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Xperia™ SmartTags - NFC Enabled tags to make your daily life simpler and automated

After Google Wallet and Mobile Phone Door Locks By Yale everybody is assured the NFC or Near field communication is surely the future technology and is coming our way fast and hard. Taking another innovative leap making use of NFC technology "Sony Ericsson" has made public their future plans to introduce NFC based Xperia SmartTags, planned to be used with future NFC capable Xperia phones the different colored tags will enable users to customize the tags to automatically change preferences, activating and deactivating phone features according to the tag the phone gets pointed at - like Home, car, office and bedroom.

A demonstration video is available after the jump.

Speaktoit Assistant - The Siri Alternative on Google Android Phones Now Comes to iOS

Speaktoit, the top-rated virtual assistant app on Android since launching in October 2011, has come to Apple’s iOS platform. Whereas Siri, Apple’s homegrown virtual assistant, only works on the iPhone 4S, Speaktoit will give older iPhone their very own assistant that performs most of the same tasks as Siri (and even some that Siri cannot do, such as updating a user’s Facebook page). Speaktoit is now available for $1.99 on the App Store. However, on Valentine’s Day (February 14th), Speaktoit will be free to the first 100,000 people.

Free 512GB Free Online Cloud Storage With Access From PC, Mac, iOS, Android and Internet


We have blogged about freemium cloud storage solutions like Dropbox, SugarSync, ZumoDrive, DropBoks, Microsoft SkyDrive and LiveDrive but all of them offer a limited amount of "online data storage" after which a user needs to upgrade their accounts to store more data.

BeeCloud is another such solution but offers a whooping 512GB of online storage with their free account, basically a reseller for LiveDrive they offer fully automatic backups with upto 30 revisions, anywhere data access from the web, iPhone, iPad, smart phone, PC, or Mac and even supports music and videos streaming straight from your mobile device over 3G or wifi.

BeeCloud

Free VPN Traffic Account giveaway - TAP VPN for Android Featuring Servers From 35+ Countries

We have reviewed lots of free and paid VPN services on this blog and have always provided our readers with exclusive free accounts to try things out, so here we are once again with another VPN service review and free account giveaway.

With support for over 35+ country servers very few VPN service providers match anonymity offered by VPN Traffic. Vpntraffic lets users surf the internet anonymously, allowing users to visit censored websites in their region with high speed, also safeguarding against any spoofing attacks. Another feature not found in other VPN services is support for P2P (torrents) connections.

VPN Traffic

After providing applications on several devices, such as : iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Symbian and Windows mobile, VPNTraffic is now offering its VPN service to Android users.

Fixing Microsoft ActiveSync Compatibility Issue On Windows 7

If you still got hold of an older Windows Mobile phone and the only option to manage it from your PC is "Microsoft ActiveSync", and if you tried using it on the newer Windows 7 desktop OS only to find that unfortunately the application is no-longer compatible and is being blocked with incompatibility error message as below.

ActiveSync incompatibility with Windows 7

Luckily, Microsoft has not blocked the ability to manage your older WM devices from Windows 7 but introduced another in-built feature named "Windows Mobile Device Center" which needs to be downloaded separately as demonstrated next.

Transfer all data from your current Apple iPhone to a new iPhone

Finally, got a new iPhone ! Here is an simple how-to guide on migrating all your data (contacts, SMS, emails, accounts, pictures, music and movies etc.) to the new Apple device.

iPhone To iPhone

[Video] Jailbroken iPhone 4S Running iOS 5.0.1 Demoed On Video

After giving users Corona - The untethered jailbreak for A4 CPU based Apple device running iOS 5.0.1, pod2g has achieved another milestone by jailbreaking the newer A5 CPU based devices like iPhone 4S and iPad2. For now a video is posted demoing working iPhone 4S jailbreak running iOS 5.0.1, there is no ETA provided for the public release but an release is expected soon.

Video Demo Of A Jailbroken iPhone 4S Running iOS 5.0.1

Dragon Go! For Android : Virtual Voice Assistant From Nuance - The Developers Of Siri

While Google is paving it's way to offer a competitive virtual voice assistant to Apple's "Siri", the current Siri Alternative solution's on Android platform are not very exciting. Thankfully, under some new exciting development "Nuance Communications" - the team behind technology powering Siri, have released a similar application for Android.

Dragon Go! features the tested and dependable, Nuance voice-recognition and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology allowing users to get direct access to 200+ of the most recognized destinations on the Mobile Web today spanning mobile entertainment and streaming media, social networking, shopping, and every other online content need imaginable simply by using their voice.

Dragon Go

Resetting The Forgotten Screen Lock Combination On Newer Apple iPod

We have shared trick's to unlock the ipod volume lock, the forgotten Apple iPod Touch Pin Code, and the iPod's Forgotten PassCode. Luckily, the trick to reset the forgotten screen-lock without loosing the data (factory reset) on Apple iPod is still same for the newer model. This time we have an easy to follow step-by-step video tutorial on how to get rid of this problem.

Screen Code Locked Apple iPhone

Ziggy - Windows Phone Alternative To Apple iPhone Siri

The only worth talking-about feature in Apple iPhone 4S is without a doubt the virtual voice assistant "Siri", while the popularity of this feature has caused many ports and hacks on other devices like "Spire", Android Speaktoit and in-works "Google Majel" why should "Windows Phone 7" be left aside. Thanks to new free (also adfree), virtual voice assistant application "Ask Ziggy" downloadable from "Windows Marketplace" this is now possible.

Ask Ziggy makes use of renowned Nuance speech-to-text analysis and natural-language-processing (NLP) technology coupled with advance web scraping and mash-up techniques to offer a worthy experience, a demonstration video is available after the jump.

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