Google Book Search opening up over 1.5 million for iPhone

Google has announced that it has extended its book search to mobile devices.

Mobile Phone Industry Is Massive

"4 billion mobile phone subscriptions on the planet, covering 60% of the population. 3.4 billion actual phones in use and connected. 3 billion unique phone owners. 3 billion active users of SMS text messaging. 1.9 billion cameraphones in use. 1.7 billion consumers of various premium data services on mobile. 1.35 billion active users of MMS 1.05 active users of browsing ("mobile internet") on the phones. The total content industry on mobile is worth 71 billion dollars. Messaging on mobile worth 130 billion. Total data on phones worth 200 billion. Total mobile services, voice and data, worth 800 billion and the total annual revenues of the mobile industry including handset and network equipment sales, worth one Trillion dollars." says Tomi Ahonen

Python Library for Japanese Mobile Devices

geomobilejp 0.1.0 is a Python library for handling GPS information of Japanese mobile devices, such as DoCoMo's iArea.

Requirements:

Perl

Treasuremytext 2.0

Treasuremytext is a free online service that allows you to forward any SMS to them for archiving. They have numbers setup in several countries for the service where you can forward your SMS. Forward any text and the message immediately shows up on their site. You can save memorable tweets, jokes and other messages you want to keep. There are no limits and Treasuremytext don't make any additional charges on the messages you send. Archived messages can be public or private. Treasuremytext also gives you your own URL and an RSS feed for your archived messages.

No need to flash your high beams - just use you Trapster

Trapster® users share the location of police speed traps just by interacting with their mobile phones. The system uses the phone's GPS capabilities and wireless location, voice transcription, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and SMS, with a central database server. It communicates in real time, using the Internet to instantly alert other users as they approach the reported trap.

The Trapster® software and service is totally free and you can signup on there website for a free account and download this great piece of software.

Free Download: tms.jad and tmu.jad

PerCushion Pillow Phone

"Just when you thought you'd seen everything in the world of mobile phones comes this, the PerCushion Pillow Phone. Basically, it's a pillow (i.e. the thing you use to sleep on) with a Bluetooth device embedded inside it that connects to your mobile phone (i.e. the thing you do not use to get a good night's sleep!).

Not only Bluetooth - the PerCushion also comes with an integratged microphone, loudspeaker, rechargeable lithium ion battery and LEDs that indicate whether the pillow's receiving a call or not (though presumably the loud ringtone screaming into your ear as you sleep might also indicate a call coming in!)"

Crazy and lazy idea.

Source MobileMentalism.com

YouTube to go Mobile

YouTube is talking about bringing their service onto the mobile market. They aren't sure on on how they'll be able to make money but are considering Google's Adwords to be used as a money making solution. Read about the beaking news here.

S60 Browser Blog

Another great blog by the S60 Blog team called S60 Browser Blog has been launched. Check it out.

Ways to Avoid Using Your Operator

On a recent post at MEX you will find ways on how to minimise and sometimes depending on your location totally avoid data charges. If you have a mobile phone that supports WiFi this is a must read for you.

Flash Lite Contest

The Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group of Boston, Australia and Brazil launched a Flash Lite Contest 2006. The deadline for submitting applications is 11 PM EST on February 28th 2007.
All submitted content will have the chance to be evaluated for distribution through the Moket Content Network.

You also get rewarded with prizes:

• Best Overall Flash Lite content: A Nokia of your choice (up to 500 US$)
• Best iRiver Flash Lite content: Adobe software of your choice (up to 2000 US$)
• Best Application: iRiver
• Best Animation: Adobe software of your choice (up to 2000 US$)
• Best Flash Lite Site: Adobe software of your choice (up to 2000 US$)

Flash Lite categories:

Mobile phones:

• Applications
• Animations: Wallpaper, Screensaver
• Flash Lite 1.1 Web Sites

iRiver:

• Flash Lite content for iRiver (games and applications)

So get cracking.

Flash Lite Application Portal

Feed Your Mobile is a new Flash Lite content delvery platform geared for Flash Lite developers to fast track the sale and of distributition of their Flash Lite content.

The benfits include:

• unlimited Upload.
• Edit your Profil.
• Free Paymentintegration.
• deliver via WAP PUSH / or Download.
  
  

How to Recover a password from a MMC card on your Mobile

1 Open any file manager softwares like Seleq, FExplorer.
DOWNLOAD SELEQ FROM THIS POST

2 (Search phone memory only)search for the file MMCSTORE in phonememory using seleq software’s inbuilt search or search manually in folders either C:/SYSTEM/DATA or C:/SYSTEM/
Search by giving the search item as mmcstore.* or mmcstore.dat (better manually locate)(Seleq represents phone memory as c drive and mmc as E drive)

3 when you find it, send it to your PC by using send option in seleq.

4 on PC, open the file with Notepad, or any word processor

5 There goes your password.Ignore spaces and any unidentificable unknown (non english) charecters.

You can only recover the password of the MMC card set on your phone. If the password for the card was set on another phone you would have to apply the above procedure on the phone which originally set the MMC password. That is to say you can't insert the MMC card into another phone and search the phonememory for the password there.

Ask.com Mobile free Service

Search engine, Ask.com, has launched a new and free mobile service that enables users to search the Web on any Web-enabled device including mobile phones, Blackberries and PDAs.
Ask Mobile Content, the new service has a special interface developed specifically to save mobile users significant keystrokes while surfing the Internet on their mobile devices.

What is a Walled Garden ?

A simple graphical explanation that goes straight to the point here.

Python for S60 1.3.11 released

New Features of Python S60 1.3.11 include

• Full source-code release and open source licensing
• Inbox module for listening to and parsing incoming SMS messages
• Expanded audio API
• Focus-event notification
• New Active Object timer service
• Support for SVG images (S60 3rd Edition only)

S60 3rd Edition FP1 - Symbian OS 9.2 SDK now Available

The N95 SDK is out get your hands on it now. The FP1 contains the S60 device emulator, API implementations, documentation, and sample applications as previous SDK's.

Ever wanted to be a Mobile Phone Tester ?

Now you can. Fork Factory is putting the word out and they are looking for people like you to test phones, services and other mobile content for telecomunication carriers. As an incentive they are also offering cool prizes like an iPod Photo, a PSP, a Motorola RAZR phone, iTunes gift certificates and free mobile subscriptions to their new Fork site.

If you don't make it as a tester the site still sound like fun read the faq for deatails.

Morphing User Interface On Mobile Phones

BenQ Siemens has come up with another touch screen phone much like the BenQ Siemens Ruby the amazing difference being its the most popular used fuctions are displayed automatically. If you want to access the other functions you simply press the touch-sensitive 'MORE' button . Basically the phones user interface morphs according to the users usage pattern.

Toxin Sniffing Mobile Phone

Gentag, a company that specializes in mobile phone sensor technology, just patented a "method and apparatus for wide-area surveillance of a terrorist or personal threat." enabling the mobile phone to sense harmful chemicals, biohazards, gases and poisonous fumes in the air.

The image here is of a UV sensing mobile phone, and Gentag is also thinking of developing a WiFi sensor for those people trying to get a free ride on your WiFi connection.

Scream when your Mobile Phone is Stolen

A new service from security experts at Remote XT delivers a high-pitch earpiercing sound to your mobile phone when it is reported stolen and a meesage on the phones screen displaying "This phone is stolen".

The phone becomes automatically disabled, with contact numbers, texts, images and emails removed, even if the SIM card is removed rendering the phone useless.

The service works on all mobile carrriers which makes it easy to deploy anywhere.