October, 2011

• 11 October

  Cadillac revamps the instrument panel with CUE

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Cadillac CUE 4:45 SAN DIEGO–Cadillac has introduced a new central instrument panel that features touch-screen technology popularized by smartphones and tablets. The fully capacitive faceplate has an 8-inch touch screen that utilizes multitouch gestures to interact with it. Cadillac says this sets it apart from other car in-dash units that have …

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• 11 October

  International BlackBerry outage continues

  

  BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has still not fully restored e-mail, messaging, and Web service to more than 10 million customers in Europe, the Middle East, parts of South America, and Africa after a disruption at one of its network operation centers yesterday. A BlackBerry outage, which began on Monday around 10:20 a.m. BST, has resulted in limited access to …

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• 11 October

  Polycom brings videoconferencing to iPad, Android tablets

  

  Polycom today unveiled a new videoconferencing application, RealPresence Mobile, that will run on the iPad 2 and Android tablets. The app runs on Polycom’s RealPresence platform, which runs its standard videoconferencing rooms and terminals that include larger high-definition televisions and speaker systems. The idea is to encourage even more videoconferencing use by enabling the tablets to talk with the larger …

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• 11 October

  Voda, Optus reveal iPhone 4S pricing

  

  Vodafone and Optus both announced iPhone 4S pricing over the weekend, in preparation for the phone’s launch this Friday. Both telcos will offer Apple’s three storage variants for the updated iPhone, plus an 8GB version of last year’s iPhone 4. Vodafone offers the cheapest $0-upfront iPhone, with a 16GB iPhone 4S with no added monthly repayment on an AU$59 plan …

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• 11 October

  Sprint CEO: Wireless industry can help our troubled economy

  

  SAN DIEGO–Sprint Nextel Chief Executive Dan Hesse said the wireless industry can help get the troubled economy back on track. “Mobile has a direct and powerful impact on efficiency, productivity, and the economic performance of any business in this country,” Hesse said during his keynote address at the CTIA Enterprise & Application conference today. Hesse, Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead, …

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• 11 October

  Revealed: Siri’s hidden funny side

  

  Translator, currency converter, alarm setter… it seems there’s no limit to Siri’s abilities. But here’s one we didn’t know about: comedian. Apple’s first demo showed if you asked Siri what it was, it’d reply it was a “humble personal assistant.” Well now a video has surfaced online of one lucky iPhone 4S owner experimenting by asking Siri some slightly unusual …

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• 11 October

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  Now playing: Watch this: T-Mobile SpringBoard 1:36 Just when you thought the world didn’t need another 7-inch Android tablet that few would end up buying, here comes the T-Mobile SpringBoard, the 7-inch tablet you’d do well to look at, for the right price. Announced just before CTIA officially kicked off in San Diego, the SpringBoard offers quite a bit–“4G” speeds, …

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• 11 October

  Nokia 800 Sea Ray ad leaks ahead of Nokia World

  

  Nokia World is still a couple of weeks away, but the leaks they just come on a-comin’. Now two ads have leaked to Pocketnow showing off the tile-based user interface that can only be the Windows Phone operating system. And the big news is the handset known as the Sea Ray will be known as the Nokia 800, if the …

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• 11 October

  Cricket adds Samsung Transfix to Android roster

  

  Cricket, wasting no time between Android announcements, unveiled its next smartphone today in the Samsung Transfix. Running Android 2.3 Gingerbread and featuring a sliding QWERTY keyboard, the Transfix is powered by an 800MHz processor. Other notable specs include a 3.2-inch display and 3.2-megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, and the requisite connectivity package. While the hardware may not appeal to …

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• 11 October

  BBM is back up

  

  BlackBerry Messenger is back online at last. BlackBerry maker RIM has finally rectified the breakdown that saw BBM outages spring up across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. “Yesterday, some BlackBerry subscribers in the EMEA region experienced delays with BlackBerry services. The issue was resolved and services are operating normally,” RIM has said. “We apologise to those customers who were …

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