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Natali del Conte (you remember her, right?) has mentioned in today’s Loaded episode that Verizon [VZ] is preparing to receive Palm [PALM] Pre devices on their network, sometime in 2010. Of course, this makes sense, since there is not much retooling required for Palm, since both Sprint and Verizon run their cellular networks on CDMA/EvDO [...]
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Although there was a sort of “mini” upgrade a couple of weeks ago, it certainly was not to the extent of upgrade early this morning for Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!). Since the [...]
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Starbucks [SBUX] is at it again: July 21, 2009 is their new Free Pastry Morning*. Of course, given the lil’ asterisk you see, you’re probably wondering, “What’s the catch?” And, yes, there is a catch(es): You should probably print out the invitation from the Web site; You will need to get to your local Starbucks [...]
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If you go to Starbucks [SBUX] stores, you’ve probably noticed the recent new campaign to promote improved foodstuff freshness and simplification. I wandered in today, to use the free Wi-Fi to catch up on some dev work, some reading, and smidge of blogging when I noticed a stack of 5″ x 8″ index card looking [...]
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Taking a page from the now-popular mobile app stores, Oracle [ORCL] and Sun [JAVA] are ramping up the launch of the Java Store, with a private beta already available, after its announcement during this year’s JavaOne. The premise is, of course, to allow software developers and smaller indie publishers to bring their qualified software to [...]
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With the advent of the morning, the investigations continue at the site of the accident of the DC Metrorail train collision… The current deceased count has been updated to seven (7), and two (2) persons are in critical condition at local hospitals. This morning, the local traffic patterns are dramatically, and adversely impacted, with many [...]
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Two Metrorail trains have collided, with at least six (6) deaths known at this point, and 76 injured persons rushed to local hospitals. This event occurred under couple of hours ago, but there is still a lot of confusion as emergency personnel and Metro officials are trying to sort out the details and progression. So [...]
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Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone OS 3.0, shipping on the new iPhone 3G S devices, is also available today as software upgrades for the iPhone and iPod touch devices. A lot of people are unfortunately reporting a lot of errors when trying to fetch their upgrades via iTunes, getting that less-than-helpful error dialog. The (somewhat) good news [...]
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As some of you already know, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE online service will be experiencing a major scheduled outage for maintenance purposes at 3:01 AM on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. The bulletins floating around about it, like from Major Nelson’s site, mention that the outage may be as long as twenty-four (24) hours (!!!), so [...]
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