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PhoneGate is an application designed to help mobile phone owners at a large extent. It allows them to see the calls placed only by specific people while it also makes it possible to greatly customize which these are.

Mobile phones nowadays bring several advantages when compared to older, fixed line ones. You can see who is calling and decide whether to answer or not. Still, persistent such phone calls eventually turn out to be annoying.

This is where PhoneGate’s part starts. This application manages to bring a solution in order to deal with pesky callers without them knowing that you are actually rejecting their calls. Maxicon has developed the PhoneGate software with the user’s advantages in mind.
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Do you like about sudiku or Solitare? now you can playing thats games on Palm Foleo. All Palm Foleo will be sold from now on with the Astraware Sudoku and Astraware Solitaire games.

What else could a mobile phone user ask for when in need for an occupation to fill his time? Solitaire is well known to be the most efficient solution for such cases, as it asks for little concentration and automatic moves based on card colors and numbers. Everybody knows what this game is all about and the mobile version should not differ greatly, especially when the touchscreen function is used during gameplay.
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TeleNav 5.2 is only the latest version of this program which has been used by a lot of people for three years now. Its high performances have proved it to be the most efficient solution for receiving GPS (Global Positioning Services) at high standards.

TeleNav 5.2 will be available for Sprint customers first, looking for a future expansion on other markets too. The service will be available through a subscription of USD 10.

This latest version of the software brings several improvements in the overall performance that this is capable of. TeleNav 5.2 now offers location sharing, which means that people will also have the possibility of sending their current location to other mobile phone users and not just receive information on the positions of different service providers. For this to be possible, the other cellular owner is not necessarily supposed to have TeleNav installed. All information that they receive comes in the shape of a text message and a link to a map and “static directions”.

Moreover, TeleNav 5.2 offers business ratings and several other services which are meant to keep the user informed and entertained. All this is done through a frog design interface, which greatly eases the user’s navigation through the menu.

Other useful features that this software comes with include the user-reviewed businesses, which make it possible for users to read elaborate descriptions of certain restaurants, such as reviews and even write one themselves. The same thing goes for businesses, hotels and movie theaters. Even more, with TeleNav Fuel Finder, users can have access to information on the cheapest gas prices for the day. [via]

Mobile phones have lately developed into a convenient environment for software virus attacks. Even more, the growing use of mobile Internet services makes the malicious software transfer much easier to occur due to data transfer from some devices to others.
As to underline the importance that reliable mobile phone software has nowadays, Paul Miller, managing director of Symantec’s mobile security group, said that “Many Symantec customers - IT departments and consumers alike - understand that mobile phones represent the new computing platform”. With this, they also take on the same vulnerabilities that operating on a Windows platform brings.

The security suite will come in two versions: Norton Mobile Security for Smartphones and Symantec Mobile Security 5.0. The difference between the two is that one is for individuals, while the other aims at enterprise users.
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Mozilla has officially confirmed the fact that they are currently working on a version of the Firefox
browser for mobile phones. It comes as relevant information, as people already started to wonder when Mozilla will provide serious competition for the Internet browsing software that being used at the moment.

Michael Baker, CEO of Mozilla has revealed in a recent interview for the APC Magazine that the company plans on adapting their Firefox Web browser to the requirements of mobile phone use. They are currently working on ways of going past the constraints of a mobile phone’s tiny screen as to provide best functionality without sacrificing very much from what the user needs.

It is great news, as the competition in providing mobile Internet services will be highly encouraged. The Firefox Web browser for PCs has registered a continuous growth in use ever since it was first released. It currently holds the second place when it comes to the users’ preferences for Internet browsing software.
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Opera Mini has been used until now by more than 15 million people, which resulted in its becoming the most popular downloadable Java software. “We wrote Opera Mini in Java technology so that we could bring the full Internet to the largest number of mobile phones around the world”, said Tatsuki Tomita, EVP, Opera Software. As it seems, the increasing popularity of Opera Mini is related especially to the fact that it has proven to be a helpful and easy to use application for many people.

Moreover, several handset manufacturers have chosen Opera Mini to be the default integrated web browser that ensures their customers’ flawless Internet navigation. The Opera Mini browser has received the highest appreciation measured in download numbers from Russian, North American and Chinese people.
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