If you thought that all the StreamMyGame service can do is stream your video games from your PC to your console, then think again. StreamMyGame has announced that its software now allows you to run 2D applications like those found on Microsoft Office on your low spec Windows notebooks, Linux devices, and even your PlayStation 3. To find out more about this, check out the full article.

The only university in Japan to offer all courses online, Cyber University, teamed up with leading telecommunications corporation SoftBank to launch a service that brings college lessons to mobile phones. Japanese students now have access to a free course on pyramids that they can stream on the go.

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This month, Europe was hit by the HTC MteoR, which the company claims to be the world's first 3G Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone. The slim and compact Universal Mobile Telecomms System (UMTS) features:

• Instant access to emails, calendar and contacts.
• Viewing Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents on the go,
• Sync with your PC to get video, music and pictures for playback
• Advanced connectivity and portability (including Micro SD memory)
• Built-in Bluetooth
• Single-hand controlled jog-wheel for user friendly navigation

Enuff of the brochure talk and let's eaves drop on what consumers think of this thing. The HTC MTeoR mostly got thumbs up but one American consumer did raise a valid point. He says the unit does not support 850-band on GSM and the 850/1900-bands on UMTS/HSDPA. This means it will only work in Europe or for T-Mobile subscribers in the US. If you're on the wrong continent or not with T-Mobile, "this phone is really useless!"

We don't know how to respond to that but Mobility Today will interview the marketing director for HTC America next week and hopefully they get to ask that question.

As of the 12th of August, Nokia has made commercially available its first Japan-released phone under the Nseries brand. Nokia N71 has been customized for Japan's Vodafone K.K. and is marketed as "Nokia N71 (Vodafone 804NK)" in Vodafone's 3G lineup.

N71 is actually the fourth of the 3G models that Nokia has provided Vodafone - following suit N6650 (V-NM701), N6630 (Vodafone 702NK), and N6680 (Vodafone 702NK II). Styled in a simple yet elegant clamshell form, N71 guarantees superb 3G functionality as a rich multimedia device. It has a music player function and FM radio, a 2-megapixel camera, office documents viewer (compatible to file documents of MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint 97/2000/XP), e-mail client, and synchronization capabilities with compatible PCS.

N71 will also support the new Nokia Web Browser, enabling you to find your way around the web page with the its Mini Map feature, as well as display the thumbnail of the history, thus allowing you maximum enjoyment of the sites you check on PCs.

The Nokia NSeries were launched last year, and has introduced nine new models to-date. During the second quarter of 2006, Nokia had sold more than the million Nokia NSeries devices to the market.

Microsoft have released a further glimpse inside their office productivity suite by releasing the final UI of the icons for the upcoming release of the software. The new office will contain all your favourites including Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, InfoPath, Visio and more.

These new icons are similar to those used in Office 2003, but with some rounded corners and an image in the middle. All the symbols are there for familiarity like the key (for Access) the 'W' (for Word) etc. According to Microsoft: "The fresh, new product icons are a reflection of the meticulous attention to detail used in this release as they visually complement the ribbon and the branding style while still helping users locate an Office program."

It seems that there is no stopping BlackBerry from blooming and improving! Now, they are making their presence felt on Reino de España. Under the Vodaphone network, the BlackBerry 8707v is released in Spain.

The 8707v packs the usual compliment of BlackBerry features, along with support for Vodaphone's UTMS network, which gives near broadband speeds and allows for simultaneous voice and data connects.
 
The 8707v is a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS; 2100 MHz UTMS) device with 64 MB of memory, Bluetooth, and support for JPEG, BMP, TIFF, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect and Adobe PDF file formats. Indeed, BlackBerry is just beginning to flex its muscles.