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kudos:4 |  Sprint has Palm Pre exclusive thru end of 2009
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s (S) exclusivity agreement with Palm Inc. (PALM) and its Pre smartphone runs through the year, according to a Sprint spokesman.
"We have the Pre through 2009," said spokesman James Fisher.
Verizon Wireless Chief Executive Lowell McAdam told analysts at an investor conference that over the "next six months or so," the carrier would be getting the Pre and a "cousin" device. The disclosure surprised industry watchers, although it could fit Sprint's timeline if McAdam meant six months from the Pre's June 6 launch date. A review of Palm Pre:
»www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/···-review/
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Camden, TN | Is a Hulu Player coming to PlayStation 3? Um.. you can already get Hulu on the PS3 via it's web browser. No need for a client. | |
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Springfield, IL | Re: Is a Hulu Player coming to PlayStation 3? Also, there is Playon. | |
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Camden, TN | Re: Is a Hulu Player coming to PlayStation 3? said by Greg_Z:Also, there is Playon. Sure but that's $40 the PS3 comes with a browser. If only MS would get unstupid and put a browser on the XBOX 360. I mean they make IE for Christ's sake. | |
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Springfield, IL | Re: Is a Hulu Player coming to PlayStation 3? Why have a browser? That is what computers are for. As for the $40, it is a one time fee, and works real good to watch movies or TV shows on the 360.
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Camden, TN | Re: Is a Hulu Player coming to PlayStation 3? said by Greg_Z:Why have a browser? That is what computers are for. As for the $40, it is a one time fee, and works real good to watch movies or TV shows on the 360. yes yes I know abut playon. I've tried the demo it worked fine. I'm not bashing it. I'm saying if you have a PS3 you already have access to Hulu without paying $40.
Why a browser um maybe I don't want to go back and forth from computer to Tv to watch different shows? Maybe I want to cancel cable and having a browser would be better than trying to stream stuff from my PC to my Tv via the 360. Also I'm sure there are people that like to have internet access without all the hassle of having to deal with a computer. A browser provides that. There are millions of people that don't go on the internet but want to but don't want to mess with a computer. A device that provides easy and simple access would be a big help to these people. | |
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A browser opens a whole world of possible exploits and adds other ways to get media to the 360. MS and hollywood don't want that.
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00000 | Obama Wants To Keep Internet 'Open and free' Until those telco and cable industry checks clear anyway.
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| Re: Obama Wants To Keep Internet 'Open and free' Yup. Obama is not exactly like Bush but he still is a politician and his pockets will be lined, too.
This whole "capping the internet" blows and I have a feeling this administration will just sit by and do nothing. No "change" there.
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Pleasant Hill, MO | Re: Obama Wants To Keep Internet 'Open and free' Keep up hope maybe the next one will do something. And maybe a new ISP will come and be the new BMOC. | |
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| Let's give the man a chance before convicting him. He's certainly saying things in a lot more positive way then Bush & Co, but we'll have to see how the actual DEEDS play out vs just the rhetoric.
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00000 | Re: Obama Wants To Keep Internet 'Open and free' You mean you haven't see enough to know this Administration is just more of the same politics as usual? I certainly have.
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Tulsa, OK | Re: Obama Wants To Keep Internet 'Open and free' Nope, certainly not. Especially with the FCC, things look a lot brighter there. So far.... (caveat) | |
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1 edit | Re: Obama Wants To Keep Internet 'Open and free' I was thinking more overall including continued bail outs, zero fiscal discipline, his picks, fundraising hypocrisy, etc. While certainly better than the previous idiot I was expecting (hoping for) far more.
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| Re: Obama Wants To Keep Internet 'Open and free' Sorry, but I'm going to have to blame the CPR on the economy (which actually appears to be working I might add) squarely on the last Administration. I want to see how he budgets going forward.
I suspect he'll not do much because the people won't let him.
"Don't cut MY entitlements!"
"Don't raise MY taxes!"
= Rock and a hard place. Guess we'll see.
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00000 | Hackintosher to open US storefront LOL, $900 for some hobbled together POS that will be broken with every service update and the company that sells it will be filing for bankruptcy by Christmas?
No thanks.
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So it being a POS hard is not true.
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4 edits | Re: Hackintosher to open US storefront Absolutely it would be a noisy piece of shit that WILL break with every OS point release and will have ZERO support by Apple. I just went through "fixing" my Mini 9 after it was broken by 10.5.7 and my netbook runs the same 'native' hardware that the previous gen MacBook did. It wasn't a major problem, but certainly not anything like a true "macintosh experience". Hackint0sh is great to mess around with, but they are far from reliable in the long term and that is a bad thing when the seller is doomed to bankruptcy before even opening its doors. Reliable upgrade to faster and more efficient Snow Leopard due out this year? Forget it.
The Macs are more expensive myth has been done to death here a zillion times and proven to be wrong a zillion times. If you don't think the Mini is a good value, don't buy one. Comparing platforms based solely on hardware isn't accurate, just as comparing processors based on GHz isn't. OS X isn't Vista, you don't need 4GB of RAM and a Core i7 for it to get out of its own way. OS X Leopard runs WAY faster on my Atom than XP SP3 did and Vista would make it cry like a school girl. Meanwhile direct competitors to the Mini like the Studio Hybrid are more expensive just like competitor's all-in-one machines are more expensive than iMacs. The near-silent Micro-PC platform carries a small premium no matter what OS it runs.
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Battle Creek, MI | Re: Hackintosher to open US storefront What if I don't want Apple's PC? It would no longer be "hip" if OS X was no longer exclusive to Apple's PC (that's right, I said "Apple's PC", big whoop, wanna fight about it?  ) | |
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00000 | I tried it in a VM. The OS itself was really nice, but 3rd party software support near non-existant. I actually need run applications 
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00000 | The Value Of VoIP --- ABSOLUTELY, saves me 80% At my business I used to have 5 POTS lines with Verizon. But then with every expiration of my Centrex contract the price would jump double digits. After dropping dial up I was able to but back to 3 POTS lines and still the price was going up faster than I was cutting services.
Now here we are in a major deflationary recession and what did Verizon do? Took another MASSIVE increase. If I renew my contract they will take ONLY a 25% increase, if I don't, the price doubles. So on my 3 business lines with virtually no LD charges I'm close to $250/mo including added services like caller ID and voicemail...yeah, $250/mo for only 3 lines and I barely use them. Their sales people were arrogant in their tone, firm on these massive price increases as if I didn't have a choice.
So I call Megapath who provides my DS1 circuit and ordered Duet (their DS1+VoIP service). For roughly $50 more than I'm currently paying for my COVAD DS1 I am get those same 3 lines with caller ID, voicemail, forwarding, conferencing, etc etc etc. More services with an 80% savings.
$50 or $250...the math is pretty G-D easy and is why Verizon and other telcos continue to bleed POTS customers. And it isn't like they're just a little more expensive...they are insanely greedy with these completely unjustifiable price increases.
I have had this account with Verizon (ex GTE) for well over 25 years and because of their greed and arrogance they will get nothing more.
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