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Jan's Cop Rant
Remember people, driving while on the phone is not allowed.And that includes usage of one's Blackberry, Janice Dickinson.She has no problems telling us all about her little run-in with the police...
Sky Showbiz – 2 hours, 45 minutes ago ¦ comment?
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Remember people, driving while on the phone is not allowed.And that includes usage of one's Blackberry, Janice Dickinson.She has no problems telling us all about her little run-in with the police...
Sky Showbiz – 2 hours, 45 minutes ago ¦ comment?
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Sky-High Wi-Fi
If you're planning any air travel this summer, you might find yourself surfing while you fly. American Airlines is one of several carriers offering Wi-Fi in the sky, having just rolled out a trial of a broadband Internet service called Gogo on some of its Boeing planes, most of which fly transcontinental routes. Other airlines are also implementing or planning to launch their own services. American's Wi-Fi is available for $12.95 on flights longer than three hours. Passengers with their own Wi-Fi-enabled devices can access the Internet using Aircell's Gogo technology, which communicates with cellular towers on the ground via three antennae on the plane's exterior. Your laptop or other mobile device connects via several wireless access points within the cabin. American says Gogo is also compatible with most corporate VPNs and e-mail. JetBlue is offering a test of limited Wi-Fi capabilities on what it calls the BetaBlue plane, a Wi-Fi-equipped Airbus 320. The service is free, but limited. You can access e-mail from services like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, and AOL; use your Blackberry; send instant messages; and, in case you've just got to buy the latest bestseller from 30,000 feet up, shop at Amazon.com. Later this year, Virgin America will begin testing Wi-Fi as well, with the goal of offering it across its fleet by 2009. In addition to using your own carry-on devices, Virgin will let you access the Internet using seatback video touchscreens. Lufthansa says it will also roll out a program next year. The spate of new on-high Wi-Fi comes a couple of years after Boeing pulled the plug on Connexions, its in-flight wireless broadband service. That program reportedly failed after the company was unable to get enough paying customers. If you've been on a flight that offers Wi-Fi, share your experience with us. Was it worth the price (if you had to pay)? Would you be satisfied with a free service that offered limited access? Or do you think the wild blue yonder should remain Internet-free? —Donna Tapellini
Consumer Reports – 4 hours, 6 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Technology: Product Reviews
If you're planning any air travel this summer, you might find yourself surfing while you fly. American Airlines is one of several carriers offering Wi-Fi in the sky, having just rolled out a trial of a broadband Internet service called Gogo on some of its Boeing planes, most of which fly transcontinental routes. Other airlines are also implementing or planning to launch their own services. American's Wi-Fi is available for $12.95 on flights longer than three hours. Passengers with their own Wi-Fi-enabled devices can access the Internet using Aircell's Gogo technology, which communicates with cellular towers on the ground via three antennae on the plane's exterior. Your laptop or other mobile device connects via several wireless access points within the cabin. American says Gogo is also compatible with most corporate VPNs and e-mail. JetBlue is offering a test of limited Wi-Fi capabilities on what it calls the BetaBlue plane, a Wi-Fi-equipped Airbus 320. The service is free, but limited. You can access e-mail from services like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, and AOL; use your Blackberry; send instant messages; and, in case you've just got to buy the latest bestseller from 30,000 feet up, shop at Amazon.com. Later this year, Virgin America will begin testing Wi-Fi as well, with the goal of offering it across its fleet by 2009. In addition to using your own carry-on devices, Virgin will let you access the Internet using seatback video touchscreens. Lufthansa says it will also roll out a program next year. The spate of new on-high Wi-Fi comes a couple of years after Boeing pulled the plug on Connexions, its in-flight wireless broadband service. That program reportedly failed after the company was unable to get enough paying customers. If you've been on a flight that offers Wi-Fi, share your experience with us. Was it worth the price (if you had to pay)? Would you be satisfied with a free service that offered limited access? Or do you think the wild blue yonder should remain Internet-free? —Donna Tapellini
Consumer Reports – 4 hours, 6 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Technology: Product Reviews
Stuart Jeffries: Technophobia - the sign of a born leader?
Hedge-fund billionaire Carl Icahn, who has this week been given three seats on the board of internet company Yahoo, does not, it has been revealed, have a computer. Email, Icahn suggests, is a distraction. Republican presidential candidate John McCain doesn't email or know how to use the net. He told the New York Times recently: "I am learning to get online myself." Instead, the senator currently has the cyberspace equivalent of food tasters, namely aides who direct him to happening sites such as the Drudge Report and his daughter Meghan's blog. Democrats argue this shows that McCain, who turns 72 next month, is out of touch with the modern world. "My five-year-old niece can use the internet," said one gloating Barack Obama strategist. Obama, by contrast, is regularly photographed in-flight hunched over his BlackBerry. But is McCain's admission really damaging? Like the Queen not carrying money, only really powerful people don't do cyberspace. They sit at computer-free desks thinking outside the inbox, while their crack team of microserfs battle with spam or Google their way through virtual forests of information. After Tony Blair left No 10, he had to adjust to a baffling new world of mobile phones (he didn't have one as PM), texting ("Who are you?" was the reply to his first message) and email. The Bill Clinton Archive in Little Rock, Arkansas, has nearly 4m emails from the former president's staff and only two from the president himself. Admittedly, one of the latter was to astrounaut John Glenn, who was aboard the space shuttle at the time, but even then Clinton's staffers had to help him. True, some titans of business reply very quickly to emails, as their inboxes are uncluttered by spam. Three hundred emails a day is the curse of the middle manager. But, as Stanford professor Donald Knuth, one of the world's leading computer scientists, writes, "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration." Knuth hasn't checked his emails since 1990. Maybe McCain shouldn't bother to familiarise himself with the web and, if elected, perhaps Obama should check his BlackBerry at the Oval Office door.Related StoriesLocation technology finally finds its feetLetters and blogsAleks Krotoski, gamesblog: Capturing game data is the futureCold callers target O2 users with false Bluetooth security warningTouch takes hold, but it's no mouse-killer
The Guardian – 15 hours, 2 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Technology
Hedge-fund billionaire Carl Icahn, who has this week been given three seats on the board of internet company Yahoo, does not, it has been revealed, have a computer. Email, Icahn suggests, is a distraction. Republican presidential candidate John McCain doesn't email or know how to use the net. He told the New York Times recently: "I am learning to get online myself." Instead, the senator currently has the cyberspace equivalent of food tasters, namely aides who direct him to happening sites such as the Drudge Report and his daughter Meghan's blog. Democrats argue this shows that McCain, who turns 72 next month, is out of touch with the modern world. "My five-year-old niece can use the internet," said one gloating Barack Obama strategist. Obama, by contrast, is regularly photographed in-flight hunched over his BlackBerry. But is McCain's admission really damaging? Like the Queen not carrying money, only really powerful people don't do cyberspace. They sit at computer-free desks thinking outside the inbox, while their crack team of microserfs battle with spam or Google their way through virtual forests of information. After Tony Blair left No 10, he had to adjust to a baffling new world of mobile phones (he didn't have one as PM), texting ("Who are you?" was the reply to his first message) and email. The Bill Clinton Archive in Little Rock, Arkansas, has nearly 4m emails from the former president's staff and only two from the president himself. Admittedly, one of the latter was to astrounaut John Glenn, who was aboard the space shuttle at the time, but even then Clinton's staffers had to help him. True, some titans of business reply very quickly to emails, as their inboxes are uncluttered by spam. Three hundred emails a day is the curse of the middle manager. But, as Stanford professor Donald Knuth, one of the world's leading computer scientists, writes, "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration." Knuth hasn't checked his emails since 1990. Maybe McCain shouldn't bother to familiarise himself with the web and, if elected, perhaps Obama should check his BlackBerry at the Oval Office door.Related StoriesLocation technology finally finds its feetLetters and blogsAleks Krotoski, gamesblog: Capturing game data is the futureCold callers target O2 users with false Bluetooth security warningTouch takes hold, but it's no mouse-killer
The Guardian – 15 hours, 2 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Technology
Xtensor: BlackBerry Thumb Cure?
Do you suffer BlackBerry thumbs or textingitis? Is your wrist aching from constant mouse and keyboard use? The Xtensor has the geek relief you need.Excuse the infomercial-sounding introduction, but it was just too good to resist. The Xtensor, or the Fingermaster, as we are calling it internally, arrived in our offices yesterday. The “exercise device” [...]
Laptop Magazine – 17 hours, 4 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Technology
Do you suffer BlackBerry thumbs or textingitis? Is your wrist aching from constant mouse and keyboard use? The Xtensor has the geek relief you need.Excuse the infomercial-sounding introduction, but it was just too good to resist. The Xtensor, or the Fingermaster, as we are calling it internally, arrived in our offices yesterday. The “exercise device” [...]
Laptop Magazine – 17 hours, 4 minutes ago ¦ comment?
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Blackberries and iPhones can cost employers who aren't careful
Before employers dole out a Blackberry or other wireless devices that can keep employees in constant contact with the workplace, they need to be aware of their potential legal liability, according to law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP.
bizjournals.com – 19 hours ago ¦ comment?
found in Business: Careers
Before employers dole out a Blackberry or other wireless devices that can keep employees in constant contact with the workplace, they need to be aware of their potential legal liability, according to law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP.
bizjournals.com – 19 hours ago ¦ comment?
found in Business: Careers
News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
ZDNet – Jul 23, 2008 09:23 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology: Security
Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
ZDNet – Jul 23, 2008 09:23 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology: Security
After the iPhone Enterprise Media Blitz
No doubt the iPhone 3G is a very cool device. But do IT enterprise staffs really care about that? They already support RIM, Windows Mobile, Palm and Symbian. Do they want to manage more? RIM's BlackBerry is the still hands down leader for mobile enterprise users and that's not likely to change any time soon. - In the warm media afterglow of the iPhone 3G release last week, a number of analysts and writers are taking a leap of faith and claiming Apple's new smartphone is now poised to crack the enterprise market. Why? Because that's what Apple says. In fact, Apple claims, the iPhone is the quot;best phone...
eWEEK.com – Jul 22, 2008 7:50 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology: Wireless
No doubt the iPhone 3G is a very cool device. But do IT enterprise staffs really care about that? They already support RIM, Windows Mobile, Palm and Symbian. Do they want to manage more? RIM's BlackBerry is the still hands down leader for mobile enterprise users and that's not likely to change any time soon. - In the warm media afterglow of the iPhone 3G release last week, a number of analysts and writers are taking a leap of faith and claiming Apple's new smartphone is now poised to crack the enterprise market. Why? Because that's what Apple says. In fact, Apple claims, the iPhone is the quot;best phone...
eWEEK.com – Jul 22, 2008 7:50 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology: Wireless
Research in Motion Outlines Global Expansion of BlackBerry
Research in Motion recently outlined its plans on how to better launch BlackBerry smartphones on the international market
DailyTech – Jul 20, 2008 6:52 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
Research in Motion recently outlined its plans on how to better launch BlackBerry smartphones on the international market
DailyTech – Jul 20, 2008 6:52 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Report: Brit pol loses BlackBerry to spy
LONDON, July 20 (UPI) -- Concerns have been raised about the security of British secrets after a top political aide lost his BlackBerry device to a suspected Chinese spy, sources say.
United Press International – Jul 20, 2008 6:00 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Top Stories
LONDON, July 20 (UPI) -- Concerns have been raised about the security of British secrets after a top political aide lost his BlackBerry device to a suspected Chinese spy, sources say.
United Press International – Jul 20, 2008 6:00 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Top Stories
Spreading word about weeds
It’s a growing problem.It’s easy to see the effects of some invasive species — such as those impossible to eradicate blackberry vines or the English ivy creeping up the big oak tree — while others have yet to take hold in much of Lane County.A workshop ...
The Register-Guard – Jul 20, 2008 4:55 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Oregon: Eugene
It’s a growing problem.It’s easy to see the effects of some invasive species — such as those impossible to eradicate blackberry vines or the English ivy creeping up the big oak tree — while others have yet to take hold in much of Lane County.A workshop ...
The Register-Guard – Jul 20, 2008 4:55 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Oregon: Eugene