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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
25 May 2012 12:30 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); LONGWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DoMark International Inc. (OTCBB: DOMK) announced today that management of its wholly-owned subsidiary, SolaWerks, has...
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Debacle Archive
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PSA Part 2: Samsung Wave now said to be virus free
Posted on June 3, 2010 | No CommentsYesterday morning, we wrote a quick blurp letting you guys know to be wary of the just-launched Samsung Wave, given that it purportedly shipped with a nasty little auto-executing virus. For all those keeping up with this little mini-debacle (and for those about to ride the Wave themselves), we’ve got good news: according to Samsung, it’s [...] -
Apple launches iShock Troops
Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
We're going to sit out the rest of the iPhone discovery because it's basically throwing good bits after bad but read this line from from the Wired story on Brian Hogan, the kid who "found" the iPhone:
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Niveus Media has a Sirius plugin for Windows Media Center. Maybe it’s good?
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsSo I was all prepared to give Niveus Media's new Sirius XM Windows Media Center plugin a try. (As I found out during a meeting with Microsoft while at CES, Windows 7 comes with Windows Media Center built in. I 100 percent didn't know that till the Microsoft guys told me. Amazing. What else does Windows 7 do that I didn't know?) Right, so I was all prepared, installed it, then tried to run the configuration. Oh, sorry! It's Sirius-only! I'm an XM man, grandfathered into this whole Sirius XM debacle, so I can't use the plugin. Great.
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T-Mobile starts selling Sidekicks again, drops prices
Posted on November 17, 2009 | No Comments
Data problems? What data problems? Oh right, those data problems. Well, its been about a month so, like with any sort of break up or troubled relationship, you've had your chance to grieve and be angry...now it's time to move on, folks.
At least that seems to be T-Mobile's position. Thus, Big T has resumed selling both its older Sidekick and the newer Sidekick LX, each for slightly less than the pre-data loss prices nonetheless.
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Simple Mobile springs to life with $40 unlimited voice plan?
Posted on November 17, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: MVNOs
The once-burgeoning MVNO industry may be down, but it's not out -- apparently -- on news today that newcomer Simple Mobile is planning to offer GSM-based contract-free plans ranging from $40 for unlimited voice to $50 for unlimited voice and text plus a meager 20MB of data per month (you can upgrade to 40MB for another $5 a month). In theory, it sounds brilliant -- all-you-can-eat minutes, no contracts, bring your own phone (if you don't want one of the six snoozers they offer directly) -- but we can't find a way to sign up for the service, so this might devolve into another Zer01-esque debacle unless we actually hear of people using and enjoying it. It's clearly not for data-heavy folks, but if this pans out, we can see it stealing some business from the regional value leaders like Cricket at the very least.
[Via Phone Scoop]Simple Mobile springs to life with $40 unlimited voice plan? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft to restore remaining Sidekick contacts this week, other stuff ’shortly thereafter’
Posted on October 19, 2009 | No CommentsSidekick users tend to be an active, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants bunch, so it's gotta hurt like the dickens when they don't have access to their schedules and little black books -- but hey, at least it's still recoverable, right? Microsoft has just posted a quick update to keep everyone abreast on the progress of its Sidekick data recovery, and it sounds like they'll be able to have remaining missing contacts back in action this week with the rest of the data -- to-dos, notes, photos, and the like -- following on "shortly thereafter." Anyone who didn't lose information in the debacle should be unaffected by the recovery process, but for those who did, these backup tapes couldn't possibly load into Danger's feisty data center fast enough.
Microsoft to restore remaining Sidekick contacts this week, other stuff 'shortly thereafter' originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Update On Microsoft/Sidekick Debacle: “Most, If Not All” Data Will Get Recovered
Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
Turns out our source had it right: Microsoft engineers who worked on the Danger/Sidekick meltdown have been able to recover "most if not all" of the data that was lost during last weekend's catastrophic server failure.
In a statement, Roz Ho, Corporate VP of Premium Mobile Experiences addresses the unfortunate T-Mobile Sidekick customers and apologizes for the massive fail:
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Microsoft recovers ‘most, if not all’ Sidekick customer data
Posted on October 15, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: Announcements
Steve Ballmer must have busted out his secret stash of magic dust, as Microsoft has just come out with the announcement that it has recovered "most, if not all, customer data" that was lost during the recent Sidekick debacle. Following the wildly embarassing fiasco attributed to a "system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back-up," T-Mobile and Redmond have "rebuilt the system component by component" and now promise to restore data to affected users in the most expedient fashion possible. Guess that means you won't be getting $100 from T-Mobile for losing your Tetris high scores after all.
[Thanks, Abe G.]Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick customer data originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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This year’s laptop and PC lines are touch-gasmic… but why?
Posted on October 13, 2009 | No CommentsYou may have seen a young man named Michael Arrington bemoaning the current state of touch technology on these very pages. While I tend to agree on the aggregate, I saw HP’s new touch line last week and came away impressed, at least in the quality of the interface HP built around the TouchSmart 300 [...] -
Schiller responds to Ninjawords debacle
Posted on August 6, 2009 | No CommentsYou and I can rail like a beplagued Job against the unfairness of the Apple store but do we ever get emails from Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president? John Gruber does. Gruber got an email from Schiller last night after the SVP talked through the Ninjawords debacle with the Application Approval team. As you [...]