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OS OS 5.0.0.419 is officially available from MTS Mobility for the Storm 9530. Reading around the various forums, it seems that the keyboard glows and the pop up keys are back. I have also heard that some users will find their headphones with media key controls will now work.
3M have developed a new mobile dictation service for physicians with BlackBerrys that is essentially Vlingo for health professionals. The service features beefed up security in order to comply with the HiPAA and hospital-specific guidelines for encryption and authentication. The software lets physicians view patient lists, search IDs and access the most current patient information via their BlackBerry.
The Washington Post wrote a tongue-in-cheek editorial about the worst ideas of the decade, and the BlackBerry was named one of them. The reason? “Thanks to the BlackBerry…we are always connected.”
The editorial reads like one of Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes’ rants where an old man talks about how he doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about and what this crazy device called the “BumbleBerry” even does. The author goes on to talk about how the problem with email is that “the more we emails we send, the more we receive.” I’m not sure what he’s getting at exactly but the idea of ubiquitous communication being a bad thing is so funny I couldn’t not post.
Glide OS is an ad free cloud storage and computing solution that provides a free suite of rights-based productivity and collaboration applications with 20GBs of storage. While I haven’t tried the OS, I like the idea of all my apps and desktop sitting in the cloud, to free up resources for my hardware.
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Slacker announced today a series of Slacker Radio Plus gift subscriptions that let you give gifts to your friends and family. Slacker Radio Plus has all the features of the free Slacker Basic Radio, plus an unlimited number of song skips and song requests, ad-free listening, complete song lyrics and more.
The new Radio Plus gift offerings are available in 1-month, 3-month and 12-month increments. Each 12-month Radio Plus subscription also includes 10 additional 1-month promotional gift subscriptions to share with friends and family (a $49.90 value for free). Please note that there is a limit of one promotional 1-month subscription per account.
Slacker Radio Plus Gift Certificates
More information about Slacker Radio Plus Gift Certificates.
Fandango have a free BlackBerry app in beta that is available on GetJar. The app lets you get movie and theater listings, watch trailers and view fan ratings from your device. Personally, I use Poynt to buy movie tickets, but Fandango may have the option to purchase at some locations that Poynt does not.
Download the Fandango free beta for touchscreen devices.
Download the Fandango free beta for trackball/trackpad devices.
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