Set In Stone Archive

  • RIM is working on a WebKit browser for BlackBerry, and they need help

    RIM is working on a WebKit browser for BlackBerry, and they need help

    RIM is good at plenty of stuff: As any sore-thumbed business-type could tell you, they’ve got the whole email thing down. They can pump out software updates for a bunch of handsets at an outright impressive pace. With the BlackBerry Storm2, they’ve shown people that they can build the touchscreen device everyone thought they were [...]

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  • U.S. Senate: It’s cool to jam cell phones in prisons

    U.S. Senate: It’s cool to jam cell phones in prisons

    cell-jammerOh, U.S. Senate. Just when we thought you had turned your collective attention to the plethora of incredibly important issues to tackle (read: healthcare, 2 wars, global warming, education, etc), you go and pass the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009.

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  • Woot traffic as an indicator of financial stability: A treatise

    Woot traffic as an indicator of financial stability: A treatise

    When in the course of human events people lose their jobs and their ways to pay for bags of random stuff and close-out smoke detectors, it behooves all good men to approach shopping site Woot.com with trepidation and distrust. The result? A steady decline in traffic from the post-holiday period of 2009 until about May [...]

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  • PlayStation Home could stream TV shows, movies in the future

    PlayStation Home could stream TV shows, movies in the future

    We don’t typically cover PS Home updates at the ‘Gear, but the Sony PS team just dropped a tiny morsel of goodness and I feel compelled to tell you about it. The Movie Theater in Home is getting revamped with a 10-screen layout that PS Home Community Manager CydoniaX says could one-day stream full-length TV shows and movies. Nothing is set in stone so we’ll throw this one on the backburner for now.

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