Windows Phone 7 comes to Virgin Media with Samsung Omnia 7

Plus a host of other handsets for 2011

Virgin Media is bringing a host of new handsets to its mobile phone service including, for the first time, a Windows Phone 7 device in the shape of the Samsung Omnia 7.

The phone features a 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and comes with HD video recording and playback functionality. It'll be available on Virgin Media from January 2011, and will be free on a??35 tariff with unlimited texts, 1,000 minutes and 1GB mobile web.

In addition, the carrier is expanding its handset line-up with two BlackBerry models, the 9800 Torch and 9780 Bold, the Pocket-lint Gadget Award-winning HTC Desire HD, the Android-driven Sony Ericcson X8, and two Nokias, the C7 and budget-friendly C3-01.

All of them are either available now or from the beginning of the new year, and are on a variety of different contracts and price plans, with the C3-01 being the cheapest as it's free on a??10-a-month tariff with 50 minutes, 250 texts and 500MB mobile web data.

Check out virginmedia.com for more details.

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Windows Phone 7 comes to Virgin Media with Samsung Omnia 7 originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:03:00 +0000

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How Space Jam?s Website Went Viral. Space Jam?s 1996 Website, That Is.

A couple of days ago Reddit user Jeff Ubelhor was talking to his friends about something or other and Space Jam, the movie starring Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan, came up (he swears they weren't stoned). They checked on the website and realized that it hadn't been touched since 1996. "From there I decided to post it on Reddit," says Ubelhor "Because I thought it was hilarious, not only the design, but just how different Internet marketing was 14 years ago."

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Exploring Novell?s Passing of Software Patents to Microsoft ? Now Reported to The Competition Authorities

Novell's assistance to Microsoft with a patent sale is reported to the German Federal Cartel Office as Groklaw seemingly expresses deep regrets

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FBI raids Texas colocation facility in 4chan DDoS probe

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is targeting a Texas-based computer network that the government thinks was hijacked for the Anonymous group's Operation: Payback DDoS attack on PayPal.

"As part of the process of identifying the computer system that I seek to search, I may be forced to check each system belonging to the target customer until I have determined that it is the computer to be searched," the author of the FBI's Affidavit in Support of a Search Warrant of the facility explains.

The FBI's request was obtained by The Smoking Gun news site. It comes following Anonymous or 4chan's attempt to bring down various financial service companies that refused to do business with Wikileaks, most notably PayPal and the Swiss bank PostFinance.

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#FollowFriday: Seattle 2.0 recommends @arianna, @InfiniteHoops & @stewtopia.

Follow Friday (known as #FollowFriday) is a Twitter meme where a Twitter user recommends other Twitter users for his friends to follow. The Seattle 2.0 automatically generates suggestions from our Twitter Directory every Friday based on the number of entrepreneurs and startup people following that person.

Today we recommend:

	Arianna O'Dell (@arianna) www.ariannaodell.com BOOM! My brain is an entrepreneurial explosion. Working on: @1MillionTweeps & ________ (stealth!) I love pandas & memes. Some say I'm creative. I prefer crazy!
	Tosh Meston (@InfiniteHoops) InfiniteHoops.com Founder and developer of InfiniteHoops.com, a social sports network.
	Randy Stewart (@stewtopia) blog.stewtopia.com Cheezburger product guy with photographic tendencies.

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Why Roger Ebert Doesn?t Like Video Games: He Became Obsessed With TMNT

It's easy to understad Roger Ebert's position that games aren't art when you realize that he once became addicted to TMNT on the NES, arguably one of the hardest and, I believe, worst games on the platform. In this video clip from the Siskel & Ebert 1989 gift guide, Ebert reported that he "started playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with it. And after a while, after a week of this, I'd find that every time I had a spare moment and every time I came home, I was in front of the set playing with these mutant turtles." You see, for a week, Ebert was basically a 12-year-old boy.

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Christmas Google Doodle is 17 works of art

Logo made up of holiday greetings from around the world

The latest Google Doodle, which has just appeared and will remain on the search engine's homepage for the next few days, is an assortment of interactive artworks from different artists, each depicting a seasonal greeting from a variety of cultures and countries.

"We want to end the year with a bang", said chief doodler Michael Lopez, as he explained to the Wall Street Journal the decision to create a doodle that didn't just celebrate one type of seasonal holiday but many.

There was one change in the final doodle from his original concept, however. It was initially going to be rolled out in stages over 3 days, with parts of the doodle becoming active as time went by. Instead, due to technical constraints, Google needed to put the entire piece online at the same time.

Either way, it's a fascinating, quirky piece that shows how far the art of "doodling" has come on. Even if it's hard to see the Google logo underneath.

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Christmas Google Doodle is 17 works of art originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:16:00 +0000

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Links 28/12/2010: Putin for Russian Migration to GNU/Linux, Ex-Red Hat CEO is Suing Over Kickbacks

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iPad Grabbit Case Helps You Keep A Grip On Your Tablet

iPad case design concepts keep coming out, with more and more of them starting to look the same. The concept is simple: a hard case, with a hand-strap grip on the back that rotates 360 degrees. The case looks like a great idea if you depend on your iPad and use it for extended periods of time.

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Congrats To Delve Networks

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Bing's Fall Update: More Helpful, Local, Social and Mobile

Today we spent some time in San Francisco to talk with people about the latest release of Bing which is rolling out in the coming weeks. We love getting the opportunity to share what we?re up to and talk about what?s next for search in general and for Bing in particular.

Here?s a brief look at some of the new work we showed today organized into how we think the work will benefit you:

• More helpful: Whether it?s buying tickets to a sports event, trying to find that perfect image, looking to upgrade your Pontiac Fiero, or making restaurant reservations right from the search page, Bing has you covered.

• More social: Expanding on our exclusive partnership with Facebook, we will now show you which of your friends have ?liked? search results to help you decide the best answer to your query, whether it?s a vacation destination, movie selection, or laptop review.

• More local: Better, easier to read and faster maps on the desktop and a focus on making the 40% of queries we see with local intent much easier.  Our Map Apps have been favorites of many users, and we?re exposing those apps more broadly by making them front and center on bing.com/maps.  Taxi Fare Calculator, Parking Lot Finder and Twitter Maps all help people make decisions in their everyday local lives and are now easier to find.  We?ve reduced the clutter and enhanced the contrast, making the maps easier to use. We also made the left-hand pane more task-oriented and are even taking you inside with interior maps for local malls and 360 degree interior panoramas for thousands of restaurants. 

• More mobile: We?re bringing these focus areas to the mobile experience as well. However, just porting our PC product to the mobile device didn?t make sense. Instead Bing apps for Android and iPhone have all been updated to reflect how customers are using mobile devices. We?re delivering new mobile-friendly features like AutoSuggest, a new way to search by having a simple ?conversation? with Bing. Integrated task completion experiences that let you book tables and have food delivered from partners OpenTable and GrubHub?right from search results like, ?California Pizza Kitchen,? or ?Chinese.? We also offer street-level mapping, real-time public transit status, unified ?check-ins? and much more. Finally m.bing.com is updated with the latest HTML5 technologies to deliver an amazing browser-experience across many modern devices.

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Analyst: RIM PlayBook tablet's performance comes at a cost

Analysts may have located the future BlackBerry tablet's weak spot: battery life. According to Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu, the BlackBerry PlayBook currently in the works at Research in Motion suffers from a battery lifespan that can't compete with the tablets it's designed to take down, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Apple iPad.

According to All Things D, Wu's sources have told him that the PlayBook currently only lasts "a few hours" per charge. For comparison, the Galaxy Tab lasts about six hours, and the iPad has significantly more screen space yet churns out more than 10 hours under moderate use.

This is likely due to the nature of the operating system the PlayBook uses, called QNX. QNX was designed for other systems that are perpetually plugged in, like network equipment or interfaces in cars, and isn't optimized for maximum performance on a minimal power source.

Wu speculates that the PlayBook's release date was pushed back to May 2011 to cope with this issue, though there are a limited number of fixes. A larger battery could help, but with space and weight at a premium in tablets, it's not a very elegant fix.

Under RIM-controlled conditions, the PlayBook appeared to perform admirably against the iPad; it's too bad that this performance might come at such a battery life tax.

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Microsoft Server Application Virtualization CTP Released ? Run More of your Applications on Windows Azure

Microsoft Server Application Virtualization builds on the technology used in client Application Virtualization, allowing for the separation of application configuration and state from the underlying operating system. This separation and packaging enables existing Windows applications, not specifically designed for Windows Azure, to be deployed on a Windows Azure worker role. We can do this in a way where the application state is maintained across reboots or movement of the worker role. This process allows existing, on-premises applications to be deployed directly onto Windows Azure, providing yet more flexibility in how organizations can take advantage of Microsoft?s cloud capabilities. Server Application Virtualization delivers:

• Application mobility: Server Application Virtualization enables organizations to move their applications from on-premises datacenters to Windows Azure to take advantage of Windows Azure?s scalability and availability. This application mobility provides a unique level of flexibility to organizations as their needs evolve, enabling movement from one environment to another as their business needs dictate without the need to re-compile or rewrite the application.
• Simplified deployment: With Server Application Virtualization, organizations are able to virtualize applications once and then deploy these packages as needed. This process creates a method to manage applications, simply and efficiently across their Windows Server� platform or to Windows Azure.
• Lower operational costs: By using Server Application Virtualization organizations can gain the lower management benefits of the Windows Azure platform for their existing applications. This is delivered through the virtualized application being deployed on the Windows Azure platform, meaning organizations get the benefit of Windows without the need to manage a Windows Server operating instance or image for that application. With Server Application Virtualization, organizations are able to virtualize applications once and then deploy the packages this process creates, simply and efficiently across their Windows Server� platform or to Windows Azure.

Microsoft Server Application Virtualization converts traditional server applications into state separated "XCopyable" images without requiring code changes to the applications themselves, allowing you to host a variety of Windows 2008 applications on the Windows Azure worker role. The conversion process is accomplished using the Server App-V Sequencer. When the server application is sequenced, the configuration settings, services, and resources that the application uses are detected and stored. The sequenced application can then be deployed via the Server Application Virtualization Packaging Tool to the worker role in Windows Azure as a file.

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Nokia Windows Phone 7 concept shows what could be in store

Fan creates his own WP7 device hoping Nokia will follow

Nokia doesn’t make a Windows Phone 7 smartphone, but with rumours circulating that it might, one Nokia fan has created a mock-up of what a Nokia Windows Phone 7 smartphone might look like if the Finnish company were to make the move.

The design, although not real, clearly follow Nokia’s strong design build ethos, with the back of the phone taking a leaf out of the E-Series of handsets already out there running Symbian.

There’s a 8-megapixel camera (of course) and a focus on metal rather than plastic as the main material.

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Nokia Windows Phone 7 concept shows what could be in store originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:36:00 +0000

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