Tour with trackpad and WiFi (Essex/9650) seen in Sprint garb

Tour with trackpad and WiFi (Essex/9650) seen in Sprint garb

The BlackBerry Tour is by far the best CDMA BlackBerry yet. It has style, power, and sophistication. But one glaring omission — WiFi — fails to earn it a “buy” rating in my book. Remember, no matter how good your carrier, there will always be dead spots. The Tour 2/Essex/9650 is no secret. It’s been rumored about and talked about for many months. In fact, shortly after (as in days) after the original Tour, talk of an updated model with...

DTV madness to be trumped by “all-IP phone transition”

DTV madness to be trumped by “all-IP phone transition”

Oh god, I can see it now — madness in the streets when when the FCC publicly announces a plan to move over the entire countries ancient switch based phone network to an all IP network model. If you thought you had seen confusion and the highest amount of confusion spewed forth, boy are you in for a treat. It will inevitably happen though. In the U.S., telephone providers have been trying in recent years to move people over to VoIP services with AT&T being...

BlackBerry 9100 (Stratus) gets highly detailed on video.

If the video that revealed itself a week or two back showcasing the upcoming SureType BlackBerry 9100 wasn’t quite the greatest thing you’d ever seen (/sarcasm), this new video may come a tad bit closer. The above motion picture clip features a much more thorough tour around the 9100 (Stratus’) hardware and software offerings. Going by what we see in the vid, it looks like a rock solid device to keep the SureType line of devices relevant and alive. Just...

Vodafone and Verizon customers beware. Email virus with your name on it.

Vodafone and Verizon customers beware.  Email virus with your name on it.

Vodafone and Verizon Wireless users have a new threat to watch out for in their inbox. A new virus claiming to be from either Vodafone or Verizon comes with a subject of “Your credit balance is over the limit”. The danger comes by way of an attached virus that the email details as an “balance checker”. Whatever you do, do not open it or run the attached program. Doing so invites in a nasty little Trojan with name of “Regrun” that hosts...

Email to be extinct in 10 years? Eh, probably not.

Email to be extinct in 10 years?  Eh, probably not.

While looking forward to the future, it’s always fun to think about what is “hot” now and how it will undergo the usual tech transformation into old, outdated, and dead technology. The telephone used to be an amazing wonderment of scientific engineering. Now it’s nothing special. Much the same, email was at one point the pinnacle of technological achievement. Today everyone including their grandma and maybe even her dog have at least one email...

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