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Organized - Free Widget for Mac OS X Leopard

Those of you crazy about having everything at your fingertips can try out this free widget for Mac called Organized. Its name says it all, but you can have a look below for the full scoop (screens and all) nonetheless.The new widget from iSlayer features a calendar with events, world clocks, notes and to-dos, while t...

4 July 2008
08:59 GMT

Nokia Improves the S60 Platform's Web Capabilities

Nokia announced that its S60 Symbian mobile platform just got better, with the addition of enhanced capabilities for Web Run-Time, enabling users to create both context aware and personal widgets. Moreover, S60 now comes with support for various platform-independent C libraries, offering a greater freedom for open ...

24 April 2008
03:56 GMT

Widgets Patent Filled for Apple TV!

The Apple TV has a lot of potential, no doubt about it. Apple is probably sad for not fully exploiting it earlier and that's probably why this Apple TV Patent filling has surfaced, hinting at the possibility of widgets with the digital media receiver. The aim is associating Dashboard-like widgets with various ki...

8 February 2008
06:35 GMT

Meebo, the Widget Strategy Results

Many of you must be familiar with meebo, the web-based IM service that brings together four of the bigger names of the IM stage: AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger and MSN's Web Messenger alongside its very own.In case you were following this via Facebook or other similar social networks that have adopted the mee...

16 January 2008
09:02 GMT

Political Widget from AOL

The elections coming around have aroused an ocean of upheaval between the two big parties, so all the major Internet companies have decided to do something about it, in order to get some of the cash that has been and will be put in play for every candidate to have its share of publicity. First came Google that brough...

20 December 2007
10:22 GMT

fringME!, the Coolest Mobile Widget

Fringland Ltd., the company that developed the fring VoIP client, launched fringME!, a new and cool widget for mobile phones that enables your Internet friends to see if you are online, to contact you or to view your exact location, all via your mobile phone. For those into social networking, internet communities or ...

26 November 2007
04:43 GMT

Google Available in a Language Near You

Google doesn't want to remain behind in the Internet race or any race at all on any front. It struggles to go head to head with Yahoo! about the mobile industry market penetration for delivering ads and seems to be up for a limping start, and the war with Microsoft is one that announces to rage on for quite a wh...

12 November 2007
04:27 GMT

Amazon Widgets Or How to Create Your Own Web-Based Wish List

The famous website Amazon rolled out Amazon Widgets, a simple way to customize your blog or page with tiny utilities which provide valuable information related to this service. For example, you can create a product cloud or a wish list related to Amazon and publish it straight on your blog. Obviously, for free. As fa...

18 September 2007
05:26 GMT

20,000 Widgets for the iPhone

More than 20,000 widgets will be available for iPhone users from now on. Most of them will be created by mobile phone users and will come for free. The user will also have the chance of customizing them and adding some of his/her own to this already large list.Plusmo widgets will be available free of any charge. This...

4 August 2007
01:31 GMT

Send Pictures and Videos from MySpace to the Mobile Phone with the Mobilizer Widget

3Guppies, formerly known as Mixxer, announced the launch of a widget for MySpace that allows users to send pictures and videos from MySpace directly to the mobile phone. The service is compatible with virtually every data-capable phone and works on all major mobile carriers in U.S."We saw a clear opportunity to apply...

28 June 2007
09:41 GMT

Nokia WidSets Has Introduced a New Widget

Nokia has just added the Jaiku widget to the many others which have been available until now on WidSets. This is meant to introduce a new communication solution for mobile phone users as part of a new community.Jaiku allows all its members to post their thoughts and personal state and share them with a large number o...

11 June 2007
05:28 GMT

SiRF and Openwave Announce Partnership for Location-Based Mobile Widgets

SiRF Technology Holdings announced a partnership with Openwave Systems to bring location-based capabilities to Web 2.0 mobile applications. The companies will work together to integrate SiRF's SiRFstudio location capabilities with Openwave MIDAS, a Mobile AJAX-based application development platform, enabling wir...

18 May 2007
10:07 GMT

Netvibes Feeds Available on Mobiles via Nokia's Widsets

WidSets, a popular consumer Internet service powered by Nokia, and Netvibes, the pioneer of the personalized startpage, recently announced that they will publish the Netvibes Ecosystem's 85,000 feeds on the WidSets service, making them easily accessible on most mobile devices. WidSets is a phone manufacturer-...

19 April 2007
03:04 GMT

CallWave Strikes Again: Free SMS Through Yahoo Widgets

CallWave just announced the launch of its text messaging widget (also known as a gadget) for Yahoo! - a free, desktop-based application enabling users to send text messages to virtually anyone, anywhere from their computer whether their handset is nearby or not. This widget expands CallWave's suite of integrated...

18 April 2007
05:31 GMT

Nokia Launches Widgets on Symbian S60 Devices

Nokia has just announced the introduction of widget support for S60. S60 will be the first mobile software platform that enables the creation of widgets using familiar standards-based Web technologies. Available to all S60 licensees, widget support enhances the Internet experience on a mobile by bringing a personal W...

16 April 2007
08:18 GMT

Free SMS via the Google Desktop

CallWave recently announced the launch of its text messaging widget - a free, desktop-based application enabling users to send text messages worldwide right from their desktop. "Our SMS text platform maximizes the time consumers spend at their computer and demonstrates CallWave's commitment to simple and innovat...

5 April 2007
10:51 GMT

Openwave Announces Mobile Widget Solution

Openwave Systems announced the Openwave Mobile Widget solution, designed to simplify access to and discovery of highly personalized content. The AJAX-based solution, based on the Openwave MIDAS application development environment, enables mobile widgets to be integrated directly into the mobile device's idle scr...

2 April 2007
09:04 GMT

Hands-On Mobile Announces the HOMBRE Development Platform

Hands-On Mobile announced the Hands-On Mobile Runtime Environment (HOMBRE), a rapid-development platform that revolutionizes how mobile applications are built and deployed. Based on simple server-side development, HOMBRE makes rich, interactive mobile applications a reality for all mobile users regardless of their ph...

26 March 2007
08:59 GMT

Did You Notice Google's Dashboard Widgets?

The Mac's Dashboard is at least one interesting feature included in the Apple computers because it allows the owners to use some interesting and eye-candy utilities to improve the functionality of the system. The Dashboard is accessible through a single button and helps you use widgets like calculators, clocks, ...

22 March 2007
08:49 GMT

Sell Mobile Games from Your Website with Movaya PlugNPlay

Mobile content distributor Movaya announced the beta launch of Movaya PlugNPlay, a mobile video game distribution service that allows any website, ecommerce site or blog to sell mobile games. PlugNPlay is a web service that allows any website to set up a mobile game store in a matter of minutes. The service is an int...

21 March 2007
05:42 GMT

uLocate Launches WHERE - the First Mobile GPS Widget Platform

uLocate Communications, a publisher of location-enabled mobile applications, announced WHERE, the first mobile GPS widget platform, that allows the rapid development and publishing of location-enabled wireless content and applications.Currently available on Sprint phones, WHERE Widgets allow consumers to quickly laun...

14 March 2007
10:54 GMT




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