Microsoft has powered up their new My Phone website. My Phone is a new MobileMe kind of sync service for the Windows Mobile masses. It allows users to backup their phone into the cloud with a password, manage and update the information from the web app, and restore the backups. Its a re-branding of the SkyBox sync service.

The service will be FREE (something Apple needs to learn) and will be introduces as a invite-only beta at the Mobile World Congress.

Here are additional details:

• It has a 200MB cap, so it won’t sync anything after you fill that up.

• If you sync contacts and calendar to Exchange Server, it won’t sync that data to My Phone, but can still do the rest. Ditto for Windows Live—non-Live contacts will be saved on My Phone.

• It will only run on Windows Mobile 6.x

• Syncing occurs between 11pm and 5am, unless you force a manual sync.

Visit My Phone website

Need more space for your mails?  Gmail has got multiple inboxes for you!  Google just added a new Labs feature called Multiple inboxes which allows you to do just what it says - have multiple inboxes. You can have multiple frames in the inbox view with filtered content in each inbox. The main pane can show all the inbox content and the other panes can show filtered content like Starred mails, Drafts, Mails with a specific label, etc.

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According to Apple Insider, the upcoming OS by Apple - Mac OS X Snow Leopard, will be location-aware just as the iPhone. It will use WiFi networks to triangulate the position of the user to allow geo-tagging and other location based services like updating the twitter location.

Apple Insider says: People familiar with the latest pre-release distributions of the next-gen OS say the software now includes the CoreLocation framework previously available via the iPhone SDK, which will allow Mac applications to identify the current latitude and longitude of the Macs on which they’re running. Since Macs don’t include GPS technology like the iPhone 3G, CoreLocation will utilize a Mac’s existing networking hardware to triangulate the system’s location in a manner similar to the way the original iPhone was able to use the technology to emulate a true global positioning signal.

More at Apple Insider

Google Chrome is soon going to get extensions. It is obvious as it has got a large number of internet users in the short span of time and the only reason that keeps Firefox users from switching is Add-ons. And when Chrome supports extensions, it would be the perfect web browser.

Google’s I/O Developer conference in May will be having sessions on developing extensions for Chorme. Here’s the list of sessions: Google I/O sessions.

It would soon be time for developers to start developing great extensions for Chrome and would increase the browser competition greatly. Time to switch from Firefox?

Google had rolled out Gears support for Gmail and have now launched offline access for Google Calendar via Gears. Now you can view, modify and add new tasks and appointments to your calendar when offline and sync the changes as soon as you go online.

You will also be able to change settings and select only the calendars you want offline access to and disable sync for other calendars. Gears for Google Calendar is only for Google Apps users as of now but will be added to other users shortly.

If you have any questions regarding offline access for Google Calendar, you can visit the Google Calendar offline access FAQ.

Google has released a new feature to Google Maps, its Latitude. Its a new way to locate your near-by friends from your mobile device. You can invite friends to keep a track of their locations or allows them to keep a track of your locations. You can also manage settings in the privacy options to restrict or disable alerts to selected or all users.

To start using Latitude, just head over to http://google.com/latitude from your Android, Blackberry, Symbian S60, or Windows Mobile phone. iPhone support would be there anytime soon.

Microsoft had released 3 versions for Windows XP (Home Edition, Prefessional and Media Center Edition). However, they had rolled out several versions of Windows Vista that finally confused buyers and made them switch editions after purchase. Vista had 6 editions which include Vista Starter Edition, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise and Ultimate edition. After learning from their mistakes, Microsoft has decided to roll back to 3 version for their upcoming Operating system, Windows 7. The 3 versions are Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate.

Besides reducing the number of versions, it is said that they will also be offering a new speedy way of upgrading the OS. An upgrade from one version of Windows 7 to another would on take about 5-10 minutes. Personally, I think that this is the stupidest mistake as Windows 7 Home will have all the features of Ultimate edition but will be locked. The upgrade would simply unlock the features. This would give rise to hackers making patches that change the registry values and unlock all features of the OS.

UPDATE: Windows 7 is said to have 6 editions now. Here’s the list.

• Windows 7 Starter Edition (for emerging market and netbook users)
• Windows 7 Home Basic (for emerging market customers only)
• Windows 7 Home Premium (the main “Media Center” equivalent)
• Windows 7 Professional (the business SKU for home users and non-enterprise licensees)
• Windows 7 Enterprise (for volume licensees)
• Windows 7 Ultimate (for consumers who want/need business features)

Via ZDNet Blog

Google had introduced a new Labs feature called Tasks which allowed users to have access to their ToDo list right in the Gmail sidebar. Now, they have announced that Gmail tasks will be available on mobile devices. They have made a neat web application that allows users to view, edit and mark tasks as complete.

Visit Gmail tasks from your mobile phone.

Via Official Gmail Blog

Tired of having multiple browsers on your computer?  If you are a web programmer, you would need to test a web page on multiple browser platforms, or you might need a specific browser to access specific web apps or services due to incompability or restrictions. Well, here is the solution - Lunarscape. It handles all three of the rendering engines at once - IE (Trident), Firefox (Gecko) and Safari/Chrome (WebKit). When you open a new tab or click on a link in Lunascape, you can tell the browser which engine you want to use. You can also set up certain sites to open using a particular engine.

Developers claim the browser is faster than all others, thanks to its optimized implementation of Gecko. Besides supporting multiple engines, it is full-featured. It has native support for RSS feeds, Podcasts, Password Manager, Form filler, support for mouse gestures for navigation and tons of other tweaks. Lunascape supports its own plug-ins and themes, as well as the add-ons for Internet Explorer. However it does not support Firefox add-ons, which is its greatest weakness.

Lunascape is in all a great browser and everyone should defifitely try it out!

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Britannica Encyclopedia’s online version Britannica.com has recently added the Edit article feature where users can edit existing articles. However, they say that unlike Wikipedia, the edits will be approved by their team and not power-users. This is a great step for Britannic Encyclopedia. Will this affect Wikipedia in any way?

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