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  • Brighton Collectibles Engages Shoppers in the Aisle with VeriFone’s GlobalBay Mobile POS on iPod Touch

    Brighton Collectibles Engages Shoppers in the Aisle with VeriFone’s GlobalBay Mobile POS on iPod Touch

    Posted on December 20, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Symbian^3 reviewed in exquisite and ruthless detail by Eldar Murtazin

    Symbian^3 reviewed in exquisite and ruthless detail by Eldar Murtazin

    Posted on June 24, 2010 | No Comments
    No folks, those mythical N8 review units still aren't on our doorsteps, but we can offer you the next best thing: a thorough (we mean thorough) overview of the Symbian^3 environment that will be front and center on Nokia's next great phone. Eldar Murtazin of mobile-review reports on everything from the sophisticated handling of contacts and caller ID pictures, through the noticeable speed improvements, past the limited utility of online widgets that display only two lines at a time, beyond the "weak spot" web browser, and all the way to Symbian's unhealthy habit of "clinging to continuity." It's an enlightening read, which pulls no punches with its conclusion: Symbian^3 is an evolutionary step up from S60 5th edition, which brings nothing new to the market and offers no comparative advantages. Strong words from Eldar, paricularly when he doesn't disclose what build of the OS he's using; his rationale, however, is that his analysis relates to overarching design decisions and ignores software bugs and version-specific foibles. Make of that what you will.

    [Thanks, scotsboyuk]

    Symbian^3 reviewed in exquisite and ruthless detail by Eldar Murtazin originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Munster: Apple will build a search engine

    Munster: Apple will build a search engine

    Posted on March 31, 2010 | No Comments
    Ha! Hold on. Let me walk around a little, calm down. Ummm… so Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, the guy who was right about the iPad because he wouldn’t shut up about it for most of the last five years, is saying there’s a “70% chance” that Apple will build a search engine. Barring thought [...]

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  • Termination fees for Nexus One come from both Google and T-Mobile

    Termination fees for Nexus One come from both Google and T-Mobile

    Posted on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Screen-shot-2010-01-11-at-January-11-10.05.44-AM[1] Prepare the foot soldiers from the Internet Nerd Rage army for this one. Apparently if you buy a subsidized Google Nexus One and “cancel your wireless plan prior to 120 days of continuous wireless service,” you’ll be charged the difference between what you paid for the device and its full retail price of $529. So at its current subsidized price of $179, you’d pay a $350 early termination fee. That fee is paid to Google, by the way, “and is in addition to any early termination fees that may be charged by your chosen carrier.”

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  • Yup, the FCC supports Net Neutrality all right

    Yup, the FCC supports Net Neutrality all right

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    As expected, the chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski, announced today his agency's support for Net Neutrality. Odds are if you're reading us then you have a basic idea of what Net Neutrality is, but if not it can be summed up like this: ISPs will be expected to treat all data equally, and not favor 0s and 1s from Company A or Company B, no matter what sweetheart a deal may be in place. The idea is that, since all data is treated equally, consumers will have better, unfettered access to the sites and services they choose to support.

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  • Some random Apple event predictions for you: Bye bye iPod classic?

    Some random Apple event predictions for you: Bye bye iPod classic?

    Posted on September 6, 2009 | No Comments
    That blasted Apple event is on Wednesday, and in the interest of having fresh-but-not-really posts on this holiday weekend, here's some interesting predictions I've stumbled upon. The highlight: say goodbye to the iPod classic.

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  • China begins to crack down on ‘naughty’ text messages

    China begins to crack down on ‘naughty’ text messages

    Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
    “Obscene information not only harms the people's soul but harms the people's morality as well.” It's with that rationale that China has begun to crack down on the scourge of inappropriate (read: “dirty”) text messages. Send one, and you can find yourself behind bars for a little while.

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  • 65,000 signatures on petition to get LAN back in StarCraft II (but will Blizzard listen?)

    65,000 signatures on petition to get LAN back in StarCraft II (but will Blizzard listen?)

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    By now I'm sure you know that Blizzard doesn't plan to support LAN in StarCraft II. There's a petition going around that politely asks Blizzard to reconsider. Said petition has some 65,000 signatures on it. You should sign it, too.

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  • Sony PSP, PSN has nothing to do with Google Chrome OS

    Sony PSP, PSN has nothing to do with Google Chrome OS

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    While we're all thrilled to see Google throw a new coat of paint onto the Linux kernel, there are, in fact, other things going on Out There, like, say, the quickly evolving PSP. Yesterday's exotic rumor suggested that Sony is working on a full-fledged PSP2, a system with Xbox1-level graphics. Today I spy an interview with a Sony so-and-so that attempts to explain the company's rationale for the PSP Go, how PSN compares to XBL these days, and so forth.

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