Blackberry Playbook to support Android apps!?
Monday, February 28th, 2011
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Apple launches new MacBook Pro line
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Apple on Thursday surprised no one when it launched its new line of MacBook Pro computers. Despite ongoing rumors that have been swirling for weeks now, anxious Apple fans in need of new rigs can finally breathe a sigh of relief as they open their wallets nice and wide. Here’s the breakdown:
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Motorola Xoom Review Part 1
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
You may have noticed this is labeled as part 1, the reason for this is this is purly a 3rd party review from BGR so we can’t take any credit for this review unfortunately! However it’s such a well written review we wanted to share it with everyone until we can get our hands on our own Xoom to do an independent review. We had only planned to look at the playbook and ipad2, however Motorola and Google may have a real winner here!
Enjoy the article.
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What tablet should you buy?
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
I wish I could tell you the answer to this one. Unfortunately the answer to our customer right now is really none. Just hang tough there are going to be some great options coming out.
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Want to get a sneak peak at the Blackberry Playbook?
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
You can’t hold it, or touch it, but today RIM has released an updated version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS simulator (for the BlackBerry PlayBook) that now includes support for the BlackBerry browser. This was lacking in the previous version, but now developers can test their web and Flash applications using the browser. Some notes for developers:
- The User Agent will continue to match the current User Agent pattern used with BlackBerry smartphone products. This will enable developers to continue to leverage the development investment they have placed into building web pages optimized for BlackBerry already.
- The browser builds on the existing support for web standards such as HTML5 for the BlackBerry by adding support for HTML5 Video and Audio based on the power and flexibility of the underlying BlackBerry Tablet OS.
- The browser supports Adobe Flash 10.1, and Flash developers will be able to test the Flash player in the simulator.
The new version is available now and can be downloaded from the link below. Check out the Inside BlackBerry Developers Blog for more.
Download the updated BlackBerry Tablet OS simulator
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What did you do with Voip this week?
Monday, February 7th, 2011
I recently went on a trip to mexico, I was meeting my parents down there and we had made plans to communicate via blackberry messenger. My parents went for 2 weeks, so plan was for my dad to take his blackberry tour and away he would go. I checked with sasktel and some websites, everything checked out cdma aka 1XEV should work just fine. Wrong. He had no data coverage at all, but could text message. I did know for a fact that 3G coverage worked, and fortunately his BB Tour is world capable, you just need a sim card.
So down to my favorite sasktel dealer I go. I request a card for my wife’s tour and my dads. They of course need to speak to my wife and verify it’s her so that they can activate it etc. Now in the case of my dad, he’s in mexico, and with no laptop. I talked them into selling me the card, and paid all the fees for it, but we would have to call in and activate it. The gentleman at sasktel was baffled at the fact I was going to call from Mexico and how much it would cost.
I started to explain how our voip phone systems work. We simply use our laptop, and whats called a “Softphone” because it’s just a program or software on the computer, to connect to the phone system. You use the mic and speakers on the laptop and poof! Like magic you have a phone.
Thinking this would be like some kind of an ultimate test, we all got together in our hotel room, and called 1-800-sasktel to activate this sim card. When the lady answered, I told her, I’m calling over voip from Mexico, so I may sound funny or cut out.
She laughed.
I said whats so funny?
Sir, if you hadn’t told me, I would have never know you weren’t sitting beside me. You are crystal clear.
Sweet! it works. I mean. If course it works. why shouldn’t it? but truthfully, we’re I wasn’t 100% sure how well the internet from our hotel would work, but it went off without a hitch.
I was able to read the complicated and long list of numbers to activate the sim card, we were successful in activating my dads phone, and we were able to organize ourselves for the rest of our vacation.
VOIP is an amazing piece of technology, every company moving forward should ensure that if they are looking at a new phone system, that they are capable of running technology like this. It’s truly where the world is going!
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