Category: TECHnically
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Prepping for The John Siracusa OS X Lion Review
A huge nod to Stephen at Forkbombr for the find. New OS X release reviews from John Siracusa at Ars Technica are always fantastic although very long read. I think the Snow Leopard review took a few days to get through and at least a few weeks to digest properly. Forkbombr — Preparing for John…
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PlayBook 10″ On Hold For The BB QNX Superphone
the next BlackBerry PlayBook was on that list but given that development path has finally got them in trouble it’s now being suggested development on the next BlackBerry PlayBook has ceased. Reason for it? To concentrate development efforts on the next set of BlackBerry smartphones powered by QNX. via Via CrackBerry.com. NOTE: This is pure…
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On Hackintoshing For Dollars in General
Hackintoshing used to be a complicated process, but since Hackintosh expert tonymacx86 came around it’s gotten a lot easier. [..] While I had Whitson around to help me out, if you have some knowledge of how to build a computer this is likely something you can do. I am still surprised that the process was…
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RIM Starts Bleeding More Marketing Execs
Another executive is out of Waterloo, ON. Today, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that it has confirmed the departure of Brian Wallace, VP of Digital Marketing and Media. The report also confirms that Wallace has been scooped up by Samsung Mobile. This move comes amid a flurry of other departures from RIM recently, including…
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Is RIM Playing the Bully Card in Order to Catch Up?
RIM has been putting an enormous amount of pressure on carriers to approve the upcoming BlackBerry smartphones like the BlackBerry Bold 9900 — phones that have to hold RIM over until its next-generation platform launch in 2012 — and that certain carriers will be approving the devices, “no matter what — with bugs and problems.”…
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On Banning Apps and Care-taking: Apple vs the World
BGR reported on Tuesday about an application that attempted to trick users into setting a passcode identical to the pin used to lock their iPhones. The app then transmitted the PIN numbers in the background to the developer — albeit anonymously — who used them to publish a report covering the most commonly used iPhone…
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RIM Stock Drops to a Four Year Low
From TechRadar It seems that investors have got the jitters as Apple nabs yet another key BlackBerry USP; iMessage is an instant messaging service for Apple devices on iOS 5, just as BlackBerry Messenger is for BlackBerry users. On Tuesday, RIMs stock fell to below $37 for the first time since 2007, a tumble of…