Nokia has been working on a method of indoor GPS positioning that should make it easier to navigate a new office building or a sprawling shopping mall.

Nokia is already trialling the indoor GPS service in 40 buildings within its headquarters in Espoo, Finland. A commercial trial will launch later this year at a shopping mall in Helsinki.

The application could be available through Nokia’s public Beta Labs site later this year.

The application will offer alerts, special offers, and ATM and merchant location servicesdirectly on cell phones.

Visa said that for the first few months, the application will be available just to Android phone users who also have Visa cards issued by JPMorgan Chase banks. It plans to open the application to other banks in 2009.

PDAnet has been one of the most popular software for Palm OS phones and Windows Mobile phones. It is now ported to the iPhone! Acting as Wifi router, PDAnet provides FULL INTERNET on the computer through your iPhone.

PDAnet installation and configuration:

1. Install PDAnet via Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone

2. When start the PDAnet, the first thing is to configure your ad-hoc network on the computer and then connect iPhone to it.

3. Configure your ad-hoc network on your computer

4. Open Wi-Fi Networks settings on your iPhone and pick your ad-hoc network.

5. Open PDAnet

Done! You are tethering, you feel connected to the world.

Research In Motion, a Canadian smartphone manufacturer, announced that its BlackBerry Enterprise Solution is compatible with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 comes with all the features that exist in the 2005 version, plus a brand new BlackBerry IM client.

With BlackBerry® Client for use with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007, your organization’s end users can exchange text messages with other Microsoft® Office Communicator users on their BlackBerry® smartphone, whether those contacts are using a desktop computer or BlackBerry smartphone. The enterprise instant messaging client is available here for an administrator to download and deploy.

– From BlackBerry

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and BlackBerry IM client bring the following features:

– Activity-based auto presence settings;
– One-to-one and multi-party instant messaging;
– Easy control over presence and contact info – you can allow only one group or only select contacts to see your availability;
– New presence statuses, so that you can create customized notifications about your location;
– Easy communication options – you can click on any contact from the IM client’s list for initiating a phone call, sending an email, a text message and so on;
– New controls and IT settings;
– Enhanced securit;
– Picture association is now supported directly in the contact list;
– Easy deployment – you can install the IM client either over the air or via side loading.

You must have BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1.6 or higher and a smartphone that runs BlackBerry Device Software 4.1 or higher to benefit from the capabilities of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.

The new BlackBerry IM client can be downloaded from RIM’s official website.

Categories is an app that allows you to organize iPhone or iPod Touch’s icons into categories. Instead of scrolling through pages of apps you can have one icon for games and then all your games show under one menu. Categories is available in Cydia for free.

Election ‘08 is an iPhone app that shows graphs of polls, data and electoral vote estimates broken down by state. You can even see the voting history of each state. It’s available through App Store and costs $0.99.

A leaked video of an early build of the iPhone / iPod touch application reveals that the 2.0 version offers many more features than before.

New features include:

view your friend’s playlists and favourite songs;

search out new music based on tags – artist name, music style, and so on.

Video after the break:

MCallShow is an iPhone application that allows you to search for information based on a phone number. It is available through the iSpazio source (http://repo.ispazio.net).

QuickSend is an iPhone application that allows you to quickly send prefabbed messages via email. This application has a great concept…the ability to easily and quickly send someone a short message. QuickSend is available through the App Store for free.

iWant is an iPhone application that allows you to look up venues that are near your current location. iWant is available through App Store for free.
Download iWant via the App Store.