Cut your mobile phone bill with Tariff Manager by OP2iN Communications. It will help you to manage your phone bills by giving a warning message when your allowed calls, messages and internet data gets low. This application can also be used to keep a record of your phone usage.

Nanonavi for S60 5th Edition by Nanomatic Limited offers users a breakthrough personal tracking and monitoring functionality to care remotely for family members, friends and possessions anywhere in the world. With this application users can: * create their safety zone (Geo-fence) for persons and assets, * create criteria for sending emergency alert on violation, * locate and track persons and assets, * plan route to any destination from current location, * manage location records and search, * authorize your friend or family members to temporarily taking over the monitoring responsibility from you.

With Smart Assistant Live from Aims Migital Technovations you can take control of incoming calls and conveniently auto respond to them. This application can automatically answer the call with your pre-recorded voice message, or it can reject the call and reply with an SMS.

MobiGuard by Mindscraper Mobile helps you in retrieving all data from a lost or stolen phone without using any online service, and also helps in tracking the location of your phone. It runs hidden in the background so no one will see it and sends an SMS to the pre-defined control phone in case of SIM change. You can remotely retrieve or delete your call log, contacts, remove all messages, format the memory card and get the location of the remote phone.

This month, Nokia and Intel have established a new, collaboratively owned and run laboratory at the Centre for Internet Excellence at the University of Oulu. The initial focus of the lab will be graphics: making new, next-generation graphical experiences for mobile users. There's already a strong 3D internet research community established at the Centre, and the partners hope to tap into that excellence to help inspire their own projects. The Centre produced realXtend, an open source platform for interconnected 3D worlds, for example. The lab's first projects involve creating new user interfaces for MeeGo and potentially other platforms that use 3D graphics in ways that are new, easy-to-use and enjoyable. Read more....

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