Sling Media Ships Slingbox Pro HD along with an Updated Player

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If you’re a Sling fan like I am, then you’ll be excited to hear that Sling has started to ship the Slingbox Pro HD. The Pro HD hardware allows you to stream high def content in HD. While the regular Slingbox will stream your HD channels, it doesn’t offer HD quality. So the Pro HD [...]

Would You Purchase a Group of Applications?

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Paul from MoDaCo, is asking for input from readers on your level of interest in purchasing a group of applications bundled together. The expected retail cost of the bundle would be around $200, but the bundle price would be about $50. Assuming there’s 10 applications in this bundle, some quick math would give us an [...]

Update #4 On The No Reboot Challenge – Crisis Adverted

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted on my status in the No Reboot Challenge. First off, I want to welcome another site – Mobi – gas – mic, to the challenge. As I’ve said before, it’s great to see such a wide reception for the challenge within the community. I had a close [...]

Motorola Accuses RIM of Poaching Employees

It seems like Motorola is having a pretty hard time as of late. Not only are the feeling the pressure of increased competition in the mobile phone space, but now they are also having to deal with Research In Motion poaching key employees. Motorola claims that RIM has targeted 40 employees who can’t work for [...]

CntrStg – Changing the Face of CES

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One of the projects that I have been working on outside of my day job and this site, is something called CntrStg – pronounced “CenterStage”. CntrStg is a concept that a group of us came up with while attending CES last year. In the past, every Community Leader, Blogger, and Podcaster would be racing up [...]

Blogging Through Hurricane Ike @ jkOnTheRun

James Kendrick posted some very interesting articles about taking mobility to the limit during a hurricane. Out of all of his posts, I found this post particularly interesting as he outlines the different cellular reception he noticed on various carriers as the storm made its way past. Not many people have the ability to do [...]

New Simplier Approach to Disable Read-Only Network Settings on BlackJack II

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A couple months ago I published an article that details the steps required to remove the network settings lock that has been turned on by AT&T with their Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM update for the BlackJack II (and PanTech Dual – if it’s ever released). The steps require you to application unlock the phone and [...]

Microsoft & RIM Announce Live Search for BlackBerry Devices

Today Microsoft and RIM announced that they are working together to integrate Live Search into RIM’s popular BlackBerry devices. Research in Motion still has the dominate share of the mobile market, despite the success of Apple’s iPhone which comes pre-loaded with Google’s search functionality on the device. Google has already displayed it’s Android mobile OS [...]

Outlook Mobile Does Not Like Changes to Server Name

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I recently made some server changes to one of my email accounts. Basically, the mail server changed from mail.ServerA.com to mail.ServerB.com. A completely new server name and new DNS entry, but everything else stayed the same. It’s the same email address, same account name, same password, etc… So it should have been a really simple [...]

How To Unlock GPRS Settings on BlackJack II with Windows Mobile 6.1

Now that Samsung has made the Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM upgrade official for the BlackJack II, I should take a minute and remind everyone about the post I made a while back that helps you to unlock the carrier networks settings. This is a new feature that was added to Windows Mobile 6.1 by special [...]