- Spb Software House Releases Spb Insight - a Full-Text Pocket PC News Reader
- Skweezer Selected by Ask.com for New Ask Mobile Search
- Skweezer Selected by Bloglines to Improve Mobile Experience
- PlanMaker 2006 for Pocket PCs enters public beta test phase
- Spb Software House releases Spb Finance 2.6 with Microsoft Money 2007 synchronization support.
- SoftMaker Office 2006 for Windows released
- New website for PDA Developers
- Spb Software House Releases Spb Diary 2.0
- Demand for Mobile Access to Social Networking Sites Growing
- Skweezer Nominated for Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine's Best Software Awards
Spb Software House Releases Spb Diary -- an Instant Pocket PC Organizer Tuesday, April 26 2005
Spb Software House announces the release of a new PIM Today plug-in for Calendar, Tasks and Contacts -- Spb Diary.
In September, 2004 the first Spb Pocket PC Survey demonstrated that 85% of Pocket PC users use their Pocket PC as an organizer. This is the single most popular use for Pocket PC users. However, the standard Pocket PC tools for handling PIM data have turned out to be underwhelming at best. Especially concerning the most important part -- PIM plug-ins for the Today screen. A standard Pocket PC offers only a minimally functional Today plug-in for appointments and tasks with minimum functionality and no Today plug-in for contacts at all.
Today Spb Software House has released Spb Diary -- a powerful replacement for the standard PIM Today plug-ins. Spb Pocket Plus, arguably Spb's most famous application, greatly enhances the Pocket PC operating system. Spb Diary follows this line by improving standard PIM Today plug-ins. It has three Today plug-ins for calendar, tasks and contacts organized in tabs. The tab structure of the plug-in saves useful screen space. The usability testing proved that for PIM Today plug-ins height is a more important parameter than width because the number of displayed items is critical. That's why tabs in Spb Diary Today plug-in have vertical layout. The program provides deep integration with Pocket Outlook, Agenda Fusion and Pocket Informant. Even category icons can be inherited by Spb Diary from the associated PIM. On the other hand, the program allows users to get any kind of PIM data in just a few taps without leaving the Today screen and switching to PIM applications.
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It's a well-known fact that the most frequent and natural use for your Pocket PC is as a powerful organizer. In whatever other way you use your Pocket PC (playing games, listening to music, browsing the Internet, and/or reading e-books, etc), it will be used most often as a reliable tool for storing contacts and for managing appointments and tasks. The results of the first Spb Pocket PC Survey conducted in September, 2004, confirmed this tendency. According to the results, 85% of the more than 10,000 participants claimed that they constantly use their Pocket PC as an organizer, which makes it the single most popular use for Pocket PC users.
In this respect, just how good does the Pocket PC rate as an organizer? How handy are the three main PIM applications: appointments, tasks and contacts? Standard Pocket PC tools for handling PIM data have turned out to be underwhelming at best, and especially in what may be the most important part --PIM plug-ins for the Today screen. Most people would like to see all of their everyday information right on the Today screen and the ability to get to any entry in one or two taps. The standard Today plug-in for appointments usually shows only one upcoming appointment for today, and the rest can be accessed only by opening the Calendar. The standard Today plug-in for tasks shows only the number of active tasks and tasks of high priority. This provides a user with no meaningful information. Finally, there's no standard Today plug-in for contacts. Looking for a particular contact, which should be a two-tap process at best, is painfully over-complicated.
Spb Diary from Spb Software House is an elegant solution for all of these problems. The Spb Diary solution is to provide you with a three-in-one Today plug-in with tabs for Calendar, Tasks and Contacts. Spb Diary hones to perfection PIM-use on the Pocket PC.
With Spb Diary you no longer have to open a PIM application just to find out whether you have any appointments planned for tomorrow or to find somebody's e-mail address. All your information is conveniently on the Today screen. And you can adjust the height of the plug-in so that you can see as many entries at a time as you want.
1. PIM Today plug-in with tabs for Calendar, Tasks and Contacts
The tabbed structure of the plug-in allows users to save as much useful screen space as possible. One tap opens a tab with all the most important entries (e.g. all appointments for today and for tomorrow) displayed.
2. Integration with Pocket Outlook, Agenda Fusion and Pocket Informant
Spb Diary is a perfect Today plug-in addition for these PIM applications. It doesn't matter which PIM application you use, Spb Diary works with each one. Even category icons can be inherited by Spb Diary from the associated PIM.
3. Most frequent actions can be performed without leaving the Today screen
As most users of Spb Diary point out, the number of times when it's necessary to open a PIM application is significantly reduced. All the most frequent actions can be performed without ever leaving the Today screen. Spb Diary opens the correct PIM application automatically only for entering new or modifying existing data. Other actions such as viewing item subject, location and notes, rescheduling, dialing a number, changing item priority and status, changing reminder, beaming entries - all of these actions can be performed directly from your Today screen in Spb Diary in just a few taps.
*** Pricing and Availability ***
You can download a free trial version working for 15 days from the day of installation. The registered version costs $14.95.
You can download a trial version from Spb's web site:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/diary/download.html
You can purchase Spb Diary here:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/diary/purchase.html
*** Further Information and Downloads ***
Further information regarding Spb Diary can be found on the Spb Web site:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/diary/
Spb Diary screenshots:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/diary/screenshots.html
Download the program here:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/diary/download.html
*** About Spb Software House ***
Spb Software House is a software development company, specializing mainly in Windows Mobile software for Pocket PCs. Founded in 1999, the company offers advanced software solutions for use in a wide range of applications.
Source: Spb Software House
Sales and Shopping Using Handheld Computers Tuesday, April 26 2005
Sales and Shopping Using Handheld Computers
Handy Solution software has released new version of Handy Service. The program is intended for sales and shopping assistance, job management and work log tracking using Palm OS handheld computers. It is addressed to waiters and service staff, salesmen, contractors, business owners and home users.
The new version introduces:
- print support, which allows you to conveniently print bills or pricelist,
- export to memopad and memory card file, which allows you to send bills and prices somewhere else,
- wireless communication between desktop computer and multiple handhelds, which allows you to see what your staff are doing world-wide.
Handy Service helps to track orders for goods, dishes and services,maintain shopping lists, plan purchases, estimate of purchase expenses and see reports. The program allows to track jobs for multiple clients and account for done and paid jobs. It is useful at the restaurants, shops and services. Also it is useful for tracking other items and activities, like home inventory, physical trainings, etc.
Handy Service includes freeware lite version and desktop version.
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What do the users think about this program?
Doug Coulter, carpet business owner: "Handy Service was a little app that has grown to a high level of sophistication yet has retained the simplicity required to be used in those situations where you have to think quickly on your feet. Data collection has always been humdrum at best but Handy Service takes the doldrums out of data entry with its easy to use and intuitive method. You will be up and running in minutes. Orders/quotes/invoices and goods/services information can instantly be added to the current activity with remarkable speed. Any or almost all information of the current task can be displayed on the screen in a variety of ways depending upon one's preferences. Printing to a portable printer is done effortlessly and exporting information can be sent in an infinite number of ways to most applications. Information can be used as stand-alone on the handunit or shared with a PC/network. This app's developer is by far the most receptive to feature requests and problem solving of any to the point of not only resolving the request but looking for more ideas and feature requests to improve this product and make it as all encompassing as possible. Its like having your own personal IT guy. You've just got to try this one."
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Download trial version:
http://handysolution.com/HandyService.zip
Download freeware lite version:
http://handysolution.com/HandyServiceLite.zip
More info:
http://handysolution.com/hs.htm
Screenshots:
http://handysolution.com/screens/hiresplushs.gif
http://handysolution.com/screens/screen45.gif
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For more information, please, contact:
Dmitry Briliuk, CEO
Handy Solution Software
http://www.handysolution.com
Source: Handy Solution Software
VITO VoiceDialer 3.6: Discount 30% off! Saturday, April 23 2005
VITO VoiceDialer 3.6 for Pocket PC by VITO Technology
VITO VoiceDialer 3.6: Discount 30% off! Only 11.15$!
VITO VoiceDialer is voice recognition and dialing software for your Pocket PC.
Choosing the contacts to dial manually from the address book is slow, boring and even dangerous if you drive. With VoiceDialer, you can just pronounce a name without pressing anything!
Voice dialing is the only thing, which your Pocket PC doesn't have yet. While it has already become a standard for every phone to have a voice dialing
system, Pocket PC's generally miss this option. VITO VoiceDialer fills this gap.
VoiceDialer uses voice commands that you record by yourself, thus it understands any language, even your dog's barking! Your dog can finally call you, isnt't it great?
VITO VoiceDialer is compatible with all versions and editions of Windows Mobile. If you have a Phone Edition device (for example iMate, XDA and MDA series, Qtek), VITO VoiceDialer will use the integrated dialer; if you have a general Pocket PC, VITO VoiceDialer will establish a Bluetooth, infrared or cable connection with your cellphone.
* Commands can be assigned to certain phone numbers from Contacts database
* Based on Voice Recognition Engine originally developed by VITO Technology
* Provides precise and accurate voice recognition even in poor conditions
* NEW! Voice tags can be backed up and restored * NEW! You can hear the name of the caller
* Support of Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition
* With CCF files support you can download settings for your equipment from the internet, and even use the original remote controls' interface!
* It helps you to keep all your remote controls inside of one handheld device!
Pdatopsoft.com - Palm, Pocket PC, Windows CE, EPOC(Symbian), Smartphones, RIM and Windows Mobile software at www.pdatopsoft.com.
New submissions daily!
Source: PdaTopSoft.com
Third-party Software for BlackBerry at the Tipping Point Tuesday, April 19 2005
Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads, has identified a collection of trends indicating that third-party applications for BlackBerry(R), developed by Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), have reached a tipping point - the point at which sales begin to accelerate exponentially based on a variety of market factors. Handango has increased its investment in BlackBerry technology with a new version of Handango InHand for BlackBerry, Handango's white label on-device catalog and download manager solution, as well as a new consumer newsletter for BlackBerry and marketing programs for BlackBerry developers.
"Using our proprietary customer data, we have identified a set of trends that indicate tremendous momentum around BlackBerry," said Randy Eisenman, president and chief executive officer at Handango. "With accelerating growth in BlackBerry sales, wireless activations remain amazingly high, and the interest and uptake of third-party applications is beating all of our expectations."
Among the key data points:
· Overall Handango software sales for BlackBerry are up 1,201 percent over the same quarter last year and 64 percent over Q4 2004.
· Sales per unique BlackBerry customer are 13 percent higher than Palm OS(R) and are growing.
· Visitors to BlackBerry download portals powered by Handango are up 29 percent over Q4 2004.
· Conversion rate for BlackBerry customers is 69 percent higher than palmOne customers throughout Q1 2005.
· The number of third-party BlackBerry applications has grown an average of 41 percent quarter over quarter from Q1 2004 to Q1 2005.
"Having watched mobile software markets for more than six years, we're seeing the same set of trends in BlackBerry that we saw in Symbian OS(TM) immediately before application sales skyrocketed in the fall of 2003 and Symbian OS phones began topping our device lists," said Clint Patterson, vice president of marketing at Handango. "All of our data tell us that third-party software for BlackBerry is poised for massive growth in sales, developers and applications."
Handango has also launched a new version of its consumer newsletters for BlackBerry users, as well as new marketing programs for BlackBerry developers to help them take advantage of the growing number of BlackBerry application channels Handango is creating. More information about Handango's newsletters can be found at www.handango.com/Newsletter.jsp, and more information about the Handango Developer Program is available at www.handango.com/partners.
For a copy of 2004 key statistics about the third-party applications market for BlackBerry, consult the Handango Yardstick Year-End Edition for BlackBerry at http://www.handango.com/pdf/HandangoYardstick_BlackBerry2004.pdf.
About Handango
Handango is the leading provider of mobile downloads bringing over 50,000 applications and 25,000 digital media titles to market through an extensive global distribution network that reaches millions of mobile customers. Handango's application management and provisioning platform, Handango AMPP, has been chosen as the mobile software delivery platform for Nokia, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Orange SA, Sony Ericsson, palmOne, Microsoft, HP, Sega Mobile, AOL and more than 100 others. For more information, visit http://corp.handango.com.
The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.
Source: Handango
Beiks announces Clickomania 2002 for the new Qool QDA-700 phone made by PiTech Thursday, April 14 2005
Clickomania 2002, also known as Qoolmania here, is specially optimized and will look brilliantly on your new QDA700, guaranteeing hours of fun with one of the instant classics in the brain teasers department.
Excellent for kids with its addictive game play, high quality graphics and sound effects, you can buy some quiet time when you need it most and it surely develops your kid's visual thinking and color senses. Although perfect for kids, we have found Qoolmania to have excellent relaxation effect on adults as well. We do recommend that you try it out.
The goal of the game is to achieve highest possible score, which is mostly possible by playing as long as you can. The task is to combine fruits of same kind in groups of three or more in horizontal or vertical lines, by replacing a fruit on the table with one of the available in the pool at the right of the display. The catch is, you can only replace a fruit if by doing so a group of 3 or more fruits will be arranged.
Qoolmania is available in four distribution formats: self-extracting Palm OS PRC file, which will work on all platforms; a ZIP package which extracts to a single, Mac OS X installation wizard; Just a ZIP file with the game and short manual, appropriate for advanced users on all platforms; and self-extracting EXE installation, recommended for novice Microsoft Windows users.
A trial version of the game can be downloaded from http://qool.beiks.com/. The registration is only $10.00.
About Beiks LLC
Beiks LLC (http://www.beiks.com) is a privately-held company with headquarters in Dallas. The company specializes in developing and distributing essential applications for mobile platforms such as Palm OS®, Windows CE®, Sharp Zaurus® and J2ME®. Founded in 1997, the company is best known for its BDicty Dictionary Reader, one of the most popular dictionaries for handheld devices on the market. Beiks' product list now includes a growing catalog of over 250 titles across all major mobile platforms. Those include the award-winning BDicty Dictionary Reader dictionary series, games such as NetWalk and Karateka, the Wall Street Financial Assistant business calculator, the Woman Calendar personal organizer and many others.
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Public relations contact:
Kevin Doel
TalonPR, Inc.
785-273-9660
Source: Beiks announces Clickomania 2002 for the new Qool QDA-700 phone
IAMBIC EXPANDS PRODUCT PORTFOLIO WITH THE LAUNCH OF TWO NEW, ENTRY-LEVEL PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR PALM OS DEVICES Wednesday, April 13 2005
iambic, Inc., a leading provider of productivity enhancement software for handheld computers (PDAs and smartphones) today announced the release of two new entry-level programs for users of Palm OS devices that are simple to use and quite powerful.
Easy Address is a contact list manager that simplifies the process of associating pictures and icons to contacts, and includes image-cropping capabilities. Easy Notes is a memo list manager that features voice recording capabilities and “Draw & Sketch” functionality for taking quick notes on the go.
These programs were acquired from Binary Garden in February 2005, and modified by iambic to improve functionality and provide support for d-pad enabled devices such as Palm One’s Treo. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
“Though our flagship product, the Agendus series of award-winning productivity enhancement solutions, has been a hit with power users of handheld devices, it ended up being a bit overwhelming for new users of Treo or Tungsten devices,” said Vidal Graupera, president and founder of iambic, Inc. “The acquisition of Binary Garden’s Easy Address and Easy Notes allows us to fill the entry-level side of our portfolio, so that we can now provide users with a great stepping-stone to ease the transition to Agendus.”
Just like its sibling, the Agendus series of products, both Easy Address and Easy Notes are designed to work “out-of-the box” by leveraging data from the native address, calendar, and to do list that come with the Palm operating system.
Easy Address
Easy Address provides everything users need to get their contacts organized. It also includes a photo feature that lets users edit their pictures before adding them to their contacts. It has a clean and fully customizable interface with a fast and powerful way to search for contacts. Easy Address requires a color Palm OS device running OS 3.5 or later and 350kb of free memory. It costs $14.95 and is available for download at http://www.iambic.com/easyaddress/palmos/
Easy Notes
Easy Notes provides an easy way to manage text notes, pen/drawing notes and voice notes in a single application. It is also fully customizable and offers flexibility how these notes are used. Easy Notes requires a color Palm OS device running OS 3.5 or later and 250kb of free memory. It costs $14.95 and is available for download at http://www.iambic.com/easynotes/palmos/
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About iambic, Inc.
Since 1994, iambic, Inc. has been developing powerful Palm OS and Symbian OS software for both business and personal use. Today, iambic is recognized worldwide for creating sophisticated yet user-friendly solutions that help both business organizations and individuals everywhere save time, manage their activities more effectively and get the most out of their handheld computers. iambic's diverse family of software addresses time and expense tracking; contact and schedule management; word processing; spreadsheet analysis; sales forecasting; money management; and more. For more information, visit http://www.iambic.com. iambic is a registered trademark of iambic, Inc. All other products, service and company names are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
Source: iambic, Inc.
SoftMaker Releases TextMaker and PlanMaker in Spanish and Portuguese Monday, April 11 2005
SoftMaker, the German maker of the multi-platform office suite SoftMaker Office, announced immediate availability of localized Spanish and Portuguese versions of its software today.
This means that SoftMaker customers can now work with TextMaker (the word processor) and PlanMaker (the spreadsheet) in four languages: English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese – and even switch between these languages while working with the applications.
With these new additions, SoftMaker recognizes the importance of América Latina and the Iberian peninsula and hopes that this is a valuable improvement for many existing and future customers.
TextMaker is a lightning-fast and reliable word processor, needs little memory, and offers the rich feature set of Microsoft Word. Most importantly, TextMaker reads and writes all Microsoft Word files from 6.0 up to the current Word 2003 seamlessly.
TextMaker is available for Windows, Linux, Pocket PCs, Handheld PCs, Windows CE.NET, Sharp Zaurus, and FreeBSD.
PlanMaker offers the feature set and ease-of-use of a modern high-end spreadsheet application and is closely modeled after market-leading Microsoft Excel. Its key features are more than 320 calculation functions, seamless import and export of all Microsoft Excel files, fully Microsoft Excel-compatible charting, and full support for Microsoft Excel's AutoShape drawings. If you can do it in Excel, you can do it in PlanMaker!
PlanMaker is available for Windows, Linux, Pocket PCs, Handheld PCs, and Windows CE.NET.
Normally retailing at US$49.95 (49.95 Euro) each, TextMaker and PlanMaker are on sale this week. Their respective price until April 22 is just US$34.95 (34.95 Euro), netting customers a saving of 15 Dollars or Euros.
SoftMaker is now also offering localized versions of its
web site. Spanish-language customers should visit
www.softmaker.com/espanol and Portuguese readers will find their site at www.softmaker.com/brasil
For additional information visit: www.softmaker.com
or contact: info@softmaker.de
Phone +49-911-936 386 0
Fax +49-911-30 37 96
Source: SoftMaker Software GmbH
Skweezer Integrated into the "Toyota Hub" Telematics Portal Tuesday, April 5 2005
Greenlight Wireless today announced that its Skweezer service, which optimizes Web content for handheld devices, has been incorporated into the "Toyota Hub" mobile computing portal created by Toyota France.
Skweezer's content reformatting technology is employed whenever users surf the Internet through Toyota's PDA-oriented Hub service. Toyota's "private label" Skweezer has been completely re-branded to integrate seamlessly with the distinctive look and feel of the Toyota Hub and includes custom features such as a Google search bar, French language user interface, and Toyota-oriented featured links. Skweezer is also fully integrated into the Hub's customer acquisition system, operated by Acticall and Mobile & Permission, which automatically creates a Skweezer account for each new Hub user without requiring a separate sign up procedure.
Toyota Hub is a telematics service that combines mobile computing with the latest Toyota models, enabling consumers to access exclusive content including entertainment, roadside assistance, and GPS navigation. Automobiles can be equipped with an in-dash cradle for QTEK 9090 or S100 Pocket PC devices sold directly by Toyota, featuring mobile phone, digital camera, and GPS navigation functionality. This hardware component is optional, as Toyota customers can also access the Hub using their own handheld device. Toyota Hub is a subscription-based service that costs 25€ per month and is currently only available in France, however the service will be expanded to other European markets throughout 2005.
About Toyota France:
Toyota's commitment to the end consumer encompasses taking into account the end consumers local practices and habits starting from designing adapted cars down to operating local manufacturing units. For instance, the Yaris car is manufactured in France and designed in Toyota's European Design Centre "ED2" located in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Resulting from this strategy, Toyota France became a major player in the French Automotive marketplace operating six manufacturing units in Valenciennes-Onnaing. Toyota Motor Manufacturing France is the second largest Toyota manufacturing unit in Europe and the first one in Continental Europe.
For more information, please visit www.toyota.fr
About Greenlight Wireless:
Greenlight Wireless is a leading innovator of wireless technologies, providing ASP and server-component solutions for enterprise-level businesses and wireless carriers. Greenlight Wireless' consumer-oriented Skweezer service optimizes Web content for wireless-enabled handheld devices. Greenlight Wireless provides value to partners and licensees by leveraging its robust and proven technologies across diverse platforms and operating systems.
On the Net: Greenlight Wireless site: www.greenlightwireless.net
Source: Greenlight Wireless
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