iPhone owners can now download Palringo’s rich messaging service (RMS) application from Apple’s new App Store. Palringo enables picture messaging, text-based messaging and, soon, vocal instant messaging over the iPhone’s data connection.

Palringo integrates with several existing popular instant-messaging (IM) services: AOL’s AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber and Windows Live Messenger. People can also use Palringo to contact their friends using iChat, Apple’s IM client.

Palringo offers two …

Funambol Inc. today announced the availability of its new free Funambol plug-in for the iPhone. The Funambol plug-in enables users to easily and freely sync their address book from an older phone to an iPhone 3G over-the-air. It also enables users of the iPhone 3G (as well as original iPhones and iPod Touches that have been upgraded to 2.0) to wirelessly back up their contacts for free, and …

In anticipation of tomorrow storm, Apple launched a new version of Itunes that will sync all your media with the new iPhone 3G and at the same time the AppStore was opened with more than 500 applications ready to run.

The AppStore will represent more than the music and video download service for Apple, it will drive million of iPhone users looking for better solutions that fit their needs, it …

Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR 264 million.

Nokia has received irrevocable undertakings from Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications …

Nokia and Plazes (www.plazes.com) today announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of Plazes, a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. Plazes provides a context-aware social-activity service that people can use to plan, record, and share their social activities: why they are at a given location at a given time, whether in the past, present or future.

“This acquisition helps …

The Glide OS today Glide adds support for Gmail and integrates Glide’s advanced security and file sharing features.

“The Glide OS greatly increases the compatibility, integration and security of your favorite devices and applications,” said TransMedia Chairman and CEO, Donald Leka. “We are pleased to not only add support for Gmail but to make the Gmail experience better for consumers and businesses by incorporating Glide’s advanced security and file sharing features,” said
Mr. Leka.

Consolidate and Add Powerful Sharing and …

Motorola, Inc. today announced that its Multi-Net Mobility™ solution can now be configured and managed remotely over a wireless data network and now allows wireless devices to access a virtual private network and back-office applications from “hot spots” outside a vehicle.

Motorola Multi-Net Mobility, based on the standard Mobile IP protocol, provides end-to-end data encryption for text, image and video applications while operating across a variety of public and private networks, including Motorola’s MOTOMESH™, ASTRO® 25 Integrated Voice …

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), today announced the expansion of its flagship Qosmio brand with three unique laptops, the Qosmio G55, Qosmio X305 and Qosmio F55. These new laptops are specifically designed for users who enjoy gaming, multimedia and advanced mobility technology.

“The Qosmio has long been the standard of excellence in the multimedia laptop space, in both styling and entertainment capabilities,” said Jeff Barney, vice president and general manager, Digital Products Division, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. …

Firefox is back with a vengeance, this time the fight is for real and the promise is that this new version is 3 times faster than previous one, making it lighter and more mac friendly and at the same time giving some punches to Safari.

Mozilla cried foul when Apple pushed Safari for Windows as an iTunes Update, a strategy that put Safari in the face of thousand iTunes users that have fallen in love with the ipod, …

With a thousand eyes watching, Apple has unveiled the long-awaited second generation of its iPhone at the annual developers’ conference (WWDC2008) in San Francisco on June 9.

With support for faster 3G wireless networks, the new iPhone has attracted fervent interest from consumers, and will undoubtedly increase the Corporation’s degree of internationalization. In the past three years, Apple’s Local market has had 48% share of its whole sales, European market 22% compared.

Expanding brand and product lines as …

Now that the iPhone is turning itself in a real threat to PSP and Nintendo DS, Apple should seriously consider entering into the full time game development to provide amazing games to the new mobile gaming platform.

To become a mobile game developer Apple should consider to two different approaches:

1. Create a Mobile Gaming Division
It’s not an easy task to find good game programmers grazing on the pasture. All major game developers are hunting down every creative …

Integration, integration, integration. This year WWDC is about business and Integration and there is not doubt that the major announcement was Mobile Me (because we already knew all the evolutionary new features of the iPhone). With Mobile Me, Apple provide an universal syncronization service that will save all your information (data, video, images, documents) on the cloud and when you are ready to use download it to your iphone or mac or windows laptop, but what …

For the first time, in my life as a mac user, Apple puts its pants on and goes to hunt. Everytime a new upgrade of any Apple product, there is an automatic price reduction, but this time is totally different, Apple is on a mission, not just to sell 10 million iphones this year, but to posititon the iphone as the premier mobile platform, even if they (Apple) have to shake the devil’s hands.

The business orientation of …

At 2 days from WWDC and with fresh rumors about the new major update to Mac OS X (10.6 – Snow Leopard), here is a small list of some weird marketing ideas/events to promote Mac OS X to the masses.

The ideas/events should focus in bring a clearer idea of the advantages and capabilities of Mac OS X Leopard, here some ideas:

X Games:
Celebrated in February and March gathering worldwide attention because these games are oriented to a younger …

Icall the new Skype alternative is reporting that their flagship VOIP application is being ported to the iphone. It will let you make phone calls on the iPhone via a WiFi connection, receiving incoming phone calls via your regular cell and switching the calls to VoIP when a WiFi connection is detected, and more.

Check for iCall for the iPhone at http://www.icall.com/iphone/

iCall working on the iPhone…