- 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
Cash Organizer '05 Q&M Companion 6.77: Discount 30% off! Thursday, June 30 2005
Cash Organizer '05 Q&M Companion 6.77 by Inesoft
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Cash Organizer '05 Q&M Companion provides continuous data exchange with Microsoft Money® or Quicken® - all you need to have your data synchronized is just
to connect you mobile device to PC, and all possibilities of your desktop financial manager when you are on the go. Make business reports and plan your
financial future, control a budget and find additional means that you can save for realizing your dreams. It's a professional power available to everyone.
Cash Organizer was developed to be your partner from a first use; there are no complicated features you must study before you can use them. Everything is
as easy and clear as it can be.
Cash Organizer allows to separate your business finances from private ones, create account groups for easy bank account and related credit cards balance
controlling. The unique MultiBudget technology enables to create a budget that can more than only trace category spending limits - you can specify purposes
you spend money for.
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Great possibilities of data sharing make Cash Organizer a really especial application. You can export your financial data not only to Excel, TXT or HTML
file, but to any application, just use Copy and Paste function. Cash Organizer is integrated with Contacts database as well as Calendar. Use contacts as
one of transaction's properties and allow Cash Organizer to add entries to your schedule to be notified of important payments.
Cash Organizer's interactive reports offer various modes of data presentation, you can check how any value was calculated, zoom small-sized graphical
elements and do not need a PC to make printouts. Any information you need at the moment is available immediately thanks to My Reports mode. Yes, you are
not limited to predefined set and can create your own reports based on your most often used data filters. Additionally a currency exchange rate history
table allows to return to the past and create reports adequate to that period.
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Selection and Quality of Third-Party Software is Extremely Influential in the Mobile Device Purchase Decision, According to Handango Buyer Survey Monday, June 27 2005
HURST, Texas -- June 27, 2005 -- Third-party software is a powerful influencer in the decision to purchase a smartphone or handheld, according to a recent Handango survey of mobile content users and their behavior. The in-depth results from more than 14,000 buyers of mobile downloads revealed that the selection and quality of third-party software had a "strong influence" or "somewhat of an influence" on 69% of the users' decisions to purchase their mobile devices. The availability of third-party software was also ranked as the third most important influencer in a device buying decision behind only "need in my personal life" and "need in my line of work".
"The rich data from our customer survey enables Handango and our partners -- including mobile operators, handset manufacturers, portals and developers -- to optimize content discovery, purchasing and usage, which helps us grow the overall mobile downloads ecosystem," said Randy Eisenman, president and chief executive officer of Handango. "This year, we're also very excited to make a subset of the survey data available to the public in an effort to spread awareness of the desires and needs of mobile content users."
Additional findings from the survey revealed that people who actively use mobile content on their smartphones and handhelds are more satisfied with their mobile device and less likely to change brands. Ninety-four percent of respondents indicated that they are "extremely satisfied" or "very satisfied" with their mobile device experience.
MULTIMEDIA ON THE RISE
In the same survey last year, customers ranked "multimedia capabilities" as a minor influence in their decision to buy a mobile device. This year, customers ranked the multimedia capabilities of the mobile device as a more important buying criterion than price and the sixth most important criterion overall behind "need in personal life", "need in line of work", "availability of third-party software", "wireless capabilities" and "brand".
EXTREMELY ACTIVE USAGE, DESPITE USER EXPERIENCE CHALLENGES Seventy-one percent of respondents reported having purchased and installed more than five applications, not including trials and freeware, indicating extremely active usage. However, despite extremely high satisfaction and usage rates, two out of five respondents reported having difficulty licensing their mobile applications. Currently, mobile content providers employ a wide variety of licensing schemes which may lead to the high rate of issues.
SHORT TRIALS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE
Customers ranked "availability of a trial" was the number one influencer in their decision to purchase mobile downloads. While there was a strong desire to try applications before buying, respondents indicated that only very short trial periods are needed. Sixty-nine percent of customers say they need less than three days to evaluate an application and 29% said they need less than one hour.
CHOICE IS THE KILLER APP
The survey also uncovered a wide array of user preferences. Customers indicated that they are primarily interested in applications in four key categories: Business & Professional, Productivity, Utilities and Games. Yet, their specific uses within these and other secondary categories were excessively broad. When customers were asked which application led them to purchase their current mobile device, their responses ran the gamut with no single response gathering more than 5% of answers. This indicates a wide variety of personalization and professional needs which can only be met by a broad selection of mobile downloads.
ABOUT THE 2005 HANDANGO BUYER SURVEY
The 2005 Handango Buyer Survey is comprised of responses from more than 14,000 mobile software buyers who have purchased from the network of online and phone portals powered by Handango. The self-administered survey was delivered via email in English to more than 60,000 potential respondents and was completed over a three-week period in May 2005. Respondents were self-selecting and received a 20% software discount code and entry into a drawing for a free smartphone of their choice for their participation. To receive a copy of the survey results in CSV format, please email press@handango.com.
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, Research in Motion, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, 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.
Source: Handango
Handango Announces Champion Award Winners at Handango Partner Summit Monday, June 27 2005
MIAMI, Florida - June 24, 2005 - Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads, announced the winners of the Handango Champion Awards at the fifth annual Handango Partner Summit. Judged by a panel of industry experts and media, the Handango Champion Awards were presented for BlackBerry(TM), Palm OS(R), UIQ, Series 60 and Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC and Smartphone applications in the following categories: Best Application for Work, Best Application for Play, Best Application for Life, Best New Application and Best Industry Application. A complete list of winners is available at http://www.handango.com/Awards/2005Winners.jsp.
At the awards ceremony, Handango also recognized six software companies as "Developers of the Year" for their outstanding software development, committed customer care and forward-thinking innovation. The winners of the Developer of the Year awards are:
- BlackBerry: Terratial Technologies
- Palm OS: Chapura
- UIQ: EPOCWARE
- Series 60: Mobile Digital Media
- Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC: Developer One, Inc.
- Windows Mobile-based Smartphone: Ilium Software
Sponsored by Microsoft, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and the Microsoft Tablet PC Team, the event was hosted on the luxurious Sir Winston yacht. While watching the Miami city lights in the dusk and the setting sun over Biscayne Bay, participants started the evening with an elegant dinner followed by an entertaining awards presentation.
"I would like to congratulate this year's Champion Award winners and applaud their successes," said Randy Eisenman, president and chief executive officer of Handango. "The title 'Handango Champion Award Winner' is quite an honor, as finalists and winners are nominated by customers and chosen by some of the best minds in the mobile content industry."
Each Handango Champion Award recipient will receive a prize package that includes a $5,000 marketing stipend, placement in a special edition of the Handango Champion Newsletter and a variety of additional promotional opportunities.
The Handango Champion Award winners are:
Blackberry
- Best Application for Work - Mail2Fax by software-for-blackberry.com
- Best Application for Play - Ring Tone Megaplex by Terratial Technologies
- Best Application for Life - WorldMate by MobiMate
- Best New Application - eSpell by DynoPlex
Palm OS
- Best Application for Work - SnapperMail Premier Bundle by Snapperfish
- Best Application for Play - Pocket Tunes Deluxe by NormSoft
- Best Application for Life - VeriChat by PDAapps
- Best New Application - SplashBlog by SplashData
- Best Industry Application - Davis's Drug Guide by Unbound Medicine
UIQ
- Best Application for Work - Handy Day 2005 by EPOCWARE
- Best Application for Play - Aces Texas Hold'em - No Limit by Concrete Software
- Best Application for Life - eZiTap FEP by Zi Corporation
- Best New Application - Wayfinder Navigator by Wayfinder Systems
Series 60
- Best Application for Work - Quickoffice Premier by Mobile Digital Media
- Best Application for Play - SKY FORCE by Infinite Dreams
- Best Application for Life - IM+: Instant Messenger by SHAPE Services
- Best New Application - Stuntcar Extreme by Fathammer
Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC
- Best Application for Work - Pocket Informant 2005 by WebIS
- Best Application for Play - Fish Tycoon by LDW Software
- Best Application for Life - Spb Pocket Plus by Spb Software House
- Best New Application - CodeWallet Pro 2005 by Developer One
- Best Industry Application - MobiLearn Talking Phrasebook by MobiLearn
Windows Mobile-based Smartphone
- Best Application for Work - Papyrus by SBSH
- Best Application for Play - Legacy by Redshift
- Best Application for Life - Fizz Traveller by Fizz Software
- Best New Application - Jeyo Mobile Extender by Jeyo
- Best Industry Application - NewsBreak by Ilium Software
This year's winners were chosen by a panel of industry experts and media that include:
- Ewan Spence, All About Symbian
- Chris Leckness, Aximsite
- Ronny Ko, Bityard Magazine
- Phea Duch, Blackberry Cool
- William O'Neal, CNET
- Christiane Hornig, connect.de
- Michael Sommer, Gadget Guy
- David Novak, Gadget Guy
- Laura Nuhaan, International BlackBerry User Group
- Corey McLaughlin, Mobile Minds Media
- Sandra Vogel, Mobility Specialist
- Chris Brunskill, MoDaCo
- Michal Jerz, My-Symbian
- Ryan Kairer, Palm Infocenter
- Mark Needham, PC Pro
- Jen Edwards, PocketGoddess.com
- Colin Gibbs, RCR Wireless
- Mike Temporale, Smartphone Thoughts
- Richard Bloor, SymbianOne.com
- Carlo Longino, TheFeature
- Justin Ried, TheFeature
- Julie Strietelmeier, The-Gadgeteer.com
- Judie Hughes, The-Gadgeteer.com
- Andrew Carton, Treonauts
- Bridget Meagher, WhatLaptop
- Phil Lattimore, What Cellphone
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.
Source: Handango
BEIKS launches Wall Street Financial Assistant for Pocket PC handhelds Friday, June 24 2005
DALLAS (June 23, 2005) - - BEIKS LLC, the world leader in reference and language titles for mobile devices announces Financial Calculator - "Wall Street Financial Assistant" for Pocket PC handhelds.
A handy financial calculator, easier to operate than a T83/TI-86, lighter than Excel and featuring a wider set of financial and business calculations than most of its Pocket PC competitors, WSFA aims to be the one-stop financial calculator for users on the go.
Organized in 8 different categories (Cash Flows, Time Value of Money, Bonds, Options, Futures, Statistics, Loans and Depreciation), the program offers various calculations in each category in an easy, intuitive fashion appropriate for professional and laymen alike.
Parameters for each calculation can be saved under a custom name, allowing for comparison of investment opportunities as well as simple asset "portfolios".
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With this new release the program is now available for the two major mobile platforms: Palm OS and Pocket PC. The Pocket PC version is designed to work on the newer generation of Pocket PC devices running Pocket PC 2002 or higher, including the latest Pocket PC models.
A trial version of Wall Street Financial Assistant for Pocket PC can be downloaded from www.beiks.com. The registration is only $19.95.
About Beiks LLC
Beiks LLC (http://www.beiks.com) is a privately-held company with headquarters in Dallas, TX. The company specializes in developing and distributing essential applications for mobile platforms such as Palm OS®, Windows CE®, Sharp Zaurus® and BlackBerry®. 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.
RIM and Blackberry are registered trademarks of Research In Motion, Inc. Palm, Palm OS and Palm Source are registered trademarks of, and Palm Powered is a trademark of, Palm Trademark Holding Company, LLC. Other brands may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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Public relations contact:
Kevin Doel
TalonPR, Inc.
785-273-9660
Source: Beiks press release page
Pocket Slides - save 30% from PDATopSoft.com Tuesday, June 21 2005
Pocket Slides - save 30% from PDATopSoft.com
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Pocket Slides is a fully featured presentation tool for Pocket PC and Handheld PC 2000 enabling users to create, edit, view or give presentations using a mobile device. Pocket Slides enables users to employ presentations on their mobile device by viewing and giving presentations, and is the only product on the market that permits the creation and editing of presentations on the mobile device. Existing presentations from Microsoft® PowerPoint® can be transferred from the desktop to the device using Pocket Slides’ Conversion software.
Pocket Slides 2.0 improves upon earlier versions by increasing the overall product strength—adding seven global languages, broader support for VGA hardware and remote controls, sound and music support. The four main uses of presentations—creation, viewing, editing, and presenting—have all been improved and expanded with Pocket Slides 2.0.
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visNotes PPC 2.0 is online - the encrypted memo for everyone Wednesday, June 15 2005
visNotes for Pocket PC – the encrypted memo for everyone
Taking personal or intimate notes on a Pocket PC is comfortable with visNotes by sfr.
The confidental records are protected by the approved visKey – technology.
The user applies his favorite picture as a password query.
If he marks up to eight spots on the picture in the right order – the visual password he defined before – visNotes gets unlocked.
visNotes is available as Freeware and contains one memo sheet with 2.000 characters.
Optionally additional sheets may be acquired by purchase to convert visNotes into a notepad.
Registered users may use up to 20.000 characters per memo.
The new version 2.0 of visNotes contains plenty of improvements and enhancements:
- VGA compatibility: Use brilliant pictures with up to 480 x 542 pixels (without scrollbars)
- Better support for Windows Mobile 2003 SE and landscape
- News user interface
- Text search
- Password generator
- Font, fontstyle and fontsize of the memos can be changed
- New click sound
- New default pictures
- Up to 2.000 characters per memo for freeware users
- Up to 20.000 characters per memo for registered users
- New capacity view per memo
- Cleartype font usable
visNotes may be downloaded for free.
visNotes 5+ costs EUR 7,95/ USD 8,79, visNotes 25+ costs EUR 12,95/ USD 14,33
Further information as well as the software documentation is to be found at www.visNotes.com.
sfr Gesellschaft für Datenverarbeitung mbH
Hospeltstr. 32, 50825 Köln
Fon: 0049 (0)221 / 954 259 25
E-Mail: info@viskey.com
Web: http://www.sfr-software.com/
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Clickomania 2002 for Palm OS updated Monday, June 6 2005
06 June 2005 - In response to popular demand, BEIKS is proud to announce update of the hit puzzle game Clickomania 2002 for Palm powered handhelds.
This free game update for currently registered users is available at the Clickomania page on the BEIKS website. We recommend that users delete the older version prior to installing the new one; this can be done from the "DELETE" command in the main Application Launcher on the Palm handheld.
The new release includes various new features users had requested, among which:
Ability to install several game "skins" and switch them from within the game (use the "clickomania" icon at the bottom right corner in the main menu screen)
Ability to install and run the game and its skins from an external media card
Equal playing opportunity / fair scoring on square and rectangular displays; previous releases were extending the playing board according to the available display estate; however, this used to change the game difficulty.
Due to a change in the registration method, current game owners will need to re-activate the game after installation. The new activation key can be obtained for free by logging-in at www.beiks.com/mystuff with the original order details.
Source: Beiks press release page
Greenlight Wireless Announces New Version of Skweezer Monday, June 6 2005
Greenlight Wireless Corporation today announced the release of a new version of its popular Skweezer® portal, which optimizes Web pages, searches, and e-mail for use on PDA's and cell phones.
Skweezer is both a mobile-optimized browser and a fully functional Web portal, which includes an e-mail client, contacts list, RSS reader, and other useful features. In this latest incarnation, Skweezer's compression and optimization technology has been extensively redesigned to make Web content download faster than ever. For example, a sample page from the eBay Web site has a 238 Kb file size and in testing took an average of 192 seconds to download over a standard GPRS connection. The new version of Skweezer compresses this Web page to 16 Kb and loads it over the same wireless connection in 12 seconds, 4 seconds faster than the previous version of Skweezer. This same page from eBay loads in only 3 seconds with the images tuned off in the new Skweezer.
Skweezer's user interface has also been redesigned to be more intuitive and faster to load. The Skweezer "View Modes" used in previous versions of the portal have been replaced with simpler controls that allow the user to show or hide images while browsing with Skweezer. Skweezer also has a new directory feature, which replaces the "Featured Links" section of the Skweezer Home Page and includes over 175 mobile-ready links in six regional settings. Other updates include changes to the reformatting technology that make "skweezed" pages easier to view and support for form posting in double-byte languages.
All Skweezer and Skweezer Pro users will automatically be upgraded to this latest version of the product. More information about using the new features can be found on the Skweezer User Guide, which is accessible from both the Greenlight Wireless Web site and the Skweezer portal.
About Skweezer:
Skweezer is a free Web browser/portal that optimizes Web pages, searches, and e-mail for use on PDA's and cell phones. Mobile Internet users access Skweezer by visiting www.skweezer.net, then using the portal as a "wireless gateway" to browse and search the Web. Skweezer compresses and reformats content being downloaded to the user's device, so that it loads faster, looks better, and is easier to navigate. Skweezer Mail, Greenlight Wireless' popular mobile e-mail solution, is also included with a free personalized account.
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 handheld devices, providing a richer mobile experience and adding value to wireless data offerings.
Source: Greenlight Wireless
Voice Messenger Force Friday, June 3 2005
Voice Messenger Force (for the Pocket PC) v1. by Ruksun Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
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Voice Messenger Force uses the MSN Messenger protocol for core Instant Messaging and Presence functionality.
The MSN Messenger Service tells you when your family and friends are online so that you can send instant text and voice messages to them in real time.
Voice Messenger Force for Windows powered Pocket PCs allows users to be notified when their contacts come online so that they can communicate with them via short text messages as well as enter into voice communication.
With the new Voice Chat users can now send and receive voice messages to and from their online buddies on other Pocket PC devices and the desktop.'Scribble' feature allows users to also send drawings and sketches as instant messages, adding a new dimension to instant messaging. This version additionally includes support for GPRS, Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) and Ethernet cards.
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New features:
Authenticated User Logon - Users log in using their unique Hotmail, MSN or Passport ID.
Presence information - Users are notified of the presence status of their contacts, when they log-in to the service.
Contact List management - Users can choose who they are interested in by adding or deleting buddies from the contact list.
Privacy Management - Users can control their privacy by changing their online status to Busy, Away From Computer,
Out To Lunch, On The Phone, Be Right Back and Invisible modes.
Messages and notifications - If a buddy sends a message or changes status, the user receives asynchronous notifications.
Access permissions - Users can configure their access permissions, to restrict the ability of other users to view their online status and send them instant messages
Text messaging - Users can send lightweight text messages to their online contacts.
Scribble messaging - Users can send drawings/sketches to all participants in the conversation
Voice messaging – Users can send voice messages to their online buddies on other Pocket PC devices as well as the desktop, in a peer-to-peer fashion.
Multiple participant conversation - Users can invite multiple buddies to join a conversation. Text and scribble messages can be exchanged in a multiple participant conversation.
Connectivity - Supports Ethernet, Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) card and GPRS connections.
Firewall support - Includes SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 support to connect through firewalls.
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