipping dates.  Perhaps the information was a bit more sensitive. We’ve all likely done it at one point or another — picked up the phone instead of pressing “send” on an email because we believe it’s more direct; and, frankly, we often believe it is more secure.

Last week I posted an update on Cellcrypt, a company who specializes in securing voice traffic on mobile phones through their unique peer-to-peer device application.  Cellcrypt had just released it’s application for the latest Bold 9700, Curve 8900, and BlackBerry Pearl devices.  My original take was, just a bit, tongue-in-cheek.  It seemed a bit of a niche product, securing mobile to mobile voice calls.  Well, last week I got the chance to sit down with Kathleen Peters, Cellcrypt’s General Manager for North & South America, and got an eye-opening view of the Cellcrypt solution.

… [visit site to read more]

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According to Proporta it’s a fact that your mobile phone has about 25,000 germs on its surface at any given time where as your toilet has only 47.

To help protect yourself against those nasty germs Proporta has developed a new iPhone case made from anti-microbial materials.  The silicone case, which is made from Steri-Touch material, comes in black with a gray interior.

The case … [visit site to read more]

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Watched the Google announcement yesterday?  Intrigued?  Well thanks to gdgt you can now download a VMware or VirtualBox Image of the Developer Preview of Chrome OS.  You must have an account on gdgt to get it, but once you sign on it’s a 331 MB download … [visit site to read more]

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Why wait for Black Friday to pick up that HDTV you want? Gearsponsor LogicBUY has found this deal on the Panasonic VIERA TC-L32X1 32-inch LCD HDTV w/ iPod Dock.

The 32″ flat panel HDTV with integrated iPod dock can be yours for $359.99 after $230 of instant savings and by using a $10 Coupon Code (EMCMMMX22). You’ll even get free shipping.

GearDeal- visit site to read more]

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Office Mobile 2010 Beta has appeared in the Microsoft Marketplace. However, it will expire on April 5, 2010. It will uninstall any previous versions of Office Mobile as well, but if your device came pre-installed with Office Mobile, it will not be affected.

It seems that there are a couple of new features, particularly with Outlook. You will now be able to group messages to a contact, which will make your Inbox tidier.

Features:-

• View and edit your Microsoft® … [visit site to read more]
  

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With Project Dark now shown the light, we thought T-Mobile would be keeping things on the down-low for a bit until the new line of Christmas phones would be coming out.  Not so.

T-Mobile has launched a new program called T-Mobile Complete.  With T-Mobile Complete, interested folks can pick from four cell phones, including a Blackberry CUrve 8520, pick their plan, and away they go.  This is the first time we have seen a prepaid Balckberry from these guys.  Phones will start from $60 with plans starting from $50/month.

No information is up yet on T-Mobile’s web site, but it won’t take long for them to remedy that.

It will be interesting to see if buyers will take the gamble on T-Mobile, especially with all the buzz surrounding Verizon and the Droid.  T-Mobile definitely has an advantage with the best customer service rating of all the carriers, but will that give enough people cause to give them a try.

… [visit site to read more]

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This has been a while in coming … since the launch of the PSP Go I have been annoyed that many games are coming out on UMD but not on the PSN Store, and many that DO come out are a few days or even a couple of weeks later. Certainly none of them are on sale, whereas Amazon had the wonderful new Half Minute Hero for 1/3 off the other day! Of course, that game also took 2 weeks to transition from UMD to PSN after release. OK … but those are all third party games and Sony has to negotiate with publishers to get them to release digital copies.

… [visit site to read more]

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From their web site: The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 650-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.

This year, the Webbys’  have honored the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.  With so much to choose from, its amazing it was narrowed down to ten.

… [visit site to read more]

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Developer taptaptap has released their new iPhone app Voices at an introductory price of just $.99. Voices transforms your voice on the fly so that one minute you sound like a chipmonk and the next a robot. It is a fun little app and is available HERE.

To celebrate taptaptap has paired up with MacHeist to make copies of their Voice application for Mac free. You need to Tweet about it … [visit site to read more]

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Sunstorm Interactive is at it again with a new game for the iPhone OS.  The company is quickly becoming one of my favorite game developers for the iPhone OS.  With titles at only 99 cents a piece many of them are finding a permanent place on my phone.

Rescue Razzle is a brainteasing, puzzle game where you are charged with rescuing a helpless rat named Razzle.

Razzle is stuck inside a cage at the top of pyramid of wooden crates and other cages.  The goal is to remove all the surrounding items allowing Razzle to safely to the ground.

It’s simple concept but one that gets progressively more challenging as you move up through the game’s levels.  Sunstorm was kind enough to give me a copy of Rescue Razzle to review.

… [visit site to read more]

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As was mentioned here yesterday, today was the  big developer and press Google Chrome OS event.  Today was the day Google pulled back the curtain and let the blogsphere know about the mystery that is the new Chrome OS platform.

Early adopters and developers alike can grab a copy of the  source code today to play with.  It has been released as open source.  So, if you really really wanted,  you could build your own Chrome OS.  Those of us who don’t have those mad skillz we will have to wait until late 2010.  I am sensing it will be a Google Chrome OS Christmas next year.

So what is Chrome OS really?  Well, from what was said and shown at the event, this isnt your mother’s operating system. … [visit site to read more]

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I was at Best Buy looking for a laptop for one of my colleagues. She needs something powerful enough to create flyers, documents etc but also light enough to carry with ease. Good battery life was a must. An optical drive was not. The other requirement? It had to be inexpensive. In the end I picked up a Toshiba Satellite T135 for her. It weights under 4 pounds, is powerful enough to do everything she needs and was under $550.

Here’s a look…

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