Blockbuster wants to bring its streaming movie service to your phone via Microsoft’s Live Mesh platform.

The Dallas Morning News is reporting that Blockbuster (which calls the Big D home) is planning on upping the ante in its battle with Netflix by streaming its online offerings via Microsoft’s broad cloud/data sync service Live Mesh—which means it could have an easier entree onto Windows Mobile, which is one of the Mesh’s supported platforms along with OS X. Blockbuster’s CIO also envisions using Live Mesh to sync your movie watching with multiple web-connected PCs and TVs.

Interestingly, Netflix’s online player uses Microsoft’s Silverlight platform—which also has an API tie-in to Live Mesh. Read More: Blockbuster To Stream Movies To Windows Mobile Phones via Live Mesh

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Mobile Coach gives users of Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices access to a powerful and expansive database of over 3,000 foods and the following features: Easy search through the food database, saving frequent foods and meals as Favorites for quick data entry, desktop sync, customization for all sorts of body measurements, graphs to track your progress, calculator for estimated metabolic rates, and more.

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The browser-bearing world was atwitter yesterday with the announcement of Google’s Chrome browser. Just about overnight, they’ve managed to convince hordes of people that Chrome is the way to browse on your PC. Next step? They’re taking it mobile.

According to an interview with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the two projects will start working together more closely now that both are approached 1.0 releases, with the Android browser adopting much of Chrome’s inner workings. He also expects the mobile browser to pick up a new name to indicate the relation to it’s bigger, full-blown browsin’ brother.Mobile Phone Accessories

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 Sowe return to the Palm Treo Pro, a $549 unlocked Windows Mobile Treo aimed squarely at the business set. It’s been about a week and I’ve used this guy off and on. It kept a nice charge - two days, for the most part, without much data use - and fit nicely in the pocket. But is it the Treo of which we all incessantly dream? Is it the Treo that will bring us closer to world peace and better burritos on the East Coast? Is this the Treo for you?

Yes,it is the Treo for you if you are a business professional forced to use Windows Mobile and you travel quite a bit and hardware price is no object. This is also the Treo for you if you’re buying a few cellphones for the CEO and the CFO and you want them to be productive without having to change your Windows-based IT and communications infrastructure. If you are neither of those people, think of the Treo Pro as a vision of Palm’s future.

TheTreo Pro is one of Palm’s most attractive Treos to date. Gone is the lumpen plastic of the Centro and the low-gloss ho-hummery of the 800w. Whereas the Centro and the 800w took design cues from the lower end of the market, Treo tapped HTC to design this new looker and for good reason. The RIM, in a general, sense, was eating their enterprise lunch and the Centro was doing just fine.

Sowe have the Treo Pro. As its name implies, this isn’t for amateurs. Because it’s unlocked and unsubsidized you’d better have a damn good reason for going Windows Mobile. This could mean IT departments buying in bulk for their executives or a mobile professional who wants a messaging phone but still likes ActiveSync. Europe loves them some Windows Mobile, so their unlocked model is a good move. The US market, sadly, looks at expensive phones and then looks elsewhere. The Blackberry Curve didn’t get where it is on its good looks.

Palmas just released their much anticipated - and leaked - Treo Pro, a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device with a touchscreen and UMTS/HSDPA GSM networking. The phone also includes G.P.S. and improved WiFi handling for better and easier WiFi hand-off.

The new Treo is thinner than devices like the 800w and is targeted at the mobile professional market and is not an “iPhone-killer.” Instead it is part of a conscious strategy by Palm to release a series of “great” products in order to bring themselves back out of the doldrums.

I love Palm OS - WinMo not so much - and each iteration of the Treo seems to be a step in the right direction. Can these WinMo phones save the company? I’m not quite sure. HTC, Samsung, and even LG are all releasing low-end, powerful smartphones for the casual to high-use business user. The Palm Centro has the casual set sewn up right now but not for long - contracts run out and the iPhone is quite tempting to the folks who once loved the Motorola RAZR. Motorola and Palm both have a big problem on their hands and we can only watch and wait to see how this pans out.

Thephone is available on Vodafone and O2 in Europe and will be available unlocked for $549 in the U.S.

The iTunes App Store is a bit of a big deal these days. Several new applications pop up in the iTunes store every day. With hundreds of apps to download from it can be time consuming to sort through them all. Unfortunately, there is no try before you buy option for any of the iTunes apps. So, if you happen to see one that looks interesting, but requires you to shell out your hard earned cash, app reviews really come in handy. While the iTunes App Store features reviews from others, sometimes you just want a second opinion. Today, ReadWriteWeb brings you 4 iPhone/iPod app review sites.

What’s On iPhone?

What’soniphone is not only a great iTunes apps review site, but also a great web apps review site. With a team of engineers, writers, medical professionals, culinary artists, home makers, What’s on iPhone will help anyone decide on an app. Reviews start off with an overview of the application and follows up with their personal take on the app, a mini review, and the final verdict.

iUseThis

If you not only want reviews of an app, but also want to know how many people are really using it, iUseThis is your site. You can register for iUseThis to keep a log of all the apps you’re using. However, the site is best for finding out the most popular of two apps. For example, if you’re trying to make a decision between two or three note-taking applications and wanted to know which one may have been downloaded the most, iUseThis is a great place to find out.

AppVee

AppVee is a recently launched application review site. AppVee aims to do things a little differently by providing users with a personal review of the app and also ratings for the apps. Ratings range from ease of use and features to the app’s user interface. I’ve already spotted quite a few app reviews that I haven’t seen elsewhere on AppVee.

Apple iPhone School

Apple iPhone School is a great app review site for both the App Store apps and jailbroken apps via Cydia. There’s a great selection of app reviews currently available for both sources. If you’re looking for a particular app review check out the site’s sidebar for categories and more.

More Than Enough

Now you’ll never have to complain about needed more reviews for an app. With over 4 sources including the iTunes App Store itself, you’re all set to make a safe decision on whether or not to buy a particular app. Did we miss any sites? Let us know what your favorite iTunes App review sites are!

Throw out that WAP browser on your cell phone. We are quickly approaching a point where a full browser experience is available on our mobile devices. And it is not just the iPhone. A startup called Skyfire is in some respect even further along than Apple in bringing the entire Web to your phone. Its mobile browser lets you slide Web pages around and zoom in like with the mobile version of Safari. But it also supports Flash and Ajax sites. (It does this by offloading most of the heavy lifting to its servers rather than the mobile client). That means you can watch Youtube videos and go to Google Maps right in the mobile browser instead of having to download separate apps. In contrast, the iPhone’s Safari browser still does not support Flash and so to watch a a video you have to launch the separate Youtube app.

As it becomes possible to do more and more inside the mobile browser itself, it raises the question of whether that indeed is the killer app for mobile Web phones. For the most part, you still get a richer experience by downloading a separate single-purpose app to your phone. But efforts like Skyfire’s point to a future where that may no longer be necessary for all but the most sophisticated apps and games.

Skyfire launched on Windows Mobile, but as of today it is also available in a private beta for Nokia phones running Symbian’s S60 operating system. The first 200 TechCrunch readers to sign up for the beta here will get invites (enter invite code: Tcrunch).

You can also download thousands of exciting mobile games and useful apps ranging from entertainment to utility and security apps are available at Softwaremandi.in, for (absolutely) FREE. Visit now to download and make your life easier.

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Software Mandi, India’s No 1 Games and Software portal brings a great variety of cool mobile applications and games, absolutely free of cost.

India – July 31, 2008: Mobile Weaver, a rapidly growing mobile content provider is pleased to announce its new portal, Software Mandi that offers a rich catalog of free games and software for users. The portal is powered by Mobile Weaver’s premium mobile content solution Youpark.   

There are times when we realize that the money we have spent on buying a hi-fi mobile phone is not being justified. We are not using all what the mobile phone is capable of and we don’t even want to spend more on it. That’s the time when we think of enhancing our phone with free content which includes both software and games.

 Software Mandi is one such shop that offers thousands of free applications and games for a wide collection of devices such as Nokia, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, BlackBerry and many more. The storefront is targeted on countries where people have less purchasing power, yet they want to discover all those options that can make their life easier and entertaining.

Software Mandi features some interesting free games and applications such as Google Maps, fring, BEIKS Dream Meanings Dictionary, NEWSLAND and many other. The best thing about the storefront is that you are not even required to sign up. When you download for the first time on Software Mandi, you are automatically signed up. Just choose your mobile phone from the list and discover variety of cool applications and games for different categories such as “Business & Professional”, “Productivity”, “Lifestyle”, “Travel”, “Utilities” and more.

 “We are pleased to launch this entertaining site of Software Mandi that offers users with free mobile software and games. We believe this new portal of ours will take us forward in the industry, helping us to achieve our goal of making software easily accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime.” says Farrukh Abbas, CTO and Founder of Mobile Weaver.