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BlackBerry Kickstart 8220 surfaces on eBay, trigger fingers get itchy {Engadget}
Aug 30th 2008 10:03PM iphone will never replace blackberries as a professional business communication tool... they're not designed to be. they're designed to be stylish and trendy music players and voice phones.
afaik iphones don't even offer push email, and absolute necessity in business... blackberries have amazing enterprise level management tools, like for instance your employer can remotely disable the camera on all their employee's phones as they walk into a building, or they can remotely upgrade the software and manage dozens or hundreds of devices at once if need be.. they have their own custom dedicated email servers which give professional level encryption and other weird enterprise level crap that large businesses require. blackberries have a full, tactile qwerty keyboard that people have spent half a dozen years getting proficient at, these companies have invested tens of thousands of dollars on blackberry hardware, blackberry software, and blackberry enterprise server licenses, their employees are maybe even given blackberry training for proficiency, their tech guys certainly are given training, expensive training, on the setup and maintainence of blackberry servers.
there's no way these large corporations are going to ditch their current investment and blow way, way more money on a less functional and more complicated device.
Defcon 15: Exploiting authentication systems {Hack a Day}
Aug 5th 2007 12:16AM is it just me, or in this case isn't "measures to prevent this type of intercept/control mechanism" just more physical security on the reader? ...say, a padlock?
Also, wouldn't the schematics for his particular device be proprietary to the reader he's installing it in?
DESK EOS rids your workspace of evil electromagnetic waves {Engadget}
Jun 13th 2007 11:46PM so what of your cellphone, wifi, and remote control cars?
does this device just disable those?
Canadian cable providers locking out Vista Media Centers? {Engadget}
Jun 1st 2007 11:16PM amd ♥ ati
Canadian cable providers locking out Vista Media Centers? {Engadget}
Jun 1st 2007 11:14PM if you read this website more than once a year you'd realize amd now &heart; ati... so we can no longer call them a canadian company.
Canadian cable providers locking out Vista Media Centers? {Engadget}
Jun 1st 2007 11:12PM (re: komo, kiro and king): what's ironic is those are all washington stations iirc... if you were to have unplugged your digital cable and plugged in a largish antenna, you'd have received those channels fine.
Optimus Maximus: 113 keys, ready to pre-order {Engadget}
May 20th 2007 7:42PM not exactly... the qwerty layout was designed so consecutive keystrokes would be spaced further apart, so typewriters wouldn't jam... not specifically to slow you down, but surely it's not designed for speed.
Solid gold iPhones on eBay: yeah right {Engadget}
May 14th 2007 1:45PM I dunno, the guy selling it is too sketchy for me...
His feedback includes 57 with him as the seller, and all of those are private listings...
The feedbacks mention mystery auctions, clothing, and "I wish I won, better luck next time I guess"..
The guy prolly got those 101 feedbacks over the course of the last 4 years by selling off random boxes of trinkets and old clothes... or selling empty envelopes with the idea that one has money in it...
Not exactly the kind of guy you hand $9500 to and hope to get an iphone in 3 months.
Optimus Maximus gets price and date {Engadget}
Apr 28th 2007 3:03PM it could be useful for dozens of things..
sure, you aren't going to look at it while you're typing, or even really while gaming (though it'd be cool to have the keys as icons of the different items and actions etc)..
Think about CAD programs, photoshop, video, sound editing programs; Think about people who type more than one language... Think of all the times you forgot a keyboard shortcut... Now imagine you could hold ctrl and all the letters turn into "copy" "save" "print" etc.
People have already even started coding games you play on the keys themselves... There is even video support on the keys, (albeit 3fps or somesuch)
The possibilities are really endless
FON router used in DIY wireless network printer {Engadget}
Apr 28th 2007 2:36PM *yawn*
I keep my old laserjet 4+ in the hallway, which is also an ideal place for my router... so I just plug it in there.
I've had basically the same setup as the article for years now, just a couple hundred dollars cheaper and a lot less effort..
This is just another one of those "fuck man, I totally hacked my macaroni and cheese with this ketchup" posts.
