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Barack Obama allowed to keep his BlackBerry

23 Jan

Newly appointed President of the USA, Barack Obama is arguably the most famous BlackBerry owner on the planet. But Mr. Obama was looking at being forced to ditch his smartphone due to security issues…

Well, sort of. Mr Obama can still amuse himself with all that push email and QWERTY goodness, but only for ‘personal’ use. Which means he can presumably email his mates, Twitter away and check out his latest updates on facebook.com, but can’t do instant messaging with Brown, Putin or Hilary Clinton. At least, not on a BlackBerry.

For business use, he’s stuck with a Sectera Edge. No, I’m not overly familiar with it either, but I do know it’s a chunky/ugly military-approved handset that makes calls over a secured US government network, as well as offering secure web and email access. It’s also a tough cookie, strong enough to be used in a combat environment.

Still, it is a bit of ‘priceless’ marketing for Blackberry…

http://www.blackberry.com/

On-demand streaming mobile TV – by 3 network

23 Jan

3_logo_w300It was only a matter of time before the various phone networks would announce TV on your mobile. Network provider 3 is the latest to join the line of a growing on-demand legion to offer ‘3 on Demand’ TV for your mobile.

So whilst you are stuck in those endless traffic jams or sitting on a claustrophobic underground, you can catch Jack Bauer halting another nuclear bomb or Homer Simpson sink another doughnut…

If you are just about to see who killed Kenny and have to go to a meeting, then you can easily pick up where you left off and grab the rest of the episode on your lunch break with the play and pause option.

3’s streaming content will be available alongside the current streaming heavyweight iPlayer along with Sky’s current video content.

Check out the 3 website: http://www.three.co.uk/Home

Nintendo Wii – Smashing..!

5 Jan

Whilst I think that ‘Wii’ from Nintendo is a great idea, and indeed, thousands upon thousands of households went nuts for this over Christmas, I have stumbled across various amusing videos showing how ‘not’ to use this innovative gaming idea.

You Tube presents various ‘mishaps’ using Nintendo Wii – but this is one of my favourites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I24Y_vTOyko

Check it out!

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