09:32 AM by Zire in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Hey All,

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.
These are currently Sony CLIE NR70V, NX70V, NX73V, NX80V, NZ90, UX40,UX50, TJ27, TJ37, TH55, palmOne Zire71, Zire72 and Treo600.

Enjoy the new webcam capabilities of your Palm!

07:20 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...

05:45 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

German company dynetic solutions has developed a software technology and development platform called emoveo UAP that can be used to optimise existing contents for all mobile devices and standards.

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.

12:31 AM 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??

02:17 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!

11:49 AM by Zire in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Hey All,

For all you PPC people...

From the pdamill's site:

FLUX CHALLENGE
Alpha Demo v0.3
Flux Challenge is our upcoming 3D racing game. This unique racer revolves around a world of magnetic-levitation tunnels. While originally designed for mass transportation, it soon spawned many underground ship-racing circuits and eventually became one of the largest international championship sports. Take control of one of these magilev ships, and become the international champion!

You can download the alpha here.

11:03 AM by brahamt in Archive | Portable Audio/Video

Check out an announcement for the integration between two of my favorite products; the Apple iPod and BMW.

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.

iPod/BMW

10:19 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

At its annual "Nokia Connection" conference in Singapore, Nokia showcased a live end-to-end mobile phone (also referred to as "media device") 7700 TV broadcast over a handheld Digital Video broadcast which would be introduced at the pilot level in 2005.

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?