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Software

Blackberry Manager For Mac Lands Tomorrow

10:57AM Chris Oaten | Mac users who prefer a Blackberry should be tickled pinkish to learn that RIM is releasing BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac. It will provide syncing of contacts, calendar appointments, tasks and notes. More »
Peripherals

Parasync Dock Synchs 20 iPhones, iPod Touch, Classic, Nano Simultaneously

9:00AM Jesus Diaz | Great news if you are Karl Lagerfeld: The new Parasync iPod and iPhone dock—which is the size of a sheet of paper—will allow you to synchronise iTunes content with 20 (yes, twenty) Apple iDevices, as the video shows: More »
Phones

How (and Why) the Palm Pre Syncs Directly With iTunes

9:18PM John Herrman | “DVD Jon” Johansen, a guy who knows a thing or five about iTunes syncing, breaks down how the Pre must pull it off: by reporting itself as an iPod. It’s brazen, and possibly brilliant. More »
Vehicles

Ballmer Scores a Fusion Hybrid From Ford CEO

7:40AM Wilson Rothman | Today over in Redmond, Ford CEO Alan Mulally handed Steve Ballmer the keys to a light blue metallic Ford Fusion Hybrid not coincidentally rigged up with Microsoft’s Sync system. Unfortunately, at that moment, I was too far off to hear what they were saying. Any guesses? More »
Software

Microsoft My Phone Beta Open to the Public

5:42PM John Herrman | My Phone, Microsoft’s new over-the-air backup system for Windows Mobile phones, is available for free in a public beta. Jason called it “fairly good” and even “fancy“, so it’s definitely worth a try. [WM Dev] More »
Vehicles

Ford Offering 3G-Connected Dashboard Computers in 2009 Trucks

3:46AM Mark Wilson | Ford continues their push for tech-friendly vehicles with a new announcement to put computers with Sprint 3G connections into the dashboards of 2009 F-Series trucks and E-Series cargo vans. More »
Software

Lenovo Constant Connect Lets ThinkPads Sync Emails Instantly and Automatically With Blackberry Phones

3:01PM Adrian Covert | Thanks to a new technology called Lenovo Constant Connect, Lenovo laptops will be able to sync enterprise-based emails with Blackberry phones at all times, even while the laptop is powered off. More »
Software

Google Sync Is Actually Just Licensed Microsoft Exchange Tech

7:56PM John Herrman | Google Sync for the iPhone and Windows Mobile was a long time coming, but the app—which many see as part of a Google bid to supplant Microsoft—actually depends heavily on Redmond’s tech. More »
Software

At Last, Google Sync Comes to iPhone and Windows Mobile

4:51AM Mark Wilson | If you are a Google Apps junkie like I am, chances are that your iPhone (or WinMo) experience has been lacking. Luckily, Google has released Sync support to instantly coordinate your Google Calendar and Contacts. More »
Vehicles

Is This How Car Makers Think We Talk?

10:00AM John Mahoney | Hughes Telematics stopped by to show us and our buddies at Jalopnik the in-car connected tech they’re pitching to OEMs, which was actually pretty great. But it did include this perfect piece of generational misunderstanding. More »