Google phone blunts Facebook app

24 February 2011, Last updated at 13: 33 GMT has increased the number of people to access Facebook from their mobile abruptly Google has stepped up the battle with Facebook data from smooth app social networking site on their mobile phones.

An update to its latest mobile operating system users will see Facebook disappearing contacts from the phone's address book.

Google said it has taken the initiative, as it was no longer willing to Facebook free from its data sharing rules.

The decision was regarded as indicative of the increasing tensions between the two internet giants.

Tamper contact update applies to the gingerbread version of Android, the Google mobile OS-currently only available for phones Nexus and Nexus One 's, which are manufactured for Google.

Those responsible for other Android-based phones are required to make available to its users updating Gingerbread in the coming months.

If these mobiles using the same version of gingerbread as Nexus phones, most owners would find Facebook deleted contacts from their address book.

Originally, the Android app of Facebook allowed users to compile the phonebook of the phone with contacts from Facebook.

However, that data may not be exported from the handset, it was controlled by Facebook-something Google said it can no longer tolerate.

"Since the Facebook contacts may not be exported from the device, the aspect of integration creates a false sense of data portability," Google said in a statement.

Facebook contacts, however, will remain accessible through the application.

More than 200 million people accessing Facebook via a mobile device in 2010, according to their data-up to 65 million in the prior year.

Advertising data

Google would benefit greatly from being able to export your contacts from Facebook users, said Mike Davis, senior analyst at Ovum.

"There's a lot of information, which you can derive from analyzing a list of contacts," he said.

That information could be used to improve the targeting of the ads that Google publishes, he added.

The spat highlights the growing tension between Facebook and Google, said Mr. Davis.

But, He predicted that Facebook is "unlikely buckle" requests at this stage of sharing data of Google.

At the end of 2010, the two companies engaged in a dispute over the data similar to share contact data between Facebook and Google Gmail web based email system.

Facebook has not responded to requests for comment at the time of writing.

HTC sued over their Facebook phone, ChaCha

HomeNewsHTC mentioned above their Facebook phone, ChaChaPosted by Devina Divecha on sat, 26th February 2011

HTC faces a lawsuit their Facebook phone, the HTC ChaCha

HTC unveiled its Facebook phone, the HTC ChaCha only recently, but a lawsuit was filed against HTC by questions and answers service ChaCha to infringe his mark.

ChaCha Search, Inc., asserts that it owns the trademark ChaCha in the United States and Europe. The claim was filed in District Court, southern India.

The reason behind the lawsuit is that brand new smartphone is likely to confuse people, you would think that the mobile phone HTC and their service is connected. ChaCha already provides mobile services with your mobile website and mobile applications for iOS, BlackBerry and Android devices.

HTC has launched ChaCha with the sauce at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. Each phone has a dedicated button for Facebook that allows users to share items on Facebook. Keep in mind, though, these are not official Facebook phones.

The HTC ChaCha has a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.5 480 x 320 capacitive touchscreen, with the new version of HTC sense that is optimized for landscape mode. Running on Android 2.2 gingerbread, ChaCha will have a 5 megapixel camera and a secondary VGA camera.

Facebook-based phones HTC rumored to arrive on June 17, 2011. But will the HTC ChaCha still called the same? Watch this space.

Which phone Facebook you like better? Let us know on Twitter and Facebook feeds and T3 in the meantime, watch the video of the HTC Salsa.

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Track your spouse cheating with the phone software

If you suspect your spouse, child or dependent has been up to no good, would want proof? It would help if you had access to every phone call, text and e-mail that is sent?

In this case, it could be a new spy phone application right up your alley.

Made by Software of Retina and published this week, ePhoneTracker allows users to monitor every move made by the person on the phone, text messages and call information to websites visited, emails sent and received, new contacts added and even GPS mobile phone user.

Email even deleted and texts can be retrieved by ePhoneTracker.

"Armed with this information, you will know the truth about your spouse, your child or employee thing while you're not around," says ePhoneTracker.com. "You will be able to confirm the suspicion and have peace of mind".

The person who makes tracking receives e-mail for all actions performed on the phone, while the person monitored remains blissfully innocent (for electronic spying, at least). No sign that he or she is being watched it appear on the phone.

The software sells for $ 49.97. Is available for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile 6 and Symbian OS 9.

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Windows Phone 7 upgrade FAIL: C101002E 81080080 error restoration

By Richi Jennings. February 24, 2011.

The first Windows Phone 7 upgrade failed for some users, with 81080080 update error and the error code C101002E restoration. There is a fix suggested below. Is Microsoft's fault, or Samsung? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers cannot decide where to point the finger.

Your humble blogwatcher curated by these bits bloggy for your entertainment. Not to mention how to marry in s. Korea ...
(MSFT) (SOJA TL 6.51)

Jeremy Kirk is stunned: [You're fired-Ed.]

Microsoft ... He pulled a software update for Samsung mobile phones running Windows Phone 7 after the operating system has caused problems. ... The update is delivered when a user connects to a mobile phone to a computer via a USB cable.
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Microsoft addresses the highly competitive smartphone market ... iPhone ... BlackBerry and devices that use ... Android. ... Technical problems like this will not help.

Preston Gralla calls update "botched":

It has botched a minor update for Samsung phones that devices "brick". ... Then compounded the error apparently not pulling the update after it said it had. ... Many sites ... reports that the update has not yet been extracted.
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This is just the latest of the comedy of errors that has become the mobile strategy at Microsoft. Has released a smartphone OS well before Apple or Google and then let it rot. ... The ill-fated Kin [was] one of the worst phone ever designed. The launch of Windows Phone 7 ... It was just exciting at best. And now you can manage to release a minor update correctly---or resolve the issue, when he finds out.

describes Microsoft Michael Stroh:

Contrary to some of the titles dark out there, our preliminary internal data paint a very different picture. ... 90 percent of people that you have received an update notification successfully installed the new software patches. ... 10 per cent of those who did experience a problem, almost half failed ... [from] a bad Internet connection or computer storage space insufficient.
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Given what we've learned so far, the best way to prepare for the upgrade is to make sure that your computer has an Internet connection and plenty of disk space before you begin.
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The smartphone world is complex and even a small update as this requires a coordinated effort from multiple companies to pull off.

StefanConijn suggests an unofficial fix:

Here are the steps i followed. ... Follow these steps at your own risk! ... As stubborn as I am that I tried to apply the update again, and it worked! :-)

However,Mary Jo Foley heard different advice from Microsoft:

[I] what could/should do those users whose phones were bricked. ... The word: "Contact your mobile operator or device manufacturer regarding options to repair the device".

Words by Nicholas Kolakowski return to haunt him:

In the past not so far away ... I suggested that implementing smartphone platform had to be near-faultless in order to have the slightest chance of success against Google Android and Apple iPhone. ... One flub of high profile with the Windows Phone 7 hardware or software be liable to any effort spent touting as a viable alternative.
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I'm not sure that this problem with the update counts as a disaster for the platform, but it's certainly give Windows Phone 7 a burst of negative publicity, which is not necessary.

And finally ...
Not just a wedding, a marriage of Samsung

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Microsoft update, Windows Phone 7 botches---is this phone jinxed?

Microsoft just can't seem to get Windows Phone 7 right---this time it has botched a minor update for Samsung phones, which "brick" devices so that they are unnecessary. Then compounded the error apparently not pulling the update after it said it had. Not so for Android and iPhone.

Within the last few days, Microsoft has started pushing a minor update to Windows Phone 7. This is not the important update, since I would like to add features like copy and paste. The update is designed to enhance the built-in updater, so that future updates will work correctly. Yes, you read that right---Microsoft botched an update for an updater.

Shortly after the upgrade began to be pushed to users of phones, Samsung Windows Phone 7 devices began reporting that the devices were being bricked by update. Microsoft first replied by saying that "We are investigating reports related to the process of updating Windows Phone and will provide more information and guidance as it becomes available," according to Mary Jo Foley.

Then today, Microsoft announced it was pulling the update. Computerworld reports that Microsoft said:

"We have identified a technical problem with the process of updating Windows Phone that impacts a small number of phones. In response to this emerging problem, we have temporarily taken down the latest update of the software for mobile phones Samsung in order to correct the problem. "

But it seems that Microsoft could not, in fact, they pulled the update. Several sites, including World and Mobile Tech report wpcentral that the update has not yet been extracted.

This is just the latest of the comedy of errors that has become the mobile strategy at Microsoft. Has released a smartphone OS well before Apple or Google and then let it rot while Apple and Google launched smartphone operating systems that now dominate the market. It has launched the ill-fated Kin, one of the worst phone ever designed. The launch of Windows Phone 7, designed to give Microsoft the chance to fight in the mobile market, it was just exciting at best. And now you can manage to release a minor update correctly---or resolve the issue, when he finds out.

Microsoft made the right move, when it signed an agreement with Nokia to Windows Phone 7. But if it cannot successfully its strategy, all the billions that will pay for that affair will be wasted. This latest problem is not a good sign, that is able to get Windows Phone 7 right.

When will we see a Windows phone from Nokia?

Nokia announced earlier this month that it was switching to Windows phone as its primary smartphone platform. The two companies have not yet reached a final agreement; that will be signed in the coming months. In the meantime, we're asking when we'll see the first Windows phone device from Nokia, creator of the world's largest phone for volume.

If Nokia wants to push out Windows phones in mass, the hardware you will need to come down in price, since Windows Phone 7 has minimum specifications to be met by all OEMs. Microsoft has already convinced Nokia that this is possible,

according to Reuters: Elop, said one of the key topics in talks to make a deal with Microsoft was convincing Nokia that it can achieve "a very low price point." "We have become convinced that we can do it very quickly," Chief Executive Stephen Elop said at a meeting with journalists of Finnish affairs.

While selling millions of Windows phones will help Microsoft gain market share in the mobile space and convince so developers can start pushing apps, it will deteriorate slightly the mark if hundreds of Nokia devices is achieved with the minimum as well as to third-world target markets willing to buy cheap Smartphone.

It is important to note that nowhere in Nokia-Microsoft Windows Phone 7 ad is mentioned: the two simply refer to your Windows. It is therefore possible that Nokia will push out 8 phone Windows on its high-end devices.

Regardless of when we will see the first Windows phone from Nokia, the Finnish company is already working on courting developers to Microsoft mobile platform. An email sent to the members of the Nokia Launchpad program obtained from Slashgear shows that they are being promised a free Nokia E7 together with "a free Nokia WP7 device.", when it is available the Launchpad is the program of development of Nokia mobile app, usually at a price of 300 each year but currently free for the first year. The full email is below:

Dear members, Launchpad

In the light of the strategy announcement made by Nokia and Microsoft last week, we are writing to you today to ensure that our commitment to you and your work to develop innovative applications for Nokia devices remains stronger than ever.

We have lots of questions and we want to reassure you that we understand, and we are here to listen to your feedback and provide you with information. Please visit Nokia conversations where you can find a lot of information about new products and http://conversations.nokia.com that may help answer some initial questions.

We are very excited by recent developments, and believe the opportunities of development for Nokia devices are as exciting and lucrative today as ever were. In addition to opportunities in the near future with Nokia and WP7, we have several new benefits to share with you today, intended to help accelerate your business app to reach the 225 million hungry app Nokia smartphone owners throughout the world today.

Today, the Qt developers can drive more than 100 million Nokia devices for their applications, and we announced that we intend to sell another 150 million Symbian devices. Nokia will continue to provide free Qt trainings, to help you learn how to make the most of this sophisticated cross-platform development. We re with enthusiasm so demand, please let us know if you'd like a training set up in your area.

We are also pleased to offer you a free entrance to the forthcoming Summit Developer World/Nokia Nokia this year. We will take care of registration costs.

To assist you with your development tasks in the short term, we will send you a free device Nokia E7 to all members of the program. In addition, we'll send you one free Nokia WP7 device as soon as it becomes available.

To accelerate the development of mobile app, we provide free technical support on all Nokia technologies for the next three months (up to 10 tickets). Similarly, if you want to take advantage of a free evaluation of the User Experience for one of your apps, please let us know and we will work with you to make such agreements.

We will also extend our business development support to all Nokia developer and members of the programme content that they are currently developing applications for Nokia devices, and we will assist you in publishing applications in Nokia's Ovi Store. We will continue to offer ideas and guidelines for ways to promote fully published applications so that you can reap the rewards of your hard work.

If you have any questions, or need help from us in the coming days, we want you to know that you can count on us to be there for you. We are really excited to work with you to discover new opportunities that will lead to future successes.

Record phone calls to your PC

Question I'm looking for a reasonably economical for record conversations on a mobile digital cordless telecommunications (Dect). I tried Googling for answers, but the many suggestions have left me puzzled. I need to be able to hook it up to your PC for transcribing conversations. gengiscant

Response of HELPROOM DECT telephones encrypted signals (even if a weak method, 35 and 64 bits), so that any type of device sniffs out ' the signal ' is out of the question.

Most commercial telephone recording products rely on desktop phones connection using a microphone connected to the phone's speaker or a USB device that has placed ' in line ' between your phone and laptop.

Some Dect phones have a built-in call-recording option, but always these calls off the phone and the PC would be almost-impossible, I suspect. The easiest and fastest method is to buy a phone device-registration-how this device £ 12 from Maplin-and the Slave PC line in socket.

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Phone Windows Reloaded: can we trust promises of Ballmer?

For now a couple of years, Microsoft's CEO has made bold promises about the company making a serious effort to be a player in the mobile. He criticized the effort of Windows Mobile 6.5 Windows Phone failed and promoted as a Game-Changer. Then Windows Phone 7 shipped with fewer capabilities than any mobile OS competitors (while having a nice user interface) and quickly became a joke and a flop. Similarly, Ballmer made promises about Windows tablets a year ago that the company never even tried to satisfy.

Yesterday, Ballmer announced that Windows Phone 7 would be updated late this year to make Internet features a "first-class citizen" (his words, not mine, even though it's nice to see it agree that the first version was the second or third class). Ballmer promised that Microsoft would address the functions currently missing from Windows Phone 7, as HTML5 support and multitasking.

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Microsoft said earlier will add cut and paste for Windows Phone 7 this year. Not so clear is whether Microsoft will fill in all the security holes and management who reject its use in corporate networks, as lack of VPN and encryption on the device, as well as poor support for Exchange ActiveSync policies specific to Microsoft (supports fewer of these than any platform competitor).

What is Ballmer promising to deliver--multitasking and HTML5 support--is the basic functionality that should have been in Windows Phone 7 right from the start. Apple iOS, Google's Android OS, Hewlett-Packard WebOS and Research in Motion BlackBerry OS 6 (introduced with the torch last summer) all do. This is just the basic Microsoft finally in place, not a progress that should get people excited.

The basics matter--especially if Nokia adoption of Windows Phone 7 is to have a prayer of work (I think this is a suicidal move). But not in the competitive mobile market where Apple continues to set the pace and Google continues to follow fast, simply staying on track is good enough.

And given that as Microsoft routinely broken promises Ballmer makes mobile space, I can't help but believe that when Windows Phone 7 multitasking support HTML5, and cut and paste, it cannot offer the standard of competition.

They are all to admit mistakes and expect to be forgiven, as long as the actual error is addressed and not repeated. Maybe this time that Ballmer means what he says and Microsoft will deliver on it this fall. But with the track record, I wouldn't bet on it.

In this article, "Windows phone reloaded: can we trust Ballmer promises this time," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of the Mobile Edge blog of Galen Gruman and follow the latest developments in mobile technology at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.

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Executives from Verizon and Motorola gives thumbs-down to Windows Phone 7

16 February 2011-10: 58

Two of the most important players in the mobile industry, Verizon and Motorola, have essentially called Windows Phone 7 a failure with a Verizon exec going as far as saying that the deal Nokia won't help the struggling smartphone platform. This is clearly not what Microsoft hoped when Windows Phone 7 launched to great fanfare late last year.

Instructions to both managers were surprisingly smooth. Verizon Wireless Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone told CNet during an interview at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which in addition to Android and iPhone:

"I want a strong third OS out there. It gives carriers more flexibility and balances the interests of all parties. But I still have doubts whether Microsoft will gain traction, as they are for the hope with Windows Phone 7. "

Melon was equally unimpressed with the Nokia-Microsoft deal, explaining:

"If you look at our device pipeline for 2011, we have very strong relationships with LG, Samsung, Motorola, HTC, and now Apple. So I think it would take a really interesting device from Nokia or any new vendor to break in. This does not mean that it can't happen, but that would be really good. "

So give one last twist the knife, he added:

"I don't think Verizon needs the relationship of Nokia and Microsoft. OS right now the three players we see on our network are Android, Apple and RIM.

Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president of product management for Motorola software and services, also weighed in on Windows 7 phone at Mobile World Congress and had only bad things to say. Wyatt, Motorola said that initially was considering Windows Phone 7 as a platform for its mobile phones, and Android. But Motorola chose not to do so. Here's what he said, according to the IDG News Service:

"There were a lot of things that we believed on Microsoft that ended up not being true, especially on what functionality would have in what period of time."

In addition, Windows Phone 7 was delayed for so long that Motorola has decided to use Android only and Windows Phone 7 bypass. Wyatt also said that Motorola favorite Android on Windows Phone 7 because Android is open source, while producers can customize Windows Phone 7:

"We would like the opportunity to create unique value and we feel that we could with a closed platform."

Clearly, Microsoft still has a climb with Windows Phone 7. And Verizon is underwhelmed by the arrangement of Nokia doesn't help. Still, the deal with Nokia is the best attempt by Microsoft to help his struggling smartphone platform. If Verizon is to be believed, will not be enough, but only time will tell.

Windows Phone 7 Beta connector outputs, enter Mac App Store

Microsoft has come to play, releasing the full version of Windows Phone 7 connector for Mac. The software that allows you to synchronize your phone with Windows 7, er, telephone with your Mac is finally out of beta and is available as a free download--and, in an interesting twist, is only available from Mac App Store.

Windows Phone 7 connector for Mac has launched in beta last fall, allowing users to synchronize their media from iTunes and iPhoto latest laptop or Microsoft or--Heaven forfend--a sync Zune HD. DVD all your content or select only certain playlists, genres, artists, events, albums, and faces. A convenient--and, to any user of iPod or iPhone, horribly familiar--bar at the bottom of the screen shows how much space it occupies various content. Plus, you can browse and preview the media that is on your right device from the comfort of your Mac.

It is not just a one-way street, though: you can also detach the Windows phone photos and add them to iPhoto. And, if there is an update of the software available for your phone, you can download and install the software from your Mac.

Of course, there are some limitations. ITunes protected content, like movies, TV shows, and pre-2009 songs can be played on a Windows or Zune phone, so you're out of luck there.

The release of Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac also marks the first foray of Microsoft in the Mac App Store. While it is not unexpected, development can at least paving the way for future offers from Redmond, including pressing applications of Microsoft Office.

Windows Phone 7 connector for Mac is a free download and requires Mac OS X 10.6.1.6 or later.

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