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Speakers for your MP3 player are never going to be both portable and able to pump out great sound.

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Finland’s GeoSentric unveiled on Wednesday its mobile social networking service GypSii for Apple’s iPhone.

The GypSii application lets iPhone users to get maps and directions and access other location-based as well as social networking services.

Apple has shipped more than five million iPhones globally since its launch in June last year, GeoSentric said.

Source: Reuters

Linutop is a miniaturized ready-to-use desktop PC, designed to reduce maintenance costs.

Low maintenance
The Linutop operating system is stored on an internal flash memory and cannot be altered by virus or mishap.
Initial state is recovered at each restart.

Low deployment costs
Linutop is delivered with free standard ready-to-use Linux software: Firefox, Open Office, VLC Media player… and can be easily customized with additional software.

Energy saving
With no moving parts, Linutop offers a completely silent (0 dB), energy-efficient operation in an extremely small package.

Linutop customers are:
- Hotels, Museums, Public Terminals…
- Shops, Bars, Point-of-Sale Terminals, Kiosks…
- Schools, Offices, Factories…

Source: http://www.linutop.fr/

Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia smartphones later this year.

The two companies on Tuesday at Microsoft’s Mix ‘08 conference are scheduled to announce that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia’s Series 60 (S60) smartphone software that runs on Symbian OS. The software, which will be available later this year, will also run on Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets.

For people with compatible devices, it means they will be able to see content, notably video, written for Silverlight, which Microsoft is pushing as an alternative to Adobe’s Flash Player. Microsoft has been signing on content partners to use Silverlight for media streaming, including MLB.com and online Olympic games broadcasting with NBC.

For Microsoft, the deal with Nokia is a step in its pledge to make Silverlight “ubiquitous,” that is, capable of running on multiple operating systems.

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The system from SecurEnvoy offers two-factor authentication that transforms mobile phones into virtual network tokens.

Instead of using tokens or smart cards, the SecurAccess system sends a passcode to users’ mobile phones.

When users wish to log on to the corporate system, they enter their Microsoft User ID and password, and then the passcode that has been pre-enabled on their mobile phone.

Once the passcode has been used, it is superseded with a new one sent to the phone.

This pre-loading function eliminates the need to install any software on to the mobile device, and provides users with access to their passcode as soon as they need it, rather than having to wait for an SMS message to be delivered.

John Lewis expects to make considerable savings by swapping from token-based two-factor authentication to SecurAccess.

The user licence is cheaper than purchasing, replacing and distributing tokens, and deployment costs are lower with no need for training courses.

Matthew Clements, principal programmer for John Lewis, said, “We have been using traditional token based two factor authentication for remote access systems since the late 1990s.

“However, after reviewing the capital, revenue and administration costs associated with the existing system, we decided to look for a cheaper alternative, and found SecurEnvoy’s tokenless approach to be far superior, and a cost effective solution.”

Source: ComputerWeekly