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Mobile telephone giant Nokia's arrival in the music downloading business is bad news for Apple Computer, which may force the iPod maker to engineer a new "iPhone" to fend off the threat, experts believe.

Vaja is a well known company in the market of gadget casing. They are very popular for their high-end, good quality material they use. The company was very kind to send us an iPod Mini case for the purposes of this review.

From the very moment you unpack the case, the leather smell hits you immediately. This is a high quality full grain argentine leather and it shows. It feels very robust and hard but it has a soft side at the same time. The case has four output cuts, one of the wheel, one of the charging/sync connector, one for the controls on the top, while it comes with its own screen protector (made of transparent plastic). Even with the screen protector the text still looks accessible and easy to read, even when outdoors.

One thing that really shows the fine detail of the case is the internal fabric, the part that it's not visible when your iPod Mini is fit in it. The material on the inside is a glossy, good quality fabric with the Vaja logo woven in it. It looks fabulous!

Placing the iPod Mini inside the case might be a bit of a hard deal at the first time. The case is designed that way that the iPod Mini has no chance of "slipping" out. And this is a great feature adding to its robustness, but it will require some effort to take the iPod Mini in and out each time (especially if you are using a cradle and your iPod Mini doesn't fit in the cradle when using the case). We also found a small issue: the case wouldn't let us move the iPod Mini all the way through to the case no matter how hard we push. Other customers might not have this problem though, as this doesn't seem to be a design issue, but a (random) manufacturing one. If we had to comment on one more negative issue is that it comes with no wristwrap hole, but this won't affect all users anyway.

Our iPod Mini felt very secure inside its case, and the feel we get each time we grab our iPod Mini is just that: luxury. I must say that between all my other cases for this iPod Mini (and I own a bundle), I much prefer this Vaja case. Get yours while it's still hot!

Rating: 9/10

The M600+ is the latest Pocket PC Phone by Taiwanese manufacturer ETEN, which become popular due to models like M500, M600 and G500. As a successor of the M600, is has the same dimensions and design, while the materials used are slightly different. Its technical specifications are also better as it now supports Bluetooth v2.0, the camera is a 2 megapixel one and its quality is quite better this time, and the internal memory is the astonishing 256MB!

We are pleased to announce TuxTops Mobile, a PDA/cellphone version of our web site. You just point your gadget on www.tuxtops.com/pda/ and you should be surfing our mobile service. Check here for screenshots on how the service looks like on some mobile browsers.

Digg is these days one of the most popular techie blog sites, and most people love it. Problem is, it has no mobile version. There were 4-5 earlier efforts by fans to create a mobile interface to Digg, but their creations don't work or look great on most mobile browsers. This is why MoBits.com decided to create a new mobile interface, and make sure it works with all cHTML-capable mobile browsers.

It shoots 3.2-Megapixel stills, records hi-def video, views either on TVs and a whole lot more; InfoSyncWorld reviewed the hotly anticipated Nokia N93 camera phone.

Zmanda, the leader in open source data protection, today announced that its Amanda Enterprise Edition data protection software now supports all major corporate computing platforms. Zmanda has extended Amanda Enterprise platform support to include the Windows and Solaris operating systems, adding to the previously-supported Linux operating environment.

With the new platform support, Zmanda Network subscribers can use the affordable, tested and certified Amanda Enterprise open source software to protect business-critical data throughout their enterprise.

Amanda Enterprise is a commercial-grade version of the popular Amanda open source backup and recovery software, designed with a focus on enterprise security and usability. Amanda Enterprise has been tested, certified and pre-compiled for leading operating systems by Zmanda engineers to deliver proven, affordable open source data protection for a business-critical environment.

'Our mission is to deliver affordable, easy-to-use data protection software for a broad audience, and extending Amanda's support to the major enterprise operating systems is an important step," said Chander Kant, Zmanda's CEO. "Amanda Enterprise Edition expands the market for Amanda to corporations that seek the value, stability and performance of open source software, with the security, vendor accountability and support required by many businesses."

Zmanda Enhances Amanda Security and Usability

In a continuing effort to enhance Amanda Enterprise for commercial use, Zmanda has also recently made configuration easier and enhanced security in Amanda Enterprise. For example, Amanda Enterprise now features improved security for both backup and restore processes, better support for firewalls, and support for OpenSSL.

"The Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography (NUCAPT) in Evanston, Illinois has been relying on Amanda since they were founded and currently uses it to backup a 1.5 terabyte file server, as well as various workstations. "We have a very heterogeneous network here, and Amanda clients for Windows will make it much easier to protect our data," said Richard Karnesky, IT administrator for NUCAPT. "Zmanda has done a great job managing the Amanda project and continues to make important improvements to it."

Amanda Enterprise Part of Zmanda Network

Amanda Enterprise is available as part of the Zmanda Network, a full suite of software and services for affordable, commercial-grade data protection. The Zmanda Network is a subscription-based service that provides access to the Zmanda community portal as well as a range of available services for enterprise use. Zmanda Network is designed to be an easy, one-stop solution for commercial Amanda users, with benefits such as vendor accountability, commercial-grade production support, the Zmanda Knowledgebase, automated software updates, security alerts and IP indemnification.

For more information about the Zmanda Network and Amanda Enterprise software, please go to the Zmanda website at www.zmanda.com.

Sony's newly announced Mylo WiFi handheld multi-function device will run a Linux OS, along with Trolltech's Qtopia app framework and Opera's device-oriented web browser, LinuxDevices is reporting.

The Sony Ericsson M600i is one of the first Symbian OS v9.1 devices to be shipped with the new UIQ 3 user interface. UIQ made a name for itself on Sony Ericsson's P series of devices like the P910. In fact, the M600i could easily be thought of as a scaled down version of the upcoming P990 QWERTY smartphone, with which it shares many features and internal workings.

The Nokia N91 has been one of the most highly anticipated music phones. It was one of the phones touted to be an iPod killer, as it has a 4GB hard drive similar to the now defunct iPod Mini. After being delayed for some time now, the N91 is finally here, and Mobile Burn managed to get hold of one for a test drive. The Nokia N91 runs on Symbian OS v9.1 and, like the previously reviewed N71, it also features the much improved 3rd edition of the S60 user interface.