10:25 PM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

I read in a press release today that Handango has made into the Inc. 500 list:

Today, Inc. Magazine announced that Handango was chosen as one of the 500 fastest growing privately-held companies in the United States. In its first year of eligibility, Handango ranked #273 on the list with 132.2 percent net sales growth over the past four years. Handango's revenues are derived predominantly from sales of mobile content through a network of more than 100 sales channels, including some of the largest brands in the mobile industry.

You can read the rest here.

Now this is slightly annoying to me. Remember the discussion on the ESD Monopoly? Well it appears nothing has really changed much since then. Handango makes it into some silly ranking list and can still celebrate its ESD margin of 40% or greater.

10:16 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Astraware has lined up twelve of its latest titles and put discounts of up to 50% on each of them! ... these offers only run until the end of October.

Bejeweled is still one of my favorite games out there. So if you haven't had a change to buy it yet, you can do it now!

10:08 PM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book Software | Reading and Management

Last week we mentioned an available beta of TomeRaider 3. Now you can download the final version of this often underrated e-book reader software.

I don't think much anything has changed from the last beta, so this here is new since TomeRaider 2: Categories/Filters for database queries, image support, accelerated full text searches, better and faster compression, full html support, DRM and encryption.

TomeRaider is optimized for large text files and dictionary lookups. For instance, you could convert the Wikipedia database to a highly optimized, searchable .tr3 file.

08:47 PM by Colin Dunstan in More E-Book Readers | Legacy E-Book Devices

aRMiTaG3 has a cool illustrated hands-on review of the Cybook E-Book Reader (available at Bookeen).

As sad as this sounds, but the Cybook is still not the perfect e-book reader we've been waiting for (disqualifies because of: lousy screen, outdated software, high price). And thus our search continues...

08:37 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Portable Audio/Video

What a beauty! Korean Jace offers a 20GB Portable video player, where the display can be flipped up. Besides supporting a wide range of video and audio formats (MP3, WMA, as well as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, DivX3.11, 4.xx, 5.xx,Xvid), it also has a Web Browser, WiFi 802.11b, an FM tuner, JPEG-support, Video-out, USB2.0 and a Compact Flash slot.

First found at DAPreview.com.

06:28 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

PDAReviewSpot.com is an online portal to find links to the latest PDA reviews and pricings all over the web. While its database currently features around 400 PDA reviews, with all the new PDAs popping up these days, I am sure this site will grow fast in no time.

04:12 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

One of the nicest game developers out there, PDAMill, has a nice offer we couldn't resist sharing with you:

In celebration of having Anthelion nominated as a Finalist for the Pocket PC Awards, we're giving it away for FREE! Right now, if you purchase our new 3D title, Flux Challenge, you will receive a copy of Anthelion for FREE!

All you have to do is visit PDAMill.com, put both of the titles to your shopping cart and use the promotion code 'PDAMILL3D'. Or even easier, just click on this link: http://www.handango.com/minibrand/ba...code=PDAMILL3D

03:35 PM by Zire in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

There is a new instant messenger for your handheld that supports multiple chat services and yes I'm jealous that I haven't moved to wireless yet. So enjoy everyone who is wireless.

More info can be found here.

From the site
Agile Messenger is the most feature rich and versatile Instant Messenger for mobile phones on the market today. Agile Messenger is used daily by over 400,000 users and has been perfected based on feature requests and feedback from tens of thousands of users. No other mobile Instant Messenger is as mature and reliable as Agile Messenger.

Agile Messenger is available for every networked hand held device that allows 3rd party software to be installed.

Supported platforms include:

* Symbian Series 60
* Symbian UIQ
* Microsoft Smartphone
* Microsoft Pocket PC
* Palm OS 3.5+
* J2ME
* Brew
* WAP

Agile Messenger Features:

* sending and receiving instant messages
* Push to Talk
* Unicode and BIG5 support for international characters
* split screen messaging interface
* separate tabs for each conversation
* conversation history
* smiley support
* automatic download and updating of the contact list
* contact status information and presence management
* adding, removing, renaming contacts
* data usage counter
* auto update downloader and installer
* picture messaging with camera support
* "Today" plug-in (PocketPC)

Instant Messaging services supported:

* MSN®
* AOL®
* Yahoo!®
* ICQ®
* QQ®
* Wireless Village™

Download the palm version here. Other versions can be found here.