[DEMO Spring 2010] I love Gwabbit, the add-on for outlook and BlackBerry that allows me to collect a person’s contact info from the email signature in one click. Last week at DEMO, the company launched its new service Gwab-o-sphere, and won the Cloud session DEMOGod. The new web application automatically receives contacts from gwabbit contact capture products, and then syncs with other contact management applications and social networks like Salesforce.com, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

The gwab-o-sphere will be available in Q2 2010 free of charge to all gwabbit users, including gwabbit for Outlook and the Premium and free versions of gwabbit for BlackBerry, and can be downloaded from www.gwabbit.com or BlackBerry App World.

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NVIDIA has posted a video of Internet Explorer 9 which is built to fully support graphics processors (GPUs). Obviously, the NVIDIA shows that life is indeed better with a GPU (here it’s an Ion Netbook, versus a non-Ion netbook. Ion is NVIDIA’s offering for the Netbook segment). Although this is clearly not unbiased, it is true that stuff like mapping and possibly casual games could benefit from the usage of graphics processors. NVIDIA believes that HTML5 will increase such usage pattern and it looks like the company stands ready to benefit from that windfall - if and when it actually happens.

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[DEMO Spring 2010] MightyMeeting launched its application for iPad at DEMO last week, it allows users to start or join Web meetings, show presentation and share content, directly from their mobile phones or their iPads. The MightyMeeting native application runs on the iPhone OS, so it can be used on an iPhone, iPodTouch and iPad, additionally, there is a lightweight HTML-only client that can be used from any device with a Web browser. Check out the video demo.

The MightyMeeting application for iPad is free and will be available shortly after the product arrives in U.S. stores on April 3, 2010.

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If you are using Google Apps, this could be of interest: Memeo Connect Reader for iPad has been announced earlier today. As its name indicated, the application connects to your Google account and syncs files in popular formats like PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Jpg etc (all the formats natively supported by the iPad OS). Once the files are on the iPad, they can be looked at in all their glory. The viewing demo was working flawlessly.

You won’t be able to edit the documents, but that’s in line with our assessment that the iPad is primarily a media consuming device, even if can be used for casual updates. Memeo Connect Reader provides a unique access to your documents stored in Google Apps and because it’s free, there’s really no reason not to try it (the app has been approved by Apple already). If you did not know, Memeo also has a suite of software that can provide the same functionalities (and more!) to computers.

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This week is certainly a good week for iPhone rumors. This is currently just speculation from UBS analyst Maynard Um, but apparently he claims that the new iPhones may have a touch sensitive back, which was something that people speculated on earlier. Other possible features of the upcoming iPhone are said to be a 5-megapixel camera, 64GB of storage, AMOLED display and longer battery life. It’ll be interesting to see if Apple really does turn the back of the iPhone into a touch-sensitive surface, similar to the Magic Mouse. Aside from that, the analyst expects the new iPhones to ship in June from $199 to $299, as well as lowering the price of the older model to $99 in order to create a budget model. Are you itching to see what the next-generation iPhone will be like?

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Can’t wait till you get your hands on a Windows Phone 7 Series device? Well, if patience isn’t your strong point, you could always follow some rather detailed instructions on how to get your desktop looking like Windows Phone 7 Series. Thanks to the open-source desktop customization platform, Rainmeter, the Omnimo UI will be able to give you just that. You’ll be hooked up to many useful feeds such as Gmail, iTunes, Twitter and whatever else you’re fond of, and you can use the widgets to act as program short cuts. It’s currently available for all versions of Windows since XP, and it’s free. Now how about turning your desktop into one that uses the Android UI?

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DoubleTwist’s latest update should be quite useful to Mac users, as it adds to its media syncing functionality for non-Apple devices like Google’s Android. The best feature of the latest version is that you’re able to browse the Android App Store directly from your Mac’s desktop; similar to browsing Apple’s App Store on iTunes, and if you decide that you want something, you can just snap a photo of the QR code on the screen, and it’ll be downloaded directly to your Android phone. Compared to having to search for that specific program on your phone’s tiny screen, this is certainly going to be a lot more pleasant. DoubleTwist is currently working on an over-the-air (OTA) download method, which would allow you to send the apps to your phone without having to go through the hassle of scanning the QR code. That being said, it’s still a very useful application to have.

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Do you remember the Zune HD 64GB that was leaked a few days ago? Well, since the cat is out of the bag, Microsoft has come along to confirm the existence of the device, and it will be going on sale from April 12th. The price will be $249.99, and color options and custom etching will be available as well.

To further ride on the wave on good news, the retail price of the Zune HD 16GB and the Zune HD 32GB have been lowered to $199.99 and $269.99 respectively. Will this make you choose the Zune over an iPod?

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The Soyntec Wiffinder 310 Backpack does as it implies - it is capable of detecting a Wi-Fi network in the vicinity, saving you the trouble of unpacking your notebook and powering it to find out whether there is a signal in the immediate area or not. Alternatively, we do think that relying on your Wi-Fi-enabled handset would be the much easier solution, but at least you have a backup in the form of the Soyntec Wiffinder 310 Backpack, no? There is a display to show the Wi-Fi signal’s strength as well, and can hold notebooks of up to 15.6″ in size alongside a range of accessories. Would you fork out €34.40 for this puppy?

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Solar Impulse has started taking its HB-SIA airplane which uses photovoltaic (PV) cells to keep it going for spins to make sure that everything works fine and dandy, fleshing out what used to be theoretical. Part of the “Solar Impulse Project,” the HB-SIA measures 21.85m in length, 63.4m in wing length and 6.4m in height. The main wing and horizontal tail holds 11,628 pieces of SunPower Corp’s photovoltaic (PV) cells which will power the quartet of electrically-driven engines that are able to churn out a maximum output of 7.5kW (10hp) and an average output of 6kW. This won’t break any speed records though, with an average flight speed of 70km/h.

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