In September Google announced the availability of its Push email service for iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile devices. The idea behind the Push service is that notifications of new email messages are sent, or pushed, directly to the phone as soon as an email arrives at the Gmail server. This is in contrast to […]

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On October 12 The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (Vesi) will release version 1.2 of its free Virtualization EcoShell software. Focussed on helping people running VMware virtualization, the new suite runs on Windows and includes a graphical editor for handling PowerShell scripts. The new Virtualization EcoShell editor adds a new integrated search tool to find free PowerShell […]

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Apple has released version 3.1 iPhone software but Internet telephone app vendor Truphone warns users not to upgrade just yet. Truphone said customers may encounter service problems with the current version of the Truphone application (version 3.0.2) if they install OS 3.1. Truphone makes software for the iPhone which enables people to make telephone calls […]

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Apple today launched the new version of its iTunes software for Mac and Windows PCs. The new software is available as a free download and will be installed automatically provided users allow the automatic update feature to function normally. In The Hypervisor tests the first thing that most people noticed was the Snow Leopard style […]

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Earlier this week remote management specialist LogMeIn updated its flagship Free and Pro remote access software with wake-on-LAN and remote diagnostic capabilities. For many years users of remote management software have asked for a way to power-on a PC using remote control software over the Internet, but until now this feature has been virtually unheard […]

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The iPhone gained another free sync option following news from web based sync specialist Soocial that it has finished the first version of its sync app for the iPhone. Stefan Fountain, Soocial chief executive officer, told The Hypervisor, “We submitted our iPhone app to Apple’s App Store so it might take a few weeks before […]

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Synchronizing the calendar and contacts information between your iPhone and a Google Gmail account is free and easy to setup. As an added bonus, the synchronisation happens virtually in real time and “over the air” using the iPhone’s WiFi or cellular data connection to the Internet. This means if you change something on the iPhone […]

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Synchronizing contacts and calendars in your iPhone with Microsoft Outlook is easy enough if you use one computer, but it gets more tricky if you want to sync with two or more PCs. Apple’s iTunes software is available for Windows and Mac computers, and will synchronize the iPhone with Microsoft Outlook Contacts, Calendar, Email and […]

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The Hypervisor Labs tests show upgrading iTunes and QuickTime is essential before upgrading an iPhone to the new OS3 software. In our tests we found the iPhone upgrade worked perfectly provided iTunes had already been upgraded to version 8.2. However, when we tried upgrading an iPhone using iTunes 8.0 the upgrade failed mid-way, leaving the […]

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Hping is open-source network testing software, and some time ago one our software gurus compiled a version of Hping to run on the Sharp Zaurus, which is a fairly ancient Linux based mobile device. Although the Zaurus may be long in the tooth, the software should also work on other Linux based devices that use the StrongArm […]

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