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“This is CrazySoft’s Mega Personality Pack for RIM BlackBerries. We have made a pack of programs that specializes in analyzing someone’s personality, esotericism and discover his inner thoughts and feelings. 1. Find out everything about you and your partner, 2. analyze your palm and fingers, 3. read your horoscope and numerology, 4. make more than 1000 questions psychology tests, 5. play psychology games, 6. read the Tarot and find answers and a lot more… 7. Discover your virtuousness by a simple test…” Check it here:

UIQ Technology today announced the winners of the UIQ Open, a developer competition aimed at finding and showcasing the most innovative, useful and entertaining third-party applications created with the UIQ open software development platform.The UIQ Open is an application competition where software developers and software companies submit UIQ 3 applications in different categories on the UIQ Developer Community website. The competition ran from October until the end of December 2007. A jury of experts has spent the past few weeks intensively evaluating the submissions submitted from all parts of the globe. The winners of the competition are now appointed.”This year’s UIQ Open was even more successful than last year’s competition. There was not only an increase in the total number of applications, they were more innovative in nature. Selecting winners for the UIQ Open was not an easy task” says Naresh Chouhan, Head of the Developer Program at UIQ Technology. “This enthusiasm for UIQ from third parties reflects the tremendous growth and prolific activity of the UIQ developer community during 2007.” The judging panel selected two winning applications in each of the five categories. Business: FlyingMoney Manager by FlyingBird Software Mobile Documents by VISIARC ABMobility: Handy Weather by Epocware IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger by SHAPE ServicesLifestyle: Spodtronic by Liquid Air Lab GmbH The World Factbook by jDictionary MobileEntertainment: MicroPool by Gábor Fetter Paintball 2 by CrazysoftUtilities: Easy Search by WebGate JSC GDesk by FiendSoftEach winner will receive a prize package including: one of the latest UIQ phones; marketing packages for their application; an invitation to the UIQ Developer Fast Track event and more. Their nomination in the competition came as great news to all winners: “We are very excited to receive this award. The UIQ platform has enabled us to easily create a versatile business application, blending a touch-based interface with a rich mobile feature set,” says Peter Lindgren, VP Marketing & Business Development at VISIARC AB. “UIQ Open is an excellent event! It helps developers to get the recognition and promote their UIQ applications worldwide. For us getting this award is the best possible feedback we could get, we appreciate it a lot,” reports Serge Borenko. Head of Software Development. at FlyingBird Software.

“From the makers of the best seller ‘Personality Psychology Pro’ another interesting title about ethics and virtues called ‘Aristotle Virtuousness Test’.This program is a simple 11 step test which determines how much virtuous you are according to Aristotle*. (*It’s the world known Ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato’s student.) This test should be done by someone who knows you very well. (E.g.: Family, partner, friend…) Don’t do it yourself! After the test you will be given a score out of 100. Then you will be given detailed stats of what should be done to correct your flaws according to Aristotle. ” Check it here:

“Announced by HTC as the S730 back in October last year, O2 UK today unveiled the launch of the O2 Xda Atmos, its version of HTC’s Windows Mobile 6 Standard Smartphone which adds UMTS/HSDPA and a 400 MHz processor for those consumers and business professionals who want high speed connectivity. The O2 Xda Atmos is a compact smartphone phone which features an auto-sliding QWERTY keyboard making it an ideal choice for the mobile professional who needs easy access to E-Mail, messaging and the internet while out of the office. Equipped with Windows Mobile 6 Standard, the Xda Atmos supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and singleband UMTS/HSDPA at 2100 MHz as well as Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and WiFi b/g and features 256 MB of ROM and 64 MB of RAM: The Xda Atmos is now available from O2 UK but currently listed for O2 business customers only.” via theunwired.net

“Puretracks, a Toronto-based digital music provider, is launching a music service for BlackBerrys that could help make RIM’s enterprise-focused devices more consumer-friendly. RIM will be under increasing pressure as Apple gears up to launch Microsoft’s ActiveSync on the iPhone, enabling enterprise users to get email, calendar and contacts pushed to the iPhone. Enabling Blackberry devices to do more consumer services may widen the appeal of Blackberry devices, and enable some users to carry just one device for both their work and personal lives. Puretracks is partnered with Universal, Sony BMG, Warner, EMI, and independent labels worldwide. The store will debut in the U.S., but there’s no word on how much the tracks will cost, or if Puretracks will partner with carriers or go direct to consumers. Puretracks, which is building the service with the help of Magnet Mobile Media, will show off the DRM-free service tomorrow at SXSW in Austin before launching at CTIA next month. The music store will be available on the BlackBerry Pearl, the BlackBerry Curve and the 8800 series, which already have music players embedded into the phones.” via moconews.net

“LG introduced the Glimmer (LG-AX830) for the American Alltel. Built on the same platform as the Shine handsets it belongs to the Black Label series. This slider is equipped with a touchscreen display and designed for CDMA networks. Most likely, LG will introduce a GSM Glimmer at the CTIA event in April.The specs of LG Glimmer: Networks – CDMA EV-DO 800/1900 MHz Display – 2.8” touchscreen 240×400 pixels, 262K colors 2-megapixel camera 128 MB of onboard memory microSD-slot Interface – Bluetooth 1.2 and USB Battery – 800 mAh Talk time – 3.5 hours Standby time – up to 7 days Dimensions – 101.6x52x15 mm Weight – 127 g” via mobile-review.com

“By the Tarot reading a person may be able to find answers about their hopes and wishes. There are many ways of tarot readings. This program uses ‘The Celtic Cross spread’. The Celtic Cross is probably the oldest and most popular pattern for reading the tarot. It has survived so long because the layout of the cards is simple, but powerful. — Features of Best Tarot PRO–• 78 Distinct, large size Tarot cards.• Latest screens support. (240×260 & 320×240)• 2 different card explanation ways. ‘Simple’ & ‘Advanced’.• Can save up to 3 different Profiles.• CAN FIND and explain the card pairs!• Explains the reversed cards.• Advanced algorithm which uses your Name, Surname, Birth date.• conclusion report with emotion graphics.” Check it here:

“The HP iPAQ 614 has been subject to a number of delays over the past few weeks but thanks to our friends at Clove Technology we finally have one to review.I haven’t had much time to use the 614 as yet but my initial thoughts are that this is a well designed and built device which looks attractive and seems to perform well. I have to say, however, that it is a lot bigger than I expected it to be, I thought it would similar to the HTC S730 but in terms of size it’s slightly larger than the TyTN II! We’ll be working on the review over the next week or so but until then, here is our unbox video:” via tracyandmatt.co.uk

“Conduits Technologies, Inc. announced today the release of Pocket Player 3.6 for Windows Mobile 6 Standard, Professional and Classic devices. Pocket Player aims to satisfy consumers who demand more from a media player on a mobile device. Pocket Player 3.6 includes new improvements to the library and media browser, as well as many fixes to core functionality and plugins. Pocket Player is also compatible with Windows Mobile 5, Pocket PC 2003, and Smartphone 2003 devices.Pocket Player’s media browser is used to navigate the device’s media collection by artist, album, genre, and other attributes. On touchscreen devices, simple finger gestures navigate the browser list: a quick swipe on the list will scroll through the items on screen, with the list continuing to scroll, slowing down until the user taps a selection.In response to customer requests, there is now an onscreen Back button in the media browser, that can be tapped to navigate up in the browser hierarchy. The previous method of dragging left-to-right now pops up a context sensitive menu, where commands to Enqueue, Play, or Delete items can be selected. This menu also contains the commands to exit the browser and return to the main “Now Playing” screen.The media library that powers the media browser has been enhanced in several ways in Pocket Player 3.6. Library performance has been improved, and all problems that have been reported have been addressed. The media library now properly handles compilation albums — those albums whose tracks all have different artist tags.The media library now supports improved reading of all tag types. In addition to ID3, Vorbis, APE and ASF (WMA) tag support, MPEG-4 tags are now read by Pocket Player. Many popular Windows Mobile devices, notably those from HTC and Motorola, contain decoders for M4A (MPEG-4 Audio) playback in Windows Media Player. Devices that contain this decoder can play M4A files, but in WMP (as in previous versions of Pocket Player) the tracks are not read for their metadata (such as artist, title, and album artwork tags). Version 3.6 of Pocket Player introduces this functionality, so that M4A files show up in the media browser properly.In addition to many fixes with the media library subsystem, Pocket Player 3.6 addresses all known and reported problems with the previous release, version 3.51, including issues related to device power, screen and backlight, Microdrive support, podcast feeds, and video support (specifically, issues with fast forwarding).Various plugins have also been updated for Pocket Player 3.6. The FLAC plugin now reads all FLAC tags properly, including embedded album artwork in the track. The WM Adapter plugin has improved its tag import and export routines, enhancing performance. The MPC (Musepack) plugin has been updated to support new library features including the native APE tag support.” Check it here:

“The LG KT610 S60 clamshell, announced at Mobile World Congress, has popped up for ‘preorder’ on Expansys web site, with a fuller spec list than was available at the event. Read on for highlights and link.Here’s the Expansys description page for the LG KT610.Information that wasn’t previously known includes The KT610’s dimensions – at 109mm long it’s significantly shorter than the Nokia E90, though of course it’s without the benefit of the 800 pixel screen inside the latter! LG’s hoping will catch on with the IM/texting crowd – I suspect it’ll come down to price – of which we know nothing yet. The inclusion of the Google app suite (native Maps, Search, etc.) isn’t surprising. Now that Google Maps supports GPS, there’s less need for LG to perhaps license Nokia Maps etc. Support for WMV videos – although I’ve a suspicion that this might be a typo from the LG product team!” via allaboutsymbian.com