Thu June 17 2004
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08:32 AM by Zire in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
Another cool app to report. The name of the site is deceiving but the name of the app says it all! Turn your camera enabled palm into a web cam! Use your Palm as a Webcam! Find it at Clie Video's Site. From the Site Palm Webcam lets you use your camera equipped Palm OS handheld as a USB Webcam! The included Windows WDM driver allows for using a Palm handheld with a built-in digital camera as a Webcam with Windows applications that makes use of regular webcams. The Windows application Palm Webcam PC displays the video from the camera and lets you change the webcam settings. You will be able to select your Palm as the camera source in your favorite Webcam, Instant Messaging and Video Capture applications. These include widely used applications such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and Windows Movie Maker. Palm Webcam requires a PC running Windows 2000 or Windows XP. All Palm OS models with a built-in camera are supported. Enjoy the new webcam capabilities of your Palm! |
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06:20 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones InformationWeek runs an article on how El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., last week became one of the first hospitals to provide high-speed wireless access to patients and visitors at its hospital campus and two off-site dialysis centers. Access is free, but visitors will be charged $3 for 24 hours of access starting in September. Patients will likely continue getting free access. Patients or visitors need to have their own computers or PDAs. I only hope that WiFi-rays are really not bad for your health... |
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04:45 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
One interesting extension to this platform is Mobile Video Converter (MVC), which allows video-streaming via GPRS and UMTS to your mobile phone: at the touch of a button, you can watch live events from any place you want. |
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Wed June 16 2004
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11:31 PM by faie in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones I remember getting hoaxes via e-mail about mobile phone viruses a few years back. Well, here comes the real thing: According to Reuters, a group of underground virus writers has showed off what is believed to be the world's first worm, named Cabir, that can spread on advanced mobile phones. However, security software companies say the virus had no malicious code attached. This is the first version of a network worm which propagates via mobile phones. The worm is designed to work in smartphones running on Symbian and Series 60 software, Symantec said on its Web site. Nokia, however, was not immediately available to comment. The worm is not regarded as dangerous because even if it spreads it carries no code that destroys files or executes other damaging operations, the security software firms said. The virus attempts to jump from phone to phone by using the handset's wireless short-range Bluetooth connection. It scans the environment for other Bluetooth-enabled devices. Once it has found one, it sends itself disguised as a security file. The file must be accepted by the mobile phone owner and then installed before it can propagate. A spokesman at London-based technology firm Symbian said that, unlike personal computers, it was not possible to penetrate the software of its smartphones without approval. "But we can never say it's not going to be possible. Smartphones have been designed... as open, programmable networked devices," he said, adding that users should be careful before accepting to install new software. In view of this development, could the existence of a malicious, handphone crippling worm be too far behind?? |
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01:17 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements It is with great delight that I announce our three new editors who, I am absolutely positive, will help us to shape the future of our growing community! faie from Malaysia, zire71man from Astoria, US, and BobR. Please give those three a heartly welcome! |
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10:49 AM by Zire in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
For all you PPC people... From the pdamill's site: FLUX CHALLENGE You can download the alpha here. |
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10:03 AM by brahamt in Archive | Portable Audio/Video
Unfortunately, the article does not specifically state my Beemer (a 5 series), but something interesting nonetheless. With Alpine announcing an iPod adapter, you might start to see the iPod replace CD changers and those custom MP3 player solutions. |
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09:19 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
The Nokia 7700 media device enables users to view web pages with a full Internet browser over high-speed mobile networks on a 65,000 color touch screen optimized for viewing Internet content. Additional features include music and video playback and streaming, an integrated VGA camera, FM radio, multimedia messaging support, as well as a full complement of personal information management features. One step further away from the PDA? |
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