Logitech Squeezebox Unleashes Music Across Europe

Logitech is offering access to Napster’s library of more than 7 million songs in the United Kingdom and Germany. The company is also adding support across Europe for Deezer’s WebRadio and SmartRadio streamed music services, Mediafly’s on-demand personalized channels of shows and podcasts, and Classical.com’s selection of classical, jazz and blues music from around the world.

These new services have been added to existing services including Last.fm’s personalized music streams and the Web-based digital music storage of MP3tunes Music Lockers.

“The addition of Napster, Deezer, Mediafly and Classical.com music services brings a dramatically richer selection of music to the Logitech Squeezebox,” said David Wall, regional product manager of Logitech’s streaming music business. “Now you have literally thousands of songs and radio stations at your fingertips. The only challenge is deciding what to listen to, and where.”

Logitech Squeezebox network music players are available now online and at major retailers. Napster is available for a free 30-day trial period to Logitech Squeezebox owners in the United Kingdom and Germany. After 30 days, Napster is available for a monthly fee at www.napster.com. Classical.com is available for a free 30-day trial period to Logitech Squeezebox owners worldwide and full service subscriptions are available for at www.classical.com. Deezer WebRadio and SmartRadio free streamed music services are available worldwide at www.deezer.com. Mediafly is a free service available worldwide at www.mediafly.com.

Sony Ericsson W995 music phone

The device is made in the slider form factor, refers to the Walkman line of music phones and is equipped with a 8.1 MP camera with autofocus feature.

For the convenience of listening to music directly from your phone on the rear panel of a special folding stand. Also, it should be noted the presence in the Sony Ericsson W995 program Media Go, which provide a more efficient exchange multimedia files between your computer and phone.
Specifications Sony Ericsson W995:

• Network GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS / HSPA 900/2100
• Display: 2.6-inch, with resolution 240h320 points, displays 262 thousand colors
• Camera: 8.1 MP with autofocus and flash, image stabilization and video mode of recognition of persons geotegirovanie
• Memory: 118 MB, slot for memory card format Memory Stick Micro (M2)
• Communications: Bluetooth with A2DP, Wi-Fi
• FM-radio with RDS
• Navigation: A-GPS, support for Google Maps, Wayfinder Navigator (trial version for 3 months)
• Support functions Clear Stereo, Clear Bass, Album art, PlayNow, TrackID, SensMe
• Other: 3.5-mm jack for headphones, 3D-games, support for YouTube service
• Opening hours: during a call up to 9 hours (4 h in the networks of UMTS), in the standby mode up to 370 hours (360 hours in the networks of UMTS), using video to 3,5 hours, listening to music 20 hours in standby see the video to 5 hours
• Dimensions: 97h49h15 mm
• Weight: 113 g

Sony Ericsson W995 will be available for sale during the second quarter of 2009 in three colors: Progressive Black, Cosmic Silver, and Energetic Red.

Adobe Announces Flash Player For Mobiles

At the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Adobe today announced the availability of the Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player, a new version of the Flash software that runs not only on computers but also on the latest high-end mobile phones.

The new player enables developers and content providers to create Flash technology-based applications that target the latest version of the runtime, and directly distribute their applications with the runtime installer to open OS devices. Available immediately as a public beta, the Distributable Player initially supports Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile devices. Smartphones with Flash Player 10 running on Google's Android, Windows Mobile and Nokia's Symbian S60 platforms should be on the market next year.

"The Distributable Player enables a direct distribution of our mobile player similar to the distribution model for Flash Player on the desktop
, said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe.

The Distributable Player is the first step toward delivering a runtime that can be updated over the air, a vision set by the Open Screen Project. Announced in May 2008, the Open Screen Project is designed to deliver a runtime environment across televisions, desktops, mobile devices and other consumer electronics. Led by Adobe, the initiative has more than 20 industry partners working to enable the delivery of Web content and standalone applications across devices taking advantage of Adobe Flash Platform capabilities.

In addition, Adobe and Nokia announced the Open Screen Project Fund today to spur the development of mobile applications based on the Flash Platform. palm has also joined the the Open Screen Project to deliver Adobe Flash Player for smartphones on the new Palm webOS platform.

At the same event, Adobe announced the availability of the new Adobe Reader Mobile SDK, a software development kit (SDK) designed to enable companies to deliver mobile phones and handheld devices that can download, manage, and display PDF content and eBooks. The new software engine delivers support for reflowable PDF technology, Adobe?s content protection technology, as well as the EPUB file format, an XML-based eBook standard with broad support from the publishing industry.

Adobe Reader Mobile 9 SDK, which replaces the previous Adobe Reader LE 2.5 technology, is being integrated with licensee device and smartphone applications and is available immediately.

Nvidia Terga Enables First $99 HD Mobile Internet Device

Nvidia today introduced a new platform, based on the NVIDIA Tegra 600 Series computer-on-a-chip that enables a $99 HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges.

The Tegra MID delivers 720p and 1080p video playback, low power consumption, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity and optimized hardware support for Web 2.0 applications. Tegra also delivers a complete software solution including Microsoft Windows Embedded CE OS, application viewers, full Internet browser, UI framework, board support package (BSP), software development kit (SDK) and Web mail client.

In addition, Nvidia partnered with ST-Ericsson to add 3G communication capability into this new platform, allowing for seamless connectivity, worldwide.

Nvidia also today announced that it has worked with Google and the Open Handset Alliance to unleash Android with the Tegra series of processors.