The ModBook from Axiotron, uses Wacom-based touch screen technology. For about the price of a MacBookPro, cool solution for graphic designers or GIS Geographic Analysts and GIS data collectors.

Axiotron integrates an Apple MacBook computer, Wacom pen-enabled digitizer technology and Axiotron’s own proprietary hardware and software components into a complete tablet solution, the Axiotron Modbook. Built for artists, mobile users, students and professionals, the Modbook’s condensed form factor and integrated pen-based user experience offer unprecedented flexibility and control over the creative process. Users of the Modbook can draw and sketch directly on the screen using popular graphics applications like Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator software.

Currently available in the US and Canada for +/- $2400,=

Roper Mobile Technology, provider of fully rugged, highly customizable computer
solutions for challenging environments, today announced the debut of
the Duros Rugged Tablet PC. The Duros is a fourth generation, powerful
Windows XP-based tablet PC that is sealed to IP-65 levels for dust and
water ingress and manufactured to MILSPEC 810F.

The Duros is built for “anywhere” use. Equipped with an 8.4-inch
brilliant sunlight viewable, SVGA resistive touch screen and an AMD
Geode(TM) LX 800 Processor or Intel Celeron M 1.0 GHz, the Duros packs
up to 1 GB memory and up to 120GB storage (up to 64GB solid state
drive). Its hot swappable battery feature diminishes downtime and
extends battery life.

The Duros is equipped with integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GSM, GPRS,
EDGE, UMTS and optional built-in GPS for flexible communication
options for extremely remote or harsh field applications, such as
mining, construction, utilities, public safety or the military.

“The Duros Tablet PC is a key offering in Roper Mobile’s growing
rugged portfolio. Unlike a laptop, the Duros’ versatile and convenient
form factor was designed around requirements for our customers who
carry their computers into highly variable environments,” said Eric
Miller, Vice President at Roper Mobile Technology. “These customers
demand excellence and reliability and the Duros was designed to meet
these needs.”

The Duros is available immediately through Roper Mobile’s
worldwide distribution channels. For product specs, photos and
pricing, go to Roper mobile.

VIEW MY MAP ON FLICKR HERE

Okay, we are another step closer with auto geo-tagging the photos you make with your (any symbian) Nokia phone equipped with an internal or external GPS module. And it works quite simple. I am only using a Flickr account and that’s the only thing I tested it with, a Nokia N93i and a Nokia LD3W GPS module. First of all you have to download and install the application that you can find right here (klick). Upload the .sis file to your phone and install it. Start the application and give it a few moments to find your GPS and a fix on your location. Then start the camera (it only works with photo’s, not with video) and take a few shots. After a taking a or a few pictures the system notifys you that they are geotagged. Upload to Flickr. If you use a Flickr account you must first tell the system (right here) that you want to place your geotagged photos automatically on the map. Now you can start to upload the photos and tada… the location will show up in the capture under the photo and they are placed on your map in Flickr. I like it

This part is a copy paste from the Nokia betalabs locationtagger website.

• FAQ
• Q: What happens if I take pictures while the GPS module is not active yet?
  A: Nokia Location Tagger tries to tag pictures to the last “known” coordinates in the last 10 minutes. Since GPS module normally takes some time to initialize, it’s better to launch Camera application a couple of seconds before taking pictures. Launching Camera application will activate Nokia Location Tagger; which will initialize GPS module. You can also bring Nokia Location Tagger window to the foreground to initialize GPS module.Q: Will my battery be empty very fast when running Nokia Location Tagger in the background?
  A: Nokia Location Tagger has a time-out feature (by default, it is 5 minutes). If there is no picture until time-out time, the GPS module will be turned off. This will normally save power. You can change the time-out option in the settings (2, 5 (default), or 10 minutes)Q: How can I view the GPS coordinates of my pictures?
  A: The GPS coordinates are stored in the EXIF header of JPEG files. Some online sites, such as Flickr and Panoramio are able to display GPS coordinate from the EXIF. For more info on these services, please see below. You can also use photo organized software that read EXIF, such as Picasa (with the combination of Google Earth).Q: How can I set Flickr to automatically import location in my uploaded pictures, and place them on a map accordingly?
  A: Please go to this URL: http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif, sign in, tick the yes please box and click save. From now on, all new tagged pictures that you upload will automatically be placed on a map. Also underneath every picture, there will be a map link that – after you click on it – shows where the picture is taken. Here are some examples. A nice alternative to Flickr is Panoramio. After uploading your pictures, you can view them on Google Maps but also export them to Google Earth. Here are some examples.

• Compatibility
• Tested with: Nokia N95, N95 8GB, N82, E90, N73. Should work but not fully tested with: all Nokia Nseries devices based on S60 3rd edition.Requires either an integrated GPS receiver, or an external Bluetooth GPS receiver module. Sharing your location-tagged pictures online requires Share Online 3.0.

With Nokia Location Tagger, you can automatically tag your location data to your pictures. As you take a picture, your GPS coordinates are saved to the EXIF header of the JPEG file. You can use this data later, for example, to locate your pictures on a map.

In the near future, Nokia hopes to make location tagging a seamlessly integrated part of the Nokia experience. Until then, Nokia Location Tagger is a small standalone application that gives you a sneak preview.

“We are not planning to productize this application as such, but we’d love to hear your thoughts already now, so that we have time to take it into account in the mainstream development”.

TubeMogul Instructional Video

TubeMogul is the first online video analytics and distribution company serving publishers large and small who need independent information about video performance on the Internet and automated upload to the Web’s top video sharing sites.

TubeMogul’s analytic technology aggregates video-viewing data from multiple sources to give publishers improved understanding of when, where and how often videos are watched, track and compare what’s hot and what’s not, measure the impact of marketing campaigns, gather competitive intelligence, and share the data with colleagues or friends.

Tubemogul is also a very clever upload tool for AOL Video, Blip.tv, Brightcove, Crackle, Daily Motion, Google Video, Metacafe, Myspace, Revver, StupidVideos, Veoh, Yahoo Video, YouTube.

You can see the Features & Product Packages here.

Cellspace Tubemogul stats can be found here.

After a couple of months waiting in the marina the boat was smiling at me. The weather was fantastic and I decided to go out sailing. Only, there was hardly any wind. 2 Kts only but the behaviour of the boat is so good that even sailing against the wind I reached a speed of 2 kts. This photo was taken on the way back to the marina with the sails down and the motor on. I’ve had to make it to the sluice before dark

voor mobiele telefoons wereldwijd; Baanbrekende toepassing gaat live;
Toename in toestellen, landen en community’s

GyPSii,
een nieuw sociaal netwerkplatform, speciaal ontworpen voor de mobiele
telefoon, gaat live tijdens het grootste jaarlijkse evenement in de
wereld van draadloze communicatie – het Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona.

GyPSii onderscheidt zich van andere sociale netwerktoepassingen
doordat het is ontworpen met de functionaliteit en mogelijkheden van
de mobiele telefoon in gedachten, en het biedt een locatiegebonden
zoekfunctie voor mensen, plaatsen, informatie en evenementen.

“Het real-time locatiegebonden element van GyPSii voegt een nieuwe
dimensie toe aan het sociale netwerkfenomeen. Het apparaat dat we
allemaal bij ons dragen, onze mobiele telefoon, is nu in staat ons
leven te registreren, waar je bent en wat je doet, en dat in real-time
te delen binnen zelf gekozen sociale netwerkcommunity’s,” aldus Dan
Harple, oprichter en CEO.

“In plaats van binnen achter de computer te zitten om met je
vrienden te chatten, kun je nu lekker de deur uit gaan en zien wie er
in de buurt is, wat ze aan het doen zijn en waar je naartoe kunt gaan
- allemaal in real-time. GyPSii maakt van een virtuele verbinding met
je vrienden een echte verbinding,” voegt hij toe.

Na een succesvolle wereldomvattende proefperiode van drie maanden
gaat GyPSii tijdens het Mobile World Congress wereldwijd live, met een
variëteit aan toestellen, geografische locaties en
belangstellingsgroepen.

De GyPSii-toepassing is op dit moment al volledig compatibel met
telefoons met Windows Mobile en werd onlangs ook gewaarmerkt voor de
vlaggendragers onder de mobiele telefoons van Nokia – de N95, de N73
en de nieuwe N82, evenals de 6110 Navigator. Daarnaast is de
GyPSii-toepassing nu ook verkrijgbaar voor de Blackberry-serie van
RIM. GyPSii is nu niet alleen verkrijgbaar voor meer toestellen, GyPSii
slaat ook de vleugels uit naar niet-Engelstalige markten met de nieuwe
webtopclient – nu verkrijgbaar in tien talen, waaronder Koreaans,
Russisch en twee varianten van Chinees.

Eerder deze week kondigde GyPSii een samenwerkingsverband aan met
de apparatenfabrikant Dopod in China voor de verzorging van een
assortiment aan locatiegebonden informatie en diensten ten behoeve van
de leden van de Dopod Club, en het bedrijf verwacht in de komende
weken nog andere internationale overeenkomsten en
samenwerkingsverbanden te kunnen aankondigen.

In Barcelona biedt GyPSii geïnteresseerden een voorproefje van de
GyPSii Locations Based Advertising Solution, die voor adverteerders
een nauwkeurige op locatie gebaseerde targeting mogelijk maakt van
mobiele en webgebruikers. GyPSii biedt een breed assortiment aan
advertentiepakketten, van eenvoudige weergave van teksten en banners
tot coupons en voorkeurslocaties, en volledige merk- en
productsponsoring van GyPSii-gebruikers en -community’s, per onderwerp
of per regio.

“De traditionele zoekfunctie op internet, die veel
advertentieopbrengsten oplevert, kent geen locatiegebonden context.
Ons platform is het eerste platform ooit dat een niveau van
geotargeting en advertentietargeting biedt dat ongekend is binnen deze
branche,” aldus Harple, CEO van GyPSii. Tja…

De GyPSii-software voor de mobiele telefoon kan gratis worden
gedownload vanaf de website van het bedrijf (www.gypsii.com) of
rechtstreeks via de browser van de telefoon vanaf http://gypsii.com/m.
Gebruikers kunnen daarnaast op het web een profiel opstellen met
behulp van de nieuwe webinterface die deze week tijdens de show word
gelanceerd, en vervolgens hun mobiele telefoon gebruiken voor het
maken en delen van informatie over mensen, plaatsen en evenementen.

GyPSii is een toepassing de je leven rijker kan maken, waarmee je
vrienden in de buurt kunt vinden, waarmee je plaatsen en evenementen
kunt vinden; een trefpunt voor community’s en voor het delen van
foto’s, video, geluid en informatie met vrienden en andere groepen.
GyPSii gebruikt de locatiegegevens om vermeldingen van een “geolabel”
te voorzien en een krachtige locatiegebonden zoekfunctie te bieden.

Dit betekent dat GyPSii-gebruikers gebruik kunnen maken van
allerlei voorzieningen en diensten, waaronder zoeken naar plaatselijke
en regionale interessante locaties, plattegronden en
routebeschrijvingen, en onmiddellijk kunnen zien welke vrienden en
plaatsen in de buurt populair zijn binnen hun community. Ze kunnen ook
met behulp van hun eigen telefoon interessante locaties markeren om
deze te delen met anderen.

Over GyPSii

GyPSii brengt mensen, plaatsen en community’s met elkaar in
contact via netwerken en apparaten. Het bedrijf biedt een platform
voor geolocatie en sociale netwerken, en diensten voor mobiel, web, en
settopboxapparaten. Het hoofdkantoor van het bedrijf bevindt zich in
Amsterdam. (www.gypsii.com).

Evergreen Laser mouse cum Game Pad for the real game geek! Maybe something in addition for your Skype-Phone-Mouse?  Navigator 365 from Evergreen is a laser mouse cum game pad. You can use the mouse as a standard mouse and when playing games the mouse turns into a game pad. You can use either as a mouse or a game pad at a time. The mouse has the standard left, right and scroll button. The game pad has Turbo/clear and 6 buttons.
Evergreen Navigator 365 laser mouse with 1,600 dpi is compatible with OS Windows 2000/XP/Vista. The mouse measures 50 × 85 × 23mm, weigh 67 g and is available for approximately 3,499 yen ($32).

International Mobile Music Fans Get All-Access Pass to Music’s Biggest Night

The 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards is going mobile and global through Medeo, an international mobile entertainment and lifestyle service.
Recently launched in collaboration with Nokia, Medeo provides six
channels of originally-produced entertainment content specifically for
mobile devices. This cooperation will offer international mobile
consumers and music fans exciting content from the Grammy
Awards directly accessible through their video-enabled mobile devices
at http://medeo.mobi (link only works in phone browser)

As a result of the GRAMMY Awards’ agreement with Nokia, Medeo will
distribute mobile GRAMMY-related video content outside of the United
States, enabling Nokia’s millions of international viewers access to
the music industry’s biggest event of the year with content tailored
to suit their mobile lifestyle.

With pre-show, day of and post-show coverage of this year’s
landmark event, Medeo will provide its users with a backstage pass to
all things GRAMMY. During this year’s event, Medeo will be inside the
velvet ropes, bringing the most popular artists in the world to the
mobile devices of international consumers.

Developed by leading mobile services and software company Starcut,
Medeo brings professionally produced news and entertainment content
straight from Hollywood and entertainment hubs around the world to the
mobile consumer. Content regularly includes red carpet news,
interviews with popular TV and movie stars, film trailers, as well as
fashion and music, all while being free to the end user(a).

Featured on the Nokia home page (www.nokia.mobi)-(link only works in phone browser), Medeo is
available on all Nokia devices with streaming video capability.

Sounds like big fun for some of us

• http://tinyurl.com/36her8 #

www.modu-mobile.blogspot.com

thats all

Press release (I bought shares)

( BW)(MODU) modu Starts a Significant Co-Operation with Telecom
Italia, the Largest Telecommunication Operator in Italy

Telecommunications Writers
Mobile World Congress 2008
Hospitality Suite: Z6.2
Booth: 7E46

KFAR-SABA, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 7, 2008–modu today
announced that it has recently formed a co-operation with Telecom
Italia related to modu’s unique mobile portfolio.

modu has developed a personalized mobile phone concept that allows
customers to use a slimmed down, standalone mobile phone (the modu)
that can be enclosed in an endless variety of modu jackets and modu
mates to reflect the customer’s mood, personality, tastes and need for
functionality.

The modu jackets and modu mates will allow unlimited variations:
they could have the appearance of a standard phone (slider, clam,
etc), but may assume new guises as other brands (fashion, sport,
lifestyle) join the modu revolution and design modu jackets and modu
mates of their own, in addition to the products modu itself will be
manufacturing.

The modu concept frees consumers from the constraints of static,
inflexible and outdated handsets, redefining the market and opening it
up to new entrants from outside the mobile world. The modu approach -
a world first – is aimed at giving consumers greater choice and
flexibility in the way they buy mobile phones, as well as making
personal communications more personal, varied and fun.

For operators, the benefits are numerous: modu’s business model
means operators now have an additional opportunity to engage in a
positive dialogue with their subscribers by offering them a wider and
more appealing choice of handset models and styles; they can also
create and build new communities and segments among their subscriber
base, leading to increased usage, additional handsets, greater loyalty
and reduced churn.

modu has announced that a wide range of mobile products, including
a range of modu jackets, are scheduled to be commercially available
later this year.

Dov Moran, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of modu, said:
“This co-operation with Telecom Italia is a milestone for modu, and is
among the first of a number of such deals we are negotiating with
prominent mobile network operators as the modu revolution takes off.

“We have found in our discussions with operators that they are
keen to embrace exciting new concepts. As soon as they see what modu
has to offer, they want to partner with us because we represent a
solution to a problem that has been challenging them for some time:
how to refresh and revitalize the subscriber experience. modu helps
them do that in a meaningful way.

“modu is all about making new connections, and the co-operation
with Telecom Italia helps us achieve that goal. We are delighted that
Telecom Italia shares our passion and our vision. It has been a
pleasure working with the Telecom Italia management team to align our
respective strategies around this co-operation, and we look forward to
this bearing fruit over the coming months.”

According to Leo Tranquilli, VP Handsets of Telecom Italia, modu’s
product concept is in line with Telecom Italia’s innovation trends, in
that it enables the success of innovative services through the
enrichment of the customer experience. Telecom Italia’s innovation
leverages on the launch of very innovative and specialized products,
which improve the overall experience of the customer, increase VAS
ARPU and high-value customers’ loyalty.

Paolo Paganucci, VP Scouting & Benchmarking of Telecom Italia,
adds: “The industry abounds with success stories in which a specific
application (for example e-mail, GPS navigation, music on the move,
etc.) is identified with the vertical device. On the other hand,
operators’ and customers’ dreams of the “Swiss army knife” handset is
currently a letdown from the perspective of the customer experience
especially on innovative services.

The collaboration with modu goes in the direction of overcoming
this dichotomy, thanks to a new paradigm which gives the possibility
to change the customer experience of the service without changing the
device. The customer will be able to choose the preferred ergonomics
and functionality that best suits his needs in any particular moment
and context.”

The cooperation with Telecom Italia is the first in a line of
deals modu is negotiating with leading global mobile network operators
(MNOs) in other countries to ensure that the modu platform achieves
widespread penetration and user uptake once products are available in
the fourth quarter of 2008.

NOTES TO EDITORS

About modu

www.modumobile.com

modu was established by Dov Moran and several of his colleagues
from msystems, a company he founded and sold to SanDisk in 2006 for
$1.6B. modu’s vision is to bring a fundamental change to the dynamics
of the mobile phone industry. The company is dedicated to developing
products, technologies, a wide ecosystem and business relationships
that will help realize that ambition. modu will have its official
launch at the Mobile World Congress, being held in Barcelona, Spain in
February 2008.

modu gives users the freedom to choose a new phone as often as
they like, meeting their changing needs, preferences and style- easily
and affordably. At the heart of the modu ecosystem is modu – a tiny
and sophisticated mobile phone. modu can be slipped into a wide
variety of modu jackets – stylish phone enclosures that enable users
to create a new look or design and provide added functionality. modu
can also slip into modu mates- consumer electronic devices that are
modu-enabled – allowing users to create an entirely new communication
experience.