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Fourteen independent Windows Mobile experts selected Opera Mobile as the winner in the all-important Internet Browser category in the 2007 Best Software Awards. All providers and developers of mobile Internet technology and applications have been analyzed by a judging panel of experts from the wireless community. Among main competitors there also count ThunderHawk and Skweezer, both highly evolved applications.

The greatest advantage that made judges choose Opera Mobile over all other competing softwares is that it resembled most of all the features and advantages that desktop browsers have to offer their users. Moreover, it’s a perfect match with mobile devices running on Windows Mobile. The software is currently being used by some of the leading handset producers, such as Sony Ericsson, Motorola, HTC, KDDI, Kyocera and many others. This preference should also account as recognition for the browser’s quality, although the official award is just as good as it gets.
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BlackBerry Connect software v4.0 will allow users to access wireless email services, including attachment viewing and wireless email synchronization. All this will be possible in connection with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service.

Among the features that BlackBerry Connect v4.0 has to bring, there is also better attachment and the possibility for users to view images, footnotes and tracked changes. Moreover, it will give access to remote look-up of corporate email address directory and bring triple DES or AES wireless encryption.

The software also includes wireless IT policy enforcement and commands. This means that Sony Ericsson P1i users will have the chance of benefiting from just about the same advantages as those owning BlackBerry smartphones.
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After the beta version, now it’s time for the final version of Opera Mini 4, that offers an impressive desktop overview mode that can display the web pages exactly as on a PC. The new Opera Mini automatically reduces the transferred pages’ size, for a faster loading, reducing this way the cost of surfing. The intuitive OperaZoom can be used to zoom into the page and view any content you want. Also, the Opera’s Small Screen Rendering can be selected to get rid of horizontal scrolling.

Opera Mini 4 supports Opera Link, a new platform that lets users synchronize their online life across any mobile with an Opera browser or any other browser that can access My Opera, Opera’s social network. Opera Link synchronizes bookmarks and Opera Speed Dial, quickly and easily and delivers your information where you want it to go.

“Two years ago, we introduced Opera Mini to the world because we wanted to bring the Web to users everywhere. Today, Opera Mini is the world’s most popular mobile browser”, says Jon von Tetzchner, Chief Executive Officer at Opera. “As a result, the mobile Web is now a mass phenomenon. Opera Mini 4 raises the bar for user-friendly access to the Web on any mobile phone, anywhere in the world.”
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HTC announced will be upgrade of their older smartphone models running from Windows mobile 5 to Windows Mobile 6 of this operating system.

HTC TyTN is another smartphone model coming from this producer that has received the opportunity to dump the old version of the operating system for the latest one. Some others are waiting on the list, including HTC S620 Excalibur, HTC P330 Artemis and Advantage X7500. The producer has set August as the fate when all the new versions will start being available for the specified phone models.

HTC P4350 Herald has a 200 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM and 128 MB of ROM, just enough for being capable of supporting the latest Windows Mobile version. The handset is capable of responding to the most evolved communication needs, also including instant messaging and email solutions. It features Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and USB connectivity, which responds to the needs of reliable data transfers.
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Sun just released new mobile platform, this application called JavaFX. Sun has also been working on another project aside from JavaFX Mobile. Curriki is an open source education curriculum meant to help schools from rural areas to reach the same level of opportunities as those in cities.

Sun’s new operating platform follows the pattern set by Google, which they consider to be the best search engine available. This company has built their applications on Java technology too and now is seeing great profit rates from people who are using internet from their handsets.

“At JavaOne we introduced Java FX, a Java scripting language that allows individuals who are content developers to develop rich scripting languages. What it means is that companies like YouTube and Flickr now can develop powerful front-end clients. This is the ability to create and drive innovation on small devices, cell phones, PDAs and the like”, said Reginald Hutcherson, head of technology evangelism for Sun’s Developer Network.
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Software MacKiev, a developer of consumer and educational products for Mac, announced the release of This Day in History, the first in a series of educational software products made especially for the iPhone that the company plans to release. Based on the popular widget with the same name, included in the Software MacKiev’s 2007 World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia, the
application displays a page filled with historical events that took place on that day. The events are automatically updated daily to correspond with the current date.

“When I first saw the iPhone at Macworld in January I knew I had to have one,” said Jack Minsky, President of Software MacKiev. “So I’m particularly thrilled to have our company continue its role on the cutting edge of Apple technology by releasing our first iPhone application this week, just one week after Apple’s iPhone launch. (more…)