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WHAT’S NEW FROM THE WORLD OF TECH

18 PC MAGAZINE MAY 9, 2006

Phone Home

Free services are giving almost anyone with a cell phone remote access to PCs.

ates the service from big players such as Citrix Online’s

GoToMyPC and Orb Networks’ Orb.

“There are almost a billion phones out there that

aren’t considered smartphones,” says Song Huang,

SoonR’s cofounder and VP of marketing. The service’s

only phone requirement is a WAP browser, so you

might, for example, access your remote ﬁ les using Op-

era. SoonR has also integrated its service with Google

Desktop Search and X1, so you can quickly ﬁ nd ﬁ les by

typing queries on your phone. The service will remain

free, although premium extensions will be available.

Avvenu offers similar services, also costs nothing,

and integrates with the free Motorola Share service for

sharing images. If your phone is your constant com-

panion, take note.

—Sebastian Rupley

When Apple con-

ﬁ rmed last year that

it would begin build-

ing computers with

Intel chips, predic-

tions of dual-boot

systems running both

Windows and the

Mac OS abounded.

Now, with ofﬁ cial

approval from neither

Microsoft nor Apple,

several code warriors

are pulling that off.

AirmanPika, a

member of the OSx-

86Project (forum

.osx86project.org), has

posted photos of his

iMac running Windows

Media Center Edition

2005, as shown above.

Our own experts have

loaded Windows XP

on Mac systems and

found it to run faster

on Apple computers

than it does on many

PCs. Find the details at

go.pcmag.com

/windowsonamac.

In PC Magazine’s

cover story on Apple’s

move to Intel last

year, Apple spokes-

person Natalie Kerris

said, “We’re not ship-

ping and supporting

Windows, but we’re

doing nothing in our

hardware designs to

preclude running it.”

And where there’s a

will, there’s a way.—SR

WINMAC

QUICK ON THE DRAW How fast does your brain process information? At www.positscience

.com you can take an online test and determine the precise answer. The process takes 10

minutes, and results are compared to averages for your age range, using charts.

Why shouldn’t checking

your body’s status be as

easy as glancing at the

temperature gauge in

your car? At the recent

CeBIT show, Vodafone

showed off its biozoom

device, which tests a

person’s water levels, en-

zyme levels, body fat per-

centage, and more, then

displays the results on a

mobile phone.—SR

OU’RE ON THE GO, YOU NEED A

presentation that’s on your home PC,

and all you’ve got is a cell phone. What to

do? A new crop of online startups is solv-

ing such remote-access problems—and

you don’t need a smartphone or a phone

running Microsoft Windows to use them. SoonR (www

.soonr.com) and Avvenu (www.avvenu.com) provide no-

cost solutions for retrieving and sharing anything on

your remote PC, even if you’re carrying a cheap phone.

SoonR’s service is in beta now, but that hasn’t

stopped tens of thousands of people from signing up.

The service requires you to load a small client on your

PC, but no software is needed on your phone. That, in

addition to SoonR’s focus on business users, differenti-

MOBILE TV TAKES OFF

As carriers, content providers, and

marketers are ramping up their

mobile TV and video initiatives,

3G subscribers are also

increasing their usage.

Source: eMarketer, March 2006

Watch TV

on phones

Watch video

on phones

2009200820072006

Projected

U.S.

viewers

(in

millions)

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