I knew this was bound to happen. With Google slowly making its web content and services on the mobile phone, For all of you lucky iPhone owners, there’s a new source to get books and magazines (like Vegetarian Times), for free on your mobile phone. Google Book Search has gone mobile. The service is also on phones built on Google’s Android platform.

I’m the kind of person who likes to read – especially in an airport – and this gives free access to over a million books. Most of the books are in the public domain – which means published before 1923. Amazon, maker of the Kindle also announced this week that they’re making their ebooks available on cell phones. To me, that’s even better. They have far less titles, and you’ve got to pay for them, but they’re current. Plus you get all the books are in their entirety.

It would be possible to be said that she is one of the stellar new features of ESC 2009: cards SDXC, that has been presented/displayed by Association SD and which they so little emphasize because they will be able to reach a 2 in the future capacity of TV, something simply impressive in `space físico’ and still more we compared if it with the present hard disks, that until the moment only arrive at 1Tb of capacity generally. This new type of memory cards responds to name SDXC (you extend Capacity is the meaning of XC) and will emphasize not only by the increase of their capacity of storage but by its speed, at first of 104 the 300 Mb/s although in the future they will be gotten to reach Mb/s.
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Recently, According to a great source of Geeksgadget, Palm will launch its next smartphone this coming Thursday (the official launch of CES). The rumored phone will run a Nova OS (whatever that is), include a slide down QWERTY keyboard and of course sport a touchscreen with iPhone like qualities.

We have information from a trusted source that the latest Palm smartphone running the Nova operating system will be launched Thursday. The new phone will have a full QWERTY keyboard that will slide down under a portrait-oriented touchscreen. We’ll have a mock-up shortly.
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RadioShack is offering a $99 Acer One netbook subsidized by a two-year wireless data contract from AT&T. This is not full notebook computer it has a 8.9 inch screen.

Customers can get the $99 netbook starting Dec. 14 for at over 4,400 RadioShack stores through Dec. 24. They will have to agreed to a two-year AT&T DataConnect mobile broadband contract plan that start at $60 a month.
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The Kogan Agora mobile phone is the first in Australia powered by Android™ software – the ground-breaking new open source mobile phone operating system.
This second android mobile in the world, called the Kogan “Agora”, and comes in two versions, the “standard” Agora for AUD $299, and the Kogan “Agora Pro” (click for pics) for AUD $399.

The mobile has everything that a multimedia device should need, including the host package for communication and the 3G capability. Pre-installed software applications provide access to many services including GMail™, Google Calendar™, Google Maps™, Google Talk™, and a YouTube™ video player. The integrated Google Maps™ application supports detailed map, satellite, traffic, and the new street view.
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A few of people have questioned whether Apple differentiates between free and paid apps when announcing these types of numbers.

While it is important that developers (and businesses) get a good idea of what price-points are selling, I personally think that numbers such as what Apple announced today are important for different reasons.

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There is no long lines across the street like the iPhone 3G launch, the G1, an HTC phone offered by T-Mobile that has the Google’s Android operating system, went on sale quietly.

Google’s answer to Apples iTunes store, Android Market is now live with a small handful of apps. Ed Burnett from ZDNet did the unboxing.
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Mobile broadband now serves millions of customers around the world by providing a more efficient 3G mobile signal for a relatively wide range of frequencies offering what each user exactly needs. The outstanding thing about it is that it permits you to access broadband from your laptop from anywhere with mobile reception.

All you need to do to get it working is plug-in the USB modem into your laptop. Here are the steps to follow in using the USB modem. First, Insert the USB card into the modem. Next, Insert the USB modem into your PC or Laptop. You will need to put the USB connection into the computer port. Finally, the software to use the USB Modem will automatically download from the USB Modem itself and so no complicated set up is needed.
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