Tech Mania: GSMA Awards 2010: HTC Hero voted Phone of the Year plus 2 more articles

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• GSMA Awards 2010: HTC Hero voted Phone of the Year
• Outlook to feature integration of Myspace and Facebook
• Call of Duty 7 Confirmed for Holiday 2010

GSMA Awards 2010: HTC Hero voted Phone of the Year Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:55 PM PST GSMA announced the winners of the Global Mobile Awards 2010 and HTC Hero was crowned device of the year, while the technology breakthrough award goes to Orange for the HD voice technology.Yesterday on a special ceremony at the MWC 2010 GSMA announced the winners of the Global Mobile Awards 2010. The best mobile handset this year is HTC Hero, which beat the other four nominees in this category – Samsung Star, Nokia N97 mini, BlackBerry Bold 9700 and Samsung Omnia HD.The Orange’s mobile HD voice technology won the prize in the Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough category overtaking the Snapdragon CPU and the new Opera Mini browser, which were the other hopefuls in the category. The Last City is the new mobile game of the year, so if you haven’t tried it yet, maybe it’s time to check it out. The other nominees in this category were The Sims 3, Farm Frenzy, Hero of Sparta and Speedhero.Elsewhere, CBS were triumphant in the Best Mobile Service category (TV.COM). The Best Mobile Connected Device (non-handsets) went to the MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot from Novatel Wireless. The Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service is RIM’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0. The Mobile Industry Personality of the Year is Mr. Steve Jobs. The latter was a media vote.Other winners in their respective category are listed below. Best Mobile Game Winner: Iricom – The Last City – Fight For Your Life! Best Mobile Music Service Winner: Odyssey Music Group – Deezer Best Mobile TV Service Winner: CBS Mobile – TV.COM Best Mobile Location Based Advertising Campaign Winner: R/GA – Nokia viNe Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service Winner: Research In Motion – BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 Best Mobile Internet Service Winner: adaffix Gmbh – YELLIX Best Use of Mobile for Social and Economic Development Winner: Grameen Foundation, MTN Uganda, and Google – The Grameen Foundation Application Laboratory (AppLab) Best Service Delivery Platform Winner: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd – Huawei SDP solution Best Billing & Customer Care Solution Winner: Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) – You Individual Optimal Tariff Plan Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough Winner: Orange – Mobile High Definition (HD) Voice Best Mobile Handset or Device Winner: HTC – HTC Hero Best Mobile Connected Device (non-handsets) Winner: Novatel Wireless Inc. – MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot Mobile Industry Personality of the Year as Voted for by the Media Winner: Steve Jobs, Co-Founder and CEO Apple Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

Outlook to feature integration of Myspace and Facebook Posted: 17 Feb 2010 10:27 AM PST Outlook is turning social through new partnerships with Facebook and MySpace and an existing one with LinkedIn.Few months back Microsoft had announced a Outlook social connector a feature in Office 2010 that hooks up social feeds into the Outlook inbox.Outlook users can download LinkedIn plugin for outlook and transform their desktop inboxes into a hub for all things LinkedIn.In addition to this you can integrate twitter into Outlook too. Most overshadowing news is that Big partners in social media like Myspace and Facebook would also be integrated with Outlook.Sometime in the next few months, users will be able to check up on their MySpace friends, update their Facebook status and browse through photosSo there is a boost for Microsoft and Outlook.So now Redmond giant can boast of offering LinkedIn, Twitter, Myspace and Facebook.So with this you have a full set of Social media partners in one place.Isn’t that cool !

Call of Duty 7 Confirmed for Holiday 2010 Posted: 17 Feb 2010 05:52 AM PST The next sequel to Call of Duty series after the Modern Warfare 2 and World at War i.e  unamed Call of duty 7 would be released some where in Holiday season 2010 may be by November.You wont be in shocked as you might be loving Call of duty Modern warfare 2 till now but once the next thing would be released you would definetely love this and want to get hands on this one.However, that’s neither here nor there as it’s 2010 holiday release has been confirmed yesterday by Activision CEO Bobby Kotick. He said that they will continue to release an annual installment of the Call of Duty franchise, but did not announce the developer. Due to what Infinity Ward had said about wanting to work on a new title, in combination with Treyarch’s David Kim’s LinkedIn profile, we can safely assume that Treyarch is the developer holding the reins here.It’s coming to Xbox 360 , PS3 and probably PC too in 2010. Another interesting bit from Kotick was that the company intends to take the CoD franchise in the direction of subscriptions, saying: If you think about the success we have had in other categories on subscriptions, you can get a sense of the direction we want to take the franchise. Now i don’t know how this will work and what’s the strategy but this would be something interesting in the far run.What do you feel ? Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

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