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MobileMe is Apple’s service, another of the items available by subscription Macintosh for users who want extra features on the Internet. One of the most useful benefits is MobileMe iDisk, a virtual hard disk that you stay online. Usage is very simple: imagine a USB memory invisible, you can use on any computer in the world with Internet access. There you can copy and retrieve the files you want at any time and from anywhere.

Using the iDisk on the desktop of your Microsoft Windows will be required to make an “extra work”, especially because you have to install some updates in case of XP. For now you have to install this update. If you have Windows Vista, you must install it. Once installed the update for, you can connect to iDisk from the desktop. Read more… »

A little news for owners of iPhone 3G and iPhone 4G (and those who have an iPhone 3G who are very patient and very brave): Skype has been updated on the AppStore, and now supports multiple tasking-commissioned in the last version of the Apple mobile OS!

Apart from that, nothing really new except the fact that you can now receive calls “background” and perhaps see your battery melted like snow in the sun …

It is only half years ago, Google’s operating system for smartphones unveiled, and today Android stands at 100,000 new users a day.

New figures from research firm Gartner tells of a market share just under 10 percent of the global smartphone market, against 1.6 percent the year before.

Growth for the iPhone and Android

Thus it has been overtaken Microsoft, whose Windows Mobile has been available since 2003. Android is now on a global fourth place and can eye the next two in the box, iPhone and BlackBerry. First place is held remains of Symbian, Nokia’s operating system. Read more… »

Apple updated Thursday Aperture and iMovie, respectively to version 3.0.2 and 8.0.6.

iMovie 8.0.6 provides a single update that has to do with Aperture. The new version provides greater stability when working with video files from Aperture.

Aperture 3.0.2 contains a dozen fixes and improvements, including when imported library files from version 1 and 2.

Friday brought the New York Times, a large-scale article on dispute between two of the strongest companies in the new century, Apple and Google.

How personalities such as Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt of Google has become bitter enemies after a period that they have worked closely together.

Strife kernel is not something new in. Man is become direct competitors in the mobile market, and there is a huge difference in the two companies’ approach to the market. Apple wants total control of the entire value chain, while Google vows to open platforms. Read more in my analysis from August. Read more… »

MIT announced, Friday 10/10, a new project, SmartBiking, aimed at further facilitating the use of bicycles, already pervasive in Copenhagen as part of the next UN conference on climate change be held in November 2009 in the Danish capital. The main thrust of this initiative is communication between cyclists, who can share information and their relative positions.

But another aspect of this project should lead to the development of a solution of electric assist bicycle incorporating the recovery of braking energy. This should result in reduced power consumption. The laboratory SENSEable City Lab, which is piloting this project, has provided very little information so far on the Smart Biking Green Wheel system. The only useful point that we can add to the diagram above, is that everything is there, in the rear wheel hub, including the battery. Convenient, no? Especially if one considers that this approach allows to consider practically any motorized bicycle exists.

Recall that the electric assist bicycle, amplifying the muscular effort, allows a cyclist to start lambda on journeys that could or would do to the sheer force of his legs. And that a modest energy cost. The electrically assisted bikes can therefore compete with the bike and car into new territories.

Tomorrow will take a world’s biggest electronics trade fairs taking place, CES in Las Vegas, and one of the biggest hit is expected to become e-readers.

There is already off to a good time in the market thanks to Amazon’s Kindle, Sony e-reader series and Nook from book chain Barnes & Noble.

Now comes the next generation of e-readers, with more important news. First and foremost is the appliance itself is now a thin, flexible plastic contraption, which offers a growing selection of newspapers, books and magazines. Read more… »

Drinking milk is an important habit to have daily. That is why having fresh milk on the table is always a given for those who look after their health. But sometimes, stored milk can easily stay around for days. It might be difficult to know if they have already gone sour unless one takes a taste of it, which is what many would want to avoid.

It is a good thing that there is now something that can help people know whether that milk stored in their fridge has already gone sour without having to take a sip of it. The new Cravendale Milk Jug is anything but ordinary. It is an innovative milk jug that can tell users if their milk has already gone sour. There is a unique pH sensor located at the base of the jug that measures the acidity of the jug’s contents and provides the update on an LCD display on the jug. The screen may display either “Fresh” or “Sour” to help users gauge the drinkability of the milk. There’s no news on when the Cravendale Milk Jug might be available on the market or how much it will cost.

In a published report by Nintendo last July, Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata gave an insight on what the Nintendo Wii Vitality Sensor can do aside from gathering information on how many times your heart beats in a minute.

After “some difficulty in addressing its product concept,” Iwata explained that the human pulse is more than just about our heartbeat, but also a source of various kinds of bio-information like the condition of the automatic nerve.

He further expounded that we get excited and stimulated as we play video games, and that the Wii Vitality Sensor can measure how horrified a player is in a horror game. However, they decide to take the road less traveled and create a flagship video game for the Vitality Sensor that aims to “visualize how to unwind and relax, or check the condition of your automatic nerve by simply inserting your finger in the device once a day.” Read more… »

Sources over at SonyInsider.com claim that a new version of S-Series Sony Walkman, which was well-received by the consumer market, is being developed as we speak, as shown in this press photo that they have posted. Judging from first impressions alone, it seems that this new model will include a built-in speaker into the device, which would be great for listening to your favorite tunes without the need for earphones. The screen also appears to become bigger.

Whatever features it may have, we hope that the new Sony Walkman would feature the best of the S-Series plus more: super-slim design, music and video capabilities, a longer-lasting battery, FM tuner, noise canceling, and (hopefully) a memory higher than 8GB.

However, do not mark the calendar just yet. It is still unclear when this new PMP would be unveiled; if in case this is a legit product.