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what a complete farce.. CRTC = utter garbage

Free Hotmail POP3 access now available and Hotmail updatesSean Bradford on 14 January 2009 - 05:43, updated 15 January 2009 - 16:26 � 92 comments & 19423 views

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So now that we've all recovered from the CES 2009, everyone is back to business including the folks up in Redmond, WA. It has been confirmed that Microsoft has started rolling out another major update of Windows Live Hotmail, which includes POP access as discussed in my interview with Ryan Gavin and Dharmesh Mehta.

Last week we reported a rumour that Microsoft was about to offer POP3 access to Hotmail users at no extra charge.

Microsoft has confirmed the rumour via its Windows Live Wire blog today. POP3 access is now available to Hotmail users in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. Microsoft plans to roll out POP3 access to more parts of the world later this year. You can find the settings below:
POP server: pop3.live.com
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example [email protected][/email]
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes
Another new feature that is rolling out is "Quick Add". During Steve Ballmer's keynote, there was a short demo showing this new feature. So in case you missed the live stream, here we go.

Lets say that you're on vacation or a business trip and you just arrived to your destination. Your friends and family want to meet up later that night for dinner, but not everyone is familiar with the city. So you open Windows Live Hotmail and start preparing your e-mail with the time and place of your dinner affair, but you want to include the address and a link for directions. So you open up Quick Add while creating a new message (Screenshot).

Now you start your search for some nice restaurants for your affair. Once you've found your destination, you can either click "Insert" or "More Info". When you click "More Info" (Screenshot), you are brought to a Windows Live Search page. Once you've entered that page you will see a mapped location and some reviews if anyone has posted them. So now that you've picked your destination, you're ready to insert it into your e-mail by simply clicking "Insert" (Screenshot). So now you have the name, address, and more information ready for your friends and family.

That is only one scenario that this new feature will be able to do. Consumers will also be able to search for business listings, videos, and images. The beauty of QuickAdd is that it's automatically loaded when you open a New Message, located on the right side of the message pane.

Images courtesy of Jamie Thompson

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/...-hotmail-update

"POP3 access is now available to Hotmail users in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. Microsoft plans to roll out POP3 access to more parts of the world later this year."

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I found it here ....

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1485352

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1489695&page=1&pp=15


Plugged it into my iPhone with the most basic setup. It gave me a warning that I have to subscribe to a fee & I hit next .... everything works. I double checked the settings and it's same listed here

POP server: pop3.live.com
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example [email][email protected]
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

Anyone tried this on any other device? If so did it work?

^^^

i just configured this on Outlook on my computer and it seems to work although I can't seem to get the outgoing SMTP server to work.

yikes.. now it's downloading a 130 mb mail file.. i shoulda cleaned out first ..

Just got it working on a Treo also.

LOL 2G mode times out when I'm trying to gather 4456 e.mails

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Originally posted by E2EK1EL The past few days, my internet has been unstable ... called Bell and they replaced my modem with this one. Pretty nice shit, DSL Modem + Wireless Router. This new modem is blazing fast. When did this come out? I've been using that cheese ass speadstream modem for ages and finally it conked out on me.

Ive had this modem for roughly a year. Ur right it seems to be alot quicker and I love it because the IP address doesn't change everytime I turn off the computer. (running server)

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Originally posted by schiraldihno Ive had this modem for roughly a year. Ur right it seems to be alot quicker and I love it because the IP address doesn't change everytime I turn off the computer. (running server)

A year? fuck ... should of called bell to see what new modems they had.

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Originally posted by E2EK1EL POP server: pop3.live.com POP SSL required? Yes User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example [email protected] Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live SMTP server: smtp.live.com Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password) TLS/SSL required? Yes

has anyone managed to send mail through the SMTP server using Outlook on their computer? i can only seem to receive mail on the POP3..

you'd think there's gotta be a reason why Apple didn't go after RIM or any other manufacturers for their multi-touch phone but threatens to sue Palm for theirs...

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Apple May Use �Nuclear Arsenal� to Delay IPhone Rival(Update1) By Connie Guglielmo and Susan Decker Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc., usually on the defensive when it comes to intellectual-property lawsuits, is threatening to use its hoard of patents to quash iPhone competitors. Tim Cook, Apple�s chief operating officer, pledged in January to go after companies that copy the iPhone�s patented features. Apple won its latest patent Jan. 20 for so-called multitouch technology, which lets people work the iPhone by touching the screen with two fingers and making swiping motions. Apple�s stance is an effort to threaten the new touch-screen Pre phone, the linchpin to Palm Inc.�s comeback plan, said Morgan Chu, a patent lawyer at Irell & Manella in Los Angeles. Cook�s comments don�t mean Apple will actually seek a court order to stop the Pre, which is due for release in the next few months. Instead, the company may try to intimidate Palm and other rivals into working around its patents, forcing them to cut features or delay production. �The best deterrent of a nuclear arsenal is not to use it,� Chu said in an interview. �If I believe there is a high probability of getting sued by going down a specific path, I may go down a different path.� Apple is turning the iPhone into its third main business, alongside the Macintosh computer and iPod. The company surpassed a goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008, and may sell 28 million units this year, according to Piper Jaffray & Co. �A lot of people are looking at that longingly, and not just Palm,� said Robert Yoches, a patent lawyer at Finnegan Henderson in Washington, referring to the iPhone�s sales. �Don�t be surprised if 2009 has a lot of suits both by and against Apple.� Palm�s Losses Palm, a pioneer in the smart-phone market, is counting on the Pre to regain customers lost to Apple and Research In Motion Ltd.�s BlackBerry. The company says multitouch technology dates back to the mid-1980s. �If we are faced with legal action, we are confident that we have the tools necessary to defend ourselves,� said Lynn Fox, a spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, California-based Palm. Apple rose 19 cents to $90.32 at 9:43 a.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. The stock tumbled 57 percent last year. Palm dropped 11 cents to $7.56. The shares have more than doubled since Palm demonstrated the Pre at a Jan. 8 conference. �We�ll use whatever weapons we have at our disposal� to protect Apple�s intellectual property, Cook said on a conference call with analysts on Jan. 21, the day after the multitouch patent was awarded. Cook, who is running Apple during Steve Jobs�s medical leave, declined to name the companies that Apple might go after. �Magic� Software Eschewing the styluses used with other touch screens, Jobs sought a pointing device for the iPhone that was familiar, easy to use and not easily lost: fingers. �We have invented a new technology called multitouch, which is phenomenal,� Jobs said after unveiling the iPhone in 2007, describing the input system as �magic.� �And boy, have we patented it.� Apple�s competitors dispute that it invented the basics of multitouch screens, and other companies have their own patents related to the technology. Nokia Oyj, Samsung Electronics Co. and Research In Motion all sell phones with touch-screens. Apple more often is on the receiving end of patent- infringement suits, typically by individuals or small companies that don�t make competing products. Apple faced nine patent suits as of November, according to its annual report. Patent Deterrent The existence of other patents on multitouch technology could be enough of a deterrent to keep Apple from filing suit. �You don�t see Apple suing many companies,� said James Hanft, a patent lawyer with Darby & Darby in New York. Filing a suit would be �a philosophical shift for them. They probably see people attacking their market share.� Palm�s Pre, which has a slide-out keyboard in addition to its multitouch screen, was developed under the leadership of Chairman Jonathan Rubinstein. He ran the iPod business at Apple before joining Palm in 2007. It would be expensive and difficult for Palm to make any changes to the Pre�s design or software now, said Matt Thornton, an analyst at Avian Securities in Boston. He has a neutral rating on Palm�s shares. �There is a lot riding on this for Palm, and a legal dogfight could cost in the millions,� Thornton said. Apple may be more successful fighting off competitors in the marketplace than in the courtroom, Yoches said. �Apple has never been successful in the past in keeping people out of the market by using its patent portfolio,� he said. �What�s important is how fast you can get out on the market and make a name for yourself.� To contact the reporters on this story: Susan Decker in Washington at [email protected][/email]; Connie Guglielmo in San Francisco at [email][email protected] Last Updated: February 2, 2009 09:47 EST

source:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?...cF0&refer=home#

It's all just posturing. The iPhone infringes on a ton of Palm's patents.

CRTC issues deadline on wireless 911 services

http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/580972

Toshiba unveils TG01 smartphone, takes aim at iPhone





Toshiba plans to wow us all at MWC 2009 with a Windows Mobile handset that rocks a blazing fast processor and jaw-dropping display. The TG01 will be the first mobile handset to incorporate the 1GHz snapdragon processor from Qualcomm and will sport a 4.1�� WVGA resistive touchscreen with on-screen trackpad, HSDPA, aGPS, G-sensor, microSDHC support and DivX support. Toshiba calls it �gfaster, slimmer and better than the iPhone�h - fighting words if we�fve ever heard them. The handset is reported to run Windows Mobile 6.1 with full flash support which suggests it will ship with Internet Explorer Mobile 6 as well. With Toshiba boasting that �gWe�fve taken all the technology from our TVs and put that into the screen�h, we are already lining up our favorite movies and converting them to DivX for viewing on this drool-worthy screen. Will this be enough to revive Toshiba�fs smartphone business? Only time and some solid carrier deals will tell

Yay, Snapdragon!

Daily News Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Canadians Should Submit to Net Neutrality Hearings

Citizen�s groups, tech analysts and media commentators are reminding Canadians to let industry watchdogs know their feelings about the issue of Internet neutrality before the submission deadline - this Monday, February 16, 2009.

�Net Neutrality� revolves around cable and telecom and Internet service providers, and the methods used to �throttle� or shape data traffic connected with P2P and other high bandwidth, data intensive transmissions.

Some commentators say that if the fight for a neutral 'Net is lost, the Internet�s value as an open and democratic medium for communication and information exchange is lost, as well. �Net Neutrality is more than just a technical issue about broadband throughput, they say, as it touches on the actual content that can be distributed on the Internet, as well.

In response to complaints against Canadian telecom companies (Bell, Videotron, Rogers, etc.) for the �throttling� and �traffic shaping� of Internet pipes, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is asking Canadians what they think about the issue of �Net Neutrality.

The CRTC said in its notice of hearing that �The growth in Internet traffic is being cited as a main reason why some Internet service providers (ISPs) are adopting Internet traffic management practices to address possible congestion in their networks. Traffic management practices may take many forms and approaches including using technologies to alter the flow of traffic or new business models. ISPs use many different technologies to offer high-speed Internet services, including digital subscriber lines (DSL), wireless, cable, and satellite, which may affect which traffic management practices are used.�

Therefore, the CRTC continued, �The use of certain Internet traffic management practices has raised concerns in Canada and in other jurisdictions. The Commission recognizes the importance of this issue.�

SaveOurNet.ca, a coalition of media watchdogs, industry and public interest groups, says the debate pits the interests of monopoly against the larger interests of Canadian innovation, democracy, and a healthy 21st century economy.



As SaveOurNet.ca Co-founder Steve Anderson says on the website, "[T]here needs to be some basic rules in place to protect Canadian citizens and businesses from being unfairly throttled, blocked or squeezed out by a few telecom giants. If we don't protect the Internet's level playing field from unfair monopoly -- as the U.S. and other countries now are -- Canadian innovation and new media will lose out."

Many observers cite the work of Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford University professor and U.S. lawyer long associated with matters of Internet transparency, copyright and Net Neutrality. He described Net Neutrality �as what we have with our phones�, noting that the fee we pay for that service is completely independent of the content of the conversation being transmitted.

Internet throttling technology can discriminate among content and data types, and can be used to either restrict such transmissions, or to determine fee structures based on that content.

SaveOurNet.ca co-founder Steve Anderson added, "Canadians need to encourage the CRTC to consider the bigger picture of monopoly versus innovation. We should protect a basic principle that has been spectacularly good for the Internet in Canada and around the world. Now more than ever, we need to spur innovation and access to information -- not choke it off."

For more information about the CRTC process and background, visit http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/pt2008-19.htm


source: http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/...3d6741b&stpc=CC

On another note, I finally did a speed test on my E71, and now with Rogers' glorious 3.5G HSPA network...


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7338.8kbps

Pushing the 7.2mbps HSPA to the limit! Suck on that, iPhone 3G owners

nice. you can suft faster on your celly than i can on my computer. YAY FOR TECHNOLOGY!

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Originally posted by smuncky nice. you can suft faster on your celly than i can on my computer. YAY FOR TECHNOLOGY!

Hahah. Isn't it grand?

Problem with 3G (UMTS) is that, the more people are connected, the slower it is. And it's not by chance, like Rogers Internet, but it's fundemental to the technology. It will happen. But, we need to go in that direction any way since UMTS has so many other advantages.

Palm Pre to support Flash



Palm Pre lovers, prepare to wet yourselves - the one many are calling the second coming of the Jesus phone will support Flash! That�s right, Palm announced that it has officially joined the rank and file of Adobe�s Open Screen Project, meaning that not only will the Pre be ready to surf websites sporting Flash animations, but the WebOS SDK might even allow developers to create unthinkably awesome Flash-based applications and shun that tired-old rhubarb that is java. What at say you, people? Are you jumping for joy or merely thinking about how many spare batteries and Touchstones you�ll need to have lying around to compensate for the battery-hungry monster that is Flash?

GSM Palm Pre spotted with Vodafone SIM card



We would've wagered 50 euros there'd be a GSM Pre announced at MWC this week -- but strangely, it didn't happen. If we had to guess, a grand unveiling was probably held up by behind-the-scenes manfacuturer-operator drama in the course of trying to nail an exclusivity agreement, but that's not to say there weren't still SIM card-toting Pres floating around the show. PreCommunity happened across one of these today and astutely noted the presence of a Vodafone SIM around back -- not damning evidence that the Pre will be announced as a Voda exclusive, granted, but it kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it? See for yourself in the video after the break.

thats incredible, and if they do end up figure out a way to allow open platform flash development, this phone will seriously pwn pretty much everything on the market right now..

Nokia also joins Adobe initiative, Flash 10 for (almost) all



We're not quite sure if you're seeing what's happening here, but Apple and RIM are working themselves right into the time-out corner. We already heard earlier today that Palm would be joining Adobe's Open Screen Project -- which, by the way, guarantees Flash 10 support on the Pre -- and now we're told that Nokia is following suit. What it all boils down to is this: Google, Microsoft, Palm, and Nokia are all expected to release platforms or handsets in the coming year or two which will support Flash 10, all while Apple's iPhone attempts to limp by with... YouTube support. Granted, we have heard that the suits at Cupertino are in talks to make it happen, but we've yet to hear as much at MWC. Also of note, it seems that a similar deal including RIM is also pretty far off, so BlackBerry users should probably order their daily dose of patience as well.

Too much Cellphone news @ MWC .... i'm gonna die!

Only posting up the major news.

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Originally posted by smuncky Daily News Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Canadians Should Submit to Net Neutrality Hearings

I'm in the chat right now for the hearings, on the Globe and mail website. Some interesting talk, but it feels like it is a big waste of time tying to convince the CRTC of anything.

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Originally posted by Orko I'm in the chat right now for the hearings, on the Globe and mail website. Some interesting talk, but it feels like it is a big waste of time tying to convince the CRTC of anything.

did u see their response to that whole Nation DNC list debacle? makes you want to rip the hair out of your head..

No, link? I read a response weeks ago, which stated the list was working as is, and is a great benefit to anybody that signed up. Thankfully it has worked quite well for my house. The only calls we are getting are from Indian call centers which looked up our last name.

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Originally posted by Orko No, link? I read a response weeks ago, which stated the list was working as is, and is a great benefit to anybody that signed up. Thankfully it has worked quite well for my house. The only calls we are getting are from Indian call centers which looked up our last name.

here it is:

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