Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc (IMS) has announced that it will soon release a “hands-free and eyes-free mobile email solution” which will keep drivers in touch more safely when they are on the road.

iLane is a box about the size of a home modem-router that sits in your glove box. Its voice-based interface can tell you when new emails arrive on your handheld, read a summary of the message and then listen as you dictate a reply or forward an attachment.

Unlike other voice-based solutions, iLane does not require a remote server to convert emails into voice files. It does all the work in your glove box.

Because it frees your hands and eyes from your handheld, it helps you to “stay connected to critical information without sacrificing your on-road safety.”

The web site claims that the device works with “BlackBerry handheld devices running the BlackBerry OS 4.0 and up. iLane will also support Bluetooth-enabled handheld devices and smart-phones that run on the Palm OS, Windows Mobile OS and Symbian OS.”

The iLane web site contains a FAQ and an opportunity to sign up for news of its actual roll-out. email, handheld, mobile, blackberry, car, wireless, voice recognition, cell phone

GCalSync is an app that offers two-way synchronisation between your mobile/cell phone or Blackberry and Google Calendar.

You can download events from GCal to your mobile phone and upload events created on your mobile, although at the moment, changes made to events on your mobile are not synced.

The past and future date ranges are user-customisable.

Currently the app does not support reminders and treats repeating events as multiple single events, but the developer promises more features soon.

Lots of Nokia handsets are supported as well as many Sony Ericsson models and two Motorola phones (not my RAZR, however, hence no screenshots).

You can read more about it and download the app on the developer’s web site or just point your phone at http://wap.gcalsync.com to get started.Google calendar, cell phone, mobile phone, blackberry, syncing, nokia, productivity

Ethan Kaplan has bought a Blackberry .

He describes how he uses it to manage his email along with Mail.app, how iCal and Address Book work for him and how Yojimbo is the ant’s pants.

He writes:

I have decided to go the zero-inbox route, and maintain a clear head through a clear inbox…. INBOX items go into Archive if there is nothing more to do on them, Followup if I need to respond, and Reference if the e-mail contains things that I need to keep handy.

Entourage gets a gig too as the tool for syncing Address Book and iCal with his Exchange server.

(His wife gets a pink Razr.)mail.app, apple mail, Microsoft exchange server, blackberry, ical, address book, GTD, yojimbo