In case you haven’t noticed before, I’m a software junkie and love to get a good deal when I go hunting for my next software conquest.  That’s what makes our JAMM Store Mobile HEIST so great… you can get 50% off of ten different best-selling games.  This is available not only for Windows Mobile, but for other platforms as well!  Check out the links below to see what games are discounted for your platform of choice.  Be sure to hurry, though, as this deal is only good through Friday!

Windows Mobile:  HERE

Windows Mobile Smartphone:   HERE

BlackBerry:  HERE

Android:  HERE

Symbian:  HERE

Palm:  HERE

Today’s JAMM Store Deal of the Day is Mobiscope for Windows Mobile.  You can register Mobiscope for half the regular price, so be sure to check it out.

You can download a trial and/or register your copy here.

The programs details and specifications are below:

Complete video surveillance at a reasonable price! No need to purchase any expensive equipment. All you need is a webcam or network camera on your computer to record everything that goes on when you are away. Mobiscope can monitor the area for motion and transfer the recording to your Pocket PC handheld. Keep an eye on your children even when away from home. See your loved one at any time when separated by distance or observe your work place and employees in the office during trips. Features: Get motion detection alerts over email. Be notified of all motions and instantly watch a video stream from a place you observe. Start recording when motion is detected. Any web/IP cam support. You can watch up to 4 web or IP cameras simultaneously or watch public webcams streaming remarkable places of interest worldwide. English and German user interface. The app chooses the language according to your device settings. Mobiscope desktop service works on any Windows- and Mac-based PC. No special equipment required. All you need is a webcam connected to computer (or network camera) and your mobile device.

Minimum Requirements: A webcam or network camera on your computer Display Dimensions 240×240, 240×320, 240×400, 320×240, 320×320, 320×480, 400×240, 480×480, 480×640, 480×800, 640×480, 800×480 Operating System Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2003 SE, WM5, WM6, WM6.1, WM6.5

Will the complete saturation of the wireless spectrum by 2013 be cause for the end of the world?  As many predictions are floating around about the doom of the Earth as we know it, is this one to fear also?

I doubt it.  As with the other rumors there are just as many things to say against it as to say for it.  Such as I see a lot of service providers stepping up their systems to 4G and higher and some of them struggling to make 3G a reality for their entire network.

I use AT&T and enjoy it for my smartphone uses.  I don’t have 3G where I live but Edge is working pretty good because it doesn’t have issues with saturation yet.  How long will this last?  Who knows.

I do fear that they are way behind some of their competition that have had 3G across the US for a while now and are stepping it up to 4G at a good pace.  I don’t see there coming a time when the lack of spectrum will cripple the advancement of our mobile signal hungry toys.  I could be wrong but there always seems to be a new breakthrough when the situation arises.  Time will tell and most likely the Government will “as always” have the perfect solution.

Check CNet for the full story.

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Now this is an app I can stand behind.  Like many of you, I am an avid reader.  I ride the train every day, and spend quite a bit of time with my nose buried in a book….well, lately an ebook or ibook, but you get the idea.  Sometimes, I read so much so quickly, that I can easily lose track of the books I have read or the books I plan to read, sometimes even the books I am reading when I get into two or three at a time…something else ebooks makes way too easy to do.  Yesterday, our friends at Electric Pocket have released a fantastic looking solution, with Book Lover, an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch (and with less than stellar graphics, the iPad as well).  Book Lover is not a reading app.  Instead, it is a catalog of your books.  From here, you can track the books you have read, the books you would like to read, and even the books you are currently reading.  The whole thing is organized in a bookshelf, like Apple’s iBook app.  The whole thing will even go online and download the cover art for you.  Pretty cool stuff.  Check out the full press release, below.

People who love to read and share their favorite books with friends now have a new iPhone app to help them recall each book they’ve read, enter notes on what they liked about each one, jot down the titles they’d like to read, and share favorites with friends by Facebook or email. BookLover, by Electric Pocket, also automatically fetches the book cover and, in many cases, a synopsis of each book in the reader’s collection or on their Wish List.

BookLover is ideal for true book lovers who not only are always on the lookout for good books, but eagerly share with friends after they’ve read a great one. They simply input the title and author (if known) and BookLover goes online to retrieve the cover art and any other information available.

Books are displayed on BookLover’s beautifully designed bookshelves for easy access when chatting with friends or shopping at the bookstore. Users can organize the books on the shelves however they’d like, and can easily drag and drop books between shelves to change how they are categorized.

For members of book clubs, or those who just enjoy discussing books with friends, BookLover enables them to jot their notes down for each book so they are prepared for the discussion with their insightful thoughts. This is also a handy feature to simply record who a book has been loaned to.

Sharing book reviews is a snap with BookLover’s Facebook and email sharing options. Users simply write their thoughts in BookLover’s text editor and with the click of a button, can email directly to friends or post on their Facebook walls.

BookLover for iPhone is available in the Apple App Store at an introductory rate of US$.99.
More information can be found on the Electric Pocket website at electricpocket.com/booklover.

I personally feel we have much to be grateful for because of who Microsoft is and all that they have done. But there is no denying that it is also a company the public loves to hate. It is always taking the brunt of coulda-woulda-shoulda conversations. Inevitable, I suppose, in the day and age of people who insist on standing in complaint as their default position on just about everything. So, hopefully a company like Microsoft is still willing to listen to what people want, and yet still be capable of giving them innovations they didn’t yet know they need.

That all said, news comes today via Zealot at Mobility Site that a shakeup is afoot in the personnel department at Microsoft. Some longtime players are rumored to be getting their walking papers. If true, Microsoft may get the rejuvenation some think they need, or, they may add yet more fuel to an already smoldering pity-party.

Read about the Wall Street Journal’s report over at Mobilty Site