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A note from Nokia reps this week informs us that the Nokia viNe application will be rolled out of Beta soon... possibly even this week. viNe is a web service that enables users of the application to share their journeys, along with media collected along the way. As a long-time Sports Tracker user, N95 enthusiasts, and evangelist of all things mobile and geospatial, I was provided with a pre-release version of viNe - details and a complete "How To" install and use the application are provided... enjoy! Enter Nokia viNe 101
It was back in June 2008 that the E71 was officially released to the public - the selling points for the E71 were a sleek, stylish do-it-all device that came with Mail for Exchange mobile email client - pre-loaded with the Nokia E71. Actually, the device boasted much much more than these attributes as you'll see below in my findings after having the pleasure of making the E71 my main device for 3 weeks... enjoy the recap, the images and the videos!
Speak Your Mind! - Ping Your Social Networks using Voice to Text from SpinVox
Written by Glenn Letham
Monday, 06 October 2008
Ok, I'm excited about this one... now the cool gang at SpinVox has added yet another excellent feature... simply dial a number, leave a message, and your voice message will be saved and encoded as text to your favorite social networks (Blogger, Twitter, etc...) ... brilliant!
There's no doubt that after today, Twittering or whatever service you prefer, using Ping.fm will be much more exciting. Now users can easily leave a voice message on their social networking services thanks to the Ping your messages service from SpinVox.
Here's how it works... first I just to http://ping.fm/spinvox/ and setup the appropriate preferences on my Ping.fm account.
Then, prepare to send your voice to Ping your messages! Simply dial 1 (202) 684-7653 for the USA or 1 (416) 628-4693 for Canada and speak your message. Your voice will be converted to text and posted to your social networks!
Leave your short message, then hang-up, wait about 2 minutes and your social networks (Twitter in my case) are updated leaving the text version of your voice message along with a link to the audio clip.
First I setup my preferences on Ping.fm -- then I call the number and leave a message from my mobile. I have my Ping preferences set to upload to Twitter and others. On Twitter my message appears as a normal textual Tweet, along with a link to a Voice Clip - hear my message here!
I wait a bit then my social networks are updated! you can connect with me on Twitter via @gletham
Updates are also sent (optionally) to facebook!
My delicious bookmarks also updated - although sans description
From SpinVox Blog...
We're proud to announce a neat little feature brought to you by us and our friends over at SpinVox. Now, thanks to the power of SpinVox's wonderful voice technology, you can literally speak to your social networks. Yeah, seriously, you can call a SpinVox phone number and leave a message. Their amazing voice to text technology will take your message, convert it into readable text and pass it along to, then we do our thing we do. And, there you have it! Now, you can really "say it" when it comes to your pinging.
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Samsung Mobile Innovator is the latest developer support program from a Symbian OS licensee. Richard Bloor caught up with Phil Northam, the program's Global Marketing Manager and one of its founding members, to find out more.
A note from Nokia reps this week informs us that the Nokia viNe application will be rolled out of Beta soon... possibly even this week. viNe is a web service that enables users of the application to share their journeys, along with media collected along the way. As a long-time Sports Tracker user, N95 enthusiasts, and evangelist of all things mobile and geospatial, I was provided with a pre-release version of viNe - details and a complete "How To" install and use the application are provided... enjoy! Enter Nokia viNe 101 
It was back in 
I’ve been a long-time fan and user of Nokia Sports Tracker. In fact, I’ve considered it to be one of the best location-aware mobile apps anywhere… hands-down! Now it's even more fun, more useful, and easier to share with others... 
It was almost a year ago at 
