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Celebrity Buzz Sanjay Gupta breaks the news to Anderson that his phone is literally a piece of shit. It also gets crappy reception and more like Anderson POOPer and RIM job and Blackberry is really in the toilet and so on and so forth.
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Aside from the cancerous radiation.
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We're quickly coming up on a year since the iPad was released, and while opinions may have been divided early on, there's simply no questioning now that Apple's take on the tablet PC singlehandedly made that long-failing device category suddenly viable.
Tech Buzz Scientists in the United Kingdom are close to releasing an application for smart phones that can test for sexually transmitted diseases. You'll pee on an electronic stick, plug it into your phone, and find out almost instantly if you have critters in your love places. No one will ever want to borrow a phone again.
Uniting factor: They all have enough money for a smartphone.
Politics Buzz State-funded Iranian news is reporting that a “cyber-terrorist group” known as Kasper Hauser have hacked Obama's Blackberry and are releasing its contents to the world. You can judge for yourself how much of a threat Kasper Hauser is posing to national security with their new book.
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“BlackBerry Curve 8330 Phone, Red (Sprint)” from BlackBerry is surging on Amazon.
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“NEW OEM BlackBerry 8900 9500 THUNDER 9530 STORM Battery” from BlackBerry is surging on Amazon.
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“BlackBerry Bold 9000 Phone, Black (AT&T)” from BlackBerry is surging on Amazon.
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A blog dedicated to the love President Barack Obama has for his Blackberry and the love that we have for Obama for standing up against all odds to fight to keep his precious BB.
Tech Buzz Blackberry’s newest phone features a clickable touch screen. With all of RIM’s enterprise features — edit Excel spreadsheets! works with Enxchange! — and a nice bright screen, this looks like yet another iPhone killer.
Tech Buzz Of 6500 professional men surveyed by Sheraton Hotels, 35 percent of them preferred their Blackberries to their wives. Immediately, the wives responded, “Well maybe if you’d learn how to use your thumbs at the same time in the bedroom, we wouldn’t have this problem!” (Ba dum bum!)
Politics Buzz He’s copped to not using and/or understanding the internet, but he did bring mobile email into existence. McCain’s top economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, was asked what the candidate did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that broadened his understand of the U.S.’s financial structure. “He did this,” Holtz-Eakin answered, lifting up his BlackBerry. “[Y]ou’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that’s what he did.”
Tech Buzz The first pictures of an (apparently) functional version of Blackberry’s touch-screen device have shown up on the web. The Thunder is Blackberry’s response to the iPhone, and they’re hoping to make the touch screen typing experience way better than what Apple offers — the screen will provide tactile feedback when you press a key, and there’s a lot more screen real estate dedicated to the keyboard.
Tech Buzz BlackBerry announces a shiny new device. Known more prosaically as the BlackBerry 9000, the new smartphone sports a new, bigger screen and faster connection and processing speeds. No firm sales date yet, but it should be available sometime this summer.
Tech Buzz Photos of the first RIM clamshell flip phone have been unveiled. It will be out by the end of 2008. A novel flip phone seems kind of oxymoronic, but that’s what this phone is being touted as.
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
