Listening to music on mobile phones while traveling has became one of people`s favorite pastimes all across the World. The sudden blossoming of radio stations everywhere has contributed to this trend. The creators of Mundu Radio believe streaming music from Internet radio station could be the Next Big Thing. (Geodesic is the company that makes software for mobil devices with the “Mundu” name; we tested one of their other products- Mundu IM- a while ago.)
We tried out the Symbain OS version on a Nokia N70. The interface is colorful and elegant. Stations are stored by genre. There are some preset stations, and you can add more manually through there site, www.radio.mundu.com. Also, the default playlist which contains all the stations, can be updated from your account on the Mundu Redio site. Recently played stations can be viewed quickly from a list that updates itself when you play a new station. We must say it would be nice to able to add stations directly through the software interface insteade of having to log in to the Mundu Radio site to add stations to your list.
We used a GPRS connection to access the streams on Mundu Radio; you can use Wi-Fi as well- if your phones supports it. The streams we used were 32 Kbps and 24 Kbps, and the performance was quite decent-they sounded good enough for a mobile phone. There was, however, a lot of buffering even with the slightest drop in single strength. The other concern, if at all, is the rates at what you are billed for downloads. For example, using a 32 Kbps radio stream for an hour will result in around 14 MB of data transferred.
There are lots of internet based radio stations, and you have no shortage of music to choose from. Mundu Radio is currently a free beta and upgrades can be downloaded from their site. How good the experience will be will eventually come down to the quality of service of your provider, and also the schemes suitable for long periods of radio listening. Either way, it`s a great concept that can be implemented on the current infrastructure without hassles, and it`s definitely worth trying out. Mundu Radio is currently available for palm, Symbain 7 and 8, and Windows Mobile devices.

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I am using this application for quite sometime and I must say the Its really a great application to check your gmail emails on the move. The application worked perfectly on my Nokia 6680 and Nokia N73 Music Edition. Google has released a new version of its Gmail for mobile application, which works on most phones that are Java ME enabled as well as BlackBerry devices. The new version is faster than before (30% faster overall and 80% faster for some tasks), consumes a lot less data and boasts a fair bit of new features. The latter includes a contacts viewer, an outgoing mail footer, click-to-call phone numbers, emails that are saved for later re-editing and Gmail keyboard shortcuts to perform tasks faster (on phones with full keyboards). The list sure sounds like a lot of useful features have been added without slowing down the program.

Basically it work on most J2ME enabled mobile phones and you will need GPRS/3G connection from your operator. Though the application is free but your operator may charge you for data transfer.

We have checked this updated application on almost every Nokia Series 60 and series 60 3rd edition phone and it worked flawlessly. Even it worked on UIQ and UIQ3 Mobiles.

Just point your mobile browser to http://www.gmail.com/app and the site will automatically determine the make and model of your mobiole phone and will offer the application for you.

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Sony’s Sound Forge 9 is the latest version of the highly acclaimed sound editing software. There isn’t much competition left in this space, but, new releases and updates still keep pouring in.
The interface hasn’t changed much since the previous releases. It is still easy to use for intermediate and expert level users.
To start with, Sound Forge allows you to import from a wide range of formats - including video formats that contain more audio streams than stereo. Let your imagination run wild with number of effects Sound Forge gives you. Flange, Chorus and Reverb are just a few of them. The overwhelming number of effects and tools is what makes Sound Forge unique.
Setting up parameters for each of the effects is easy. Windows pop-up for every effect you apply where parameters can be changed, and real time previews are played back instantaneously.
It’s not all fun and games either. The Detect Clipping feature finds instances of clipping in a track and marks them so they can be treated. The plugin chainer queues up multiple effects. Several audio files can be processed and effects applied one after another automatically.
Support for script is inbuilt, as well as some presets for normalizing, cropping and fading, etc. These can be used to run automated tasks like extracting audio CDs and encoding them, for example. A script editor is provided; anyone with some understanding of programming can make his own scripts.
Sound Forge stays well under the 50MB limit while working on more than a couple of mp3s.
As it stands now, Sony’s Sound Forge has become a well refined and optimized audio editing software that performs well and manages to have as many features as you’d want. All is well, it might seem, but the price tag of $299.96 is bound to create some hesitation for prospective buyers. Professional level users already on older Sound Forge versions will have no such doubts, all thanks to support for new formats and standards - and the added effects and tools.
Newcomers to the field of audio editing would be better off starting with open source alternatives - Audacity, for example.

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