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BlackBerry Storm bows, comes next month to Verizon and Vodafone

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A storm's arrival typically isn't something to celebrate, but we're going to make a notable exception here seeing how the BlackBerry Storm is less of a destructive weather pattern and more of an incredibly hot smartphone -- arguably RIM's hottest to date. Fit to its business-savvy roots, the long-rumored handset comes equipped with the most comprehensive global roaming capabilities of virtually any wireless device you'll find anywhere, featuring EV-DO Rev. A, quadband EDGE, and 2100MHz HSPA for Europe. Beyond that, the Storm becomes RIM's very first touchscreen phone, mounting a 3.26-inch 480 x 360 glass display on a unique clickable surface so that the entire thing can be pressed downwards -- just like a real button -- for tactile feedback when making selections. It includes a full HTML finger-navigable browser, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint editing capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0, 1GB of on-board storage with an 8GB microSD card bundled in the box, 3.5mm headphone jack, automatic orientation and ambient lighting sensors, and a 3.2-megapixel autofocus cam with dedicated flash, making it a legitimate jack-of-all-trades that seems likely to be able

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Verizon Wireless Massively Raises Rates For Text Messaging Services verizon wireless:4 @ techdirt.co

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(10.10.2008) It's no surprise that some things may be getting more expensive these days, especially as companies start dealing with the fallout from the financial crisis -- but it appears that some are going a bit overboard. There's a bit of an uproar among some, as Verizon Wireless is slapping a surprising 3-cents-per-text-message fee on top of every mobile terminated text message. That basically affects any company that provides some sort of SMS notification system or content service, massively increasing prices. As some have noted, most of those services bought text messages in bulk, where it cost around 1 cent per message. That means the cost of sending text messages just quadrupled. If you're already worried about the economy and working on tight margins, that could certainly put some companies out of business entirely.

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Microsoft set to release Silverlight 2

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Microsoft's Silverlight 2 browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications will be generally available on Tuesday along with supportive development tools, the company said during a teleconference on Monday morning.

The company also revealed plans to have Silverlight capabilities integrated into the open-source Eclipse IDE.

Silverlight 2 has "been kind of a unique release," in terms of widespread beta testing and deployment prior to its actual general availability, said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the Microsoft .Net Developer Edition. The technology already has been in use by Web properties such as NBCOlympics.com, which streamed more than 70 million videos via Silverlight for this past August's summer Olympic games, Guthrie said. Another prominent user was the recent Democratic National Convention, he said.

"We've have a number of huge customers that went live starting as early as last March," Guthrie said. Additional customers, such as the CBS College Sports Network and Blockbuster, are signing on this month, he added.

Silverlight 2 is cross-browser and cross-platform. It features a 4.5MB download size and installs in fewer than 10 seconds,

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