“Lucia kommer så du får smaka
på lussekatter och pepparkaka”

Så stod det i lucka nr 13 i Vivos julkalender någon gång i slutet av 70-talet. Det rimmet har hängt med mig sedan dess. Till en början hade jag lucka nummer 13 i min dagbok där jag aldrig skrev något och om jag skrev något så rev jag sedan ut det. När jag slängde dagboken nån gång en massa år senare hängde luckan med ner i sopsäcken men rimmet sitter fortfarande kvar i min skalle. Kanske det var just det rimmet som fick mig att bli intresserad av att rimma?

I femte eller sjätte klass gjorde jag ett fat i mässing till min mamma. Klippte ut i mässingsplåt och hamrade och hade mig. På det inslagna paketet stod följande:

“Ära vare gud i höjden, den här har jag gjort i slöjden.
Om du den på bordet sätter får du ej i den lägga cigaretter”

Första delen var väl kopierad nånstans i från men resten var från eget huvud och så har det fortsatt.

Skickade in en slogan i en Estrella-tävling en gång där produkten var deras nya jordnötsringar, Lucky Loops.

“Lyckliga ringar med jordnötssmak, stoppas in där fram, kommer ut där bak”

Behöver jag tillägga att jag inte vann?!

Till luciafirandet och julbordet på jobbet har jag skrivit inbjudningarna på rim, både förra och detta året. Årets blev väl ungefär som förra årets men jag gjorde lite justeringar. Det roliga med rim är att gå omkring och klura och fundera på hur man ska få ihop det. Jag vill ju inte bra att det ska rimma, vill att det ska kännas skönt att läsa och säga också.

Så till julrimmen. Jag brukar faktiskt inte skriva julrim på klapparna jag ger bort men jag tycker att det är kul att hjälpa andra så därför tänkte jag att ni läsare gärna får komma med önskningar om rim. Vi kör rimstuga helt enkelt. Skriv en kommentar om vad du ska ge bort och till vem det är, typ spikmatta till mamma. Så ska jag se vad jag kan hitta på.

Denna dök upp i bilen på väg hem från jobbet:

“Detta paket som du nu håller i din hand, har rest från fjärran östern till vårt kalla nordiska land.
Några skriker men de flesta bara njuter, när kroppens endorfiner i höjden skjuter.”

Kram Ann

ps. Ny kategori till höger om detta ämne: Rimstuga

Jag rimmar på från undergroundnivå eller nej från jobbet då. Duuuunk. Hej lille shorteeey det där är inget för dig eeey. Hahaha

Ok. Ska dra från jobbet om två minuter för jag ska upp till Annica och hjälpa henne litegrann med showroomet. Sen tänkte jag dra och handla så jag har massa goda saker hemma och snaska på när jag har tråkigt. Jag blev rädd för mig själv i  helgen, det är inte ofta det händer. Denna gången skrämde jag skiten ur mig så bra så jag kanske lärt mig ett och annat.  Josefin var förbi mig o latja lite, gillart. Aboooooo nu kom marie med lussebulle till mig. Gillart.

C’est déjà compliqué de ne pas craquer et d’acheter le nouveau Blackberry Bold 9700, mais si en plus ColorWave (société qui propose déjà la customisation de vos écouteurs Beats) permet de personnaliser le dernier smartphone de chez RIM, ça devient carrément de la torture. Chaque partie peut être remplacée par un cache coloré sur mesure soit par ColorWave, soit par vous même directement si vous pensez pouvoir replacer le trackpad correctement, pour un résultat unique.

Alors oui, les milliers de combinaisons possibles sont très moches pour la plupart, mais avoir la puissance d’un Bold dans un design de Curve aux couleurs de son blog (par exemple hein), ça vous rend un geek heureux.

Plus d’infos sur la personnalisation du Blackberry Bold 9700 si vous cliquez ici (environ 105 euros pour la personnalisation seule, et 565 euros pour le téléphone + la personnalisation)

Via

The Blackberry Storm 2 is a vast improvement on its predecessor, the Blackberry Storm. There are many minor changes that have been made in this phone which add up to produce cumulative result that is much better than the Blackberry Storm. This goes to show that little changes can make a major difference. The Blackberry Storm 2 is what a carefully designed Blackberry Storm should have been. Nonetheless, with the Blackberry Storm 2 coming in the market pretty soon most of you will forget the flaws that the Blackberry Storm had. The Blackberry Storm 2 has a revamped exterior that makes the phone look a lot less bulky and gives it a smooth and uninterrupted feel. The glossy black exterior makes it suitable for corporate as well as personal use. The Blackberry Storm 2 is rumored to also have been named as the Odin and the model number is now confirmed to be 9550.

The minor changes that have been made in the Blackberry Storm 2 that make a major difference are quite a few. However the phone’s size still remains the same at dimensions of 112 x 62 x 14mm. One major change that we can visually detect in the Blackberry Storm 2 is the screen. The normal screen has been replaced with a touch screen and the physical buttons have also been done away with and in their place you have the smart, easy to use virtual buttons. The buttons on the side that were too elevated and were a constant source of irritation in the Blackberry Storm has now been replaced by smoother buttons that are more comfortable to feel. Another great detail that has been looked into and dealt with very well is the joints. They are now as smooth as never before and are absolutely glorious to touch. The best part is you can’t even feel that they are there! This also enhances the grip on the phone and makes it a pleasure to hold rather than an added responsibility.

The buttons on the touch screen have been replaced to bring in more user-friendly realistic buttons that display whatever you choose on the phone’s screen. Although you still have to press the button twice to actually activate the program, this is a feature that was intentionally retained. This is a feature of the SurePress technology which although did not receive very good reviews with the last Blackberry is still incorporated in this one. This is because according to the manufacturers this technique has more pros to its name than cons. The size and the resolution of the screen, however, still remain the same as in the Blackberry Storm. The size is 3.25 inches with a resolution of 480 by 320 pixels. The screen is also rumored to not depress when the phone is either locked or is switched off.

Overall, the Blackberry Storm 2 is a major improvement on the Blackberry Storm due to the minor changes that have been incorporated in to it by the manufacturers. The phone is said to release in around the second week of November, tentatively o the 11th.

Thanks Ginius

Fonte:BerryReporter

Que paso con los miles de iPhone 3GS que las Operadoras tenían reservados pre-lanzamiento por la web? Donde están?

Como ya habíamos hablado en un post anterior las Operadoras salieron con unas ofertas de valores de planes y equipos 3GS muy poco atractivos o mejor dicho mas que elevados.

Por otro lado se rumorea que fue mucha inversión y ruido publicitario ya que desde su lanzamiento se vieron publicidades del iPhone 3GS en todos lados, gráfica, vía publica, tv, etc. pero los dispositivos no se ven en la calle.

Planteamos 3 hipótesis diferentes:

1- Las Operadoras aprovecharon ruido mundial de lanzamiento y plagaron las calles con publicidades y realmente no trajeron las cantidades necesarias para esas miles de reservas web que tenían hechas? Dejarían a miles de ansiosos clientes sin sus terminales? Sera que no querían tanto trafico de usuarios iPhone en sus redes “3G”?

2- El iPhone 3GS no cumplió con las espectativas de los usuarios y por eso no se ven en la calle? Como contrasta esto en relación a otros países del mundo donde no se paran de vender y lideran los mercados? Porque tantas reservas previas si luego no se concretarían un gran % de las ventas al igual que la tendencias en otros países?

3- Los iPhone 3GS no se ven en la calle debido a los altos valores con que se lanzaron, tanto en equipos como en planes. Las Operadoras Argentinas no ofrecen planes atractivos a los usuarios lo cual hizo que esas reservas pre-lanzamiento no se concretaran. Porque tanta diferencia de precios y poca variedad de planes con respecto a países Europeos o USA donde iPhone lidera mercado? Será que las Operadoras Argentinas no quieren vender iPhone? Porque en un país con moneda devaluada encima se debería pagar mas del doble o triple que en países Europeos o USA tanto el dispositivo como los planes 3G cuando la calidad de las redes y conectividad es totalmente inferior?

Las hipotesis son planteadas a nivel constructivo. Pensamos que iPhone 3GS es un equipo que podría liderar las ventas y brindar muchas satisfacciones a usuarios.

Como usuarios de iPhone nos sentimos descuidados y desinformados. Las Operadoras no dan datos de cantidad de ventas de 3GS.

La pregunta que nos queda resonando es:
Será que Apple inc. podrá intervenir y llegar a un acuerdo como en USA con las Operadoras Argentinas para ofrecer equipos mas baratos y planes mas atractivos y accesibles?

Aguardaremos a fin de año cuales son las ofertas que veremos.

Fonte:Tecnozoom

Nei giorni scorsi BBMeet presenta il corso Programmare sul BlackBerry oggi è disponibile la 2 lezione…

Label, immagini, editbox, sono tutti oggetti di tipo Field e possono essere aggiunti in uno screen tramite l’apposito metodo add.
E’ indispensabile conoscere questi oggetti, almeno quelli basilari, ed è necessario saperli manipolare, perché nello sviluppo di applicazioni per BlackBerry sono il nostro pane quotidiano!

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clicca qui per prima lezione

Fonte:BBMeet

Herregud, jag insåg precis att det är julafton om mindre än en månad. Det känns hur konstigt som helst. I år blir första julen jag inte firar med min familj och släkt. Jag har verkligen firat varje år med dem så det kommer bli lite konstigt. Har ni varit i samma sits nångång, brutit traditioner rakt av? Varför gjorde ni det? Hur kändes det?

Blev alldeles sugen på att handla julklappar nyss. Tycker inte om köphetsen bara för antalet paket och sånt, men att hitta personliga saker att ge är fint. Dessutom är jag en sucker för att slå in julklappar, pyssla och skriva julklappsrim men går miste om det lite då jag inte har tid att rimma och fixa innan vi flyttar men ska lämna klappar här. Som tur är har jag den perfekta lösningen.

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Rävens upplägg för en awesome jul

Min plan är att vänta till mellandagsrean, och shoppa då. Det kommer behövas både saker till lägenheten, till Rifa och till mig och Robin. Jag kommer sakna hela paketgrejen mycket i jul, inte för innehållet och det materiella värdet utan för känslan av att sitta i en hög med paket inslagna i julklappspapper och läsa på rimmen i smyg när föräldrarna inte ser.

Sen ska sakerna slås in, pysslas med och rimmas på, mata min konstnärssjäl lite så att säga, ni kanske har lagt märke till att jag gillar att rimma fult Så blir det en liten mini-julafton dagen efter med pepparkakor, glögg och paket. Det kommer bli jättefint.

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Julen 2006, vår gran.

Thumbs up for green Julian’s!

I have decided to join a global movement that is bringing much needed attention to prostate cancer. I’m doing this by growing a Moustache this Movember, the month formerly known as November. My commitment is to grow a moustache all November to change the face of men’s health and I want you to join me.

The funds we raise during our Moustache journey go to Prostate Cancer Canada.

What many people don’t know is that 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer to afflict Canadian men with 25,500 diagnosed and 4,400 dying from the disease each year. Facts like these have convinced me I should get involved.

To join my Movember team called Team Fatty Canada go to http://ca.movember.com/register/60354

Once registered you’ll be sent all the information needed to get donations and get growing as part of my Movember team.

Learn more about Movember by watching the Intro Video at http://ca.movember.com

Together we can change the face of men’s health.

Skip Williams

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I was having lunch on Friday with a friend who works at RIM (BlackBerry) and he made an interesting comment that I thought captures a lot of what the business world has become. He said, “Everyone expects their email to work all the time. Even if they are a summer student, if their BlackBerry doesn’t work for 5 seconds… they freak out!” I thought this was interesting on a couple levels; first, I realize RIM makes the BlackBerry, but why does every summer student “need” a BlackBerry? And second has everyone’s expectations of systems/services gone up that much?

Let’s sit back and think about the above statement when it comes to our (your) business…Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning is based on getting the critical services/systems back online as soon as possible to ensure the business suffers the least impact possible. Increasingly we are seeing email/blackberry as part of this critical systems bucket, are you willing to make getting email back to your summer/intern employees a priority? Or are you going to focus on more important business function? I hope the later…

Understanding what is a critical system, who uses this critical system and how it “really” impacts your business in a must when developing a realistic plan. The ability to triage your workload is the key to success when it comes to actually performing the recovery.

Keep this in mind when you are doing your next exercise:

1. What systems/services will impact my (companies) ability to deliver the product/service we sell for money?

2. What do I (we) need to do to protect that ability

3. How much money (or time) am I willing to commit to that protection?

It sounds simple, but it rarely is, as the internal politics of all business will pull you and your team in directions you really don’t want to go!

How do we avoid this?

Be sure you have a complete Threat Risk Analysis, Business Impact Analysis and finally real numbers to back up why you can’t focus all of your attention to supporting email and blackberry to all the summer interns. Once your senior management looks at the cost in dollars and time, they should understand why you couldn’t have everything backed up in 5 seconds without a budget to match!

KingsBridge is a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity company specializing in Software, Seminars and Consulting.  If you are looking for a Microsoft Office integrated recovery planning tool, Phoenix is not only an excellent tool, but the only completely integrated planning tool.  Our seminars (online and in-house) are some of the longest running seminars in the recovery business.  KingsBridge uses turn-key consulting for those who need the plan done, right the first time.  For more information about KingsBridge, checkoutwww.disasterrecovery.com

Getting ready to travel to Geneva to attend the Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM) for Europe and North America as preparation for next year’s Commission on Sustainable Development session. Am expecting 3 long, long days (UN is good at those), but hope to get back into the habit of daily blogging, as I did in May, while at the UN.

It’ll be different this time though, since I’m representing the Baha’i International Community as one of three  Organising Partners of the Women Major Group. And that’ll also mean meeting the EU Presidency (as rep. of the Women Major Group) on Monday evening. Am looking forward to meeting my fellow organising partners Alexandra from ‘Women in Europe for a Common Future’ and Nana from ‘Voices of African Mothers’.

All I can say is: stay tuned…..

AdMod, recently bought by Google, has released some interesting learnings, extracted from the data of the past two years. 

- The number of monthly ad requests in the AdMob network increased 6.3x over the past 2 years from 1.6 billion in September 2007 to 10.2 billion in September 2009.

- 64 countries sent more than 10 million requests in September 2009, compared to only 16 countries in September 2007.

- In September 2007, the top 10 mobile devices included 8 models by Nokia or Sony Ericsson.  In September 2009, these brands only have 3 models left in the top 10 (the N95, K800i and 5800 XpressMusic). The others have been replaced by phones from RIM (Blackberry), HTC and Apple (iPhone).

More details here

Motorola has exceeded Apple in brand loyalty among men ages 18-and-up since the launch of its new Droid handset, but the iPhone maker has remained well ahead of competitor BlackBerry, according to one study.

According to new, daily tracking statistics from YouGov BrandIndex, Apple dropped from a peak score of 48.1 in the month of November to a score of 22 last week. That took it below Motorola, which remained relatively static from its month-long peak of 32.3, finishing last week with a score of 29.3.The study's scale ranges from -100 to 100, based on interviews conducted with 5,000 people each weekday from a representative U.S. population sample. YouGov conducts more than 1.2 million interviews per year, selected from an online panel of more than 1.5 million unique individuals. The study has a margin of error of +/- 2 percent.The company said its survey demonstrates that Motorola has likely come out on top of the ongoing advertising dispute between Verizon and AT&T.”Motorola has seen its brand loyalty unaffected by AT&T's lawsuits against Verizon Wireless and ad war bashing,” YouGov said. “But it seems to have taken a toll on Blackberry, which has withered under all the Droid/iPhone marketing and hype.”

via AppleInsider | Motorola passes Apple in brand loyalty among men – study.

A RIM ainda continua a ser uma marca que detém uma posição confortável no mercado muito devido ao conjunto de serviços que oferece. A remodelação exterior da gama Blackberry também tem ajudado a conquistar alguma quota de mercado, mas o impulso final terá que ser dado pelo software, área onde a RIM ainda se encontra uns furos abaixo da concorrência.
O BlackberryOS 4.6 já tinha trazido várias novidades e uma nova estética, mas não foi suficiente, no seu conjunto, para defrontar sistemas operativos mais recentes como o iPhone ou o Android.

A Blackberry Developers Conference marca o arranque de um nova era da RIM, pelo menos no que toca a conteúdos, com a companhia canadiana a anunciar várias parcerias, suporte para uma série de tecnologias e uma mão cheia de novidades.
Da Adobe chega o compromisso de integrar no Creative Suite 5 (CS5) suporte para os Blackberrys, tanto no Flash como no Dreamweaver e Fireworks. O primeiro permitirá a criação de aplicações e conteúdos Flash adaptadas ás necessidades e especificidades dos terminais canadianos, enquanto que os dois últimos passarão a ser uma das plataformas privilegiadas para a criação de widgets. Os conteúdos gráficos não foram esquecidos, e todas as ferramentas de edição gráfica, como o Illustrator, o Photoshop ou o After Effects passarão a dispor de templates e suporte para a criação de imagens e temas.
A Oracle foi outra das parceiras anunciadas, passando a existir uma maior interligação entre as duas plataformas, tanto do lado da Oracle na criação de soluções adaptadas aos Blackberrys, como da RIM na publicação e actualização de bases de dados da primeira.

A plataforma Blackberry passa a contar com dois novos serviços: o Payement Service e o Advertising Service que servirão para dar uma maior flexibilidade aos programadores de recuperarem o investimento feito no desenvolvimento das aplicações. O Eclipse continuará a ser a ferramenta de desenvolvimento predilecta da RIM, contando agora com um novo plug-in que incorpora um editor de Interfaces (GUI Editor), enquanto que a plataforma passa a ser compatível com a tecnologia OpenGL ES que abrirá uma porta à criação de jogos tridimensionais de grande impacto. Ainda a pensar nos programadores, a RIM anunciou que as Blackberry Development Tools estarão também disponíveis para a plataforma Machintosh (e Linux mais tarde).

Uma nova aplicações para compor temas, alterar ícones, fonts, cores e os vários aspectos gráficos da Interface dos Blackberrys foi apresentada, pondo fim a uma geração de Plazmic CDK. Os botões e elementos gráficos podem ser animados, recorrendo ao Blackberry Composer, uma das componentes do Blackberry Theme Builder.Por fim houve a confirmação que um novo browser Internet baseado no WebKit será lançado brevemente, permitindo à RIM recuperar algum do terreno perdido neste campo para a concorrência.

Na verdade, o celular da Apple lidera com MUITA folga. No primeiro gráfico temos os acessos à web através de smartphones divididos por fabricante, e no segundo gráfico por sistema operacional.

Enough said. Direto do Seidi Mobile.

A couple of days ago i made a post about how Egypt Yellow Pages iPhone application traffic is 60% more than the rest of the Mobile Yellow Pages traffic combined…

Today i will explain this more, we should be actually looking at the smartphone traffic share rather than the sales share. According to October statistics published by AdMob, iPhone smart traffic share represents about 50% of all the smartphone devices including Symbian, RIM, Windows Mobile, Android, Palm, …

So how did we reach this situation? It was just a step by step… Traffic share for iPhone:

• Feb 09: 33% share
• Aug 09: 40% share
• Oct 09: 50% share

Traffic share for Symbian:

• Feb 09: 43%
• Aug 09: 34%
• Oct 09: 25%

Android looks also promising, from 2% in February to 11% in October

Hari ini, BlackBerry Bold 9700 a.k.a Onyx secara resmi diperkenalkan di Jakarta. Dalam sebuah perhelatan di Dragon Fly, Jakarta, smartphone itu dipamerkan ke hadapan para jurnalis nanti sore pukul 15.00 WIB.

Dijual dengan harga eceran Rp 6.450.000 (di luar pajak dan tanpa kartu), seri terbaru BlackBerry teranyar ini dijejali sistem operasi versi 5.0 untuk komunikasi high-end, wifi, dan koneksi GSM berbasis 3G — seperti yang sudah ada di Bold pendahulunya. Kabarnya, jaringan BlackBerry messenger di versi ini sudah tingkatkan sehingga jauh lebih nyaman dibanding pendahulunya.

Apa lagi yang baru? Seperti BlackBerry Gemini 8520, seri Bold 9700 Onyx juga telah mengganti Trackball dengan Trackpad yang lebih sensitif. Dengan alat navigasi tersebut, pengguna terhindar dari risiko tombol ngadat gara-gara debu yang menumpuk.

Mengenai spesifikasi lengkap BlackBerry Bold 9700, silakan baca-baca penjelasannya di sini. Soalnya, terus terang saya belum merasakan sendiri keasyikan memainkan perangkat baru ini.

Saya malah sudah lebih dulu menjajal BlackBerry Curve 8520 a.k.a Gemini. Ini BlackBerry tipe paling murah, dijual sekitar Rp 2,1 juta – Rp 2,4 juta (tanpa kartu dari operator). Di tengah eforia pasar Indonesia yang tengah tergila-gila pada semua produk buatan RIM Kanada ini, Gemini tampaknya cukup cepat terserap, terutama di kalangan first BlackBerry users.

Sosoknya mirip BlackBerry Curve 8900 (Javelin), lengkap dengan keyboard QWERTY. Curve 8520 atawa Gemini adalah produk pertama Research in Motion yang menggunakan trackpad optik sebagai perangkat navigasi menggantikan trackball yang juga terdapat pada seri Javelin dan Bold.

BlackBerry 8520 Gemini

Peranti anyar ini, bagi saya, lebih nyaman ketimbang trackball. Sebelumnya saya sempat memakai Curve 8310 dengan trackball. Dua kali saya harus membawanya ke tempat servis untuk dibersihkan dan satu kali membeli trackball baru. Navigator berbentuk bola ini cepat kotor dan membuat fungsinya terganggu. Trackpad nyaris bebas dari gangguan semacam itu.

Trackpad tampaknya merupakan jawaban RIM atas keluhan para pengguna terhadap trackball. Tak heran bila seri-seri BlackBerry berikutnya pun memakai sistem navigasi tarckpad sebagai pengganti trackball.

Curve 8520 juga dilengkapi media keys di bagian atas untuk mengakses musik dan video, seperti play, repeat, dan mute. Lalu ada BlackBerry Media Sync yang memudahkan sinkronisasi dengan iTunes atau Windows Media Player.

Untuk membantu orang-orang seperti saya, disediakan BlackBerry App World, bursa aplikasi khusus BlackBerry. Dengan fasilitas ini, saya bisa menjelajah situs BlackBerry untuk mengunduh, misalnya, theme, wallpaper, ringtone, dan sebagainya. Aplikasi itu ada yang gratis, ada pula yang berbayar.

Namun, ada sedikit pengurangan pada Curve 8520 seperti kamera hanya 2 megapiksel, sedangkan pada Javelin 3,2 megapiksel.

Layarnya 2,64 inci TFT LCD 320X240 piksel — lebih cerah dan tajam ketimbang 8310. Ketebalan bodinya hanya 39 sentimeter, panjang 10,9 cm, dan lebar 6 cm. Beratnya 106 gram. Fiturnya juga belum mendukung 3G, baru GSM/GPRS/EDGE. Tapi tersedia fasilitas WiFi dan Bluetooth.

Curve 8520 menggunakan prosesor 52 MHz, memori internal 256 MB, dan mendukung slot memori eksternal microSD/SDHC dari 16 GB yang kini tersedia hingga generasi berikutnya 32 GB.

Memori itu cukup memadai untuk mengakomodasi kegiatan saya sehari-hari, seperti browsing, membuka dan menulis email, berkicau di Twitter, Facebook, dan membaca blog. Jam pasir yang kerap keluar di BlackBerry 8310 saya dulu, sekarang tak nongol lagi di Gemini.

Bagaimana dengan daya tahan baterai?

Pada seri 8310, saya bisa menggenjot baterainya hingga sekitar 12 jam untuk pemakaian normal. Sedangkan daya tahan baterai 8520 sedikit lebih panjang, sekitar 18 jam dalam pemakaian normal. Mungkin karena lebih baru. Yang jelas, kalau saya pakai untuk membuka UberTwitter secara nonstop, daya tahan baterai, baik 8310 maupun 8520, menyusut drastis.

Last but not least, pilihan ada di tangan sampean. Setiap pilihan hendaknya didasari oleh kebutuhan, dan bukan sekadar gaya-gayaan atau mengikuti trend semata. Jadilah konsumen yang cerdas.

>> Selamat hari Rabu, Ki Sanak. Apakah sampean tertarik memiliki salah satu dari dua seri BlackBerry terbaru itu?

RIM, the maker of the popular smartphone, Blackberry, today updated its Blackberry Media Sync application to version 3.0. In addition to syncing music from iTunes and Windows Media Player, Blackberry Media sync can now sync photos to and from your PC. Blackberry Media Sync is an application that lets you well, sync media between your Blackberry and your computer. I have not had a chance to try this new update because I do not have a Blackberry accessible at the moment but as soon I do I will be sure to update this post with my thoughts on the application. The previous version of Blackberry Media Sync, however, did not seem to work for me so I am looking forward to finding out if this new version fixes the problems I had.

For more information on the update, Click Here and to download it Click Here.

Vodafone España y Research In Motion (RIM) han anunciado hoy el lanzamiento comercial del nuevo smartphone BlackBerry Storm2 (modelo 9520) que Vodafone tendrá en exclusiva estas Navidades y que está disponible en los puntos de venta habitual a partir de la próxima semana.

La segunda generación del innovador smartphone de pantalla táctil de RIM, BlackBerry Storm2, incluye una versión avanzada de la pantalla táctil de los smartphones BlackBerry, así como nuevas tecnologías y características que permiten a los clientes permanecer en contacto con las personas, lugares y cosas que más les importan.

Los clientes empresas y autónomos con “acuerdo PYME” podrán adquirir el terminal a desde 29€ con el servicio BlackBerry Profesional de 15€/mes. Esta tarifa incluye correo “push email”, navegación por Internet y acceso a aplicaciones exclusivas del portal Vodafone Business Place.

La Tarifa Plana Ilimitada de BlackBerry para empresas y autónomos incluye el tráfico de correo electrónico para consultar, editar, responder y adjuntar archivos; mensajería instantánea, acceso a Internet para navegar sin límite y a la tienda de aplicaciones profesionales Business Place, redes sociales, por 15€/mes (sin i.v.a.) Esto, junto con un plan de voz de empresas, permite que los clientes de Vodafone tengan el gasto controlado en todo momento.

Los clientes particulares lo podrán obtener desde 49€ con la Tarifa Plana Mini “A Todos” o con la Tarifa Plana Mini “24 Horas” (350 min./mes por 19€/mes) y con la “Tarifa Plana de Internet en el Móvil Plus” de 15€/mes. Esta tarifa incluye toda la Música sin Límites, la navegación por Internet, las redes sociales y el correo electrónico.

El smartphone BlackBerry Storm2 incluye algunos de los servicios Vodafone 360, como Vodafone Music o Mi Web, el servicio de acceso a Internet de Vodafone 360.

Entre las nuevas características del smartphone BlackBerry Storm2 se incluye una versión de la tecnología SurePress basada en un sistema de suspensión electrónica. La nueva tecnología facilita la navegación y el uso del teclado virtual, permitiendo una escritura rápida y acciones de multi-teclado como la combinación de las teclas Shift o Alt.

El smartphone BlackBerry Storm2 soporta UMTS/HSPA (2100 Mhz), cuatribanda EDGE/GPRS/GSM y redes WiFi (802.11 b/g).

The iPhone leads the pack, Android is gaining, everybody else is losing share

Click to enlarge. Source: AdMob

It’s been a year since Google (GOOG) released Android OS, the open-source smartphone operating system widely perceived as the most likely to overtake Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone in the long run.

As it happens, Google this month also purchased AdMob, the world’s largest purveyor of mobile phone advertising. So this seemed as good a time as any to take a snapshot of the changing smartphone marketplace, as measured by ad requests to AdMob’s network.

We reviewed a year’s worth of AdMob data — including the October numbers released Monday — and charted it on the graph at right (reproduced full-size below the fold).

There’s a bias in the data, since AdMob ads run better on iPhone OS and Android devices than on, say, Research in Motion (RIMM) BlackBerries. But the trends are clear.

Over the past year, Nokia’s (NOK) Symbian has lost the largest raw market share, down to 25% last month from 59% the same month a year earlier. In percentage terms, Windows Mobile (MSFT) is the biggest loser, down 70% in 12 months, with Symbian, Palm’s (PALM) Web OS and BlackBerry OS close behind.

These numbers are based on worldwide ad requests. Apple’s lead is even greater when AdMob zeroes in on the U.S. and U.K. markets. For a look at how the iPhone’s share of the U.S. and worldwide markets have grown, see the chart prepared by MacRumors’ Erik Slivka here.

Below the fold: A full-size fever chart of AdMob’s worldwide data for all the major smartphone operating systems.

[Follow Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Twitter @philiped]

Source: AdMob