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If you cant live without your laptop or PDA and need to be online everywhere this will make you happy.

The Autonet company is offering to turn your car into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, allowing the driver and the passengers, to receive high-speed Internet access while on the move. The Autonet Mobile Unit, which will be priced at $399 with a $49 monthly service charge, will apparently use cellular technology to gather in high-speed data service. Then it will create a Wi-Fi zone in your car allowing anyone inside to get Internet access.

National service for your car.
"Our one-of-a-kind service covers over 95% of the United States and uses a breakthrough technology made to give you a seamless, secure connection whether you’re driving through tunnels, over bridges or even between cities."

Autonet Mobile was designed specifically for you.
In designing our service we also knew it was important to enable a wide array of wireless electronics devices to get connected. Since most electronics devices use Wi-Fi, we decided to turn the car into a Wi-Fi hotspot, just like at the local Starbucks. By doing this we can connect devices ranging from laptop computers to mobile media players like the Fujitsu P1610, from Wi-Fi cameras to Wi-Fi phones like the VoIP Skype Phone, and from stationary videogame consoles to handheld gaming units like the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS.""

It was reported by The New York Times a partnership with Avis Rent a Car since March and the service would cost around $11 per day.

Just remind to stop your car when you want to surf the net....

Pantech Wireless, Inc. - the U.S.-based subsidiary of Pantech Group, Korea’s leading mobile phone manufacturer today announced the introduction of the Pantech C3, an enhanced version of the world’s smallest camera flip phone.

Building on the success of the C300, the company has given the popular phone a stylish upgrade. Customers can now articulate their personal style by quickly customizing their world’s smallest camera flip phones with a variety of changeable color faceplates. Upon purchase, the C3 comes equipped with both Secret Blue and Silver frontages. Other colors and styles will be made available following the launch. This versatile handset is the perfect accessory for trendsetters that want their cell phone to more readily adjust to their lifestyle.


“The Pantech C3 isn’t just a phone - it’s a personal, lifestyle statement. Following an increasing trend, this mobile device is designed to easily modify and become the newest fashion statement, accessory and messaging tool,” said Mike Cost, COO of Pantech Wireless. “We strive to provide pacesetting tools that our customers come to be envied for; the C3 is a perfect example of this approach.”

The multimedia C3, available exclusively through all Cingular Wireless sales channels, allows users to share photos and songs with friends, hand-select and assign MP3 ringtones, utilize an array of instant messaging capabilities and stay connected with multiple mobile email services. The phone is small and mighty, measuring only 2.72 inches tall, 1.69 inches wide and .8 inches thick when closed, and once opened it features a bright color screen, large fonts and a VGA camera with flash and zoom.

Google is reported to be in talks to buy popular video-sharing website YouTube for $1.6bn (£856m).

The Wall Street Journal said discussions between the two sides were at a sensitive stage and the talks could break up.

Neither Google nor YouTube have made any comment.

Launched in February 2005, YouTube has grown quickly into one of the most popular websites on the internet, with 100 million videos viewed every day.

Previous denials

Founded by three former employees of eBay's PayPal electronic payment unit, YouTube has denied previous rumours of a takeover.

YouTube chief executive Chad Hurley said earlier this year that the company was not for sale and a future share flotation was possible.

A potential future problem for YouTube and any buyer, is that a great many users put up their favourite music videos and film clips, for which they have not gained copyright approval.

YouTube has an estimated 20 million individual visitors each month.

T-Mobile USA is set to launch by year's end a new breed of mobile phones that can pass live phone calls between cellular and Wi-Fi networks, a top executive told The Associated Press on Friday.

Robert Dotson, chief executive of the U.S. subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, declined to disclose the specific market where T-Mobile planned to introduce the technology, known as UMA or Unlicensed Mobile Access.

But he did say it would likely be "a city near and dear to our hearts," a likely reference to the company's home city of Seattle.

UMA is designed to hand off calls without interruption from a cell network to a Wi-Fi router, or vice versa. So if a user arrives home while talking on a cell phone and the handset detects a Wi-Fi broadband connection in the house, the call is automatically switched to the wireless Internet signal.

The only difference is that the call is then transmitted using VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, the technology used by Internet phone companies such as Vonage Holdings Corp.

T-Mobile has previously acknowledged it was testing UMA, which can help ease the burden on the limited call capacity of a cellular network while also providing users a stronger wireless signal when they're inside a building.

Dotson said the company will offer handsets comparably priced to cell phones but declined to say how much the service will cost.

UMA is a natural extension for the company's offerings, he said, because more than 10 percent of T-Mobile's subscribers do not have a traditional wired home phone.

"We believe we're in a place where we can take it to a full market trial," Dotson said.

For the service to succeed, the user experience "has got to be bulletproof," Dotson said. "If the battery life is not close to a cordless phone that exists in the home today, they're not going to use it. Even the call quality can't change. We're ensuring the setup and usage is totally seamless."

Dell XPS M1210 is the most popular entertainment-oriented ultraportable, it has Intel's latest Core 2 Duo processor. Its processor offers up to two times the CPU performance on gaming and entertainment systems compared to Pentium M processor technology1 and up to 12% overall system performance improvement over first generation Intel Core Duo processor platforms.


TECH SPECIFICATIONS

Procesors
Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T7200 (2GHz, 4M L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T7400 (2.16GHz, 4M L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T7600 (2.33GHz, 4M L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)

Operating System
Genuine Windows® XP Professional
Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005

Windows VistaTM Capable.


Memory
Up to 4GB1 of Dual Channel DDR2 memory2 provides blazing performance. provides blazing performance.

DDR2 dual channel3 memory offers excellent performance and bandwidth. This memory architecture is designed to help improve overall system performance and reduce power consumption. As demands from processors, graphics and networking increase, DDR2 is the new standard in notebook memory.

Graphics & Display
Standard:
12.1" Widescreen WXGA (1280 x 800) display with TrueLifeTM .
Integrated Intel® Media Accelerator 950 Graphics.

Optional:
256MB NVIDIA® GeForceTM Go 7400 with TurboCache4 Graphics Card.

Sound
Standard:
High definition integrated stereo sound.
Stereo 1 watt per channel main speakers.



Hard Drive
Up to 100GB5 7200RPM or 120GB 5400RPM SATA hard drive lets you store and access abundant data on your notebook.


Optical Storage

Fixed bay (configurable at time of purchase only).

Choice of:
Combo Drive - 24x/10x/24x CD Burner and 8x DVD-ROM
8x DVD/CD Burner (DVD+/-RW)6

Audio / Visual Communications
The optional A/V Communications Package offers robust video chat capabilities and enables mobile broadband connectivity for online entertainment and email via an optional cellular mini-card, anywhere you have cellular service7. It includes: An integrated 1.3 megapixel web cam
One set of premium noise isolation ear buds
SKYPETM voice over internet protocol software
An integrated mobile broadband antenna to be mobile broadband ready
A directional microphone system to help reduce background noise for crisp, clear voice communications

Weight & Dimensions
Width: 11.70"
Height: 1.20"
Depth: 8.70"
Weight (lbs): 4.378

I/O Ports
IEEE 1394 integrated port (1394 cable and software sold separately)
4 USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) compliant 4-pin connectors
RJ45 Ethernet port
RJ11 Modem port
Video: 15-pin monitor connector
S-Video: 7-pin mini-DIN connector
Component Video and S/PDIF digital audio out
5-in-1 removable memory card reader
Audio jacks: Stereo headphones/speakers miniconnector (same as line-out), microphone miniconnector