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Saturday, October 31st, 2009- Google search to get speed boost – a good reason to use full text feeds
- Stealth startup Zkatter plans real-time live broadcasts
- More on the DROID: thoughts from the rest of Engadget
- Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com
- There's a List for That
- AIR 2.0 Coming Soon: Multitouch, Audio Recording, Less Memory
- List-en very carefully, here's what's new with us
- Turbo Charge Your New XBMC Installation [Winter Upgrades]
- Nokia announces the end of its N-Gage gaming service
- 10 Twitter Lists You Should Follow
- Brizzly Updates with Facebook Support, We've Got Invites [Twitter]
- Facebook Platform Live Status Now Up And Running
- Should Microsoft be thinking about making their own PCs?
- Hulu May Not Be Going Pay-Only Just Yet [Television]
- Google’s Walled Garden
- Google Now Scanning RSS, Atom Feeds, May Experiment with Real-Time Protocols in Future
- Pirate Bay founders told hands off the site
- My Times editorial on British plan to cut relatives of accused infringers off from the net
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StevieB’s Shared Items – October 30, 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009- Will Microsoft Buy Ask.com?
- The Two Faces of Facebook
- LG launches official site for GW620 Android phone, sort of
- August Coppola, father of Nicolas Cage, dead at 75
- Verizon Droid: First Impressions
- Amazon Speeds Checkout with New PayPhrase Technology
- Pirate Bay Founders Banned From Running The Site
- BlinkBox goes all arty, signs deal with British Film Institute
- Voddler, the Spotify-for-movies, partners with Paramount and Disney
- The Google Story in Two Minutes
- Google Music Search Consolidates Cloud Music
- Twitter Officially Rolls Out Lists [Communication]
- UK ISP TalkTalk threatens lawsuit over 3-strikes disconnection proposal
- Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap [Winter Upgrades]
- Netlog gets a major makeover, now growing at 500,000 users a week
- Turn Your Windows 7 Computer Into a WiFi Router In 5 Minutes, Free & No Hardware
- Google Music Search Launches Complete with Georetardation
- Excl: Ridley Scott Talks Alien Prequel
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StevieB’s Shared Items – October 29, 2009
Thursday, October 29th, 2009- Our response to the FCC on Google Voice
- Making search more musical
- First Screenshots of Facebook Platform Changes
- StumbleUpon Gets a Facelift: Nips, Tucks, and a Streamlined UI
- YouTube Phasing Out Accounts, Google Login Will Be Required [Updated]
- Brizzly Adds Facebook - Aims to be The Blogger.com of Social Media (2000 Invites Below!)
- Mozilla SeaMonkey Updated to 2.0 [Updates]
- Google launches Android app, trashes competitor’s stock value
- Council bans parents from play areas
- stephen wiltshire draws manhattan skyline from memory
- What Comes After the Real Time Web
- Motorola DROID first hands-on! (update: video, impressions, more pics)
- Astonishing X-Men: Gifted episode 1 out now on iTunes.
- Firefox 3.5.4 Security Update Available for Download [Updates]
- Brit business secretary promises to punish accused file-sharers' families with Internet disconnection by 2011
- Makers, my new novel: free downloads, donate to libraries and colleges, signings and tours
- Google Maps Navigation Brings Slick Turn-by-Turn GPS to Android [Directions]
- Trick Out Google Apps for Your Domain [Google Apps]
- Google Groups, Killed by Spam?
- UK launch for Google Powermeter via AlertMe – but please don’t tweet your light switch
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StevieB’s Shared Items – October 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009- Yahoo To Launch Real Time Search, Too
- Last.fm moving into television with Last.tv
- Ask.com For Sale – But Who Wants It?
- Best Portable Application Suite: PortableApps [Hive Five Followup]
- EFF launches Hall of Shame for copyright abusers
- Apple Fan Fires Back With ‘iDon’t’ Spoof
- StatusNet (Of Identi.ca Fame) Raises $875,000 To Become The WordPress Of Microblogging
- DIYer concocts homegrown View-Master, relies on HTC Magic and Google Street View (video)
- Gizmodo duped by scammers, publishes malware-laced ads
- Microsoft’s Outlook Opens Up to an Uncertain Future
- Spotify’s playlist doesn’t include its CTO, who tweets his departure
- Terrified London cops spending millions gathering useless intelligence on peaceful protestors
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Looking at the BlackBerry Storm2 (9520)
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
So while I was working in town today I thought I would pop in to my local Vodafone shop and ask when the new BlackBerry Storm2 would be available, and was surprised by their answer that it was already in stock! Not one to waste an opportunity I asked to take a look at it (even though my earliest chance to own one will be in about six months time ;-) ).
And a mighty fine beast it was too, at least once they managed to work out how to turn it on.
It felt great in the hand, the UI was very similar to the original Storm but much smoother and the app transitions looked great. The changes to the shape and screen are definitely an improvement, especially moving the speaker from the rear of the unit to the bottom edge. The best new feature in my opinion though is the adding of Wi-Fi.
The OS version for release is v5.0.0.306, though Vodafone have not yet officially released this for use on the Storm 1, lets hope that gets sorted soon!
What I was most surprised about though was that it seems to of arrived with such a lack of fanfare, no window displays in the Vodafone shop and no major press releases I have come across, I didn't even see a mention of it over at www.crackberry.com which is my main source of news for all things BlackBerry, though on the way home from town I did notice a bus stop ad for it.
The Vodafone site has the full specs available, and the pricing plan looks reasonable at free on £35 and £40 monthly plans for two years with the £40 package giving you unlimited texts, land line minutes and mobile Internet along with your 900 cross network mobile minutes. While in-store I also noticed an 18 month contract available at £40 with the phone still free but the mobile minutes at 600, which would be enough for me.
Anyone else out there had a chance to play with this baby? Let me know what you think in the comments.
StevieB’s Shared Items – October 27, 2009
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009- What can Facebook learn from Friendfeed?
- Cinch Puts Simple Podcasts In Your Pocket
- Google Search Gets Personal: Social Search Launches in Google Labs
- No You Aren’t Hallucinating, The Facebook Live Feed Is Real-Time
- Google Social Search launches in Google Labs
- Google Launches Social Search Experiment to Search What Your Friends Are Posting [Search Engines]
- Google Asks “What Should Blogger Do?”
- Facebook Launches Live Counts & Stats for Sharing Widget
- Android app tidal wave coming, says Flurry
- The Problem With iPhone Killers…
- What are Hulu's Mysterious Plans?
- uTorrent Portable Puts BitTorrent on a USB Drive [Downloads]
- The Master List of New Windows 7 Shortcuts [Windows 7]
- Spotify U-turns on its ‘no marketing’ policy with first ever TV ad
- Facebook Settlement Gets Judge's OK
- Verizon Officially Announces the BlackBerry Storm2!
- A Very Wordpress World
- Anonymous Mobile Browsing: Tor for Android
- HTC You ad campaign unveiled (update: video!)
- Audioboo gets further cash from 4iP
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StevieB’s Shared Items – October 26, 2009
Monday, October 26th, 2009- The power of two
- Classic Cinema Online Streams Free Classic Films [Movies]
- NASA iPhone App Ready For Free Download
- Google – the new playground of malware scum
- Infographic of the Day: It's a Small World, Afterall
- Chrome Nears 5% Market Share
- An important lesson in business success: Use your product
- Amazon Begins “International Kindle” Hype Machine, Ready To Square Off Against Barnes And Noble “Nook” Ereader
- Five Best Portable Apps Suites [Hive Five]
- Dries Buytaert: Whitehouse.gov using Drupal
- NFL to hold more games in Great Britian
- Goodbye GeoCities
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StevieB’s Shared Items – October 25, 2009
Sunday, October 25th, 2009- Twitter Finally Removing Deleted Tweets From Search Results
- Google Wave: The Emperor’s New Clothes?
- Poles, Politeness and Politics in the age of Twitter
- BlackBerry Storm update landing tomorrow, bringing lots of good stuff (update: now with changelog!)
- 27 Takes on Windows 7 [Roundups]
- Top 10 Windows 7 Booster Apps [Lifehacker Top 10]
- Minimal Black and White
- Google’s Blogger Experiences Crash
- "Droid" May Be A Series, Not Just A Phone As Revealed By HTC Droid Desire Specs [Cellphones]
- Could our feed readers be morphed into next-gen information managers?
- The Weirdest Clouds that You’ll Ever See
- 555 California security guards in San Fran threaten to punch sidewalk photographer, break his f*cking camera
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