This day in History widget for the iPhone

There's a perfect iPhone application for history buffs who owns this sleek gadget. Software MacKiev has already released This Day in History. This Day in History is a new widget for iPhone's Safari browser that shows significant historical events corresponding with the current day.

This Day in History is already available at the Company's website free of charge. To access This Day in History on your iPhone, just enter: www.mackiev.com/tdh on the Safari Browser. Like all other widgets for the iPhone, this will only run on the Safari Browser if you have an internet connection and would not be available for use offline.

The first writeable Blue-Ray Disc

Panasonic has announced last Thursday that it will be introducing the World's first write-once Blue-Ray Discs with a 4x writing speed. The discs will be available in 25G and 50GB capacity and will be out in the market in July for the 25G and September for the 50GB disc.

The new discs have a maximum capacity to transfer data at a speed of 144mbps and has a low error rate because of the newly developed film forming technology which minimizes dust generated in the sputtering process.

Visual Voicemail for your mobile phone

One of the cool features of the Apple iPhone is its visual voicemail. The iPhone's visual voicemail allows users to view their voice messages without listening to prior voice messages so that they can select the messages that are more important to them.

Now, ordinary cell phone users can use the visual voicemail on their phones using SimulSays Beta. SimulSays Beta is a free visual voicemail application for the Blackberry 8800 series, Blackberry Pearl, Blackberry Curve and Windows Mobile Devices. SimulSays Beta lets users scroll and click through their voicemail messages, choosing the order of priority they can listen to their voicemail, saving them time and money.

What's more, when the SimulSays Beta is combined with the Simulscribe voicemail-to-text service, users can also read their voicemail messages in the application. Simulscribe's voicemail-to-text service converts voicemail to text and delivers it via e-mail or SMS. The message is delivered in real time and includes the caller's phone number in the subject line, the transcribed voice message and an audio file of the original message. The SimulSays Beta can also combine with your mobile phone's phonebook so you can reply to the caller's voice message by phone, text message or email.

For more info, visit http://Simulsays.com

Nokia's first speakerphone

In a press release, Nokia announced it's first speakerphone, the Nokia speakerphone HF-300. The HF-300 is a bluetooth speakerphone that has enhanced audio quality and has an auto power off when the device is not in use.

The Nokia Speakerphone HF-300 only weighs 80g so you can take it anywhere with you. It has a sunvisor clip so you can place it on your car or you can easily mount it on a surface with its rubber feet. The HF-300 is compatible with Nokia products that supports Bluetooth 1.1 or higher and will be available in the third quarter of 2007.

Verizon boasts of its multimedia services and network capacity to lure back customers

If your competitor is luring in 700,000 customers in less than 3 days because of their new cell phone, what better way to lure back your customers than bash your rival's network?

Verizon Wireless, probably in a last ditch attempt to lure back its customers has issued a press release announcing its wide variety of phones to fit anyone's lifestyle as well as their wide range of multimedia services. They even boasted their $37 billion investment for network expansion.

In what could probably be a sour-graping moment, Verizon said in their press release, "A mobile phone is only as good as the network it's on. While some carriers may boast that their handsets are sleek, investigating the type of network the phone runs on is crucial before purchasing any device." Jealous much?!

AT&T customers are already complaining about how the EDGE network was down because of the hundreds of iPhone users trying to tap into the system.

Apple iPhone applications

With the iPhone's release, many users are probably looking for applications for their phones. Two companies, have recently announced the release of their applications that are compatible with the iPhone while one company has almost every iPhone app under their site.

Funambol has announced that they will be releasing the first over-the-air contacts application for the iPhone that lets users make calls, send email and even map locations using Google Maps. myFUNAMBOL can facilitate a user’s migration from his old device to the iPhone over-the-air.

Unbound Medicine announced that they will be releasing medical content for the iPhone. Among the medical products that will be available are Harrison's Manual of Medicine and Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests from McGraw-Hill, 5-Minute Clinical Consult from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Red Book(R) from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Davis's Drug Guide and Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary from F.A. Davis. Users can also access and search through hundreds of medical journals online.

Applists.com on the other hand, has just about every variety of iphone apps on their website and new ones are added everyday.

Wanna see what's inside your throat?

Medgadget, the internet journal of emerging medical technologies, reported that the FDA has just approved the PillCam ESO 2, a capsule endoscope from Given Imaging Ltd. of Israel. The camera capsule will be marketed in the US by Johnson and Johnson through InScope.

The PillCam capsule is designed to view the inner lining of the esophagus. The capsule is the same size as a multi-vitamin, about a centimeter in width, so it can be swallowed easily.

For the full story, see: A Camera in Your Throat