NOTE: We held off on mentioning this yesterday because RIM was having some serious problem with their app. The demand was too much for their servers and brought them crashing down. RIM announced yesterday on their Facebook page that they have launched a new Facebook app to add your BlackBerry Messenger PIN barcode to your ...

Per a recently published patent application, Apple has been exploring a new feature that could allow iPhone users to transmit data such as simple text messages to each other over voice channels, bypassing wireless carriers’ backend servers in a manner similar to Nextel's classic walkie-talkie feature. Per AppleInsider, the concept is detailed in a company patent filing made this pa...

Just reading this article by Peter Lubbers about HTML5 Web Socket from InfoQ.com. This article gives a very good overview with network diagrams and header informations, so it is quite technical. (Is there anything HTML5 cannot do?) Articles 1: How HTML5 Web Sockets Interact With Proxy Servers The HTML5 Web Sockets specification defines the Web Sockets API that enables web pages to use the Web Sock...

By now you should know this -- as DRM'd music service after DRM'd music service has screwed over their customers by shutting off the servers on the music they were supposed to be able to access -- but it's yet another reminder that if you buy into DRM'd products, you're going to end up screwed over. The latest, sent in by a bunch of you, is that Australian ISP, Bigpond (fr...

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RadiSys, a maker of servers that support wireless phone networks, said Thursday it acquired privately held Pactolus Communications Software. Terms were not disclosed. Click here for more.

Earlier today Opera announced the launch of Mini 5 Beta for Android that brought new features and an improved experiece to your mobile browsing. What I felt and said was the best characteristic of Opera Mini 5 was the way it handles page rendering it compresses them on their own servers and sends that

Network attached storage (NAS) servers company Synology America Corp has launched the latest edition of its DiskStation Manager (DSM) solution). Version 2.3 includes a number of new features, such as support for encryption, the easier setup of RAID volumes, backup...

Sometimes you have to wonder if folks like Ubisoft, who keep insisting that it needs to use DRM, are just messing with everyone. As you certainly know, Ubisoft decided to go with some incredibly annoying DRM for some new games, requiring you to be online at all times, even for single-player games. So, what happens? The servers that you must be connected to crashed, making those games completely un...

WATERLOO, Canada - Small and medium businesses can now operate like large businesses, RIM has just released the Enterprise Express version of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) for download. BES enables BlackBerry devices to integrate and sync wirelessly with all the versions of Microsoft Exchange servers. Many SMB's have been waiting for the chance to operate BlackBerry