Jaxtr brings voice to social networks and blogs. Use jaxtr to link your phones with your online network to receive the calls, voice messages and texts you want while keeping your phone number private.

Jaxtr was founded in October 2005 by Phillip Mobin and Touraj Parang with the mission to bring voice to social networks and blogs. With the free jaxtr service, users can link their phones with their online network to hear from callers worldwide while keeping their existing phone numbers private.
And jaxtr is not just about hearing from people who visit a user’s profile or blog. By adding their jaxtr link to their email signature, global friends can call our users on their phone with the click of the mouse - without downloading any software, incurring international phone charges or even registering for jaxtr.

When users change their work, home or mobile number, they simply add or update their number on jaxtr; incoming calls then get routed to the phone of their choice. They can even block callers from reaching them or specify on a per-caller basis which callers can reach them live and which get routed to voice mail. Isn’t that sweet?

Jaxtr is currently in public Beta. You can register here :

http://www.jaxtr.com/user/registration.jsp

Jaxtr Used As a Tool By Real Estate Professionals
Among the early adopters of jaxtr have been many real estate professionals, who are using this technology make it easier for their online visitors to get in touch with them, to ask questions, and to receive live and prompt response.

By posting his or her jaxtr link or widget, the real estate agent can significantly improve the conversion of a viewer to a buyer: with just one click, anyone can now make a free call or send a text message to the agent, from anywhere in the world. And the agent can always control which calls should ring the agent’s phone, and dynamically route calls from mobile to home or to office phone as well as jaxtr’s own web-based visual voicemail from the site.

Check out the following blogs for some practical tips and examples:

http://www.realestateblogsites.com/public/item/164082
http://www.truliablog.com/?p=111
http://activerain.com/blogsview/88397/Featured-Flyer-on-VFLYER
http://www.treatingyoulikefamily.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tparang

Touraj Parang is the Co-Founder & COO of Jaxtr. He has been involved with over 50 Silicon Valley companies since 1999. His experience includes making early stage investments in Internet and communications start-ups with Amidzad Ventures and Earlybird Venture Capital, a global VC firm. Touraj holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and majored in Philosophy and Economics at Stanford University. He talks to us about Jaxtr.

Touraj Parang: Jaxtr brings voice to social networks and blogs. Use jaxtr to link your phones with your online network to receive the calls, voice messages and texts you want while keeping your phone number private. Read mor about Touraj Parang on: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tparang

iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.

OS X
All the power and sophistication of the world’s most advanced operating system — OS X — is now available on a small, handheld device that gives you access to true desktop-class applications and software, including rich HTML email, full-featured web browsing, and applications such as widgets, Safari, calendar, text messaging, Notes, and Address Book. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background. This software completely redefines what you can do with a mobile phone.

Multi-touch
iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. It’s an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all by simply using iPhone’s multi-touch display.

Intelligent Keyboard
iPhone’s full QWERTY soft keyboard lets you easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. And the keyboard is predictive, so it prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.

Wireless
iPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports Cingular’s EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apple’s new, remarkably compact Bluetooth headset.

Built-in Advanced Sensors
iPhone’s accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.

The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away.

An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display’s brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.

Technical Specifications :

Screen size                  3.5 inches
Screen resolution          320 by 480 at 160 ppi
Input method                Multi-touch
Operating system         OS X
Storage                        4GB or 8GB
GSM                           Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data               Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
Camera                        2.0 megapixels
Battery                         Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing
                                   Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions                 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Weight                         4.8 ounces / 135 grams
 

Word, Excel, PowerPoint & PDF files on your Motorola Q, Samsung BlackJack, T-Mobile Dash & Other Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphones.

Documents To Go is the first and only mobile office editor for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition on the market today. Now you can view, edit and create Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint® files, view Adobe® PDF files as well as unzip files on your smartphone no matter where your personal or professional life takes you.

Documents To Go is a powerful word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, PDF and decompression application all in one complete package, designed to help you get your work done anytime, anywhere.
Your original desktop documents will never lose formatting when you make edits on your smartphone using InTact Technology™.
Easy to use - Documents To Go has the familiar look and feel of the programs you have on your desktop.

New device combines a beautiful fold design with quick cover keys to bring substance to style.
 
Nokia today introduced a trimmer fold model to its Nokia Nseries line up, the Nokia N76, a new multimedia computer that brings the complete Nokia Nseries experience to a sleeker body, with little compromise. With the Nokia N76 multimedia computer, technology and design come together to create a revolution in design for a multimedia computer. Using premium materials to enclose world-class Nokia Nseries features and experiences, Nokia has created a very eye-catching device.
 
“We did not want to compromise any of the key Nokia Nseries experiences when we designed the stylish Nokia N76 multimedia computer,” said Pekka Pohjakallio, vice-president, Multimedia, Nokia. He continued, “Nokia Nseries consumers are bleeding edge technology users and with them in mind we want to offer intelligent and entertaining multimedia functionality in an easy to use, ultra slim package.”
 
The Nokia N76 is a perfect blend of style and substance. This latest addition to the Nokia Nseries portfolio brings a wide range of multimedia experiences to consumers, enabling them to create, consume and connect, using music, videos, images and the internet.
 
Musical talent
Nokia Nseries music fans will appreciate the dedicated quick cover keys on the Nokia N76, which let you quickly and easily control the device’s music features from the outside of the folded device, for instant tunes wherever you are.  Holding up to 1500* tracks the Nokia N76 works with industry standard 3.5 mm headphones and supports the popular Windows Media  DRM for optimal use.
 
Surf in style
Viewing the 2.4″, up to 16 million color screen in landscape mode brings a familiar feel to surfing the web on a mobile. Navigate web pages quickly and easily with the Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map and enjoy easy access to popular internet services like Flickr and Amazon for searching, shopping or sharing.

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Easy connectivity and wide screen display offer the industry best internet experience in a mobile device
 
At the CES conference in Las Vegas today, Nokia introduced its next generation widescreen Nokia Nseries multimedia computer, the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. The sleek Nokia N800 combines a truly personal Internet experience with easy wireless connections, high resolution display and support for a wide variety of Internet applications. The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet has been optimized for enjoying the familiar Web experience anytime, anywhere.
 
The Nokia N800 is built to be constantly in use. Internet calling, instant messaging and email keep you in touch with friends and family. With stereo audio, media support and new ergonomic design the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is a portable Internet entertainment device; you will enjoy streamed or downloaded content free away from fixed location. 
 
Building on the success of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, the Nokia N800 introduces faster performance, full screen finger qwerty keyboard, easier continuous connections through Wi-Fi or via Bluetooth phone, integrated web camera as well as a new elegant design.
 
“As the Internet becomes an ever more integral part of daily life, Nokia N800 has been designed to offer quick and convenient access to your favorite Internet services regardless of location,” said Ari Virtanen, Vice President, Convergence Products, Multimedia, Nokia. “The Nokia N800 takes our offering to the next level combining speed, performance and mobility into a stylish, compact design.” 

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Video sharing, photo sharing and blog posting directly from your mobile device
 
Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, and Six Apart, the world leader in blogging, today announced cooperation to bring Vox (www.vox.com), a free personal blogging service to the Nokia Nseries multimedia computer product range. The two companies will make it easy for people to upload video and photos, and update their blogs directly from their compatible Nokia Nseries devices to the Vox blogging service. The cooperation is an important step in making Web 2.0 mobile and enabling people to create and share their experiences with friends and family on the go. The Nokia N93i, also announced today, is the first product to include the integrated Vox service.
 
“Supported by megapixel cameras and high quality video capture, Nokia Nseries multimedia computers have become true life recorders. People want to share their discoveries instantly with friends and family and Vox is a perfect service to share your videos and photos,” said Mikko Pilkama, director of Multimedia Experiences, Nokia. “We want to make sure that Nokia Nseries offers the best possible way for people to participate in Web 2.0 communities when they’re mobile. Nokia and Six Apart are making it easy for people to connect and share their photos, videos and life experiences without being tied to a PC.”
 
“We’ve always believed that mobile phones will have a huge impact on blogging, and we’re pleased that Nokia shares this vision,” said Six Apart co-founder and president Mena Trott. “People will be able to capture life’s spontaneous moments by video or camera quickly and easily, and share them with friends and family. Together, Nokia and Six Apart are bringing the best on-the-go blogging experience to millions of Nokia Nseries users around the world.”
 
Vox is a free personal blogging service for sharing experiences with friends and family. Vox’s rich privacy filters give members granular control over who views their stories, photos, videos or audio. Members can easily set any of five levels of privacy on any piece of content they share on Vox. 

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Xilinx, Inc. , the world’s leading programmable logic supplier, demonstrated its latest CoolRunner(TM)-II CPLD enabled handset demonstration platform with TI OMAP compatibility. The TI OMAP processor is the industry’s leading wireless application processor with 69 percent market share in 2005, according to research firm Forward Concepts.

The new platform clearly demonstrates the advantages of programmable logic for today’s leading handset manufacturers, enabling the launch of new features into the market much faster than fixed design approaches, while simultaneously attaining lower power, size, and cost goals. The demonstration, offering new interface capabilities to GPS, Mobile TV, WiFi and CE-ATA drives, can be viewed by appointment at this week’s CES in Xilinx meeting room #35580, South Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

According to ABI Research, applications such as music downloads, web browsing, email, and GPS navigation will drive the market for smart phone handsets from 50M in 2005 to over 250M in 2009, a CAGR of 49 percent. Xilinx programmable solutions offer handset manufacturers with the needed flexibility to respond to the pressures of faster time-to-market and shorter product life cycles.

“The low power, small size, and flexibility of the CoolRunner-II CPLD family enables Xilinx to offer a compelling solution in the fast evolving smart handset market,” said David Loftus, vice president and general manager, CPLD Division at Xilinx. “Adding support for the industry-leading TI OMAP design processor to our handset demonstration platform further strengthens our value proposition.”

Nokia N93i is about easy capturing, reliving and sharing of memories and experiences regardless of time or place
 
Nokia today introduced the Nokia N93i, a compact and stylish digital camcorder and multimedia computer in one. Boasting a host of advanced features - from DVD-like quality video capture to direct video uploads - the Nokia N93i enables you to record great quality video wherever and whenever you feel inspired.
 
“With devices such as the Nokia N93i, we believe that video can become a similar kind of mass market phenomenon as mobile photography has become,” said Satu Ehrnrooth, head of Nokia Nseries Cameras Category, Multimedia, Nokia. “The slim and beautiful Nokia N93i is the ideal device for user-created video content, as it is a connected digital camcorder that is always with you. You can even instantly upload video clips in their original size directly from the device to online blogs or video communities. With the Nokia N93i, sharing your stories is now as easy as recording and viewing them.”
 
Life. Camera. Action.
You can shoot DVD-like quality videos with the Nokia N93i thanks to its MPEG-4 VGA video capture at up to 30 frames per second, stereo audio recording and digital stabilization. The Nokia N93i also boasts a 3.2 megapixel (2048 x 1536 pixels) camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 3x optical zoom, autofocus and close-up mode. With the 1 GB miniSD card included in the standard Nokia N93i sales pack, you can capture up to 45 minutes of DVD-like quality video or up to 1250 high-quality photos.
 
Shooting is now more stylish.  And more simple.
With its slim and compact design, the Nokia N93i is now even easier to slip into your pocket. It also has a new metallic finish keymat and a mirror effect cover. The 2.4″ main display of up to 16 million colors has a 160° viewing angle, the easy-to-use joystick provides smooth video control and there are dedicated camera keys to capture images, switch shooting mode and operate the flash quickly and easily. 

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NFC-enabled Nokia 6131 NFC handset can “touch to connect” to a wide range of services
 
Nokia is announcing the world’s first fully integrated, commercial NFC handset, the Nokia 6131 NFC phone, which will soon allow all of these activities and more to be performed with the simple tap of a phone.
 
Featuring the same slim folding lines and outstanding features, the Nokia 6131 NFC handset includes Near Field Communications (NFC) technology to enable information sharing, service initiation and payment & ticketing capability with one tap of the device. Used in much the same way as existing contactless cards and keytags to allow access and make small payments, the addition of NFC technology to a full featured mobile device adds an entirely new level of capability by leveraging the phone’s computing power, wireless Internet access and user interface.
 
“At CES there are dozens of potential use cases for the Nokia 6131 NFC phone. Instead of carrying a badge for entry, a tap of my phone could authorize my admittance to the exhibition, access to product information could be achieved by touching my phone on a product display, making carrying brochures around the show floor obsolete, and instead of heading to the ATM machine on a daily basis, coffee, sodas and hot dogs could be purchased using an NFC-enabled phone,” said Juha Kokkonen, director of Mobile Experiences for Nokia’s Mobile Phones business. “In a trade show environment like CES, one of my favorite applications is using NFC-enabled business cards. Instead of going home with a pocket full of cards that I have to scan or hand type into my computer, I can simply touch the card, and I have all of the contact information right in my phone.”

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Nokia and Yahoo! today expanded their relationship to make Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 available on Nokia’s wide range of mobile phones operating on the Series 40 platform, the software user interface that powers Nokia’s broadest range of mobile devices. Beginning today consumers worldwide can download and enjoy Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 on select Nokia devices including the Nokia 6103, Nokia 6131 and Nokia 5300 Xpress Music phones. In the first half of 2007, the companies will also make Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 available for a wider range of devices and pre-load it onto millions of new Series 40 devices.
 
“The availability of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 for Nokia’s most popular mass-market devices will allow millions of consumers to unlock the power of their Nokia Series 40 device,” said Heikki Norta, senior vice president of Mobile Phones for Nokia. “The availability of familiar Yahoo! services on a mobile platform simplifies the Internet experience for these customers, who may otherwise not explore the full potential of their Nokia Series 40 device. This will allow more people to become part of the new generation of mobile Internet users, and to drive adoption of even more powerful devices in the future.”
 
Nokia and Yahoo! have worked together since April 2005 to give consumers the optimal Internet experience on their mobile devices.  As a result, millions of Nokia mobile device owners are able to easily use Yahoo!’s innovative services to stay informed, entertained and in touch with their Internet community.  The companies have expanded their relationship several times since then to include a wide range of Yahoo!’s services across the majority of Nokia’s mobile devices.
 
“As part of our goal of putting the Internet in every consumer’s pocket, Yahoo! is excited to expand its successful, long running relationship with Nokia to bring our groundbreaking Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 service to consumers on their Nokia devices,” said Marco Boerries, senior vice president of Connected Life, Yahoo!. “Our innovative new service is designed to bring the Internet to the mobile phone and make it easy for the hundreds of millions of consumers with Nokia devices to stay connected to their community and the information that matters to them.” 

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Nokia today announced a new way to enhance your multimedia computer or mobile device with a range of lightweight and comfortable Bluetooth headsets.  Changeable and wearable, the Nokia BH-301 Bluetooth Headset, the Nokia BH-201 Bluetooth Headset and the Nokia BH-100 Bluetooth Headset add comfort and choice to your wireless communications.
 
These additions to Nokia’s extensive enhancements offering are evidence of Nokia’s commitment to providing the most fulfilling experience with your Nokia device on the move, to suit both your budget and individual taste.
 
The three headsets are expected to be available globally in the first quarter of 2007.
 
Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-301
Match your headset to suit your mood with the interchangeable, stylish covers on the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-301.  Available in either a light or a dark variant, choose cover colors ranging from ‘pink flower’ to ‘deep plum’, and many more. This headset will keep you talking for up to seven hours or it will survive on standby for up to 200 hours.  Convenient keys for controlling your call functions, including redialing and voice dial activation*, will keep you on the go while you communicate.
 
Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-201
Communicate in comfort with this small and compact Bluetooth headset, designed to fit in almost any ear. The Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-201 has a soft earpiece wheel which you can easily adjust for an individual fit or choose from three different earbud sizes, included inbox. Available in stylish black, this Bluetooth headset has up to five and a half hours of talk time and up to 150 hours on standby. Control your conversations with on/off, answer/end and volume keys. You can even redial or reject your calls or use the voice dialing activation* or audio transfer with a compatible mobile device. Staying on track with the headset’s operation is easy with its red and greed LED indicators.
 
Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-100
The ideal companion for a first-time Bluetooth user, the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-100 is a simple and affordable addition to Nokia’s Bluetooth family. Small and lightweight at 11g, this headset will keep you talking for up to six and a half hours or up to 150 hours on standby. Give your headset a personal touch with a choice of colorful in-box earloops. The Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-100 is economic and efficient without compromising audio quality.
 
*Redialing and voice activation functionality depends on handset compatibility

Next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microvision, Inc., a digital imaging company based in Redmond, Wash., plans to introduce a tiny color projection display that’s small enough to be embedded into portable devices like mobile phones.

The ultra-thin display — comparable to a thin mint, though less likely to melt in your hand — is built upon Microvision’s Integrated Photonics Module (IPM), which allows images on portable device screens to be projected on nearby surfaces for improved viewing.

Using the IPM to drive a mobile phone projector, images stay in focus at any distance, even on curved surfaces, according to the company.

Alexander Tokman, president and CEO of Microvision, says that cell phone displays typically represent a barrier to growth in the mobile market because they limit the user’s viewing experience. He expects that as mobile phone makers adopt his company’s technology, mobile network operators will see greater demand for mobile data services, such as mobile TV.

While Tokman suggests that consumers will be enthralled with the ability to hold group screenings of mobile phone video content, it’s unclear whether film industry groups will be enthusiastic about a technology that allows anyone to set up an ad hoc movie theater.

Video and audio content owners have not been shy about pursuing copyright infringement claims for unlicensed public exhibitions of their shows and songs. It seems unlikely that industry groups will experience a sudden change of heart, at least until mobile video becomes a more substantial revenue stream.