http://www.30v.org Just another Blog By Arash Kardan Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:05:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Posted by Stephen Chau, Product ManagerToday marks the beginning of one of my favorite summer events: the Tour de France. I'm always amazed when I hear about the long, steep climbs through mountains or the blistering speeds of the cyclists as they pass...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tour the Tour de France with ... http://www.30v.org/2008/07/05/tour-the-tour-de-france-with-street-view/ Apparently the next big thing to hit the mobile scene is the mobile coupon, and Cellfire is right up there in the forefront of this rapidly expanding mobile market. Cellfire, the mobile coupon and discount offer service a little while ago introduced Cellfire 3.0, which is apparently even more powerful ... http://www.30v.org/2008/07/05/are-mobile-coupons-the-next-big-thing-on-mobile-phones/ Philips is to be rolling out their Xenium X800 all-touch-screen equipped mobile phone in the near future, it has already received FCC approval, so could be due quite soon. So what can we expect from the Philips Xenium X800? Well the X800 offers up a 29.inch 240 x 400 QVGA TFT ... http://www.30v.org/2008/07/05/the-philips-xenium-x800-gets-the-once-over-in-pictures/ Word is out that Samsung is to launch a new rugged style candy-bar design mobile phone, the GT-B2700, which has been certified to be resistant to dust and water. Samsung’s idea is to take on this relatively underserved and often neglected mobile market and bring to the mobile user a ... http://www.30v.org/2008/07/05/samsung-gt-b2700-certified-water-and-dust-resistant/ The computer users of the world have been getting more interested in open source and free software for some time now and Microsoft’s new Equipt subscription service is aimed at defending the Office franchise. As we reported the other day, the pricing model for Equipt will be $69.99 per year and ... http://www.30v.org/2008/07/05/microsoft-equipt-vs-open-source-and-free-software/ Chine Mobile has the most subscribers, but Vodafone, in terms of revenue is the largest mobile operator in the world today, and it seems they want to remain that way, because Vodafone is now acquiring a whopping seventy percent stake in leading Ghana’s telecommunications operator, Ghana Telecom, purchasing from the ... http://www.30v.org/2008/07/05/vodafone-buys-up-roughly-three-quarters-of-ghana-telecom/ Agile Messenger and Agile Forces for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPhone 3G has been announced by Agilemobile. Agile messenger is a multi protocol instant messaging client for mobile handsets which provides a seamless connection to the public instant messaging ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, XMPP and AOL networks. Agilemobile’s ... http://www.30v.org/2008/07/05/two-new-software-releases-from-agilemobile-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/ YouTube is an amazing site and one that has changed the way web users watch videos; people will now listen to music by playing different YouTube videos on their home computers and on the move via cell phones like the Apple iPhone. Today we hear that a U.S. judge has ordered ... http://www.30v.org/2008/07/05/viacom-and-the-youtube-privacy-problem/ This is the ASRock A780FullDisplayPort Motherboard and while it performs as well as the ASUS 780G motherboard, its lack of HDMI and bad placement of onboard connectors make it a little hard to recommend over the other 780G Micro-ATX boards. With AMD’s 780G chipset getting a lot of good press Tweak ... http://www.30v.org/2008/07/05/new-amd-780g-chipset-oriented-motherboard/ The Sony PlayStation 3 games console aims at a totally different gamer than the Nintendo Wii but today PS3 Daily ask the question “Is the PlayStation 3 More Popular than the Nintendo Wii?” As an owner of both 7th generation consoles I know how good both these systems are and also ... http://www.30v.org/2008/07/05/is-the-playstation-3-more-popular-than-the-nintendo-wii/