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RIM Blames Service Outage on Bum BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Updates

BlackBerry-maker RIM says it believes a major North American BlackBerry service outage that started yesterday and lasted into early this morning can be attributed to two recent flawed updates to its popular BlackBerry IM application, BlackBerry Messe

23 Dec 2009
Data Center Small and Medium Business Smartphones
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9 Tech Things I Won’t Do This Holiday ’09 Vacation

CIO.com blogger Thomas Wailgum has identified nine "technology traps" to avoid this holiday season, and he's taken the pledge to do so himself. But does he really stand a chance?

22 Dec 2009
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Verizon Forcing Microsoft Bing Search on BlackBerry Users

U.S. wireless carrier Verizon wants its BlackBerry customers to employ Microsoft's Bing search engine, and it's not-so-subtly pushing some of its users in the Bing-direction by removing all other default search-engine options from their Bla

21 Dec 2009
Carriers Small and Medium Business Smartphones
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Make Your Home a Digital Music Hall

If digital music is an important part of your life, the Sonos wireless music system can fill every room in your house with high-quality sound -- without a house-remodeling project.

21 Dec 2009
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Microsoft and Consumers: Friends or Foes?

Windows Mobile's failure to compete has put a spotlight Microsoft's struggles to win over consumers in general, whose Web-based needs and habits will soon spill over into the corporate world, say industry analysts.

17 Dec 2009
Small and Medium Business Smartphones Windows
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Seven Features in Windows 7 You Probably Don’t Know About

From streaming Netflix movies in Windows Media Center to eye candy desktop Themes to a calculator that does a lot more than arithmetic, here's a slideshow of cool but unappreciated Windows 7 features.

16 Dec 2009
Small and Medium Business Windows
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Amazon: Kindle for BlackBerry App “Coming Soon”

BlackBerry owners will soon be able to download a free Amazon.com Kindle BlackBerry app for smartphone-based access to their Kindle digital-book library. Apple's iPhone is currently the only major smartphone platform with an official Kindle mobi

16 Dec 2009 3 mins
Data Center Small and Medium Business Smartphones
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The Next Decade in Mobile: Mobclix’s Outrageous (Yet Possible) Predictions

Android overtakes the iPhone? Nearly all phones support video chat? Mobile commerce hits $100 billion? These are some of Mobclix's wild mobile predictions for the next decade. CIO.com takes a closer look.

15 Dec 2009
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BlackBerry Gets Free UPS App for Shipping, Tracking Packages

UPS customers can tomorrow download a free mobile application for BlackBerry smartphones that offers UPS package shipping and tracking features, as well as a UPS store locator. The new UPS for BlackBerry app will be available for download from RIM&#0

15 Dec 2009
Data Center Small and Medium Business Smartphones
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Google Phone: Why I Couldn’t Care Less…For Now

CIO.com mobile guru Al Sacco explains why he's not getting excited about the recently revealed Google Phone, or Nexus One, which will apparently be produced for Google by Taiwanese handset maker HTC...at least not yet.

14 Dec 2009
Data Center Small and Medium Business Smartphones