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Firefox for your mobile phone will be the software copy we use on our PC's. it comes complete with favorite and familiar features that you enjoy on your desktop: * The Awesome Bar searches your history, bookmarks and tags to go to your favorite sites instantly * Share your Firefox preferences, history, and bookmarks between your desktop and mobile * Add-ons to make your browser your own * Tabs that let you browse multiple sites at once * One-touch bookmarking to quickly organize websites

Many years we talked about Google plans to release their own OS, this time this is real. Google OS will be all about the web. All apps are web apps. The entire experience takes place within the browser and there are no conventional desktop applications. This means users do not have to deal with installing, managing and updating programs. Video is here:

Promoton from Book Depository. "11,000 free eBooks We're giving away over 11,000 free eBooks. From cookery books to children's classics, from Conrad to Zola. " Here.

Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

New feature from Google Labs Beta - "Image Swirl" introduces a Wonder Wheel-like user interface for Google Images. The new search interface combines the Wonder Wheel experience with Google's ability to find similar images and discover faces in these images. That's the way new image search must be. More information here

USA President went to China, was asked about Twitter and it was streamed live on his Facebook page. Nice change in the world. Obama was asked by a student, "Do you know about the great firewall and should we be able to use Twitter?" His reply: "I have never used Twitter but I'm an advocate of technology and not restricting internet access." All those people voted for him because they thought he was on Twitter. I bet they are gutted.

Here is a video about Lithuania in some popular movies:

Apple and environment. On their new website section shows environmental product reports and more.

"DR. MINTZBERG: Yes, that comes out of my original doctoral thesis, but it’s held up throughout the years: Management is largely about interruption. But email—and especially BlackBerries in the pocket and all that—really makes it much worse."

Interesting fact - Skype revenue from one user is $1.35. (Ebay posted $8.54 billion in revenue last year, to which Skype contributed a paltry $550 million. The basic service, calls over the internet to other Skype users, is free. Revenue comes from such up-charges as calls out to the normal telephone system, a rented telephone number so non-Skype members can call in and voicemail-to-text conversion)

Nokia introduced it's brand new Laptop. "Powered by the efficient Intel Atom processor, the Nokia Booklet 3G delivers impressive performance with up to 12 hours of battery life, enabling people to leave their power cable behind and still be connected and productive. Delivering the rich experience of a full-function PC inside an ultra-portable aluminum chassis, the new mini-laptop weighs 1.25 kilograms, measures slightly more than two centimeters thin, and has the features one would expect from the world's leading mobile device manufacturer. A broad range of connectivity options - including 3G/ HSPA and Wi-Fi - gives consumers high speed access to the Internet, including Nokia's broad suite of Ovi services, and allows them to make the most of every moment and every opportunity."

Estonia and Latvia Lead Europe’s Web 2.0 says The European Commission's Digital Competitiveness report. People there asked: I have used Internet, in the last 3 months, for uploading self-created content (text, images, photos, videos, music, etc.)

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day everyone!

What can I say, after my post about Nokia OVi I received message from GfK: "As a registered user of Ovi Share, Nokia would like to invite you to complete a short survey to help them understand your opinions on Ovi Share. Your feedback is valuable to Nokia to aid the continual improvement and development of the services that they offer." please Nokia, google my feedback...

Today is not the day for tweets:

Google announced a new feature for Google Maps and a new feature for Google Maps for Mobile. The first feature allows you to plot multiple searches on the same map. This comes in handy when you want to get driving directions, plus plot the various gas stations, golf courses, supermarkets and so on, along the route. "The first thing we wanted to try was My Maps. This feature on Google Maps on desktop becomes even more useful with the ability to access them from my phone. We're not alone in wanting this -- it's the fifth most requested feature on the Google Mobile Product Ideas page. It was great to trace bike routes and add places to stop on the computer, add the My Maps layer in Maps for mobile with a few clicks, and see them up on my Nokia S60 handset from our bike."

During Apple's conference call announcing another record quarter, chief operating officer Tim Cook said the relationship with AT&T was strong and he was happy. iPhone news from USA - The survey conducted by PriceGrabber.com suggests that more people would buy or use the iPhone if it was available through another telco (Not AT&T). Apple cut a deal with AT&T to lock its iPhones so that they only ran on the company's networks. The deal was controversial and has resulted in 'pirates' writing lots of software to unlock the iPhone from the network. PriceGrabber conducted a poll of 2,411 respondents asking them about why they have not bought the iPhone 3GS. More than ten percent of those polled owned an earlier version of the iPhone, but said they would not upgrade it because of the bad experience they have had with AT&T. The survey did not ask why people thought AT&T was so bad. However, the media has previously reported on user criticism of the AT&T n...

How the new Google Maps Mobile works, without GPS? It uses cell-id based location detection. 1) Google has paid some network operators in the various (currently 22 countries) for access to their wholesale location services. What the application probably does is fetch your IMEI and use this to obtain your location via the network operator wholesale location services. I also suspect any data Google might be getting from the network operators might be less accurate than it could be - so as to alleviate privacy concerns. There are probably other things going on like a fallback to a (less accurate) Google database of cellids/GPS positions where Google doesn’t have a location service agreement with the network operator. 2) According to the FAQ on accuracy , the Google database is made up by taking "geo-contextual information [from anonymous GPS-readings, etc] and associates this information with the cell at that location to develop a database of cell locations".

On my mailbox Spam folder now there are more than 2000 messages (in 2 weeks period). And thats true - According to Google - "overall spam levels in the second quarter of 2009 were 53% higher than during the first quarter, and 6% higher than a year ago"

In the last six months, uploads from mobile phones to YouTube jump 1700%; When the iPhone 3GS came out, uploads increased by 400% a day.

In the fastest growing mobile market, Google will help local people to get news and trade. "At Google we seek to serve a broad base of people — not only those who can afford to access the Internet from the convenience of their workplace or with a computer at home. It's important to reach users wherever they are, with the information they need, in areas with the greatest information poverty. In many places around the world, people look to their phones, rather than their computers, to find information they need in their daily lives."

In UK FT reports: "Vodafone is considering an offer to buy T-Mobile UK in an audacious move that would have huge repercussions for the British mobile phone market. The world’s largest mobile operator by revenue is looking at the case for acquiring T-Mobile UK, which has an estimated enterprise value of €3bn-€4bn ($4.2bn-$5.6bn) – even though any transaction runs the risk of being blocked by regulators."

What is the last time, you saw your pc keyboard change? I mean buttons? :) Well this time, Lenovo DID: "Lenovo put nearly a year of research into two design changes that debuted on an updated ThinkPad laptop this week. No, not the thinner, lighter form or the textured touchpad — rather, the extra-large "Delete" and "Escape" keys."

Because I don't remember my password :) And it's not so easy to get it... It's not enough to remember your user name and phone number... After few times I skipped it. Good luck...

Nice way to see how strong your network is: iPhone 3GS: dial *3001#12345#* and signal indicator goes negative. -50 = strong signal. -100 = less strong I hope this helps!

According to "Barcleys" press release "Barclays plc aims to set up a new IT center in Vilnius at the end of summer. The bank will plow some EUR 49.27 million into the center, which will render services to the bank or its group. The center will be opened in August or September. Initially the center will employ about 100 local and foreign experts, and the workforce will grow to 250-300 by the end of 2010. If the negotiations end successfully and the parties, as planned, sign an agreement in June, Barclays will oblige to ensure high wages for the center's staff and employ at least 200 people. The UK bank will provide training for employees, while Lithuania's annual contribution will total some LTL 1-2 million, which will be channeled from the resources of the European Union's Structural Funds."

After great Heineken success, Cavaliers launched similar video:

This is brand new Heineken commercial add:

With my Nokia E63 I just wanted to see my email on "desktop". How to achieve this 1) Meniu> 2) Settings> 3) General> 4)Personalisation> 5) Home screen> 6) Mode settings> 7) Home screen applications> 8)Application shortcuts!!!! How easy to do, just 8!!! Steps. Nokia, please think about your customers... It;s all about usability

We don't know how much they earn now, but -"Jessica E. Vascellaro reported last week that a person familiar with the company said financials are strong and Facebook expects revenue in 2009 to increase at least 70% from last year. This person declined to say how much revenue Facebook is making but said the company has had positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, for the past five quarters and expects to be cash-flow positive in 2010."

Nokia adds some green brand value, using facebook page: " If all us Nokia users just unplug our chargers once our phones are fully charged, we'll save enough energy to power 100,000 average-sized family homes."

The news is out - Sony will be offering free public domain eBooks from their only bookstore, from "Google Books" (over 600,000 of them) will be made available as EPUB downloads. This means they will be able to reflow and adapt to different size screens. You will be able to download it from Ebook store Last month, Google announced it was making the collection easily accessible to mobile devices such as the iPhone, and Amazon has said a similar move was afoot at the company.

Latest Google communication move - " Google voice ", which is built on Grandcentral platform aquired by Google earlier. Once again - this will shake up the telecommunications industry somehow. The new application improves the way you use your phone. You can get transcripts of your voicemail (see the video below) and archive and search all of the SMS text messages you send and receive. You can also use the service to make low-priced international calls and easily access Goog-411 directory assistance.

Where is the line between Facebook and twitter competition war line? Nice test post by socialmedian  about facebook probably censoring some keywords. More and more people synchronize their twitter messages to facebook. Facebook changes interface, facebookization is starting.

"While any ruling would affect many industry players, AT&T and Apple may have the highest stakes in the battle. The iPhone is the No. 1 seller at AT&T, and the iPhone has been key to driving AT&T Mobility subscriber growth as it gets harder for carriers to add new customers. About 40% of the 4.3 million AT&T customers who activated the device in the second half of 2008 were new to AT&T, according to the company's latest quarterly filing. "

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Few thoughts - "Death, taxes, and weddings," - "Weddings are recession-proof; they're always going to happen."

So this is one of my testing posts. There will be more more moe :)