Are you sure about that?

And more to the fact, why would they? I don't believe any of their message transfering is encrypted, so why would India need to ask them for it? Note, blackberries encrypt by default. Also note, in the articles linked, they talk about Nokia giving access, so this isn't a blackberry only thing.

RIM is also not giving them access to the BES servers it seems, so they are pushing back....and to be honest, this ENTIRE slashdot submission is pretty much just here for more blackberry bashing (which seems to be pretty popular these days). This was originally announced 6 months ago, but now it makes the slashdot headlines.....

False sense of security.

There have been studies, and more well known, mythbusters did an episode on something very similar (is talking on a cellphone while driving just as bad as drinking and driving), and while mythbusters is a bit hollywood science at times, they confirmed the myth. Texting isn't that far off. And in other studies, is just as bad.

But don't take my word for it, take a look at all the studies and materials.

There's a reason why texting/talking on the phone is rapidly becoming illegal while driving. But hey! Maybe in Nebraska, facts and truths aren't the norm!

Good post, just an additional note,

If you do apply for UI (EI, whatever its called these days), you would be surprised at how much lee-way they give you. I've never had to deal with the situation personally, but I know people that have quit and/or have been fired and still got UI.

wow, I never knew about this. No wonder my VLC player on my ipad hasn't been updated in close to a year. :( I guess I should count my lucky stars that I got it when it was still legit.

It's not a ban of the Samsung 10.1 tablet from all of Europe, just from Samsung Germany Division from selling it in other parts of Europe. Considering Samsung has divisions in most countries, this is a bit of a moot point.

Well,

It's not just the phone market. This is actually a good example of a free market. Google is doing it's thing. The carriers are desperately doing it's own. Apple will come out swinging with their own NFC platform. RIM as well. And then there are big big hitters from card processors that basically have full blown out platforms already in production. There are so many players, it's actually nice to see such a huge possible market being fought by every single company.

disclosure: I work in this industry. There are two major ways that are there to mitigate the risk when you lose your phone. 1. You (in most NFC platforms) have to sign in, or enter a pin before you can buy anything with your mobile wallet/card. 2. If you do lose your phone, many of the platforms will have binary encrypted sms's that they can send to your phone to remotely erase your cards. Now when you compare that with your credit card, this offers a much more secure way to disable any type of transactions. Also, there really is no difference between Google's wallet and the carriers wallet. 1. if you lose your phone, you are losing your sim based NFC enabled secure element. 2. If you lose your phone, you are losing your phone based NFC enabled secure element. This is all about control. The carriers want to control this market because of the future growth (possibly the last bastion of profit for carriers), while Google (and Apple, and RIM, etc etc) want it phone based so they can hold all the keys.

muelleralert, so i know when to avoid the article.

this x 10

Most notably, if you have different environments with different build, different servers, different svn locations, etc, etc etc. If you have a continuous build system and haven't looked at Hudson, I'd highly recommend it.

Yeah, the blackberry browser in OS6 is fantastic. I find myself using it more frequently then my ipad browser at times...

maybe not as dead as you think. I remember the last olympics was available all online...in full HD....in silverlight. First time I downloaded it, and I have to admit that it was easily the best representation of what I THINK the future of TV should be. All available online, all back events available, at a click of a mouse, including streaming of live events, all in HD. I wonder how many more ppl still have silverlight installed cause of the olympics...

I've owned the Ipad 1 since it originally came out, and paid for a 3G plan since I got it. First off, having constant data access is (personally) one of the major selling features of a tablet. You can say all you want about using your phone as a internet access point, but screen real estate is a huge factor in how functional it is. And having constant access (not just around the house wifi style) is a part of that feature! But it also is RIDICULOUS how companies charge for the feature. Yes, you pay for your toys, and I've paid 30 bucks a month since I got it. That comes out to over $300 bucks just to use a feature! I think Blackberry has the right idea: make teathering with your phones trivial. One plan, total connectivity. I just wish/hope they make it available to all phones, not just blackberry's.

Not sure why the submitter didn't post the Intel response denying it: http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/03/23/chip-shot-intel-reaffirms-commitment-to-itanium While you would think Intel would of course deny it, but considering Intel just took the wraps off their next revision of the Itanium, this is pretty much just FUD coming from Oracle.

Do we really have to keep calling this a Sandy Bridge issue? This isn't a sandy bridge issue, the name Sandy bridge is for the CPU. The issue is NOT with the CPU, it's with the chipset Cougar point. The Sandy Bridge is (so far) perfectly fine, and has no issues at all. Of course, I guess "Intel Resumes Shipping of Faulty Cougar Point chip" doesn't seem as catastrophic.