09:26 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Mobile Sites

Skweezer, the well-known mobile web-proxy, is teaming up with WorldLingo to offer an online translation service for mobile devices. Their server is a bit slow right now and timed out on me a few times; other than that it works as advertised.

Don't put your eyes off PalmAddicts today because interesting news keep on flooding in!

08:20 AM by bartman in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

If you are interested in a reliable GPS navigation solution for your car, make sure you don't miss this test over at x50v.it, comparing an Axim X50v Pocket PC equipped with GPS to a stand-alone, dashboard-mounted GPS navigator. While the CAR PC system shines with a beautiful 7" touch LCD screen, the PPC excels in speed (due to its 624 MHz Intel XScale processor) and portability.

08:07 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | News

While authors and publishers balk at the Google's ambitious plan to digitize the book collections of major libraries, Julie Hilden has some interesting comments how the project could help to increase public demand for e-books:

So in the end, rather than joining the challenge to Google's Library Project, I'd like to pose a challenge to Google: When are you going to apply your genius to eBooks? Having scanned all those books in already, wouldn't you like to distribute them too? Of course, for that, you would need a copyright license - but I think many authors would give you one for a low fee. In the future, Google's Project might even do for eBooks what Apple did with Itunes: Provide a sample of a work, as an inducement to download the whole thing at a modest cost, and entirely legally.

Because of hopes for innovations like this - which will bring authors profits, protect copyrights, and potentially democratize book-writing, much as music has been democratized - authors may be shortsighted if they support the Authors' Guild suit.

Related: Authors Guild alleges Google's Library Project violates copyrights

07:49 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

If you think your voice may be music to someone's ears, you can now use Slawesome to add it to your e-mails. The service's currently free and in alpha testing. Obviously the next step would be to add some software that turns our voice back into text.

07:41 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Tapwave may rest in peace, but the Zodiac PDA/gaming hybrid lives on through a die-hard fanbase. One fine example is Zodiacs Around The World, a photo journal where Zodiac owners can submit their photos and share them with the Zodiac community. Even more Zodiac photos in the Flickr archive.

[via PalmAddicts]

07:19 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

What would you call a device that has a screen, a keyboard, storage for personal information such as contacts, email, documents, the ability to play audio and video files, some games, a spreadsheet program, and a communications capability? Sound like a personal computer? How about "mobile phone"?

Sounds utopian? Read here why it's not unreasonable to think now is a good time for the mobile phone to replace our old unhandy PC.

07:02 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Sammy of PalmAddicts has decided to ditch his love affair with the Palm LifeDrive and go back to his Tungsten C. No doubt the LifeDrive is a great PDA with many useful functions and connectivity, but in regard to productivity the Tungsten may also have its advantages. Read here why Sam made the switch.

Some initial reactions and comments:

• Old becomes new
• TC for Productivity
• Catching up on the weekend
• One of the first things I did

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

My goodness, is it Sunday again? Well, for those of you who've missed the highs and lows of MobileRead over the past seven days, this is your one-way ticket to catch up:

Announcements
Welcome Brian to Mobileread

Current E-Books Trends
E-books worm into reference book market
Newspapers feeling the heat in the digital age
Reminder: Public e-book event Wednesday 9/21

General Chat
Authors Guild alleges Google's Library Project violates copyrights
Doom RPG for mobile phones
Free file hosting service offers 1GB of storage
Google to tap the wisdom of crowds?
In memory of Lu’wen Monahan
Is technology making us less intelligent?
Long life mobile battery 'vital'
Podcasts are a waste of time
Reuters to offer podcasts
Track Yahoo Finance message boards via RSS
Why should students pay $150 for one textbook?

Link Swap
Daily Rotation - More Tech headlines than you can imagine!
Mobile James Bond Site

Other Gadgets
BlackBerry 8700 aka Electron leaked photos
Tattoo video display - Technology concept
What do we do if we don't want a WM-based device?

Palm
Open letter to Palm: Fix the LifeDrive
Palm attempted to buy PalmSource
Palm is getting sued over lousy Treo quality
Palm shares tumble over disappointing earnings
Treo 700w aka Treo 670 - Engadget has it!
Treo 700w announcement coming Monday 9/26
Win a PDA or iPod at PalmAddicts

Pocket PC
Acer n300 Pocket PC with WM 5.0 and Wide-VGA
Dell Axim X51v first review (update)
Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox N500 series unveiled
HTC 2006 roadmap for Asia revealed
JasJar i-mate aka HTC Universal reviewed
Minimo CE 0.009 released
Minimo incompatible with Axim X50v - here's why
Windows Mobile 5 on your USB stick

Portable Audio/Video
GP2X: new linux based portable everything!
iPod nano turns into an e-book reader

Smartphones
Device makes the Treo 650 heart smart
HarperCollins sends book samples to mobile phones

Sunrise
Sunrise 0.42f released