SimpleSignal has announced their latest service called SimplyMobile,  a hosted service which enables users to listen to their emails from any phone or mobile devices by means of text-to-speech technology. SimplyMobile also uses voice commands to call the sender of the e-mail and manage your appointments in Microsoft Outlook’s calendar items. SimpleMobile service is good for mobile workers, just charge up your bluetooth headset and they can start listening to their e-mail messages even if they are driving.

Below are SimplyMobile’s complete features:

• Read or listen to your emails on the go
• Read or listen to your visual voicemail
• Listen to your daily schedule
• Verbalize the addition of a particular task to your daily schedule
• Verbalize your appointments on the fly
• Use voice commands to call back email senders
• Use voice commands to access your calendar
• Use Outlook instantly to notify attendees of a schedule change by email

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Apple’s jump into the Intel bandwagon has been very beneficial for the company when it comes to sales.  However, there are rumors that Apple will no longer include intel chipset in their future MacBooks.  According to rumors, Apple might develop its own chipset or perhaps look for a suitable alternatives like NVidia chipsets.

While Intel has successfully ventured into mobile processors from Pentium M to Core 2 Duo, the company is less successful when it comes to integrated graphics chipsets that connect those processors to the rest of the system. Apple MacBook is using Intel’s mobile Centrino chipsets, but according to a report,  Apple is going to pass on the Montevina version of those chipsets.

Let’s wait and see in the coming weeks if the rumors are true, the good news is that Apple will not be moving away from Intel processors.

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Hitachi announced two new CinemaStar hard drive models. The new 3.5-inch hard drives are the CinemaStar 7K1000.B and the CinemaStar 5K320 which are intended to be used in digital video recorders (DVRs). The CinemaStar 7K1000.B is available up to 1TB capacity, while the CinemaStar 5K320 has 320GB storage capacity.

The 5K320 uses CoolSpin technology which Hitachi claims is one of the most power efficient and quiet hard drive available in the market today. CoolSpin technology consists of a motor that is speed optimized for low power and quiet operation.

Hitachi says that the 1TB CinemaStar 7K1000.B can store up to 247 hours of MPEG-4 encoded high definition video and support up to ten simultaneous data streams. The CinemaStar 7K1000.B will be available in August and the 5K320 will ship in September.

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Dell has launched its Studio Hybrid PC, its smallest, most personalized (with six interchangeable color bamboo sleeves) and greenest desktop computer. The Studio Hybrid is powered by an Intel Pentium Dual Core (1.86GHz) or Intel Core 2 Duo (2GHz) processors. The desktop is 80% smaller and consumes 70% less power compared to a typical desktop. It features slot-load DVD, HDMI, an optional Blu-ray Disc drive and an optional TV tuner.

It seems like Dell has embraced Apple’s idea that style matters, I think other PC desktop makers will also embrace this idea in the future.

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VoSKY launched the VoSKY Exchange Pro VIT1/E1, an enterprise-grade PBX-to-Skype gateway based on VoSKY’s latest Linux platform. The plug-and-play appliance enables medium to large-sized enterprises to use 23 (T1 via ISDN) to 30 (E1)  simultaneous Skype trunks.

The  appliance is the first T1/E1 PBX-to-Skype gateway in the industry to get Skype certification, thereby ensuring its interoperability to all features and services of Skype. The VoSKY Exchange Pro VIT1/E1 can be interconnected to an enterprise’s existing PBX with T1 or E1 digital interfaces, without the need to replace an enterprise’s existing phone system or adding special phones to make and receive skype calls.

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Intel’s 45nm Atom processor is no longer the only processor that provides low-power and low-cost processor for mobiles and desktops.  VIA is also pushing their 65nm Nano processor to the mobile and desktop industries. The Intel Atom processor uses around 50 million transistors while VIA’s Nano processor has around 94 million.

Check out the comparison of the two processors here

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