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In time for the Christmas holidays, Momail has launched a Flickr add-on making photo sharing and photo search from the mobile. Now, all Momail and Flickr users can update, upload, download and search their photos on the go. All you need is just sending an email message with the  certain keywords.

All photos sent are automatically optimized for the individual handset via Momail’s patented MMOPE-technology. Photos download quickly and save up to 99.9% of mobile data, according to the company.

In order to use this service, users should simply activate Flickr on Momail under “On-demand” in their Momail account, and then it’s ready to go. This activation enables single sign-on and authentication required to reach the private Flickr pages.

Google’s Android phones will invade Asia-Pacific region next year.  Besides HTC’s Dream and Kogan Technologies’ Agora, which will hit Australia on January 29, there is another phones will be delivered in the region later next year: Huawei phone. China’s largest handset and network infrastructure provider Huawei confirmed that their first Android smartphone is scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2009.

Huawei is the second China company to join OHA after country’s largest operator, China Mobile and was one of the 14 companies — including Garmin International and Vodafone — who joined the Open Handset Alliance last week.

“Huawei can confirm that their first Android smartphone is scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2009. Huawei’s smartphones can be ordered and developed for Australian operators based on any such requests,” the spokesperson said.

[via CNET]

Passengers on Japan’s super-fast bullet trains, N700-type, will be able to access the Internet while travelling at 270 kilometers per hour. Will start effectively in March next year,  this service  is part of the NTT Communications’s HotSpot service efforts across Japan.

Enjoying connections of around 2Mbps (mega bits per second) throughout cars on the new shinkansen between Japan’s two biggest cities of Tokyo and Osaka would be a great experience.

This phenomenon shows us that business passengers want themselves always keep connected to the Web, even during their trip on the train.

The service will be charged from ¥500 (US$5.73) per day to ¥1,680  ($19.25) for a monthly subscription.

The price might not the issue for business travellers like Shinkansen passengers. However, they value high speed connection and reliability of the service.  And how about 2Mbps of hot-spot access  on the bullet-trains? Not bad

[via PCWorld]

Zeemote is teaming up with Telcel in Mexico and Sony Ericsson to bring the Zeemote JS1 Wireless Controller to the local consumer. The bundle will include the Sony Ericsson Walkman W760i phone and a Zeemote JS1 Wireless Controller, as well as a 2 GB memory stick micro (M2). The walkman phone will also come preloaded with Heli-Strike 3D helicopter shooter by Fishlabs.

“We are delighted to be the first operator in Mexico to bring the Zeemote JS1 Wireless Controller to market, delivering mobile games to our customers in a way they have never experienced,” said Luis Ramón, Vice President, Mobile Devices, Telcel. “Our top priority is to bring innovative mobile products and services to Telcel customers, and the JS1 controller is a clear example of a revolution in the way people interact with their mobile device.”

The Zeemote Ready games will be available through Sony Ericsson’s Fun and Downloads web page (www.sonyericsson.com.mx/fun), as well as though the Play Now mobile portal, which they can access though their Sony Ericsson W760’s menu, including Cars, Street Fighter, Batman: Dark Knight, El Pajaro Loco (Woody Woodpecker), with many more coming soon.

VITO Technology releases Task2Gather 1.1 for Windows Mobile. Task2Gather performs greatly as a personal to-do or shopping list as well as a collaborative tool for reaching common team goals. The major bugs of previous version were fixed. Moreover, the mobile version now has tag support, auto-login feature and many other minor improvements that make task management a whole lot easier. Task2Gather for Windows Mobile is available now for $0.99. Special $0.99 offer is valid until the OFFLINE MODE release.

New features:

• tags
• auto log in
• indicator showing server connection
• German and Russian languages support
• exit via menu or minimize
• estimated/spent via edit mode

Fixed bugs:

• landscape support
• list is shown from start