AT&T Voice Activated GPS App for iPhone: $10 per Month

A new application from AT&T brings voice activated, turn-by-turn navigation to the iPhone. That’s right, AT&T. Now you know that, take a guess as to how you might be paying for this application. A free “thank you” download to iPhone owners? No. An expensive but one-time payment of around $50? Nope.

AT&T, greedy-guts that it is, will charge you $10 per month for a rather pedestrian (ahem) GPS application, which makes it, along with Sirius Radio, one of the first apps to make use of the new in-application payments allowed in iPhone OS 3.

So what, exactly, do you get if you pay AT&T yet another $10 a month for your iPhone? First, the app is kind of voice activated: You can set a destination by talking to the unit, which is arguably the time you need voice control the least — at the beginning of a journey. The maps scroll by in 3D, as you’d expect, and there are voice instructions which issue from the iPhone. You also get routing around traffic problems and can search for nearby ATMs and the like.

Is it worth it? Well, you can buy a $40 (2 x $20) pair of apps that cover the whole of North America and do essentially the same thing without the monthly fee. But the up-to date maps and info it might make it worth $10 per month for many people.

Innov8 i8510 8MP Camera Phone from SAMSUNG

Samsung finally launches its 8 MP mobile phone called innov8 or i8510 which will be globe-trekking from August. Taking mobile handset photography and multimedia experience to greater heights, the innov8 offers surround-sound cinematic video, amazing mobile Internet browsing as well as mobile gaming capabilities. Sporting Samsung’s first ever 8-megapixel camera with blink shot, smile shot and face recognition, the innov8 lets you capture and store all your precious memories in style. This quad-band GSM handset called the i8510 INNOV8, as in ‘Innovate’, runs on a Symbian S60 smartphone OS (3rd edition Feature Pack 2).

The i8510 is equipped with a 2.8-inch QVGA display that supports 16 million colors and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and an accelerometer for automatically adjusting the screen orientation. It comes with a whopping 16 GB and 8 GB of onboard memory so space is not going to be an issue. It will also support external memory via microSD. Other features also include TV out, DivX playback, FM radio with RDS and it’s also DLNA compatible. The handset will also be equipped with 128MB of RAM and a 3D graphics accelerator so gaming should be a real ‘blast’.
Samsung allows you to use the innov8 phone as a digital photo frame. You can personalize or edit your photos, videos and music with applications such as Movie Maker and Story Board. It packs in most famous games like Asphalt and FIFA 08. It has been chosen as the official phone for the World Cyber Games 2008. Samsung innov8 phone will hit the European markets in August while it will make its way to other markets during September. The handset will hit Europe first and should be priced at approximately Rs. 51,000 (780 Euro).

Free Online Mobile Backup Tool

Are you worried, when your mobile is loss??? But now ZYB is a free solution for your mobile backup. ZYB is a free online management tool for mobile phones where users backup the mobile and share their mobile’s data online. Founded in August 2005, ZYB uses the SyncML synchronization standard to transfer contact and calendar information between users’ mobile handsets and its servers. Since the first full beta launch of ZYB in June 2006 users have backed up more than five million contacts through the service.

Features

• Backup of contacts, calendar and messages (SMS) from the mobile
• Restoring data from ZYB to any supported mobile phone
• Keeping two or more phones up-to-date with the same data
• Sharing the phone’s data with other ZYB users
• Exporting the phone’s contacts and calendars to other devices and applications

Requirements

In order to synchronize their phone with ZYB, users need:

• A SyncML enabled phone
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ASUS introduced “ARES CG6155″ gaming desktop

Asus has introduced new gaming desktop, named ARES CG6155. Its unique exterior design is inspired by ancient and modern armor with both Eastern and Western influences, and presents an aesthetic appeal that exudes pure power!.
With stylish look, the ARES CG6155 desktop comes packed with two Gigabit Ethernet ports, an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor, NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra and a 3-way SLI with GeForce GTX280s.
The Asus’ new gaming desktop runs on Microsoft Vista Ultimate Operating System (OS), and includes a Blu-ray optical disc drive and a high definition audio to boost the gaming experience. It features 8GB RAM and a fantastic hard disk drive of up to 4TB. The system also carries a Blu-ray optical disc drive, high-definition audio and Dual Channel DDR3 1333MHz up to 8GB memory.

Dish TV in talks with Indian Railways for DTH services

Essel Group promoted Dish TV on Wednesday said it is looking for a tie up with the Indian Railways to implement DTH services in trains, which will enable travelers to watch Live TV while on the move.
The company is also in the final stages of installation of its DTH services in cars and high-capacity buses and is holding discussions with General Motors, Ford and Ashok Leyland for the same. The new product is meant only for niche segment. We expect to sell 10,000 units in the first year of launch.
The DTH antenna — Speed Ray, which would work all across the country, would cost Rs 1.5 lakh, while the other one — T5, which would work only in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra, has been priced at Rs 70,000.
However, the users in the cars would be charged same as that of a subscription at home in the range of Rs 160-300, depending upon the offer.
The customers would be able to watch 100 channels in the Speed Ray and 75 channels in T5.

A camera that can tell how much blood is present in the car!!

British officials are installing a series of cameras designed to enforce the proper use of high-occupancy lanes by punishing solo drivers. How will they detect these scofflaws? By scanning each car that passes by with a camera that can tell how much blood is present in the car.
The system is a response to people who are using mannequins in passenger seats or—and even I have trouble believing people would actually do this—taping oversized pictures of people to the windshield, all as part of an effort to trick regular enforcement cameras into seeing a second person riding in the car. By scanning for blood (and other bodily fluids) using a special infrared camera system, such tricks won’t work, at least until blood-filled mannequins hit the market.
Naturally, the government is defending the cameras as a necessary means to enforce the law and punish drivers for rampant abuse of the car-sharing lanes. Meanwhile, drivers are peeved over the privacy invasion implications of such a system.