Government working exclusively with Sprint for 2010 Census
June 30, 2009 by wizTEQ Staff
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Screw the Pre — government contracts are where the real action is at, and Sprint’s got to be thrilled to know that it’s the first, the last, and the only carrier to be used by the US Census in its 2010 once-per-decade review of the nation’s denizens. We’ve known for some time that HTC would be supplying custom hardware to data collection folks in the field — a device cleverly codenamed Census — and indeed, Sprint’s press release makes mention of the fact that about 140,000 workers started using the Harris-branded devices with integrated fingerprint readers and GPS back in April of this year. Sprint’s also supplying a bit of infrastructure and about 1,500 wireless data cards, all told making this by far the most wireless Census in history. Makes you wonder what kind of equipment they’re going to use in 2020, doesn’t it?
Government working exclusively with Sprint for 2010 Census originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia N97 getting firmware 1.1 on July 1
June 30, 2009 by wizTEQ Staff
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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian
There’s no shortage of complaints — some minor, some not-so-minor — about the shipping firmware in the N97s that are already out in the field (our wonky backlight comes immediately to mind), but fortunately, it seems that Nokia’s looking to tackle the issues perhaps more proactively than it’s ever done before. Nokia Conversations’ official Twitter account has announced that the “first variants” of the N97 (which we would take to mean the North American version, since the US got it first) will be blessed with firmware 1.1 starting on July 1, which hopefully will be available over-the-air without any Nokia Software Updater silliness. No word on what exactly will be changed in the new release, but honestly, if we can just get the LL Cool J startup screen, that’ll be good enough for us.
[Via Nokia Experts]
Nokia N97 getting firmware 1.1 on July 1 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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BlackBerry credited with saving skier’s life, serendipity left hanging
June 30, 2009 by wizTEQ Staff
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Filed under: Culture, Handsets, RIM, Misc
Not that we haven’t heard a few miraculous gadgets-saving-lives stories before, but this one is in a league of its own. According to the always-embellishing Sun, one David Fitzherbert is thanking his smartphone after coming entirely too close to falling 700 feet to his death. As the story goes, he got wedged between a pair of rocks after losing control of his skis in the Matterhorn, and while we aren’t quite sure why he chose RIM’s BlackBerry over — say, chap-stick, car keys, his wallet or a fattening breakfast — he credited it with adding just enough width to his person to keep him wedged. Two hours after finding himself between a rock and a hard place, rescue crews arrived and flew him to a hospital where he used the “0.5-inch wide” phone to tell his wife that he had survived a nasty spill. We still say David owes a round of thanks to genetics, luck and Zeus, but hey, what do we know?
BlackBerry credited with saving skier’s life, serendipity left hanging originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Video: Palm Pre caught playing with GSM SIM in Vietnam
June 30, 2009 by wizTEQ Staff
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Filed under: Handsets, Palm, GSM, EDGE
Having the Palm Pre on Sprint might be good for Americans driving their pick ‘em up trucks down the CDMA data highway, but it doesn’t do Europeans (or Palm’s bottom line) any good over in the Old World. Now we’ve got video and images of a GSM-loving Palm Pre on the loose in Vietnam. Why ‘Nam? Easy, as workers gain more rights and higher wages in China, manufacturers of all our fancy consumer electronics are heading further south in search of cheap labor. While this doesn’t mean a damn thing regarding launch, it’s still good to see a functioning GSM Pre in the wild on the way to launch sometime before the end of the year, possibly sooner. Video after the break, as the saying goes.
[Thanks, Enzo]
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Video: Palm Pre caught playing with GSM SIM in Vietnam originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NVIDIA Tegra smartphone due from a "top five" manufacturer before 2010?
June 30, 2009 by wizTEQ Staff
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Filed under: Handsets, Multimedia, Others, ATT, T-Mobile, Windows Mobile, Android
If you want to get HD in your handheld, NVIDIA’s Tegra processor is the hot way to do it at the moment, and we’ve got reasonably concrete sounding rumors from disparate sources that a handset containing one of the chips is currently under development by a “top five” smartphone builder (we’re guessing it’s not Apple), and that it’ll be out sometime before the end of the year, selling at T-Mobile and AT&T for just $199. The details of the device beyond that are scant, with Android being a possibility but Windows Mobile looking more likely, and a continued pledge of battery life of rated for “days and days” of mobile multimedia. We like the sound of that.
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NVIDIA Tegra smartphone due from a “top five” manufacturer before 2010? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HTC Hero spotted on Orange UK website
June 30, 2009 by wizTEQ Staff
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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Orange, T-Mobile
The HTC Hero has made its first appearance on a UK carrier’s website, but finds itself burdened with a teasing “coming soon” badge. Having talked to Orange, we can confirm previous reports that the device will be available for free on some, as yet undetermined but surely eye-gouging, price plans. The company said they are still testing the device and should have pricing information by tomorrow. Expect T-Mobile to quickly follow suit and unveil their Hero by another name (G1 Touch?), also fully subsidized. Both carriers will be offering the graphite edition of the phone, so if you have your heart set on the white Teflon-coated goodness, you may have to go the SIM-free route.
HTC Hero spotted on Orange UK website originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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New Nokia Messaging beta adds IM capabilities, E75 gets first dibs
June 30, 2009 by wizTEQ Staff
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Filed under: Messaging, Software, Nokia, Symbian
Nokia Messaging represents Espoo’s premiere email experience — so premiere, in fact, that the company eventually plans to charge for it on some of its devices — and to help makes it just a little bit more awesome than it already is, they’ve now started adding in instant messaging capability. The new Nokia Messaging – E75 IM Beta (yes, that’s the full official name) offered by Nokia Beta Labs rocks compatibility with Yahoo Messenger and Ovi — more services are expected to be compatible in the future — and appears to serve up pretty much all the features you’d expect of a modern mobile IM client, including background notification, multiple conversation management, status control, and chat log save capability. So far, only the E75′s compatible, but Nokia’s imploring folks to stay tuned to Beta Labs for updates on when they’ll open it up to other devices.
New Nokia Messaging beta adds IM capabilities, E75 gets first dibs originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Office challenge: How do you copy a style from one file to another?
June 26, 2009 by wizTEQ Staff
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Creating a formatting style can be hard work. Once you have it just right, you don’t want to waste time recreating it in another file. How can you copy a style from one file to another?
Last week we asked…
How can you discern an icon’s keyboard shortcut? ThumbsUp2 and Darryl both responded quickly with the answer I was looking for:
- Choose Customize from the Tools menu.
- Click the Options tab.
- Check the Show ScreenTips On Toolbars and Show Shortcut Keys in ScreenTips options in the Other section.
Office 2007 applications call ScreenTips, KeyTips. To display them, simply press [Alt]. Then, to execute the KeyTip, hold down [Alt] and press the appropriate key.
Use controls to document Access forms, reports, and controls
June 26, 2009 by wizTEQ Staff
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Developers know that good code contains meaningful comments that document their choices and unusual situations. You just preface the text with an apostrophe character (’), so that VBA ignores the line. Later, you, or other developers who maintain the database can quickly peruse the comments instead of interpreting code.
You can also share comments about a form, report, or control’s design with other developers using hidden controls in a form. It’s an innovative albeit non-traditional use for controls — usually, a label control. By setting such a control’s Visible property to No, the control is visible only in Design view. When you or another developer opens the form in Design view, there’s your comments. This type of commenting is especially helpful when the object requires no module, which is where you store more traditional commenting.
White iPhone 3GS reportedly overheats, turns a browner shade of white
June 26, 2009 by wizTEQ Staff
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Right after its launch, we noted the sundry problems reported by new iPhone 3GS owners, but this is the first time we’ve heard tell of this specific one… and it seems like a doozy. It’s unclear exactly what caused this, but what is apparent is an unattractive discoloration on the above handset. The user claims it was caused by overheating during a period of using the GPS and 3G of the phone. Either way, it looks pretty crummy now, doesn’t it? What about the rest of you with new, white iPhones? Anything to report? One more shot of this looker after the break.
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White iPhone 3GS reportedly overheats, turns a browner shade of white originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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