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    Image of Deckard Deckard
    12/16/09

    In reply to Microsoft and Palm Treading Water While Other Mobile Platforms Grow
    RIM is kicking Apple's butt, almost 2x. I wouldn't say Microsoft is hardly doing any business. Typical slant for this blog.
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    Image of Abarnum Abarnum
    12/16/09

    @Deckard: RIM sells multiple devices. If you average in the sales with the unique items at hand, Apple is technically kicking RIM's butt.

    As for Microsoft, I think they have been on a steady decline for quite some time when it comes to mobile. I find it hard to believe its a "typical slant for this blog" since not only Gizmodo has posted these articles. Similar posts can be seen on Business Week, Silicon Alley Insider, Fortune 500, Forbes and even PC favored magazines such as "PC Magazine".
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    Image of Deckard Deckard
    12/16/09

    @Abarnum: See, this is what I mean.
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    Image of Abarnum Abarnum
    12/16/09

    @Deckard: That isn't a typical slant though. This is basically common sense in a business related matter. It's the same when you compare Nokia to RIM.

    If this site were the only site stating these comments, then it'd be one thing. But when it's an entire business network of over 10 major fortune 500's, its fact.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    12/16/09

    In reply to Microsoft and Palm Treading Water While Other Mobile Platforms Grow
    The market is very young, and this information is very interesting, but given how rapidly things are changing - we will not truly have a picture of how everything is playing out for another year. A chart of a few months of 2009 is hardly statistically relevant.

    Android: Um, ignore these numbers since they do not even factor in the Droid release. Come back and talk after we see how that did.

    Microsoft: We all know they will not be a player in this market until their "pink" (or whatever they call it) product is released. Yes, they look like they are going backwards because they are just stalling until they have something to show.

    Palm: They need a new carrier before we will know how their product fares. The "P" products look interesting, but very few people are on Sprint or are willing to switch to Sprint to try them. Either find a new carrier or sell your company to Microsoft or Nokia.

    RIM: Continuing to kick-butt because Apple and Android refuse to play in the business world. The products are passable, at best - but without enterprise level quality product competition, they will continue to gobble market share. Oh, and you crazy tech geeks up north need to release a slide-out keyboard model of the Storm 2. That on-screen keyboard is ridiculously bad.

    Apple: Damn it, Steve - release a BES-like server and make a business controllable device. Help me out, man! Oh, and stop releasing patches that show you are lying about encryption and kill iPhone access to Exchange Servers. Hard to believe, but that is not making friends. One last thing - I still love you even if you refuse to make a phone I can give to my producers, buddy.

    Enough worthless rambling. I have to run for a date at the Cyclops. My wife and I are celebrating our tenth anniversary, and being the generous soul I am, I am making her come with me to a geek round-up in Seattle. Yes, I know - I am a romantic.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/16/09

    @Monty: First, congrats!

    Second, I agree with you for the most part, especially about Palm. The Pre is a really nice piece of equipment, but they chose an even worse carrier than Apple did, and are paying for it dearly. Not even Candice Bergen with God powers can save it there.

    RIM amazes me with its "crackberry" users that are flat-out addicted to them, but the Storm really does need that keyboard. A relative of mine has one and I tried it out. Man do I hate it.
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    12/16/09

    In reply to Microsoft and Palm Treading Water While Other Mobile Platforms Grow
    ...Good going there, Symbian.
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    12/16/09

    In reply to The iPhone as a Friend and Foe Tracking War Machine
    This is as usless as it gets.

    If there is a building with taliban, bank robbers, serial killers and they are shooting AK bullets at you... No man in uniform has enough time to push this through a freaking app.

    0/10.
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    Image of BlackYoshi BlackYoshi
    12/16/09

    @Gundem: Information on the battlefield = useless according to you.

    Thank god you aren't in the military.
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    Image of Orion126 Orion126
    12/16/09

    @Gundem: Says you but if you're approaching an area with known enemy element I'm sure you or your team lead will take a second to check if a push message was received. 1 second to check to save a life or two? Sounds like a win for me.
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    12/16/09

    @BlackYoshi: Impractical information = usless on the battlefield.

    Ok troll, What carrier would you use in afganistan? Do you expect every marine to dish out $200 for an Iphone? What are the chances of fucking reception? I don't have reception in Malibu or Hollywood and you speak of "information on battlefield" while in the mountains of Afghanistan.

    When you are under fire, loud shout, bullets bouncing. the last thing you think about is taking out your iphone and hoping/crossing yoru fingers that your partners would either feel the vibration or hear their JLo ringtone.
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    12/16/09

    @Orion126: Read my answer to your troll friend.
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    Image of retrac retrac
    12/16/09

    @Gundem: True, but its a B.F.T. none the less. One thing you may have over looked (not that im defending the trolling going on here) Is the implementation of a 9-line... or a call for fire mission. Duck behind some cover... fill in the blanks and no more sniper on the hill (or squad+ size element on the ridge line). Never put a price on your own life was my saying when getting personal gear. Just food for thought, cause I know I wouldn't mind putting my finger on a map and designating "This is where the bad guys are shooting at me" and hear that wonderful roar of fast movers over my head.

    edit: Of course... it would have to work that way for me to ever think about using it... otherwise its just another piece of gear I have to keep up with (or make someone else keep up with)
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    Gundem promoted this comment Edited by retrac at 12/16/09 5:45 PM retrac was starred retrac was unstarred
    Image of Bwehngamun Bwehngamun
    12/16/09

    @Gundem: It's being retrofitted for the military specifically. I'm sure it will use a private military service probably provided by satellite or something to connect the devices.
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    Image of Craig Barabas Craig Barabas
    12/16/09

    @Gundem: They could mount the phone on the gun (like how the heartbeat sensor is mounted in MW2). It is basicily a real world mini-map.
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    Image of SJRNWT SJRNWT
    12/16/09

    @Gundem: Dude relax. Obviously if they had this it would be gov't funded. As for reception, maybe it's possible for a tower to be built, maybe it's not.

    Have you even considered for a second that maybe, just maybe they would use this while they weren't under fire as a precautionary application?

    Seriously, there's no need to be a dick to those 2 other users man. They're just pitching a new idea and working out the kinks.
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    Image of Henry Tang Henry Tang
    12/16/09

    @Gundem:

    Wow, your ignorance and discourtesy to others is appalling.

    I'm a US Army Captain, and I laughed out loud when I read your ignorant comments.

    Yes, you're absolutely right, who would rely on AT&T wireless signals in Afghanistan? Certainly not the US Army, who would likely use the new and wide range of high frequency radio and wireless technologies it has developed with the defense industry, rather than simple 3G towers that don't exist in the Middle East.

    And yes, not every soldier will carry this. It would likely be Squad Leaders, Platoon Leaders, Captains, and their Radio Officers, the people who need to know information and direct teams.

    Please don't let your lack of military education bring judgement against technologies beyond your understanding.
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    Gundem promoted this comment Henry Tang was starred Henry Tang was unstarred
    Image of Gundem Gundem
    12/16/09

    @retrac: All of that is true but on an Iphone? I am not talking about a fancy military device. We are talking about an fuckin' iphone.

    Hell, such concept have been visualized in movies and even games (Ghost recon 2) where they seemed more practical then a 4.99 app on a freaking iphone.
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    12/16/09

    @Bwehngamun: On an iphone?
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    12/16/09

    @Craig Barabas: Mount an iphone on a m16? .50 Calibur? You gotta be kidding me.

    Remember we a re talking about an Iphone. Not a military device, suitable for battle.
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    12/16/09

    @Henry Tang: oh my, all these captains.

    I don't care who you are, but the thought of anyone Platoon leader with iphone apps is beyond moronic. you'd much rather stick Ghost Recon Advance war fighter's version of this software which looked much more useful and practical.

    If the military needed such information and software, they would rather rely on more sophisticated, battle hardened and durable devices.

    An iphone would never play a roll in in war. Devices with same capabilities as an iphone and some more, will.
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    12/16/09

    @SJRNWT: White knighting in progress.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/16/09

    @Gundem: I don't think you'd use this while bullets are flying. You'd use this in the much longer periods before and after to disseminate useful information.
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    Image of BlackYoshi BlackYoshi
    12/16/09

    @Gundem: It would be on military communications, just like all the tactical networks they use.

    Laptops, cell phones, satellite radios, etc are used all the time in the modern American military. You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.
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    Image of beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid
    12/16/09

    In reply to EyeTV 3 Users Can Now Stream Live TV From Home to iPhone For Free
    Someone seriously needs to write a firewire capable STB streaming app, that works with an iPhone app.

    One can already stream from a firewire capable STB, using Apple's Firewire SDK and VLC, now to just streamline it with remote channel changing, and an iphone app capable of playing a stream from VLC, or something similar.
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    lpranal promoted this comment beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid was starred beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid was unstarred
    Image of lpranal lpranal
    12/16/09

    @beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid: Totally. though channel control seems like it could be tricky, the last time I tried it, all I could get was the video stream working.
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    Image of beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid
    12/16/09

    @lpranal: channel change can be done through the firewire sdk as well.

    I've done this... check this out:
    [www.blyon.com]

    I use a utility (which I had to modify) called "clover", that changes channels via command line, and can start recording. If it can record, it can open up the stream to transcoding to a streaming server. To tell you the truth, if I just knew a little more about xcode I could probably pull the proper bits out of the firewire sdk to accomplish this. The problem however is turning a command line tool into a listening application, that listens for channel changes. That is beyond me.

    Next problem is what kind of live streams can be played back on the iphone... RTSP does not work, I have tried... since I run an RTSP server at work. Don't know enough about the iPhone SDK to know what would work, or what wouldn't. If there was a streaming protocol available via safari... this could all be done with ZERO iphone app development.

    This is so close in my eyes... it's painful to not see someone do it.

    #notAprogrammerBTW

    /endgeekrambling
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    Image of lpranal lpranal
    12/16/09

    @beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid: do you know if there's anything similar for the PC that might work better? my HTPC is actually running windows 7 w/ media center, that thing runs all the time as it is. I tried ORB but that's using a crappy little USB tuner and the sound doesn't work. Still don't understand why I can't basically just use my STB as a tv tuner in windows media center.
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    Image of beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid
    12/16/09

    @lpranal: [stream-recorder.com]

    This might be what you're looking for... looks like you can connect the device with using one command... NICE!

    Now I gotta figure it out for OS X.

    BTW, that requires you have a compatible STB, with firewire out. My Pace RNG110 HD tuner provided by comcast works, for os x anyways.
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    Image of aliskaba aliskaba
    12/16/09

    In reply to Type n Walk App Lets You See Where You're Going While Texting
    I can't wait for the TypeNDrive. Hopefully one that also connects to my reverse camera, so I stop running over people.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    12/16/09

    In reply to Type n Walk App Lets You See Where You're Going While Texting
    Good. It will help these fools see MY FIST as its coming at THEIR FACE.
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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    12/16/09

    In reply to EyeTV 3 Users Can Now Stream Live TV From Home to iPhone For Free
    It's just a shame that Comcast breaks the hell out of most mac based cable tuners I've tried, which is depressing when you spend a couple hundred bucks on Elgato's premiere offering at the time.
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    Image of PaintTheSkyGrey PaintTheSkyGrey
    12/16/09

    @thechansen: Are you sure? The channel lineup is different when running cable directly into your TV versus running it through a cable box. I had this issue on my bedroom TV, when I couldn't get some of the "regular" channels I could with a cable box in the other room.
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    thechansen promoted this comment PaintTheSkyGrey was starred PaintTheSkyGrey was unstarred
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    12/16/09

    @PaintTheSkyGrey: I didn't expect premium channels in the least bit, but I expected to get about the same line up that was available with my on TV plugged straight into the wall with no cable box. I had two one for over the air high def (el gato eyetv 500 which I sold because I left Philadelphia and no longer had need for it, proper reception with my little antenna) and a the first eyeTV to handle cable, which it did find when I had Time Warner (a tiny slice of west Philadelphia is served by TW instead of Comcast which blew my mind). This one crapped the bed when I tried it with Comcast. I received PBS, NBC, and CBS. 3 Channels. I built a gaming PC a year ago, and through in a tuner, thinking "the eyeTV one I had for my Mac was ancient maybe this one will be better", same result just on a different platform. I'm thinking of just spending the money and getting a cablecard pcie card and Orb.
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    Image of PaintTheSkyGrey PaintTheSkyGrey
    12/16/09

    @thechansen: Yeah, it sounds like what happens when you try to autoscan Comcast's channels. Try this:

    Go here
    [www.silicondust.com]

    Switch it to US, type in your zip, and a list of over-the-air channels should appear. There's a dropdown box at the top of the list with which you can change the listing to Comcast.

    Try some of these channels by manually entering them and see if they work. Did it for me.
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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    12/16/09

    @PaintTheSkyGrey: I only get Cablevision or Digital antenna, no Comcast on the list.
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    Image of PaintTheSkyGrey PaintTheSkyGrey
    12/16/09

    @thechansen: Try a different zip, maybe one of the nearest major city/town? Chances are it's gonna be that lineup.
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    12/16/09

    In reply to Type n Walk App Lets You See Where You're Going While Texting
    Thanks to this app, it will never be over Alexa's head ever again.
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    12/16/09

    In reply to Type n Walk App Lets You See Where You're Going While Texting
    Wasn't something like this already (briefly) released for the iphone? I seem to remember there being a lot of hullabaloo because apple got pissed that someone modified the texting application, thus beginning their slow decent into madness of banning any app that does what the phone already did out of the box.
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    12/16/09

    In reply to Type n Walk App Lets You See Where You're Going While Texting
    Laugh it up, Frooch. The MTA cuts got approved. So unless you feel like being crammed into an overcrowded subway car (assuming your train is still running), you're gonna be walking.
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    12/16/09

    In reply to Type n Walk App Lets You See Where You're Going While Texting
    This does require you to hold your phone up directly in front of you as you type which is actually quite inconvenient.
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    12/16/09

    In reply to Have A Perfect Day With Lou Reed's iPhone App
    Should have named it the Lou Read...
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    Image of GuyWithDogs GuyWithDogs
    12/16/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: If you didn't have the heart-click from me from a long time ago, you'd have got it for that!
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    Image of Killjoy Killjoy
    12/16/09

    In reply to Have A Perfect Day With Lou Reed's iPhone App
    The app is a great idea... but, um, Johnny Appleseed was a Linux user.
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    Image of JackTheTripper JackTheTripper
    12/16/09

    In reply to Have A Perfect Day With Lou Reed's iPhone App
    Apple has both of these built into the phone. (Settings - General - Accessibility - Zoom/White on Black) You can even set tripple-clicking the home button to toggle they white on black. Why pay $2.00 for it? What a shame a washed-up singer is trying to scam people with this.
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    Image of justinpe justinpe
    12/16/09

    @JackTheTripper: Is it a scam if he doesn't know that this functionality is already built into the phone or does it just make him look like an idiot?
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    JackTheTripper promoted this comment justinpe was starred justinpe was unstarred
    Image of JackTheTripper JackTheTripper
    12/16/09

    @justinpe: I suppose not, but yes, it does make him look like an idiot.

    If fact, it makes Apple look a little foolish. How many apps have been rejected for "copying functionality already built into the phone"? That's exactly what this is doing.
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    Image of Verloren Verloren
    12/16/09

    @JackTheTripper: I'm not seeing it. I have the first gen iphone though, so maybe this is only on 3G and later?
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment Verloren was starred Verloren was unstarred
    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    12/16/09

    @Verloren: Only for 3GS....
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    Image of justinpe justinpe
    12/16/09

    @JackTheTripper:
    Wasn't aware that accesibility support was exclusively available on th 3GS. Maybe that is why Apple let it in because it isn't available on all iphone models (kind of like the video recording apps). Is there some sort of voice recognition functionality that would make it incompatible with older iPhone models?

    Anyway, the accessibity features are pretty neat. Whoever thought that a blind person could run a touchscreen phone. Seems like it would also be great for people who drive a lot (having emails read to you, white on black for night driving, zooming, etc.) or anyone who needs to be able to operate their phone without being able to see it all the time.
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    12/16/09

    @Verloren: Interesting. I just checked my first gen as well. Not there. I figured that it would be. Thought it was a 3.0 thing. Alright, guess I have egg on my face.
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