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MySpace on Tuesday announced a custom application for the Palm Pre and Nokia’s Symbian S60 devices. The news basically means that there will be a MySpace app for the Pre and S60 phone, as there is for almost every other mobile platform.

“We want our users to be able to access MySpace from any device,” John Faith, vice president and general manager of MySpace Mobile, said in a statement. “We are committed to building apps for platforms we feel are groundbreaking to offer our users the best possible on-the-go MySpace experience.”

The social networking site will also launch a revamped version of its mobile Web site at m.myspace.com and wap.myspace.com. User interface options have been optimized for devices with screen sizes 176 pixels wide and larger. It supports 13 languages and is localized for 29 countries.

In related news, cell phone analyst Sascha Segan discusses why the European Palm Pre multitasks better than Sprint’s on pcmag.com.

LG was all too happy to show this one off at CES in January, but it wasn’t quite ready to talk about it any sort of official manner, though it has now finally rectified that situation more than a month later at MWC. From the looks of it, the netbook seems to be unchanged from its CES iteration, with it packing a 160GB hard drive, the Splashtop-powered LG “Smart On” quick-boot interface and, we presume, the same 10-inch WSVGA display and de rigeur 1.6GHz Atom processor as before. Most notably, LG has also now confirmed that the X120 will indeed come equipped with standard 3G HSPA connectivity, which is no doubt why LG took advantage of MWC to finally get official with it. If you missed it the first time around, be sure to check out our CES hands-on for plenty of pics and a video of that quick-boot in action.

[Via Liliputing]

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Aside from one or two standout announcements, it has been a slow couple of days at the Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona. And like CES in Vegas, the crowds are thinner than in previous years, which has meant both more time and space to look at the fauna. Keep reading for a (small) gallery of the Best in Show. The above picture, by the way, is not a restaurant display. It was in a booth, somehow promoting cellphones. Heck, maybe they are cellphones. I didn’t ask.

Here we have Boothbabes, who very professionally smiled and curtsied for the camera. But these are no ordinary boothbabes — the CBOSS girls are going to bring about the resurrection of the world’s economy, and they’re going to do it in stilettos and tiaras. Just look at the slogan: "Anti-Crisis IT Solutions". Thanks, CBOSS!

It’s hard to know what to make of this. It appears that iMate (or someone in front of the iMate stand) is stuck in 1996 — that’s the only way to explain the occurrence of not one, but two Lara Crofts handing out fliers (the second one is hidden behind the suit. Sorry).

Seriously. Imagine the meeting where this was decided:

"What about some booth babes?"
"Nah, too tacky, too sexist."
"What about booth babes in tight shorts, dressed like video game characters?"
"Dude. Hell yes!"

Lastly, Tommy Lee Jones. Or is it? I clearly thought so back in Vegas where my booze soaked brain mistook this chap for the grizzled actor as we boarded a Southwest flight together. The hat, the face, and even the accent fit the illusion.

Seeing the same fellow here in Barcelona, though, makes me think that the real Tommy Lee wasn’t on the flight with me at all. Unless, of course, Mr. Jones has started covering tech trade shows, swapping the back of a horse for the back of a Segway and showing an unnatural interest in "convergence solutions". A shame.

To everybody I told that I had seen TLJ on the Vegas-San Francisco flight, I apologize. I also apologize for the blurred photo, which proves that even the mighty Nikon D700 can take a bad picture in the hands of a moron.

Just last week, President Obama signed the DTV Delay Act into law. But despite appearances, the delay isn’t mandatory: about one-third (650-plus) of the nation’s TV stations will be pulling the plug on their analog towers by the end of Tuesday. The remaining stations will be taking advantage …

This article was written on May 07, 2008 by CyberNet.

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It’s here! I’ve been waiting for OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta for what seems like forever. I was getting a little bit worried when it wasn’t released on April 30th like it was supposed to be, and the release date was never revised. Luckily it’s only rolling in about a week late.

If you were one of the people expecting a huge facelift in this version of OpenOffice.org I’m afraid you’ll be a little disappointed. For the most part the interface is the same as it was with the exception of some refreshed icons. Some people I talked to were keeping their fingers crossed that the next major release of OpenOffice.org would include an Office 2007-like Ribbon, but it’s still using the classic toolbar style. Hey, it can now run on Mac OS X without needing X11 which is a huge feat in itself.

What I’m really excited about is that OpenOffice.org 3.0 is able to open the Office 2007 document formats. I’ve been using Office 2007 for a little while, and trying to use OpenOffice.org was quite a pain since I have a relatively large number of files saved in the Office 2007 file format. This will help ease the transition for many users.

And there’s still more! Here’s a look at the new features included in OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta:

• Mac OS X Support
  OpenOffice.org is now able to run on Mac OS X without the need for X11. Thus, OpenOffice.org behaves like any other Aqua application. The cool thing is, while the market leading office suite vendor dropped VBA support and the Solver feature, OpenOffice.org recently introduced limited VBA support and includes a powerful Solver component.
• ODF 1.2 Support
  OpenOffice.org 3.0 already supports the features of the upcoming version 1.2 of the ISO standard OpenDocument Format (ODF). ODF 1.2 includes a powerful formula language as well as a sophisticated metadata model based on the W3C standards RDF and OWL.
• Microsoft Office 2007 Document Support
  OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now capable of opening files created with Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.).
• Solver
  OpenOffice.org now also has a solver component which allows solving optimization problems where the optimum value of a particular spreadsheet cell has to be calculated based on constraints provided in other cells.
• Chart Enhancements
• Improved Crop Feature
• Spreadsheet Collaboration
  This new feature in OpenOffice.org 3.0 allows collaborating on spreadsheets with multiple users. By sharing a spreadsheet; other users can easily add their data to the spreadsheet.
• 1024 Columns Per Calc Sheet Instead of 256
• Display Multiple Writer Pages While Editing
  With the new zoom slider, it is now easily possible to change the zoom factor. More importantly, OpenOffice.org Writer can now display multiple pages at the same time.
• Improved Notes Feature in Writer
  With version 3.0, OpenOffice.org got an advanced notes features which displays notes on the side of the document. This makes notes a lot easier to read. In addition, notes from different users are displayed in different colours together with the editing date and time.
• New Icons
• Start Center
  When you open the application; you are now welcomed by a Start Center that allow you to chose which module you would like to use, or if you would prefer to open a document.

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