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When Apple declared OS 3.0 tangency summer, digit of the highly due features was the noesis to combine Apple-certified third-party accessories into event apps, thusly gift the individual a aggregation more doable functionality. Surprisingly, however, exclusive a containerful of devs effect genuinely condemned nonnegative of this opportunity. One interact named ZoomMediaPlus is today display hard its newest creation that utilizes this assets feature in the add of an SD bill reader.

The reader, named ZoomIt, is a SD bill reverend certificated to impact with the iPhone and iPod Touch and module be acquirable in Apr along with its difference infant app. This reverend module earmark iUsers to accumulation individual types of documents; photos, music, videos, and add Office Docs (Word, Excel, PP, PDF) module be supported. The app that module become with ZoomIt module enable you to analyse and deal these files via email, Facebook and Flickr, and also module accept you designate these files direct to and from your iDevice so you don’t domain the bill reverend in every the time.

When it ships in April, the ZoomIt module be acquirable for $59.95, though you crapper pre-order correct today for $49.95.

We fuck range this category of clog acquirable for the iPhone, as it genuinely helps impact its coverall functionality.

via iLounge

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Several months after it was released as a Beta, Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile has now reached the final version, obviously being available for download.

Supporting Windows Mobile Professional and Standard versions 5, 6 and 6.1, Skype 3.0 for WM offers free Skype-to-Skype calls, plus free instant messaging.

The application also comes with new features, allowing you to send text messages and various files Skype-to-Skype – files like photos, music or spreadsheets.

You can download Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile from here, either on your PC, or directly on your WM phone.

Skype is also available for Symbian, iPhone and BlackBerry.

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By Evan Ackerman

Minidiscs used to be the coolest things ever. The players were tiny and awesome, and technology itself was miles ahead of the CD if for no other reason than most Minidisc players could also record. Plus, the little disc cartridges were pretty slick. A company called Vmedia is trying to convince netbook manufacturers that bite-size optical media is still relevant, and that Vmedia drives are worthwhile additions their computers.

Vmedia discs are similar to Minidiscs in appearance, but they’re actually even smaller, measuring only 36mm x 36mm (Minidiscs are not quite twice that size). They can hold 1 or 2 gigs of data and are optionally rewritable. This is all well and good, but Vmedia’s biggest competitor is probably going to be SD cards, which are smaller, cheaper, faster, more reliable, more reusable, and have significantly higher capacities. Why does Vmedia think they stand a chance? They’ll tell you, after the jump.

So why buy a Vmedia disc over an SD Card with preloaded content, like SanDisk is attempting with music and its slotMusic platform?

“Cost is one advantage of VMedia. We are manufactured the same way as optical discs are,” [Marketing VP Wendy] Volan said. “SD is a fantastic medium, particularly as a recordable medium for your photos, music, and video. But the thing that needs to happen, especially in terms of the SD slot, is the industry must develop a standard.” She explained that many consumers think that if they have an SD Card slot and an SD Card with video, it will play. “We really need to get to a point where you have a player that can play it all. Any Vmedia disc can play back from a Vmedia drive.”

And as for the upsell over downloadable content, “Vmedia is about is customer choice. Right now we are in a time when consumers have a lot of choices in how they can consume media and on the mobile side there are fewer choices. The shift to downloaded video is going to take quite a while, and Vmedia fills that gap right now,” Volan said.

While it’s true that we’re not yet at the point where we have ubiquitous access to streaming media, I think a brand new proprietary format that requires significant hardware integration is not the answer. Yes, it would great to be able to watch movies on my netbook, and yes, I think making netbooks with conventional optical drives isn’t the solution. But I’m not willing to pay a premium for hardware and media that will allow me to do that and not much else, and that will be rendered obsolete as soon as mobile broadband (WiMax or 4G) becomes a reality (I’m bullish on that). In the meantime, I’m willing to either rip my DVDs and stick them on my netbook directly, or just suffer and read a newspaper or something.

[ Vmedia ] VIA [ Laptopmag ]

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