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Sending text messages on mobile phones is becoming as commonplace as calling your best friend, and it’s all the rage among teens. We know trying to keep up with your teen and the technology they’re using can be daunting – so LG’s DTXTR is here to help you break it down and stay ahead of the curve.

Features on the DTXTR site include:

– DTXTR Translator: A cool tool that allows you to translate your tool in to shorter, more hip messages at the push of a button.

– DTXTR Glossary: Thousands of text terms (hundreds gathered from the BlogHer community at this fall’s Reach Out Tour!)

– Do U Know TXT Quiz: Test your texting prowess (say that three times fast…)

– Texting Tips: Everything parents need to know about texting, managing a texting teen, and thinking smart about text plans

It’s no surprise that Dell’s been dipping its toes in Android-infested waters as of late, and now the Wall Street Journal‘s reasserting a previous claim from early April that the company’s hard at work on a MID powered by Google’s mobile OS platform. Multiple sources have reportedly likened it to a slightly larger iPod touch, while one went so far as to suggest a very tentative second half 2009 target release window, assuming the project doesn’t get 187’d before then. Despite its history with Intel and the chipmaker’s penchant for MIDs, the report pegs ARM as the processor of choice. As for how this jibes with rumors of Dell’s smartphone plans, that’s where things get interesting, as WSJ quotes a source who said Dell’s thinking about selling it through cell carriers like it’s currently doing with 3G-equipped netbooks. The article repeatedly calls it a MID — meaning a phone might still be in the cards, but given past whispers, it kind of makes you wonder.

Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops

Dell working on iPod touch-esque Android MID, says WSJ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Louis Vuitton Japan has created an original game for mobile web SNS and game portal site Mobage Town by DeNA. The free game, called Precious Cargo, will have a limited run from June 25th to July 7th. The simple puzzle game features a backdrop of the brand’s iconic monogram. Players try to line up the boxes with matching designs to clear the boxes, score points, and reveal images of Louis Vuitton products. The debut of the game is timed to follow up the opening of the Louis Vuitton “/underground/” concept shop that opened last month in Ikebukuro’s Seibu department store.

Trend Potential
Young potential consumers are given an opportunity to literally play around with the brand’s classic monogram. For many, the Precious Cargo game may be their first interaction with the brand—and Louis Vuitton endeavors to make it a positive and fun one.

Sure, Clearwire has actually been running its WiMAX network in Atlanta for six weeks already, but that technicality isn’t stopping the company from deciding now is the time to “launch” the service in the metro area, with an appropriately-sized marketing blitz to boot. Portland travelers already using the service should feel at home now with their own personal 4G network to keep them company while they engorge on the recommended dosage of Chik-Fil-A sandwiches and Varsity chili dogs. Prices are identical to what we’ve already heard and, yes, even though the company just quietly launched the service in Las Vegas, expect to see the delayed red carpet rollout for that city sometime later this Summer.

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless

Clearwire’s WiMAX ordained with official Atlanta launch originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on March 12, 2008 by CyberNet.

Web Browser Wednesday

Sometimes I can’t believe how many bookmarks users have. I’ve seen people who only bookmark a handful of the sites that they use the most, while others have thousands of bookmarks. I fall somewhere in between with a few hundred bookmarks, but one thing that I’ve come to realize is how difficult it can be to gain access to all of my bookmarks when I’m on-the-go.

Today we’re going to show you five terrific ways that you can access your bookmarks from a mobile device, and each solution presented here has a mobile-optimized version for browsing your bookmarks. It was a little tougher than I thought to find the quality sites that I eventually came across, and I was quite surprised at how few bookmarking sites actually have mobile versions available.

Without further ado we’ll get the ball rolling what’s likely to be a huge fan favorite…

–Foxmarks Mobile–

Foxmarks is a Firefox extension that synchronizes Firefox’s bookmarks with an online server. I’ve always used the service as a way to backup my bookmarks, but “ayup” pointed out in the comments last week that they also offer a mobile site. It’s not an extravagant site by any means, but you can fully browse all of your directories and quickly open bookmarks. In my opinion this is what mobile bookmarking is all about, but it would be nice to be able to add bookmarks from this interface.

–Opera Link–

Opera was really smart when they launched their Opera Link service, which ties your desktop’s bookmarks together with your mobile device. The only catch is that you have to be using the Opera software (on both your desktop and mobile device) to really take advantage of everything Opera Link has to offer. The service is still accessible in other browsers via link.opera.com, but the site is not really optimized for mobile browsing.

–Del.icio.us Mobile–

I really can’t believe that Del.icio.us, one of the most popular bookmarking sites, doesn’t have an official mobile site. Steve Rubel has come to the rescue by posting some variations of stripped-down pages that display your bookmarks. Just replace USERNAME with your own Del.icio.us username:

• Bookmarks and Descriptions
  http://del.icio.us/html/USERNAME/?extended=body&tags=no&rssbutton=no
• Bookmarks Only
  http://del.icio.us/html/USERNAME/?tags=no&rssbutton=no
• Bookmarks and Tags
  http://del.icio.us/html/USERNAME/?&rssbutton=no
• Increase the Bookmark Count to 100
  http://del.icio.us/html/USERNAME/?&rssbutton=no&count=100

It’s not exactly the best solution, but it works for those of you looking for something simple. The next two mobile bookmarking solutions we’ve listed support Del.icio.us though…

–Mobleo.net–

Mobleo is a full-blown mobile bookmarking solution that goes above and beyond anything that I expected. It has a desktop browser interface available so that managing your bookmarks on your computer is a piece of cake. You can make your bookmarks public or private, organize them into groups, grab some or all of your Del.icio.us bookmarks, prioritize them, and much more.

The mobile interface compliments the service very well. You can manage your bookmarks, browse through the different groups, and surf the different sites using the Mobilfier technology. Mobilfier optimizes a site by stripping unnecessary layout information thereby speeding up the load time. Pretty slick, huh?

–Mobilicio.us–

Mobilicio.us creates a mobile interface for accessing and navigating bookmarks stored on Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia, and Wieza. You just have to log into your account, and you can start browsing your bookmarks page by page. Alternatively you can filter through them by tag name, URL, or description.

The thing that I really like about Mobilicio.us is that you can customize the size of the text on the page. If you have good eyes you can make it pretty small to conserve screen space!

By default Mobilicio.us will modify the URL’s of your bookmarks so that they pass through Google’s mobile transcoding service. You can turn this off in the settings, but if you’re on a device with a slow connection it will definitely help by having Google optimize (such as remove the CSS) the page first.

–Overview–

Now is your time to chime in! Let us know in the comments below how you get access to all of your bookmarks when you’re on-the-go.

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