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<description><![CDATA[Proporta will be releasing new accessories for three of the latest smartphones to hit the market: the Samsung SGH-i780, E-TEN Glofiish M810, and the i-mate 9502. Proporta has designed their Alu-Leather Case and Advanced Screen Protectors for all three of these devices to provide you with essential and well-deserved protection for whichever one you own.Read | Permalink
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<title>Windows Live on Windows Mobile</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Windows Live for Windows Mobile is now available to download for your Windows Mobile phone. Windows Live for Windows Mobile lets Windows Mobile users sync their email from Windows Live Hotmail as well as their Windows Live Contacts. Just download the .cab file for the version of Windows Mobile you are running (Standard or Professional). Windows Live for Windows Mobile works on phones running both Windows Mobile and Windows Mobile 6 (and 6.1).Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Internet pranksters put on notice</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The groundbreaking move by federal authorities to indict a Missouri mother on charges connected to the suicide of a 13-year-old MySpace user has sent a strong message to the online world: Internet impostors may be prosecuted. "The Internet is a world unto itself. People must know how far they can go before they must stop," FBI official Salvador Hernandez said Thursday as prosecutors unveiled a case that employs laws usually used against hackers to go after the alleged perpetrator of a false-identity hoax.Lori Drew, 49, of suburban St. Louis, Missouri, was charged with conspiracy and fraudulently gaining access to someone else's computer. She allegedly helped create a MySpace account in the name of someone who didn't exist to convince young neighbor Megan Meier she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans. Megan hanged herself at home in October 2006, allegedly after receiving a dozen or more cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Nintendo hit with patent suite</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nintendo was ordered to pay a small East Texas gaming company $21 million for infringing on a patent while designing controllers for its popular Wii and GameCube systems.A federal jury found in favor of Anascape in the lawsuit that was originally filed in 2006. Nintendo spokesman Charlie Scibetta said the company will seek an appeal and expects the court to reduce the award "significantly."The jury found that Nintendo infringed on Anascape's patent while designing its Wii Classic, WaveBird and Gamecube controllers.Read | Permalink
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<title>GoogHelper FREE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Look great and get in shape this season--all for under $20. Own the digital personal trainer and web launcher that will get you to the results you want. Health & Diet Manager AND GoogHelper for Pocket PC can be yours today for only $19.95. You not only receive the tools you need to track your weight progress, but you receive a bonus utility to search the web for the latest in health and nutrition advancements free of charge.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>IBM services for BlackBerry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IBM and Research In Motion announced IBM's new hosting capabilities to support the BlackBerry platform. IBM has also joined the BlackBerry System Integrator (SI) Alliance Program.IBM will expand its portfolio of Managed Wireless Services for the BlackBerry platform, leveraging its already successful services offering that currently hosts more than 100,000 enterprise end users globally. The offering builds upon the strength of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server product line with a far-reaching suite of services that include hosting, consulting, systems integration, and deployment of enterprise applications on the converged platform.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>IBM, RIM mobilize Web 2.0</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IBM and Research In Motion are taking mobile work far beyond email by delivering to mainstream business professionals the full line of Web 2.0-powered IBM Lotus collaboration software and information on demand on the BlackBerry platform.The joint initiative enables customers to securely manage their communications, contacts and schedules and collaborate and network through social software, all from within the familiar, intuitive interface of their BlackBerry smartphones. This includes the general availability of the new BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections, IBM's social software for business, at a time when eMarketer forecasts that mobile social networking will grow from 82 million users in 2007 to over 800 million worldwide by 2012.Read | Permalink
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<title>CBS buys CNET</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Under the terms of an agreement, CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of CNET Networks for $11.50 per share, representing an equity value of approximately $1.8 billion. The acquisition will make CBS one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the United States, with a combined 54 million unique users per month, and approximately 200 million users worldwide.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Honda robot conducts symphony</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ASIMO, a robot designed by Honda Motor Co., met its latest challenge Tuesday evening: Conducting the Detroit Symphony in a performance of "The Impossible Dream" from "Man of La Mancha.""Hello, everyone," ASIMO said to the audience in a childlike voice, then waved to the orchestra.As it conducted, it perfectly mimicked the actions of a conductor, nodding its head at various sections and gesturing with one or both hands. ASIMO took a final bow to enthusiastic shouts from the audience.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>New article: Scorched earth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By David Gewirtz
It's been a rough couple of days. We're OK, but the Florida fires got close. Real close. Like probably about a hundred yards away close. The pool house in our development caught fire. A fire-rescue trailer at the school across the street caught fire, and no matter where you go, there's scorched earth. Literally.

We evacuated on Monday night, We spent most of yesterday driving around Florida, and we got back last night. Power's back on, and I'm just catching up.

If you've seen all the news reports, or the CNN stuff, they're broadcasting from the school across the street from where I live. And it was arson. They caught one suspect, but they're not sure if there are more.

There were 11 separate ground-zero fire locations in Palm Bay alone. More than 10,000 acres in Palm Bay burned, more than 20 families lost homes, over 162 homes damaged. We're ok, though. Quite freaked out, but we're ok. Kudos go to the Palm Bay and Brevard County fire departments. Those guys worked intensely, and did their best, but by Monday night, they were completely overwhelmed and out of resources. By Tuesday night, more statewide resources came in and they started catching up.

There are still fires in Palm Bay, but not near residences. There are fires in Cocoa (about 20 minutes north) and in Daytona (another 20 minutes north), and we're not expected to have rain for at least a week, so conditions are still pretty scary. But hopefully the worst is over.

I'm absolutely exhausted, so I think I'm going to skip publishing articles this week, other than this update. I'm just going to do the weekly update and the news, which Senior Editor James Booth kept running from his top secret lair located somewhere in an undisclosed location deep within fly-over country while Denise and I were escaping our own private, little armageddon. Our servers kept running as well, since they're inside a nuke-proof bunker in yet another mid-America location.

In fact, I may just run this note as our only article to bring everyone up to date. I've still not completely processed all that happened. On Monday night and Tuesday, we were facing the question of what happens if the house goes and we lose everything. We didn't, and our home is still here, but it's definitely going to leave a bit of a mark emotionally.

Anyway, I have a few thousand emails to catch up with, and am going to try to resume some degree of normal daily life. But if I'm a little off for the next few days, I hope you'll understand.

For more than 20 years, David Gewirtz, the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and can be reached via email at david@zatz.com.

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<title>iPhone sold out online</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple said Monday its online stores in the U.S. and UK are sold out of the iPhone, a sign supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device's next generation featuring faster Internet surfing speeds. The Cupertino-based company confirmed that the iPhone is out of stock online, but added that brick-and-mortar stores run by Apple and iPhone carriers including AT&T might still have units available.Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris declined to comment on reasons for the shortage and on Apple's plans for an update to the device, which is widely expected to be unveiled in June at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Fake files attack half a million</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In what's being called the largest fake media file outbreak in three years, some 500,000 people have fallen prey to a phony music or video track that is actually a spyware-infested Trojan horse. Usually purporting to be a music track with an MP3 file extension (in this case, an MP3 track from the UK group Girls Aloud), the file is actually an installer that claims to require a special codec and a special media player to play back the file.Install the codec and what you really get is a computer screen full of pop-ups delivered through a variety of malware programs. You can see what the infection process looks like by checking out the video on this post. The attack is being distributed primarily through peer-to-peer networks. This is hardly an original attack, but the scale is immense: Those 500,000 attacks occurred in the space of just one week.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>BlackBerry Developer Conference</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Research In Motion announced plans to launch a new annual developer conference. The BlackBerry Developer Conference will provide commercial and corporate developers from around the world with opportunities to advance their skills and knowledge in building powerful, world-class applications on the market-leading BlackBerry platform. The BlackBerry Developer Conference is planned for the week of October 20, 2008 in Santa Clara, California.The BlackBerry Developer Conference will feature keynote presentations by thought leaders and innovators in mobile technologies, general sessions, roundtable discussions, hands-on workshops, networking opportunities and exhibits, enabling a broad range of developers, from novices to seasoned experts, to learn more about developing applications and services for the BlackBerry platform.Read | Permalink
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<title>Momail mobilizes mail</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Momail has launched support for all major email accounts including Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and other ISP mail. All of the most popular vendors' email can now use Momail as their "Mobile Postman." Momail is very easy to get started with and to use, and all emails are automatically optimized to the user's specific mobile model. So being away is no problem, Momail helps you be in control and at the same, increase freedom though all email communication can be done via your mobile.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Electric Pocket Ringo update</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Electric Pocket has issued a new collection of fun SMS alerts available to users of its Ringo ringtone manager for Palm OS, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices. This free collection of "blips and bloops" make great message alert sounds and increases the choices available from the "default" options that come with phones.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>PC Mag auctions artist-designed laptops</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PC Magazine has launched a cyber charityauction of nine HP laptops "redesigned" by top U.S. artists to benefit the National Cristina Foundation (NCF). Bidding will run through May 19 on eBay. Part of PC Magazine's 25th anniversary celebrations and "The Computerlicious Design Experience," the charity auction will help NCF provide computer equipment for the training of people in need. Underneath their new "outfits," the notebook PCs are the HP tx1000z, dv6500t, dv9500z and HP Dragon models. The designs range from metal, spray paint and patent leather to environmentally friendly and experimental materials.Read | Permalink
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<title>Windows Live comes to BlackBerry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft and Research In Motion announced an agreement to provide Microsoft Windows Live services on BlackBerry smartphones. As a result of this collaboration, BlackBerry smartphone customers will enjoy easy mobile access to Windows Live Messenger and an enhanced level of integration between Windows Live Hotmail and the BlackBerry platform.The integration of Windows Live services into the BlackBerry platform will allow customers who use Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger on their BlackBerry smartphone to benefit from the BlackBerry platform architecture with the ability to communicate in real-time using push technology, and offering an exceptional mobile communications experience. Customers will also be able to seamlessly access their Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger account from their BlackBerry smartphone by simply entering their Windows Live email address and password once.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>BlackBerry Bold smartphone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For customers seeking a smartphone that makes a bold statement, Research In Motion has introduced the BlackBerry Bold smartphone.Crafted from premium materials, inside and out, that radiate elegance with a dramatic presence, the BlackBerry Bold is designed to give business professionals and power users unprecedented functionality and performance in an intuitive BlackBerry smartphone. It is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi, as well as a rich set of multimedia capabilities. From its lustrous black exterior, satin chrome finished frame and stylish leather-like backplate, to its stunning display, sophisticated user interface and newly designed full-QWERTY keyboard, the BlackBerry Bold smartphone is a symbol of accomplishment and aspiration.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>RoadSync now available on Nokia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[DataViz, provider of Office compatibility solutions, announced an agreement with Nokia to provide their Premium Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync solution, RoadSync to mobile consumers through Nokia's on-device Download! client. Through Nokia Download!, millions of Nokia S60 customers can now install a free trial of RoadSync, purchase RoadSync for $4.99 per month, which is a new subscription based offering, or purchase a non-expiring license for $29.99.Embedded in millions of Nokia mobile phones worldwide, Nokia's on-device Download! client lets consumers in markets around the globe choose the latest in dynamic mobile content offerings and create their own unique, personalized handset experience on their Nokia device.Based on the Exchange ActiveSync protocol licensed directly from Microsoft, RoadSync provides secure, wireless and direct "Push" synchronization of email, calendar, contacts and attachments with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2007. As a premium client, RoadSync also supports advanced productivity features such as subfolders, email flags, global address list look-up, server search, multiple font zooming options, SharePoint and UNC file access and more.Read | Permalink
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<title>Ridata 32GB Compact Flash</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Advanced Media, manufacturer and marketer of the Ridata brand of recordable DVD, flash media, electronic storage products, and digital accessories, has introduced a 32GB model to its 233x Lightning Series of CompactFlash cards. Proving size does matter in memory cards, it boasts one of the largest capacities, fastest transfer rates available in a CF card. It joins existing 233x Series models featuring 2GB-16GB storage capacities.The new Ridata 32GB/233X CF card is an excellent choice for users of higher megapixel digital cameras. Its large 32GB capacity allows the user to store more photos, while virtually eliminating nagging wait time for data to record. Consumers are strongly urged to check the hardware device specifications to ensure the device used will work with higher capacity CF cards using the FAT32 file system.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Proporta now on Facebook</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Proporta is known for wanting to stay in touch with their customers and are pleased to have launched a page on the social networking site, Facebook.Friends of the Proporta Facebook page (we believe you can never have enough) can enjoy access to a special promotions area, the latest product reviews and sneak announcements of products not yet launched. Those joining the Proporta Facebook page will also be able to communicate with each other and Proporta directly.To celebrate the launch of the page, Proporta are offering all their friends a 10% discount off all Proporta branded hardware. Simply enter the promotion code FRIENDSFOREVER at the cart page.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Crystal protection for Asus Eee</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Proporta is offering their Crystal Case for the Asus Eee PC Series. It is produced from the same material that is used to make protective eyewear, a durable and scratch resistant polycarbonate plastic.Read | Permalink
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<title>iPhone coveted in Israel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In Tel Aviv's wholesale fashion headquarters, where textile merchants follow in the legacy of fathers and grandfathers, many Israelis are looking for the latest in tech fashion: the iPhone. Apple has yet to make its presence official in Israel. The company has limited its iPhone products to four markets: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.Z-Tov Ltd., the local mobile phone chain pays a 50 percent tax to import iPhones from outside the country, passing the expense along to customers. Still, as in other parts of the world, the iPhone has strong reception along Mediterranean shores.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Free Asus Eee PC</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PowerupMobile.com is bundling a free Asus Eee PC laptop computer when customers sign up to T-Mobiles mobile broadband package. The Eee PC from ASUS is easy to use, portable and has most of the components of a regular laptop, including built in WiFi. Share photos of your travels without waiting till you get home, shop the web without attaching lines or wires, play relax and entertain on the go, the 2GB mini laptop is shock proof and power efficient so no need to worry about a short battery life.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Gifts for the geeky mom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[No excuses for Mother's Day this year. Here are some suggestions for gear that will keep Mom smiling until next year.Read | Permalink
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<title>Yahoo! Go 3.0 for Windows Mobile</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The release of Yahoo Go 3 beta seems to indicate it is only compatible with Windows Mobile Standard for now. New features include: An integrated at-a-glance Yahoo screen, improved Yahoo oneSearch, prettier design and navigation, full-on widget support, with in-app widgets like MySpace and eBay.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>New article: Organize your day&#x27;s notes with DayNotez</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Heather Wardell
Back in the olden days, before I got my first Palm, I had a paper planner, using the left-hand pages for appointments and tasks and the right-hand pages for notes and journaling. 

When I became Palm-obsessed, I tried to use the Memo pad to replace the right-hand notes and journaling pages, but it just wasn't the same. Keeping those memos organized, and remembering where I'd put what information, seemed like such a bother. 

I eventually gave up on journaling entirely. Natura's DayNotez (for Windows, Palm, and Pocket PC) is a replacement for the right-hand page of your planner, providing organization options and easy ways to access your information.

OverviewFigure A shows a day's journal entries in the Windows application and the Palm version. Naturally, the Windows application shows more information, but both are clear and easy to understand. Each type of entry can have a color and an icon assigned to it to distinguish it from the others.

FIGURE A
This combination picture shows both the Windows and Palm screens, which are both well designed and make good use of the available space. Click picture for a larger image.

While DayNotez can, of course, handle free-form notes, to my mind it's the template feature that really shines. I created a template for the writing journal entry shown in Figure A. This uniformity makes it easier and more productive to compare notes over time.

Is DayNotez for you? Heather Wardell discusses a good program that has some strange problems.
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<title>20% off Warden Security</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's the Season for Savings and iambic is discounting prices on Warden Security for Pocket PC to celebrate.Maintain your peace of mind this Spring with this ultra sleek security system for your mobile companion. Keep intruders away by locking them out of viewing your personal information or making fraudulent calls. It even provides assistance in case of an emergency and takes preventive measures to secure your device from ever getting stolen in the first place... and much more.Read | Permalink
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<title>T-Mobile begins 3G rollout</title>
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<description><![CDATA[T-Mobile USA announced that the company has taken the first commercial step in the rollout of its 3G wireless network by launching its UMTS/HSDPA network in New York City. T-Mobile plans to continue the rollout of its 3G network across major metropolitan markets through the year. By year's end, T-Mobile expects its high-speed data network will be available in those cities where a majority of its subscribers currently use data services.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>HTC Touch Diamond</title>
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<description><![CDATA[HTC, a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC Touch Diamond. Delivering unmistakable style and meticulous craftsmanship the HTC Touch Diamond is defined by its compact size, game-changing Internet and its new captivating 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D.The HTC Touch Diamond is the first device to feature HTC's new 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D providing animated quick and easy access to people, messaging, email, photos, music, weather and more. Further supporting touch innovation, HTC is introducing a touch-sensitive control making it simple to utilize the full features on the device.In addition, the HTC Touch Diamond incorporates advanced wireless capabilities and auto sensor screen pivoting allowing its users to stay connected wherever and whenever they need. The device will be available to customers across all major European carriers in June. It will be available later this quarter in Asia and the Middle East. The North American and Latin American versions of the Touch Diamond will be available in the second half of 2008.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>David&#x27;s cure for insomnia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For those of you who happen to be awake at 4am Rocky Mountain time, David will be broadcasting on the 50,000 watt radio station KOA-850AM, doing the after-midnight show with Rick Barber and talking about White House email and the Mexican theft of White House BlackBerrys. Just so you know, in order to do this at 4am Rocky Mountain time, David's got to be conscious and lucid at 6am Florida time.If you know our fearless leader, you know he's definitely not a 6am kinda guy, so the only way this is going to fly is stay up and do the show before going to bed. In any case, if you happen to be up at 4am and located pretty much anywhere on the western side of the US (50,000 watts reaches a long distance at night), you can tune in. You can also listen via their Web feed, should you be in a different part of the world. David promises to do his best to keep you awake throughout the full hour.And, if you're mature and sleeping, like all good people should be at that hour, we'll post the download link sometime in the next day or so when it makes it online.Read | Permalink
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<title>Flash on mobiles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Adobe has announced a plan to try to get its Flash player installed on more mobile devices and set-top boxes. Dubbed Open Screen the initiative lifts restrictions on how its multimedia handling software can be used.Adobe will stop charging licencing fees for mobile versions of Flash and plans to publish information about the inner workings of the code. In taking this step Adobe hopes to repeat on mobiles the success its Flash technology has enjoyed on the web.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post has published an interesting but bizarrely flip-flopping editorial from PC World Contributing Editor James A. Martin entitled Is the Palm OS Dying? Should You Care? The piece discusses the uncertain future facing both Palm Inc. and the Palm OS, now owned by Japan's Access Software. In short, Mr. Martin makes no bones about Palm's gradual, protracted decline due to its aging OS and increasingly unglamorous hardware specs, calling Palm Inc. a "third-tier smartphone vendor" but ultimately asserts the platform as still viable and offering a compelling combination of friendliness, flexibility, and value.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Prepping for &#x27;the Big One&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[California scientists project impact of major earthquake.]]></description>
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<title>Study: Creationism Taught in Class</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One in eight instructors teach creationism as science, researchers say.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[At least 20 whales have washed up on a Dakar beach; 100 swam to shore.]]></description>
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<title>$100 Laptop Gets Makeover</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tossing aside its green and white design, new computer is only $75.]]></description>
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<title>Sex Change for Kids? Controversy Swirls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A misunderstood procedure garners widespread attention.]]></description>
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<title>Crash Landing Caused by Faulty Equipment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA's May shuttle launch won't be delayed by continuing investigation.]]></description>
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<title>Cell Phone Users May Get Break on Fees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The government may help cell phone users avoid cancellation fees.]]></description>
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<title>Critics: Rescue Polar Bears and Climate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Critics demand steps against global warming in protecting polar bears.]]></description>
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<title>Honda to Sell New Gas-Electric Hybrid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The car will be available in early 2009 in the U.S., Japan and Europe.]]></description>
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<title>Geek Chic: A Scientific Renaissance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As World Science Festival opens, scientists contend they're making a comeback.]]></description>
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<title>Life After 100: Keeping Youthful and Enjoying the Years Ahead </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Five centenarians share their secrets to living life to the fullest.]]></description>
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<title>$100 Laptop Nonprofit Teams With Microsoft</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Organization will include Windows on computers for needy children.]]></description>
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<title>Google Bumps Yahoo for Web&#x27;s Top Spot</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google is the most visited site on the Web, nabbing the top spot from Yahoo.]]></description>
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<title>Alien Walks Into a Bar: What Do You Say?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A college class, funded by NASA, contemplates what to say to E.T.]]></description>
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<title>Machine Turns Urine Into Drinking Water</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Astronauts won't need to look any further than the toilet to quench thirst.]]></description>
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<title>Astronomers Spot Baby Supernova </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A supernova just over a century old has been found in the Milky Way.]]></description>
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<title>Study: Global Warming Reduces Hurricanes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Increase in Atlantic hurricanes is not caused by global warming, study finds.]]></description>
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<title>Tiny Creatures Found Living in Volcano</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Volcanoes are surprising hubs of life for millions, scientists discover.]]></description>
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<title>Greasestock: The Times They Are a-Changing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hundreds show up at gathering of  supporters of alternative fuel.]]></description>
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<title>New Tool in the Battle of the Bulge?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[VBloc therapy inserts electronic device in abdomen to suppress appetite.]]></description>
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<title>AnalystWatch: One-Stop Communications</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BT and Siemens Enterprise Communications are partnering to provide converged communications for large multinational enterprises.]]></description>
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<title>Unisys Wins $179m Maine Medicaid Deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Infrastructure services vendor Unisys has won a seven-year $179m contract with the State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to provide a new Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS).]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company Accenture has agreed to acquire Brazilian IT and automation services provider ATAN for an undisclosed sum.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[HP has expanded its virtualization portfolio with the launch of a new mobile thin client. It said the HP 2533t Mobile Thin Client provides access to virtual computers, and protects corporate data and software applications by storing files on a secure, centralized server.]]></description>
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<title>General Dynamics Wins $83m FBI Deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IT services provider General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has won a five-year $83m IT management services contract with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.]]></description>
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<title>Dell CFO Resigns</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dell has announced the resignation of its CFO Donald Carty. He will be replaced by Brian Gladden, chief executive of SABIC Innovative Plastics, who will take over the role next month.]]></description>
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<title>Oracle to Build Utah Data Center</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oracle has announced plans to build a new data storage center in West Jordan, Utah with an initial investment of $285m.]]></description>
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<title>VMware Expands Virtualization Services</title>
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<description><![CDATA[VMware has released a range of professional services to help IT departments implement, manage, and optimize virtual desktops.]]></description>
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<title>Google Launches Health Records Portal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google has launched a service in the US that will enable people to store their health records from different healthcare providers in one central portal.]]></description>
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<title>IBM Expands Telelogic Portfolio</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IBM has introduced several updates to its Telelogic portfolio of software and systems development tools, following its acquisition last month of Telelogic for $845m.]]></description>
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<title>Chordiant Upgrades Collections-Management Package</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CRM software and services provider Chordiant Software has upgraded its collections-management software package for organizations with high-volume customer interaction.]]></description>
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<title>SAIC Awarded $46m US Army Contract</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Federal contractor SAIC has won a five-year $46m contract from the US Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) to support the Army Equipping Enterprise System.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Enterprise software and services company QAD has launched the latest version of its flagship product, QAD Enterprise Applications.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Customer analytics vendor Acxiom has released a secure online authentication product to protect businesses, consumers, and sensitive credit data.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Identity theft is the perceived as the biggest security threat by consumers, according to a global security survey by Unisys.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[It's about friggin' time. That's what you'll say to yourself at some point in the next few months when you realize you can finally surf the Web from seat 17C. Alaska, American, Southwest, and Virgin America all plan to roll out airborne Wi-Fi this summer. The price to you: about $6 to $13 a flight. The services will work in one of two ways &mdash; Southwest and Alaska are using satellite-based broadband from Row 44, a California company, while American and Virgin are opting for a cell phone tower system from Aircell in Illinois. Cell towers? Yep, turns out cell signals don't necessarily interfere with instrumentation &mdash; you can't use mobile phones on planes because they cause network headaches and annoy fellow passengers. Here's how Vi@gra spam and photos of grammatically challenged cats will find you on the red-eye. 

... Via Cell Tower (Aircell) Data is transmitted over a patchwork of 92 existing cell towers covering the continental US. Because there's nothing blocking the signal, each tower offers a coverage radius of up to 250 miles. The downsides: a paltry (buffering ... buffering ...) 3-Mbps throughput for each plane. Plus the cost to passengers is $12.95 per flight &mdash; more than Row 44's service &mdash; and at launch the system will work only in the lower 48.

... Via Satellite (Row 44) Signals are beamed from geosynchronous satellites orbiting 22,500 miles up. The data rate is roughly 30 Mbps per plane (expect low-end DSL speeds once a few dozen passengers log on), and the system works across international borders and over oceans (though it will be available only in North America at first). And even though it costs the airlines more than Aircell's system to install, passengers pay less &mdash; as little as $6 per flight.
  


   
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Five years ago, if Hewlett-Packard bought EDS, everyone would've thought it was pretty much like when IBM bought PwC -- a play to create a powerful data processing consulting business that could coexist with a computer hardware business. In fact, that's been a great model for IBM.

But with HP today buying EDS for $12 billion, the smart thinking goes in a different direction. It's looking like a red-hot area going forward for IBM, Amazon and Google will be so-called cloud computing -- a.k.a. hardware as a service.

If you're a startup or a corporate IT manager, you increasingly won't have to buy computers to run your business. You just rent capabilities from some computing giant and move the information there and back over the internet. If something crashes, the data is always backed up and stored somewhere out there in the cloud. This is the ubiquitous computing idea IBM has pushed for a decade -- making computer power something like electric power.

If you tack together some of HP's other purchases under CEO Mark Hurd -- as Om Malik did -- it seems even more obvious that HP is at least as interested in cloud computing as consulting. And EDS is a solid cloud-computing play because a core business is owning and running giant data centers.

As part of the interview I did with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (the video is now on Portfolio.com), we discussed Amazon's push into cloud computing.

"We've been working on our Infrastructure Web Services for four years," Bezos said. "We launched our first one two years ago, the Simple Storage Service, and I am astonished -- I rarely meet a startup company these days who isn't using our web services and now we're starting to get, you know, deployment inside Enterprise level data centers as well. So it's a very exciting."

Asked about Google's plans to get into a similar business, Bezos said: "Well ... we really do have a practice of not talking about other companies. But this, like our retail business, (there) is not going to be one winner. I think there are going to be multiple winners pursuing different flavors or strategies, different kinds of products.... I think our web services business is going to be part of what becomes an important industry. And ... important industries are rarely made by single companies."

So maybe there is room for HP, Amazon, IBM, Google and others to play in the cloud computing space. The HP deal is telling us that the concept is ready for prime time.
  


   
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From way over in Indonesia, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates let it be known that Microsoft never needed to buy Yahoo to make headway in search and advertising. It just kind of wanted to.

"We have always felt we could do very well on our own and now that's the path we are focused on," Gates told AP in Jakarta on Friday. "The standard strategy for us is to just hire great engineers and surprise people at how well we can compete, even with a company that's got a strong lead."

Actually, that may be the first bit of sense out of Microsoft since the Yahoo thing first emerged. That is exactly what Microsoft is good at: identifying market leaders in interesting new tech markets, then systematically destroying them. In fact, Microsoft is probably better at it than maybe any company in history. Netscape, Lotus, WordPerfect, Novell, Real Networks ... there's a long list of companies that invented something that Microsoft then copied and took down. And Windows, of course, was a copy of what Apple and Xerox were doing. Now Microsoft's Zune is taking aim at the iPod.

Microsoft is at its best when it does this. It spends billions of dollars a year on Microsoft Research, but has yet to invent an entirely new business. (Microsoft did once get out in front of a tech development, creating travel site Expedia early on. So surprised was Microsoft that it did this, the company soon thereafter spun out Expedia -- perhaps so Expedia would not contaminate the Microsoft culture with actual market innovation.)

The thing is, though -- search so far is looking like Microsoft's Waterloo. Yeah, it's won every big battle so far, but Microsoft has spent vast amounts of time and money trying to crack search -- and so far has failed. Can it beat Google at Google's own game? That seems unlikely. Can it outwit Google and create an innovative new version of search that Google never thought of? That would be very un-Microsoftian.

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<description><![CDATA[Cisco's Q3 profit beats analyst forecasts by 2 cents per share and its Q4 guidance in line with projections. But the tech darling is still down more than 20 percent from its 52-week high of $34.24 on Nov. 6, when the company had a market value of about $207 billion.
  


   
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<description><![CDATA[Deutsche Telekom AG is in the preliminary stages of considering a bid for Sprint Nextel, according to the Wall Street Journal. DT had no comment, but such a deal would make T-Mobile the biggest wireless carrier in the U.S. market.
  


   
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My brothers and I didn't know Dad had a problem. We knew he had an insanely large collection of computers and related paraphernalia. I was living in Washington, DC, and somehow Alex and Andrew, back home in Seattle, had failed to notice that Dad could barely move around his apartment and was navigating from room to room via narrow, oyster-gray corridors formed entirely by PC towers.

But now it all had to go. His building was being demolished. Dad had to be out in three months. Alex and Andrew called me for assistance.

The biggest problem, they told me, wasn't just volume.

In ecofriendly Seattle, garbage collectors won't take computer hardware &mdash; filled as it is with PVC and phthalates. Dad persisted in holding on to the notion that somewhere out there was a charity desperately in need of a half ton of mid-1990s computers. It was not the case.

I did what I could to help coordinate. Alex posted an ad on craigslist for a two-day event: "Huge stash of PC equipment, for free or for a dollar." He was in charge of our online strategy because he knows nothing about computers. He could lure people in with jazzy, noninformational emails. "Yes, they work," he wrote to one mark. "Most of them. Picture the scene inside the Jawa sandcrawler in Star Wars, with all the obsolete droids."

Dad's landlord let them borrow a vacant apartment upstairs, a cramped one-bedroom with dirty carpeting and a sticky kitchenette. They filled it. Tupperware bins overflowed with cables. Scanners, monitors, and printers claimed the corners. Dad rubber-banded software and drivers to sundry peripherals.

It was an emotional time: We were trying to transfer stuff from Dad &mdash; a nut we know and love &mdash; to a bunch of nuts we neither knew nor loved. One man immediately called his wife in a paroxysm of excitement. When he told her to bring an additional vehicle for hauling, it seemed our savior had come. Then she exercised her veto.

Dad took the whole thing pretty well. He chatted with fellow hoarders about the best places to score unopened Windows 95s, and he hid a few favorite pieces. He still rents two storage lockers, at $127 a month each, for the stuff "too valuable to throw away." My brothers probably set aside a few items, too. Judging by their bedrooms and car trunks, Dad's behavior might be genetic.

After two days of solid crowds, there was still too much crap. I phoned every e-waste hauler in Washington state before I found Computer Equipment Resources, out of Carnation. A guy named Vince met Dad and my brothers on the appointed day.

At first, everyone, including Vince, observed this weird, unspoken protocol that they were to handle the equipment as fragile objects of considerable worth. By the end of the day, even Dad was hurling monitors into the back of the truck and listening to them crack. The bill was $630, which my brothers and I split. Dad is chronically broke, a condition likely not unrelated to his stashing disorder.

He was always a collector. When I interviewed him for this story, he told me that in the mid-'70s he owned 25 Volkswagen Bugs, which he kept parked on San Francisco streets. That made me think of Alex's accumulated Japanese model kits, so I asked my brother how he knew he would never turn into a hoarder like Dad.

"The short answer? I don't," Alex said. "But the stuff I collect is actually worth something. Some of the Super Nintendo games I have are worth, like, 60 bucks."
  


   
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