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OpenMail was purchased by Samsung (the largest customer of OpenMail). They have recently rereleased OpenMail 7.0 as Samsung Contact.
http://www.sds.samsung.com/sol&ser/pack/scontact.h tml

Geez, with all the product placement, slashdot could double as a Britney Spears movie.

Yes, it's sort of a neat phone, but there are a *lot* of neat phones coming down the pipe. I hope they don't all merit a Slashdot commercial.

Here's a link to a Samsung Camera with a digital camera too. The camera even sounds nicer than the Ericsson.

Sorry for being such a wet blanket, but I just don't see a whole lot remarkable about this topic.

...I think that this model from Samsung looks great.

I tend to agree, and the specs are more or less what I want in a PDA with integrated phone. I got excited enough about it to start digging in my wallet for my credit card, then I checked and found that none of the UK networks support it. How very annoying...

Hmmm...Maybe it's just me, but I don't think it looks that great. I think it looks like crap. As far as PDA/phone combos go, I think that this model from Samsung looks great. Plus, it's got the useable size and shape necessary for both PDA and phone use, unlike the new blackberry.

HP OpenMail has been bought by Samsung. Apparently they are less intimidated by Microsoft.

It needs to hire people that know what they're doing. If any part of the government is going to be involved with customized software or hardware, there should be people in-house to handle those needs. Maybe not at the local level, but at least at the state a federal levels. The fact that jobs get contracted out to the lowest bidder is stupid, as many things in government are.

One of the contributing problems is that nobody wants to work for the government due to the red tape. Those that do, only do so mainly because they see the money, and realize that there is nobody there to verify their work.

Example: Local town clerks office hired a consultant group to network all the machines together and setup a way to get e-mail through just one computer on a dial-up. The consultants installed Exchange server and then couldn't figure out how to set it up. So, they called the company I work for (ISP that provided the dial-up) and expected us to spend hours on the phone trying to get Exchange server configured. The consultants were on that job for over 4 weeks, and I don't know the exact cost, but I would assume at least $35+ an hour.

Anybody that has "Consultant" in their title should automatically be disqualified from working on any technological project.

Back to the topic though. What would be the purpose of the government open-sourcing all it's code. It's not "their" code. The code was created by somebody that was awarded a contract to do the job. Who would manage the code if it was opened. If the government appointed somebody to manage the code, what are the chances that they would be qualified enough. They could let some hackers back-door into the code base and where would that get us? Then we'd need a peer review system, and who would be part of that?

Truth is, the government should spend more resources on doing whatever needs to be done to make everything run more effeciently throughout the country. It's easy for everybody on /. to condemn the government for having inadequate security, since we deal with it on a regular basis. Don't get me wrong, I'm not standing up for them, but websites shouldn't get the governments primary responsibility. Everybody's getting caught up in the web, and they're trying to turn it into something magical instead of something functional. Look at Samsung or HP. They chose to focus on making a static image fairly appealing. However, it's not functional.

Ok, it's late and I'm out of caffiene. I think I spelled out enough problems here, and while they probably aren't grammatically correct, or show a proper thought process, I hope you get what I'm saying. Basically, the whole system sucks, and who freaking cares, because whatever they do, we complain about, and whatever we do, they complain about.

Not quite as nice as YOPY in my opinion.

Yopy rules!

-FortKnox


-- "Almost everyone is an idiot. If you think I'm exaggerating, then you're one of them."

Well, with regards to the communication aspect, it's been done. :)

Check this watch from Samsung out. :)

As I understand the situation right now, the Rio will only accept Flash cards that are of the Smartmedia variety (recognizable by the gold plate in the center and a small notch at the top right.) Sandisk's 48MB card is CompactFlash not Smartmedia. I think 16MB is the largest available card that will work in the Rio at the moment, although Samsung and Simple Technologies have both announced 32MB versions that will be released in the next month or two. Diamond has also confirmed that the Rio will support cards as large as 64 Meg and perhaps even higher. (There are no prototypes as of yet to test them on.) Anyways, the future looks bright. My Rio sounds great, and new products like the Yepp are set to make the movement explode! Nice work Diamond!