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Submission + - Blackberry without the service

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Trigun
Trigun writes: "I've been looking to purchase a wi-fi enabled portable voip phone that I can connect to a voip pbx, as well as do things such as surf the web and check e-mail. Basically, I'm looking for a blackberry without the need for a data plan. I looked at buying an ipod touch and jailbreaking it, but I would much rather have an open platform, or at least one that has everything that I'm looking for if it is closed. Ideally, the device would be wifi enabled, have a web browser and e-mail client, sip and skype clients, and support ssl and ipsec vpn's, and not mean carrying around a laptop, or a laptop sized device. Does such a beast exist?"

Submission + - Goofle investigating Chinese employees (guardian.co.uk)

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BluePeppers writes: The Guardian is reporting that Google China is investigating it's staff in lieu of The Incident. ""We're not commenting on rumour and speculation. This is an ongoing investigation and we simply cannot comment on the details," a Google spokeswoman said. Security analysts told Reuters the malicious software or malware used in the attack was a modification of a trojan called Hydraq. A trojan is a hidden program allowing unauthorised access to a computer. The analysts said the sophistication in the attack was in knowing whom to attack, not the malware itself."

Comment Re:Almost (Score 1) 333

by Trigun (#29772723) Attached to: Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk

What functionality I don't want is having to upgrade messenger, and finding that it switched a bunch of crap in my browser, like searching from the address bar, and having to go through the chrome settings to fix it.

I thought that I read the disclaimers, but apparently not well enough. But I'm sure that it never said "Replace the default search in Firefox with Bing!"

I know that it wasn't Ballmer stating to do this, but some marketing drone talked to some codemonkey about getting Bing out there, and the end result was that I had to remove what is essentially crap adware and corporate shenanigans from my browser.
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Submission + - SCO goes private, gets $100M to keep going (linux-watch.com)

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Trigun
Trigun writes: "SCO, which had been reduced to be trading OTC (over the counter) in the Pink Sheets after having been kicked off the Nasdaq in December 2007, found an angel investor in SNCP and its Middle Eastern partners. In return for the $100 million to reorganize, SNCP will take over the company and take it private. Prior to this refinancing news out of the blue, SCO's stock had been trading for 6 cents per share."

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