Kyle MacLachlan: ‘I’m electronically challenged’ | Celebrity squares
Actor Kyle MacLachlan says that his BlackBerry is damn fine – if only it played video too What's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life? There's two, actually. One is my Sonicare toothbrush – I don't know if that counts as technology or not, but it keeps my teeth clean and keeps the dentist happy. But the piece of technology that has changed my life the most is my BlackBerry, I would say. It allows me to be in contact with a lot of people and do business when I'm on the road. When was the last time you used it, and what for? Just a few minutes ago, to set up dinner plans for the evening. What additional features would you add if you could? If it could play films, it would be ideal. I'm probably going to have to go into the iPod Touch for that. Do you think it will be obsolete in 10 years' time? Oh, there'll be something completely new, absolutely.
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BlackBerry cuts short Vodafone’s Storm 2 exclusive
• Much-improved touchscreen hopes to silence critics Vodafone will only have the forthcoming Blackberry Storm 2 to itself for a few weeks, after its success in grabbing the Apple iPhone is understood to have brought its exclusive collaboration with the email device's manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) to an end in the UK. The mobile phone operator will offer Blackberry's second attempt to break into the touchscreen smartphone market free to any customer willing to sign up to a contract worth £35 a month for two years (not £30 as we originally reported ) when it hits stores on October 26. Vodafone will have the handset as an exclusive in the UK, but only for a few weeks. RIM is understood to have demanded that the device be available to other operators after Vodafone joined Orange in successfully ending O2's exclusive two-year deal with Apple for the iPhone in the UK . It is unclear whether any of the other UK operators will be stocking the Storm 2 in time for Christmas, but by the start of next year - when Vodafone will finally be able to start shipping the iPhone - it is expected to be available on at least one other network, most probably Orange, which will also start selling the iPhone within the next few weeks. The Storm 2 will be launched by Vodafone in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, France, Italy and South Africa, and Canadian handset maker RIM is hoping that it will get a more positive critical reaction than the first version that went on sale last November.
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Read me first: When you lose a piece of kit, the real loss is the data it contains
Bruce Schneier: Everything you own should be backed up regularly. Not just your computer, but your PDA and mobile too
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Technophile: BlackBerry Storm
Storm! What a cracking name for a smartphone. Marketing must have hugged themselves when they came up with that moniker. If only it lived up to it. But in truth RIM's BlackBerry Storm is not so much a storm, more of a squall. Here's why. Being a phone these days is pretty straightforward.
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Technophile: BlackBerry Storm
Technophile: BlackBerry Storm
Storm! What a cracking name for a smartphone. Marketing must have hugged themselves when they came up with that moniker. If only it lived up to it. But in truth RIM's BlackBerry Storm is not so much a storm, more of a squall. Here's why. Being a phone these days is pretty straightforward. You do phone calls. You throw in lots of things like clocks, cameras, music-playing capability (though barely anyone uses it) and especially contacts and calendars. That's a phone. For a smartphone, though, you need to go further: email, web browsing, integrated applications such as maps, and dedicated applications for things like Flickr and Facebook and Twitter. All the other stuff - phone calls, cameras, music, video playback - is taken as read. The BlackBerry Storm has all these. Well, sort of - you have to install the applications such as Flickr and Facebook yourself. As it doesn't have Wi-Fi, you'll be doing this on your data allocation. (That's 500MB per month on Vodafone's "unlimited" plan for the Storm, at £35 per month. How does "unlimited" equate to "500MB"?) And this is as good a point as any to discover that it's all about the interface. The Storm has a touchscreen. Actually, no - it has a "prod" screen.
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Report: Chinese hack into White House network
Chinese hackers have penetrated the White House computer network on multiple occasions, and obtained e-mails between government officials, a senior U.S. official told the Financial Times.
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Report: Chinese hack into White House network