08:15 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News

Bridgestone Corp., the Japanese tyre giant, is surprisingly also into the electronic paper business. It has developed a bistable display called the "Quick Response Liquid Powder Display" which features quick response times similar to LCD displays (in contrast, Sony Librie owners will most likely tell you how slow their screen refreshes with current E-Ink technology). In Japan, retail store owners can now use this technology to power electronic price tags as part of a new billing system (called ESL).

The electronic display contains Bridgestone's Electro Liquid Powder, a 0.12mm thick substrate, which aims to generate greater brightness, faster responses, and a broader range of viewing angles than comparable LCDs.

Another company currently prototyping electronic paper and using it as shelf labels is US-based SiPix Imaging, the developer of Microcup Electrophoretic Displays (EPD). EPDs are non-emissive display devices based on charged particles in a colored fluid. Since being introduced in 1969, EPDs have received attention due to their bi-stability, low power consumption, and wide viewing angle.

Like E-Ink, Philips and others, SiPix is aiming to become a world leader in the e-paper display industry in the coming years.

Thanks to Jason for the tip!

01:55 PM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

There's a very nice article over at Pocket PC Magazine those of you that may be looking for more games. Jim Karpen does a very good review of web sites that have free games available for your Pocket PC. In addition to the obvious "old standby" sites like www.freewareppc.com and Pocket PC Freewares, he lists the following sites along with informative descriptions...

http://www.pdagold.com/software
http://www.ppc4all.com/
http://www.pocketpcsoft.net/php/free...php?type=games
http://www.pocketdownload.com/pages

If you haven't discovered it yet, Pocket PC magazine is a very nice source. I like it so much, I even have a subscription to the paper version.

01:05 PM by Bob Russell in Archive | Portable Audio/Video

Jon Lech Johansen, the creator of the PyMusique iTunes music store interface without DRM, has been interviewed by Slyck.

In the article, he discusses what he thinks about proprietary formats, his motivation for creating DeCSS, whether he has heard from Apple legal about PyMusique, and more. Read the full interview here.

(Via Engadget)

10:45 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Clickgamer is celebrating the redesign and rebranding of www.clickgamer.com and www.clickapps.com with a free Pocket PC western shoot em up game called High Noon Drifter - Dead Mans Gulch.

To get your free copy, you'll have to download the software and install it (maybe on your storage card or internal flash because it's not small). You then register it here at their web registration page. You'll run the program to get a 16 digit device identifier, which you enter into the web registration page to calculate your unlock key.

Game play is supposed to involve finding gems while you are shooting bad guys, but not shooting good guys (at least not too many of them!) And you're supposed to listen to wisdom of some old guy also.

It's installed on my Toshiba and ready to go... I'm kind of excited to give it a try. Reply to this thread and let us know what you think!

10:20 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

How cool is that: share your favorite pictures (and other files, legal only, of course) with your friends and others on a P2P network such as Emule. Word has reached us that this is - for the first time in history - now also possible with your WiFi-enabled Pocket PC! MopiPhant is a free compact .NET emule client for Pocket PCs released yesterday.

MopiPhant (which is based on Iphant) requires MS .NET to run and you will have to copy a standard server.met database file to your installation directory before you can start MopiPhant and connect to an Emule server.

One major limitation is memory. MopiPhant uses temporary files stored in directories under the installation directory. Therefore make sure to install MopiPhant in your external memory. Also make sure to have at least 10MB of program memory available (which is the size of one Emule chunk).

Download links: MobiPhant ZIP (includes installable .cab files), MobiPhant Sources

10:15 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Just announced by Mark/Space Inc. is Missing Sync For Windows Mobile. It's a major overhaul of the product, previously called "Missing Sync for Pocket PC." It requires Mac OS 10.3.8 or later and a handheld with essentially Win Mobile 2002 or 2003.

The new architecture allows third party developers to create plug-ins to be included in the syncing.

It will be available by end of June for $39.95, and at half price for existing customers.

Some features...

• Synchronize with Address Book & iCal
• Synchronize with Microsoft Entourage 2004
• Connect via USB cable/dock, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi
• Mount your Pocket PC on the Mac OS X Desktop
  like a removable disk
• Transfer MP3s from iTunes to your handheld
• Import/Export images with iPhoto
• Send/receive email and surf the web
• SyncMinder™ reminds you to sync
• Install Pocket PC applications
• Includes AvantGo for Windows Mobile
• Backup and restore your documents
• Improved user interface
• Plugin architecture

04:47 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

• Get Ready for the 100 Gigabyte SD Card [brighthand.com] news on Millipede isn't new, but do we really need 100Gb SD Cards?
• Mabir.A mobile bug's skills [p2pnet.net] bluetooth is wonderful
• Could This Be the First Palm OS Cobalt Smartphone? [palminfocenter.com] found the related article
• Verizon Confirms Treo 650 Coming Soon [palminfocenter.com]
• Handheld Security Too Expensive For Enterprise? [internetnews.com]
• Sandisk 1GB Ultra II Secure Digital Card $79 shipped [slickdeals.net]
• Campus as a plethora of devices [smartmobs.com] time has definitely changed; before you were a nerd - now it's cool

04:37 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | iSilo/X

Darren, the main guy behind the fantastic e-book reader iSilo, released the first V4.26 beta of iSilo and iSiloX today.

Highlights of iSilo V4.26b1:

• Support for the Motorola A1000 and Motorola A925 in iSilo for Symbian UIQ.
• Addressing of miscellaneous issues.

Highlights of iSiloX V4.26b1:

• Added support for id attributes in all elements as link targets.