Samsung Omnia in stock now at Mobiles.co.uk
August 15, 2008
The Samsung Omnia has launched in the UK and is now in stock and available to order at Mobiles.co.uk! A few weeks back we posted information relating to the July 22nd launch in Italy followed by a late August launch for the rest of Europe. So it would seem that Samsung has sat up and taken notice of our accusations of favouritism to the Italians by bumping the launch date forward by a couple of weeks. The squeaky wheel gets the grease it would seem! So let’s celebrate the launch of this mobile phone by having a little recap of what the Omnia’s got in its locker.
Omnia, the Latin word for everything, pretty much sums up what the Samsung phone is hiding under the hood. A touch screen phone running on the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platform, 
stand out features include a built in GPS receiver, HSDPA Mobile Broadband connectivity, Wi-Fi, 8Gb of internal memory, Bluetooth v2.0, Handwriting recognition and pocket office (meaning pocket versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint). Oh, and did I forget to mention the 5.0 Megapixel camera? Not just any 5.0 Megapixel camera though, think auto focus, face detection, smile detection (waiting for all the faces in the shot to smile before capturing), image stabiliser, flash and QVGA video recording at 30 fps and you get the picture (pun intended!).
Samsung’s tagline “Everything in one touch” says it all really. So what are you waiting for? Head on over to Mobiles.co.uk and be on of the first to get your hands on this terrific touch screen mobile phone! Just click here!
Study of text messages supports ’six degrees of separation’ theory
August 3, 2008
A US study of text messages suggests the theory that we are all linked six steps to anyone else may be right - though seven seems more accurate.
Microsoft researchers studied the addresses of 30bn text messages sent during a single month in 2006.
Any two people on average are linked by seven or fewer acquaintances, they say.
The theory of six degrees of separation has long captured people’s imagination - notably inspiring a popular 1993 film - but had recently seemed discredited.
One of the researchers on the Microsoft Messenger project, Eric Horvitz, said he had been shocked by the results.
“What we’re seeing suggests there may be a social connectivity constant for humanity,” he was quoted as saying by the Washington Post newspaper.
“People have had this suspicion that we are really close. But we are showing on a very large scale that this idea goes beyond folklore.”
Urban myth
The database used by Mr Horvitz and his colleague Jure Leskovec covered all of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging network, or roughly half of the world’s instant-messaging traffic, in June 2006.
For the purposes of the study, two people were considered to be acquaintances if they had sent one another a text message.
Examining the minimum chain lengths it would take to connect all the users in the database, they found the average length was 6.6 steps and that 78% of the pairs could be connected in seven links or fewer.
The idea of six degrees of separation was conceived by US academic Stanley Milgram, after experiments in which he asked people to pass a letter only to others they knew by name.
The aim was to get it, eventually, to a named person they did not know living in another city.
The average number of times it was passed on, he said, was six - hence, the six degrees of separation.
However, in July 2006, Judith Kleinfeld of psychology at Alaska Fairbanks University went back to Milgram’s original research notes and discovered that 95% of the letters sent out had failed to reach their target.
She suggested that the six degrees theory might be the academic equivalent of an urban myth.
The Microsoft researchers said that, to their knowledge, their study had for the first time validated Milgram’s theory on a planetary scale
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation
IPhone ads in apps via Pinch Media and JumpTap
August 1, 2008
JumpTap and Pinch Media have teamed to combine Pinch Media’s analytics and advertising tech for Apple iPhone App Store apps with JumpTap’s mobile advertising network.
According to a post on Slashphone, developers can insert ads into their apps so they can earn revenue. The Pinch Media analytics module gives a comprehensive view into unique users geographic location; length of time the app is being uses and other useful info.
Pinch Media’s co-founder and CEO, Greg Yardley says: “By adding ad-supported iPhone applications to JumpTap’s mobile advertising network, we can immediately provide high-quality brand advertisers to our developers. Pinch Media’s iPhone-optimised advertising and analytics package provides iPhone developers with a straightforward and simple way to expand their businesses.”
Among top mobile sites, Apple iPhone traffic presently represents in excess of thirty percent of US page views. Since the 12th July and the launch of the Apple iPhone 3G, in excess of 800 iPhone applications have become available via Apple’s App Store.
Review: Magix Music Maker 14 Producer Edition music software
July 31, 2008
Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 31 July 2008 at 11:15:00
Make music with your computer – no experience required
Music Maker is arrangement software: using it you can create music by arranging small snippets called samples and by recording instruments to go with them….
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Review: Draytek Vigor 2820Vn router
July 31, 2008
Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Thursday 31 July 2008 at 10:00:00
More than your average internet router
Low-end broadband routers tend to be much of a muchness, offering little beyond basic Internet sharing, network ports and a firewall….
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Review: Driving Test Success: All Tests 2008/09 education software
July 30, 2008
Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 15:05:00
Improve your chances of passing the test
Passing a driving test can be a stressful business, not to mention an expensive one. Nowadays it comes in three parts – in addition to the multiple choice theory test…
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Intel and Portugal in school deal
July 30, 2008
Intel has signed the largest ever deal for its child-proof laptop, the Classmate.
500,000 of the specially designed educational machines are being given to six to 10 year olds in Portugal.
Originally intended for the developing world, Intel has shifted its focus in recent months to more mature markets.
It stressed its commitment to supplying the Classmate PC to the developing world and said it had projects underway to use it in 50 countries.
The deal will change the way education works in Portugal, according to Paulo Campos, the Portuguese government’s secretary of state assistant for public works.
“It will change the educational system, change the way that students look upon school and how we communicate with parents,” he said.
Holistic approach
Broadband access in Portugal is still relatively low. Official figures suggest 15% have fixed broadband access and another 16% have mobile broadband.
There are other projects in the pipeline to increase connectivity and PCs to school children aged 10-16, said Mr Campos.
Intel chairman Craig Barrett was in Portugal to oversee the deal and reiterate the chip makers commitment to educational programmes.
“In any environment there is an issue about hardware but there are also issues about connectivity, software, infrastructure and training teachers so they know how to use it,” he told the BBC.
“Our philosophy is holistic and the hardware is just a piece of that. There must be local content to go with the hardware,” he said.
But the biggest issue he sees is that of teacher training.
Intel had already trained five million teachers to make better use of technology and aimed to train millions more in the coming years said Mr Barrett.
Row with OLPC
Intel’s efforts in education have been overshadowed in recent months by a highly publicised row with rivals, the One Laptop Per Child foundation (OLPC), run by Professor Nicholoas Negropronte.
In July 2007 the two rivals decided to join forces but the partnership was short-lived and in the following January, they split.
“Our relationship with OLPC did not last very long because they told us to stop promoting the Classmate,” said Mr Barrett.
“It is up to individual countries which educational philosophy they follow. There are now a number of relatively inexpensive machines available,” he added.
But he remains committed to Intel’s education programme.
“Whenever I talk to a teacher, they tell me that children using PCs get more excited and want to stay in school. They learn faster, are more enthusiastic and successful,” he told the BBC.
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This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation
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