Gmail team announced a small Task manager called ‘Tasks’ as a lab feature last year.Tasks feature is now embedded into gmail as a permanent feature on main page.
Some features includes:
*Note the “to do list”,set the due date and write the notes for every task in the list.
*View the completed and uncompleted tasks.
*Clear the tasks
*Print the task list
*Sort the task list

Click here for complete video on new feature ‘Tasks’.

*Indoor Positioning technology is to determine the location or position of the user with in a closed space(airports, malls, buildings etc) without the use of Satellite location systems such as GPS.
*Nokia has its Research center in Helsinki where it has been working on WLAN based Indoor Positioning system.
*Recently they have launched a trail at Kamppi shopping center in Helsinki.
[http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/009/01/indoor_positioning_nrc_helsinki.htm For more details]

*IFI Patent Intelligence Analysis of 2008’s Top U.S.-Patent Recipients Suggests America May be Losing Dominance
*Companies Outside the U.S. Tip Scales to 51 Percent Share of New Patents
*Total Patent Grants Up Slightly Over Last Year with IBM Setting an All-Time High;Broadcom, Cisco, Fujifilm, Hon Hai, LG Phillips LCD, Microsoft, and Samsung Also Post Greatest Gains in the Top 35, All Up By More Than 20 Percent
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Top Patent firms are listed below:
List from IP Today.com

Cutler’s predictions:
1. New classes of portable devices with ten times more battery life
2. Low-cost silicon photonics for faster, more reliable data transmission
3. New heights of realism in visual computing
4. Realistic computer generated images
5. Malware will become a thing of the past
6. Personal internet devices will be truly personal
7. Interactive computing devices make ‘composable computing’ a reality
8. Next-generation TV will not be about pixels
9. Seamlessly connected 3-D worlds
10. A spectrum revolution is looming

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I have searched on Mobile Scheduling in Mobile and there are very few patents in this field. US6505052, WO2004025974 are two among them.So, there is a lot of scope in finding novel things in this field.

Normally we do messaging through our mobiles. Some times we keep remainders to wish our friend on his birthday or need to send message at particular time.
I got a idea why cant the mobile has a feature of Scheduled Mobile messaging?

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This particular tool compares different database and gives a clear vision about that particular database.
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