Week of January 21, 2007

VITO Remote for Smartphone – First Universal Remote Control for Smartphones

VITO Technology releases VITO Remote for Smartphone – the first universal remote control for Windows Mobile Smartphones. You can finally replace all your TV, Video, Home Theater and other remote controls with your stylish and compact Smartphone!

VITO Remote for Smartphone allows you to teach you Smartphone all the commands from the original remote controls for your home and office electronics. Simply place Smartphone and an original remote control with their infrared ports facing each other, press a button on Smartphone and then on an original remote control: your Smartphone has learned it! This way you can easily stow all the necessary commands to your Smartphone and control any of your home and office equipment.

With user friendly and straightforward interface you can easily create as many profiles as you wish for all your devices that can be controlled remotely. Every button can have a separate icon or a custom name. With multiple screen layers you can assign as many commands as there are buttons on the original remote control for one and the same device.

VITO Remote for Smartphones is available for $15.95 at vitotechnology.com. The system requirements are Windows Mobile Smartphone with Intel XScale or Samsung processor. (Source: Press Release)

Posted Thursday, January 25 2007 by ChrisD
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News From Lotusphere 2007: - CommonTime revealed exciting developments within the mSuite portfolio

Lotusphere: In Florida this week CommonTime revealed exciting developments within the mSuite portfolio that gives IBM Lotus® Notes® and Domino® enterprises the ability to mobilize messaging and applications any way they want; desktop-sync, behind-the-firewall or with a NOC. mSuite is the only integrated wireless messaging solution focused solely on Lotus Notes and Domino:- Wireless push email, mobile Sametime, mobile applications, device management, wireless security for PDAs and Smartphones. mNotes 5 mobilizies Lotus Notes for end users requiring wireless functionality without having to install servers, creating a hosted environment for mNotes mobile email.

mNotes 5, exclusively for Lotus Notes
CommonTime unveiled mNotes 5, the latest portfolio addition, is the best-of-breed wireless push hosted Lotus Notes messaging solution. mNotes 5 enables use of Lotus Notes data with Smartphones and PDA with an outstanding array of connectivity options. With mNotes 5 end uders can ‘have it their way’; all the Lotus Notes functionality end-users have grown to love, but now with added connectivity options: through cradle, behind the fire wall or via a network operations centre (NOC). The hosted option means that end users can access email wirelessly on Smartphones or PDAs without going through enterprise server infrastructure

Mobile Applications for Vertical Industry Sectors–Boosting Wireless ROI
Dramatically improving data capture response speeds, survey times and driving competitive advantage for retail and data driven enterprises. Fully functional graphical Windows Mobile applications have been rapidly developed for customers including Redbull, Ontrac, BAA, Ryder and Manchester Airport Group.

Future proof wireless mobility
Scalability is paramount: enterprises essentially require a future-proof solution that often starts with mobile email. As an enterprise mobility strategy evolves and line of business applications are mobilized, CommonTime’s mSuite solutions provide the ideal platform for growth. Driven by a common infrastructure, the CommonTime Mobility Framework, mSuite is scalable from 2 to 200,000 users and more. It’s secure, manageable and robust. The latest version of mSuite can provide mobile Lotus Notes messaging for Windows Mobile, Palm OS and Symbian devices through cradle, WiFi or wireless

mSuite, an evolution from CommonTime’s mNotes, provides more than just wireless mail including:-

over-the-air, end-to-end AES encryption

centralized wireless device management including remote kill

on-device security for handhelds

mobilization of business applications using Lotus Domino skills

data compression, load balancing and failover

mSuite Instant Messaging for Sametime

CommonTime also demonstrated mSuite Instant Messaging for Sametime that offers mobile device support for IBM Lotus Sametime. mSuite, the best-of-breed trusted wireless push Lotus Notes messaging solution is a convergence of voice and data functionality that provides:-

PRESENCE: indicates whether users are office- based or mobile, minimizing unnecessary calls
CHAT: mobile is not always outside the office. Chat over wireless LAN eliminates inter-office mobile phone calls, e.g. within warehouses or large office campuses
NOTIFICATION: receive notification that a colleague wishes to chat with you, or send notifications yourself
CLICK TO CALL: click on a contact from within the mSuite Chat client to start dialing (software automatically selects mobile number if user presence is mobile)
PORTABILITY: mSuite Instant Messaging will port IBM Lotus Sametime to Palm and Symbian devices, not just Windows Mobile.
“Our solution provides enterprises the ability to connect Lotus Notes to Smartphones and PDAs anyway they want. We are seeing organizations move away from incumbent providers of mobile email to CommonTime’s mSuite solution because they discover that mSuite is the only secure, centrally managed mobile Lotus Notes solution that is truly future-proof, and focused exclusively on Lotus Notes and Domino. This boosts ROI on their IBM and mobile hardware investments. Customers rely on mSuite’s resilience and scalability, particularly with Enterprise- strength features such as failover, load-balancing, and end-to-end encryption.” says Ollie Omotosho, VP Marketing, CommonTime

To discover more about CommonTime visit: http://www.commontime.com (Source: Press Release)

Posted Thursday, January 25 2007 by ChrisD
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Paragon Software Mobile sites for handhelds

Paragon Software announced http://penreader.mobi and http://epocware.mobi, mobile sites for PDAs, smartphones and mobile phones owners. Now users can be acquainted with Paragon Software’s application line, download or purchase the necessary product just on their handheld devices.

Currently more and more people have found it more convenient to access the Internet on their mobile devices. Paragon Software offers the possibility to be well informed about its renewed and latest applications without using PC. The whole line of multilingual dictionaries, productivity applications and games by the company for mobile devices are now available at http://epocware.mobi and http://penreader.mobi. The descriptions are concise but contain all the necessary information about the product. More convenient attendance is provided by easy navigation along the site that is possible even if the guest uses the joystick only.

These sites are available any time and from any point in the world as do not require PC. Besides product description viewing users will be able to download the program file straight on the device. It is also easy and convenient to pay for the purchase by the credit card.

http://epocware.mobi informs about dictionaries, utilities and games for Symbian OS based smartphones.

http://penreader.mobi provides with overviews and available versions of all the applications by Paragon Software for the following platforms:

Windows Mobile Pocket PC
Palm OS
Windows Mobile Smartphone
Java
BlackBerry (Source: Press Release)

Posted Wednesday, January 24 2007 by ChrisD
Rating: 3.33 Comments ()