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GestureTek Demonstrates Gesture-Control Software with Face and Hand Tracking for Android and Symbian

GestureTek demonstrates its new gesture-recognition software at Barcelona’s 2010 Mobile World Congress. The software lets Android and Symbian developers integrate motion and object-tracking into gesture-control mobile games and applications. GestureTek’s new Momo software development kit defines interfaces for two trackers. The Motion tracker recognizes motion. The Mosaic tracker follows faces, hands and other objects in [...]

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BBC Online to offer new mobile applications

The BBC today announced that it is to offer a new range of applications that will deliver BBC Online services to a range of mobile devices. At a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress, BBC Director of Future Media & Technology Erik Huggers said that the BBC is planning to release mobile applications for BBC [...]

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Kingston Digital Ships Speedy Class 10 MicroSDHC Card

Kingston Digital announced the release of a 16GB microSDHC Class 10 card. The 16GB microSDHC card has a minimum data transfer rate of 10MB/sec. and ships either as a stand-alone microSDHC card or with adapters. The card will be sold at around 139 USD, comes with life time warranty and a SD adapter to use [...]

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OpenPeak Debuts Touch-Screen Multi-Media Tablet Device Based on the Intel Moorestown Platform

OpenPeak has debuted its new OpenTablet 7, a portable touch-screen tablet powered by Moorestown platform. The OpenTablet features a high-resolution 7-inch multi-touch TFT LCD screen with LED backlighting, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 and cellular connectivity, HDMI output and dual cameras for capturing both high-definition video and still images. The on-board USB interface and MicroSD slot [...]

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GSMA Announces Winners of the 15th Annual Global Mobile Awards

The GSMA announced the winners of the coveted Global Mobile Awards at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The awards presentation included the winners of 19 categories, covering Mobile Marketing and Advertising, Best Mobile Contribution to Social and Economic Development, the Green Mobile Awards, Mobile Personality of the Year, Mobile Innovation and Mobile Entertainment [...]

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Google Nexus One Demonstrated with Flash 10.1 Support

For those Nexus One users who eagerly waiting for the Flash 10.1 support, SlashGear has spotted a Nexus One demo unit running with Flash 10.1 support at the Mobile World Congress event. The Flash 10.1 plugin for the Android web browser is not fully completed though. It is now done without a proper hardware acceleration [...]

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Toshiba TG02 and K01 with Windows Mobile 6.5

Toshiba this week debuts two new mobile handsets at Mobile World Congress 2010. Expanding Toshiba’s mobile handset range, the TG02 and K01 offering capacitive touchscreens and fast internal processors like its TG01 Windows phone. The TG02 builds on the super-slim form of the Toshiba TG01 Windows phone, features a wide 4.1″ VGA capacitive touchscreen, 1GHz [...]

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Acer Adds Liquid e to its Android Smartphone Line Up

Featuring the latest Android 2.1, Acer has announced the Liquid e full touch screen smartphone on the Mobile World Congress. Powered by a Qualcomm 8250 768 MHz processor, Acer Liquid e comes with a 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen, WVGA display resolution, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSD card slot and built in WiFi, GPS, bluetooth. Pricing and [...]

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Verizon Wireless to Offer Skype Mobile Service

At the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Verizon Wireless and Skype today announced a strategic relationship that will bring Skype to Verizon Wireless smartphones in March. The new Skype mobile product enhances Verizon Wireless’ smartphones for users who have data plans by offering a new way to call around the globe.

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HTC HD2 Dressed in Windows Phone 7

Not sure if your HD2 will be provided with an upgrade to Windows Phone 7 OS? At least it has been spotted with Windows Phone 7 installed on Mobile World Congress. According to winmo.nl, it is running with an early build of the new OS. The UI is very responsive and fast, plus it can [...]

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