Dell offering free Venue Pros to employees in exchange for their BlackBerrys
November 5, 2010 No Comment
You’d think working for a big tech company would have its gadget-related perks and in Dell’s case that’s very much true. The big PC vendor has demonstrated its commitment to building up its own smartphone services by offering to trade employees’ old and busted BlackBerry devices for the shiny new hotness that is the Venue Pro . If everyone takes up Round Rock on its offer, there’ll be 25,000 RIM smartphones looking for new homes soon, along with a sprightly start to Windows Phone 7 ‘s time in the limelight. The Wall Street Journal reports this’ll cut Dell’s mobile communications bill by a quarter, thanks to no longer having to support BlackBerry servers, while also noting that Android variants will be made available in the future as well. Where there’s Lightning , there’s gotta be Thunder , right? Dell offering free Venue Pros to employees in exchange for their BlackBerrys originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Hate preacher Abu Hamza has won his appeal against the Government’s attempts to strip him of his British passport, a special tribunal ruled today. The radical cleric argued that such a move would render him “stateless” as he had already been stripped of his Egyptian citizenship. Delivering its 12-page ruling today, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) allowed his appeal. In his ruling, Mr Justice Mitting said: “We are satisfied on balance of probabilities that if a deprivation order were to be made, the appellant (Hamza) would be made stateless. “The conclusions which we have reached in the closed judgment supplement, but do not contradict, that conclusion. “Accordingly, this…
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By INGRID ARNESEN And MIKE ESTERL PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Hundreds of thousands of earthquake-displaced Haitians, still living in tents and under tarps, hunkered down in makeshift homes Friday as a hurricane threatened to push their Caribbean nation’s humanitarian crisis into a new phase of misery. Tomas strengthened into a hurricane overnight, with maximum sustained winds early Friday near 80 mph (130 kph). The National Hurricane Center in Miami says some additional strengthening is expected. Haiti Prepares for Storm View Slideshow 2010 Storm Tracker Follow the paths of storms and locate oil rigs and refineries. More photos and interactive graphics Hurricane Tomas is located about 175…
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Last quarter was the first time ever that US pay TV subscription rates were down . Now, according to GigaOM’s calculations, big cable suffered another set back in Q3, waving goodbye to over 500,000 subscribers in total. Comcast was saddled with over half of the carnage and lost 275,000 customers, while Time Warner took a 155,000 subscriber hit. Charter Communications and Cablevision fared slightly better, but still added 63,800 and 24,500 respectively to the industry pit of despair. Naturally, the blame game for the poor numbers was aimed squarely at the weak economy and increased competition from over-the-top video providers. Before you call the undertaker away from his wrestling day job, though, remember that cable’s traditional backstop is to raise prices for remaining customers — vicious cycle, anyone? In fact, Comcast shared on its Q3 earnings call that average customer revenue rose by ten percent year over year to $136 a month. Charter’s similarly jumped by nine percent to $126, and while Cablevision’s didn’t increase by the same rate, monthly revenue per customer still amounted to a whopping $149 a month. So whether the reason is cord cutting or simply hard times, it’s hard to get worked up over self-inflicted wounds. Big cable loses 500,000 subscribers in Q3, we neglect to send flowers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Tbilisi: Georgia said on Friday it had dismantled a Russian spy ring, arresting four Russian citizens and nine Georgians two years after the ex-Soviet neighbors fought a brief war. The Georgian Interior Ministry said in a press release that a major counter-intelligence operation had uncovered “several dozen” people working for the main intelligence department of the Russian Defence Ministry, known as GRU. It said Georgia’s intelligence services had planted a former Soviet army officer in GRU, “who gained the trust of Russian military intelligence and started working for this agency as a liaison officer.” The announcement has echoes of a 2006 spy saga between the two countries, when Georgia…
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The DPRK’s not exactly the world’s healthiest economy. So it’s with some surprise that we’re now presenting you with North Korea’s newest (only?) touchscreen slab. Apparently, it’s available “in all the computer shops” and is being touted locally as something of a big deal by a Russian blog operating within Pyongyang. Unfortunately, it’s void of any radios of any kind — no GPS, no WiFi, no cellular, no Bluetooth. So really, it’s just an old school Windows CE (judging by the icons) PDA with an electronic dictionary, map of the country, games, media player, and word processor. It also features a handy stylus for poking about the resistive touchscreen and to identify enemies of the state in a crowded room. The high-end 8GB model with microSD slot is said to cost $140 in a country where the average worker is estimated to earn about $1 per month. And here we thought that our gadget addiction was bad. North Korea gets a PDA befitting its Dear Leader originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A state airliner filled with Cubans and travelers from Europe and Latin America crashed and burst into flames in a mountainous area after declaring an emergency and losing contact with air traffic controllers. (Nov. 5)
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Our armed forces were made to fight in conventional wars and cannot meet the real threats to modern Britain. So why must we pay £45bn for something that’s so obsolete? A British army Challanger 2 tank near Basra in Iraq. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Six months ago I proposed in the Guardian that if Britain was short of money it should cut defence. I did not mean reduce defence, or trim defence. I meant cut it altogether. We are desperately short of money and absolutely no one is threatening to attack us now or in the foreseeable, indeed conceivable, future. Besides, as we have seen this past week, other ways of ensuring security make more pressing claims on us. We just do not need…
Continue reading …Samsung Galaxy Tab can be made to run all apps in full screen, here’s how (video)
November 5, 2010 No Comment
You might have noticed in our Galaxy Tab review that a number of pretty significant Android apps failed to scale to fully utilize its real estate, leaving an unpleasant black border surrounding their content. Well, you can now take that issue off your list of cons for this otherwise delectable tablet as our buddy JKK has figured out a way to overcome the scaling problemo. Using Spare Parts, a free app available in the Android Market, and a couple of reboots, he was able to convince the Engadget app to run in full screen on the Tab. He’s right in guessing that we’d be happy about that, though we imagine owners of Samsung’s slate will be the ones with the biggest grins on their faces right now. See the how-to video after the break. [Thanks, Mani] Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Tab can be made to run all apps in full screen, here’s how (video) Samsung Galaxy Tab can be made to run all apps in full screen, here’s how (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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