Sanjeev Agrawal (former Head of Google Product Marketing) is a new CEO of young German start-up based in München. Aloqa is a context-aware application which proactively notifies you of interesting places, events and your FB friends near you. Instead of searching you simply see your network of friends, places and event of your interest, your favorite hotspots and much more.
Aloqa’s platform for MLS is based on LBS via Cell ID, GPS, WLAN and GSM fingerprinting, making a seamless transition between those technologies and hybrid positioning …

Mesaib Labs released a new desktop client, Hummingbird for cross platform desktop which comes in different versions. Grasp ahold of the full potential of the social networking phenomenon.
Hummingbird II – Lite or PRO Editions
Hummingbird Lite or PRO is an upgrade from the FREE Client version. By upgrading to Lite or PRO your business can automate the following and unfollowing practices that usually result in headache soonafter the start of using Twitter.
There are many things to know about when following or managing your network, and the developers of Hummingbird have …

Sony Ericsson ”Rachael” is the codename of the Swedes’ first Android-based mobile phone, that is expected to be announced later this year. It will be part of Sony Ericsson’s series of XPERIA products. We’ve got our hands on internal documents about the phone, that seems to have the potential to be a sales success.
The phone is based on the Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon platform, that enables processor speeds up to 1 GHz, and HSPA-speeds up to 7.2 Mbps. This platform will also sport great 3D graphics capabilities. …

 
Reincubare’s  iPhone Backup Extractor is an easy-to-use program to extract files from an iPhone, iPod Touch, iPhone 3G or iPhone 3G s iTunes backup. It is useful for restoring AppStore applications, SMS histories, contact lists, call histories, photographs and other data that might otherwise be inaccessible.
The backup extractor is free for non-commercial use, although registered users enjoy a number of benefits including faster restores, restoration of multiple files at a time, and automatic export to CSV (Windows only). Commercial (ie. business users) users must register.
Download the free iPhone …

George Hotz, released the first jailbreaking app for IPhone titled ‘purplera1n’. The app works only on Windows Platform (Windows 7 unsupported) now supporting Windows 7 and 64 bit seamless work with latest version of iTunes, with iPhone 3GS with 3.0 firmware and now also available for mac download it here.
The process is simple as described on the Developer’s blog:
Connect your iPhone normally. Click “make it ra1n”. Wait. On bootup, run Freeze, the purplera1n installer app. Hopefully you’ll figure out what to do from there.
Please unsure that you backup your data …

Palm is to announce details of the exclusive Palm Pre deal with O2, next week. The deal, first rumoured back in May, will make O2 the official Palm Pre partner in the UK.
The Guardian reports that Palm is about to confirm O2 as having won the rights to the Pre, beating off stiff competition from Orange. It is expected that Carphone Warehouse will also stock the phone, offering deals on the regular O2 packages.
The O2 deal has been rumoured for some time, and reports suggest that the Pre will …