I produce my own podcast once a week (TinyPodcast) on mobile technology and gadgets, and I subscribe to dozens of other podcasts. I get to listen to what I want, when I want, and it's almost invariably more interesting that what's on the radio. What's more, the only station I usually listen to anyway, NPR, is starting to podcast some of its shows, like On The Media and Tech Nation.
I love picking up my iPod (or any other MP3 player) in the morning, and having fresh content that I've selected, not what the radio station wants me to hear.
You can use the Pocket PC Inbox to pull email directly via POP3 - no need for syncing. Just configure the account, make sure it's using the right encryption settings and port numbers, and you should be working just fine.
In fact, that's why I got excited about this new feature and posted about it on my site, www.tinyscreenfuls.com.
Did no one read the article, or even the post? This is software for Pocket PCs. PDAs. Not desktop or laptop PCs.
It's specifically targeted at Pocket PC Phone Edition devices, but will also work on non-Phone Edition Pocket PCs. I've been testing this for a while on my Pocket PC Phone Edition 2003 device.
On the Phone Edition, the ability to call any one of your contacts at any one of their numbers (work, home, cell, etc.) by just speaking the command ("Call John Smith at work"), with no recognition or name training at all, is pretty darn cool. Add in a hands free headset, and you can interact with your Pocket PC Phone, including making calls, checking your appointments, and listing to WMP, all while never taking the device out of your pocket. Or better yet, while in the car, never taking your eyes from the road.
The software isn't meant for Joe Laptop user, and it doesn't replace simple interactions with your PDA (there's no way to create new items, for example), but for Phone Edition devices especially, it does add a lot of functionality and even safety. It's a lot faster for me to call someone by saying "Call so-and-so's cell" than by tapping through my Contacts until I find them, and then tapping the number I want to call. And if I'm driving, it's a lot safer for me to speak what I want than to futz around tapping on the screen.
I say this because Apple specifies a Human Interface Guideline that Microsoft does not have for Windows
What are you talking about? Microsoft most definitely does have a user interface guideline for developers, with very defined rules for the "look and feel" of a Windows application.
As I posted earlier, under my mobile login Jenova_Sidekick, T-Mobile already offers a stand-alone unlimited GPRS plan for $29.99/month
You can add unlimited GPRS to a qualifying voice plan ($29 or higher) for just $19.99.
They moved to this new rate structure a couple of months ago, and abandoned all of their "pay for play" plans at the same time. Smartest move they could have made, IMHO.
I love unlimited GPRS on my Pocket PC Phone Edition!
Uhh, last time I checked, there weren't many cars that offered a standard AC plug. You still have to buy a voltage inverter and plug it into the standard DC plug to get AC in your car.
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I see the future of gaming is boot cds and boot dvds.
Actually, that seems like the past of gaming. I remember crafting a special bootdisk for gaming under DOS 6.2/Windows 3.1 that would load the bare minimum of TSRs, to maximize available memory. I had to boot from this disk whenever I wanted to plan Doom, Descent, or SimCity 2000 on my old Canon 486SX/33 laptop with 4MB of RAM.
It seems we have come full circle - back to the point of making a special boot disk for games, to avoid loading the OS and letting it hog precious resources.
GBA is frontlit because it uses a reflective LCD display. Reflective LCDs use light that is reflected from the front, which is why the new GBA is frontlit, and why the Afterburner mod is a frontlight. Frontlit reflective LCDs look pretty nice (better than backlit regular LCDs, IMHO), as can be seen in most recent PDAs (iPAQ Pocket PCs, some newer Sony Clies and Palms). The main benefit of reflective LCDs is that they won't wash out in sunlight or strong direct light, like regular LCDs. You can't backlight a reflective LCD (with good results, anyway), because it will block all of the light, rather than transmitting it.
Newer transflective LCDs are partially reflective, but can be backlit, with beautiful results. The newer HP iPAQ Pocket PCs (3900/5400/1900 series) use backlit transflective LCDs, which are breathtaking when compared side by side to the other Pocket PC models with reflective LCDs.
So don't worry about the fact that the new GBA is frontlit - it will look great, and be a lot cheaper than using the newer transflective LCD technology.
I'll second Moonbase Commander. I played and loved the demo, because it reminded me of Scorch and its ilk. I looked all over to find a copy to buy when it came out, but never located one. So, I forgot about it, until I saw it for $12.99 on the shelf in the Educational section of Best Buy this weekend. Now I just have to install it on my laptop (it has very low hardware requirements), so I can, ahem, keep busy during boring meetings and classes.:-)
On a side note, there's a Worms-clone (which is in turn a descendant of Scorch) for Pocket PC called Snails, which I picked up a couple of weeks ago. Great Scorch-like fun on my Pocket PC while I'm waiting somewhere, stuck in traffic, etc.
And the box lacks a built-in search function. Shees! To search my notes for a particular name I have to purchase a third party tool?
Of course it has a search function. Tap Start, Find. Search all of your contacts, notes, appointments, and filenames. Guess you missed that one.
As far as getting information out, how about beaming (IR OBject Exchange compatible, you can send to a Palm, a phone, or just about anything else that supports the standard), emailing (either wireless or via sync), or just looking at the info on the screen? I don't understand where you want your information to go when it goes "out".
GSM Phone + GPRS data access. Custom hardware and OS by Danger, Inc.. Web Browser, AIM, Email, SMS, PIM, Camera attachment, and games. Built-in thumbboard behind a very cool flip-up screen. Hi-res grayscale screen. Polyphonic ringtones provided by the Beatnik Audio Engine.
Unlimited GRPS Data browsing, unlimited email, 1000 SMS messages, 200 anytime minutes and 1000 weekend minutes per month, for $39.99. The device costs $99 after rebates from CompUSA ($249 - $50 T-Mobile rebate - $100 CompUSA rebate).
I have had one of these since they launched about a month ago, and I absolutely love it. The web brower can render just about any site (obvious exceptions being Flash, audio, and javascript. All browsing happens through compression proxies, which re-arrange the pages (and do a great job of it), and compress and decolorize images, to speed up browsing. No horizontal scrolling. All emails and PIM data (contacts, calendar, to-dos, etc.), and photos are constantly synched with the Danger/T-Mobile backend servers, so all of your data is accessible via a custom website at T-Mobile. You can even use this page as a webmail account, if you want. This way, if you run over the Sidekick with the car, you get a replacement, sign in with your username and password, and within minutes, all of your emails, contacts, and photos are synchronized back to the new device, and you're in business.
The geek coolness factor of this little gadget is off the charts - I have single-handledly disrupted staff meetings, classes, and and other events but just having it visible, nevermind using it. Once I flip open the screen (kind of like the flip phones in The Matrix), it's all over.:-) It's got a tiny camera attachment that can hang on your keychain, and when plugged into the accesory port, takes 120x90 pixel color pictures that you can email on the spot. Plus, it's got a cool scroll wheel that can supposedly) display 65,536 different colors. I don't know if it's that many, but it's definitely cool.
The best feature, though, has to be the unlimited GPRS data. Granted, web access is through compression proxies, and so far, no one has found a way to use it as a GPRS modem for a laptop or PDA, but the fact that I can pay $10 more per month than I was paying before, for the same number of voice minutes (200 anytime, 1000 weekend), and get unlimited GPRS data, well, that just sealed the deal.
I love my Sidekick! Email me on it at jabancroft@SPAMBLOCK.tmail.com (remove the SPAMBLOCK)!
I saw one of these a few weeks ago at Best Buy - it was an impressive, expensive little unit. The thing that caught my attention was the display - beautiful. Full color LCD... Mmm...
WRT labelling and CDDB, I thought I saw at BB that it comes with a snapshot of the Gracenote CDDB on the hard drive. I couldn't find anything official at the Sony site (redirects to Crutchfield for all car audio), but a quick Google search turned up this page, which confirms that it does have a snapshot of the CDDB, to eliminate any labelling issues. Yes, new stuff won't be included (unless they include a mechanism to download updates - you can download your own photos to display, so it's at least feasible), and yes, it's Gracenote, and they're the bad guys, but at least it's there.
Sony has plenty of dirty tricks up their collective sleeve, as well.
For example, at this same show (CeBit), they were running a large screen demo of one of their Clie handhelds, showing how it could play fullscreen video, etc. They even had a little camera set up and pointed at a real Clie, giving the indication that what was on the big screen was being taken directly from the screen on the handheld.
Smartphone 2002 (for new phones being built by Sendo and Samsung), and Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition (for Pocket PCs with wireless capabilities, like the Jornada 928 you linked) are two seperate OSes, with completely different target hardware.
Smartphone 2002, with a UI and navigation designed for use on a phone with a small screen and keypad, is written specifically for phones, and is different-than-but-related-to Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition.
Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition will be the same as the currently available Pocket PC 2002, with the addition of phone software to manage the wireless bits included in future Pocket PCs (like the Jornada 928).
What I would like to know is whether or not the Phone bits will be made available for people who already have a Pocket PC 2002, and a wireless phone card?
The Jornada 720 is NOT a Pocket PC device. It's a Handheld PC, running Windows CE 3.0 and the Handheld PC 2000 GUI/app suite. Of course it's huge - it's a clamshell device with built in keyboard, PCMCIA slot, and half-VGA screen. Entirely different class of machine than Pocket PC, and some might argue that the Handheld PC isn't even a PDA.
I have a Palm V, an iPaq 3650, and a Jornada 568. Yes, the svelte little Palm V is smaller than either, but the Jornada and the iPaq are not any bigger than the Palm III series, or the Handspring Visors. Besides, the Palm can't do a fraction of what the Pocket PCs can, and it's painful to look at that lo-res little monochrome screen. It's like going back to 640x480x256 colors on a 14" monitor, after getting used to 1600x1200x32-bit color on a nice big 21" monitor.
I guess it's to be expected, though. The anti-Pocket PC FUD is all over Slashdot, just because it's an MS product...
There is another program out there for syncing content to PDAs - Mazingo. It's focused on Pocket PCs for now.
It supports rich media, meaning you can get video, sound, or any other file type when you synchronize. It also has a lot of the same types of channels as AvantGo, though they're admittedly fewer in number. Good quality, though, which is something that can sometimes be hard to find anymore on AvantGo.
The UI was just bad. I forget the exact task we were trying to do, but yes, it probably had to do with the registration of a file he had just synched over with his desktop. We attacked from both the open dialog of the app, and from the file explorer, and got nuthin.
What type of file were you trying to open? What application was it associated with? Sounds non-standard or third party, in which case it certainly is not the fault of the OS.
The synching was crap. It may have improved, but he had mentioned that it tended to crash very, very badly, and that he had heard tht was a known problem. Also, from a higher level standpoint, I'd debate the wisdom of "you don't have to press a button to synch"...it sounds great from a marketing standpoint, but in practice, I'd rather have control of when data is transferred, not just hope the daemon has woken up and done what it needed to.
There is an option in Activesync to sync automatically (continuous), sync only on connection (one time), or to sync manually (only when you click the button). You have all the control you could ask for.
The crappy GPS app seemed to be using basic, lowlevel OS functionality for the dynamic toolbars, they looked more or less like the same thing under IE. I've seen a few apps that didn't handle the screen dimensions very well at all; enough so that I start to suspect the OS
Even if the GPS app uses OS functions like toolbars, it's still a crappy app. The toolbars, and other UI elements in all of the built in applications look fine and work perfectly. Some people try to run Handheld PC (WinCE 3.0) apps on Pocket PC, which sometime works, but the screens are designed for the half VGA HPC screen.
I won't argue which is better, Palm or Pocket PC, because I think they're both useful, and both have their strengths and weaknesses. But you're spreading FUD about Pocket PC, as most of your comments just aren't true.
Europe is supposed to switch over to the Euro on January 1, which is less than a week away. I would imagine, if this RFID is going to be a standard thing, that the details would already have been worked out, and put into production.
If it's not a standard, then there will be a whole lot of non-RFID currency floating around, because I'm sure that they've already printed and distributed a large portion, if it's to go into use next week.
A bit late in the game to make any changes in the design, I would say.
On a Windows box, you run a program to rip your CDs into MP3s. If you want to burn a CD, you use a program to convert them to WAVs, then you burn the WAVs to CDs.
Or you use MusicMatch Jukebox, which rips, does CDDB lookups, catalogs, organizes, plays, converts, and burns to data (mp3) or audio CD, all in one convenient interface. Or any one of at least a half dozen other Windows programs that can do what iTunes does.
Hell, even Easy CD Creator 4 can burn an audio CD from mp3s (automatic conversion to.wav).
The OP says Bricklin's been working on an alpha, that will be out soon.
Does nobody here realize that version Alpha 0.1 and 0.2 have already been released, and are available for anyone to try? And have been for a while?
Who needs radio when you've got Podcasting?
I produce my own podcast once a week (TinyPodcast) on mobile technology and gadgets, and I subscribe to dozens of other podcasts. I get to listen to what I want, when I want, and it's almost invariably more interesting that what's on the radio. What's more, the only station I usually listen to anyway, NPR, is starting to podcast some of its shows, like On The Media and Tech Nation.
I love picking up my iPod (or any other MP3 player) in the morning, and having fresh content that I've selected, not what the radio station wants me to hear.
You can use the Pocket PC Inbox to pull email directly via POP3 - no need for syncing. Just configure the account, make sure it's using the right encryption settings and port numbers, and you should be working just fine.
In fact, that's why I got excited about this new feature and posted about it on my site, www.tinyscreenfuls.com.
Did no one read the article, or even the post? This is software for Pocket PCs. PDAs. Not desktop or laptop PCs.
It's specifically targeted at Pocket PC Phone Edition devices, but will also work on non-Phone Edition Pocket PCs. I've been testing this for a while on my Pocket PC Phone Edition 2003 device.
On the Phone Edition, the ability to call any one of your contacts at any one of their numbers (work, home, cell, etc.) by just speaking the command ("Call John Smith at work"), with no recognition or name training at all, is pretty darn cool. Add in a hands free headset, and you can interact with your Pocket PC Phone, including making calls, checking your appointments, and listing to WMP, all while never taking the device out of your pocket. Or better yet, while in the car, never taking your eyes from the road.
The software isn't meant for Joe Laptop user, and it doesn't replace simple interactions with your PDA (there's no way to create new items, for example), but for Phone Edition devices especially, it does add a lot of functionality and even safety. It's a lot faster for me to call someone by saying "Call so-and-so's cell" than by tapping through my Contacts until I find them, and then tapping the number I want to call. And if I'm driving, it's a lot safer for me to speak what I want than to futz around tapping on the screen.
What are you talking about? Microsoft most definitely does have a user interface guideline for developers, with very defined rules for the "look and feel" of a Windows application.
As I posted earlier, under my mobile login Jenova_Sidekick, T-Mobile already offers a stand-alone unlimited GPRS plan for $29.99/month
You can add unlimited GPRS to a qualifying voice plan ($29 or higher) for just $19.99.
They moved to this new rate structure a couple of months ago, and abandoned all of their "pay for play" plans at the same time. Smartest move they could have made, IMHO.
I love unlimited GPRS on my Pocket PC Phone Edition!
Uhh, last time I checked, there weren't many cars that offered a standard AC plug. You still have to buy a voltage inverter and plug it into the standard DC plug to get AC in your car.
I see the future of gaming is boot cds and boot dvds.
Actually, that seems like the past of gaming. I remember crafting a special bootdisk for gaming under DOS 6.2/Windows 3.1 that would load the bare minimum of TSRs, to maximize available memory. I had to boot from this disk whenever I wanted to plan Doom, Descent, or SimCity 2000 on my old Canon 486SX/33 laptop with 4MB of RAM.
It seems we have come full circle - back to the point of making a special boot disk for games, to avoid loading the OS and letting it hog precious resources.
GBA is frontlit because it uses a reflective LCD display. Reflective LCDs use light that is reflected from the front, which is why the new GBA is frontlit, and why the Afterburner mod is a frontlight. Frontlit reflective LCDs look pretty nice (better than backlit regular LCDs, IMHO), as can be seen in most recent PDAs (iPAQ Pocket PCs, some newer Sony Clies and Palms). The main benefit of reflective LCDs is that they won't wash out in sunlight or strong direct light, like regular LCDs. You can't backlight a reflective LCD (with good results, anyway), because it will block all of the light, rather than transmitting it.
Newer transflective LCDs are partially reflective, but can be backlit, with beautiful results. The newer HP iPAQ Pocket PCs (3900/5400/1900 series) use backlit transflective LCDs, which are breathtaking when compared side by side to the other Pocket PC models with reflective LCDs.
So don't worry about the fact that the new GBA is frontlit - it will look great, and be a lot cheaper than using the newer transflective LCD technology.
Jenova_Six
"All These Worlds Are Yours, Except Pluto.
Attempt No Landings There."
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I'll second Moonbase Commander. I played and loved the demo, because it reminded me of Scorch and its ilk. I looked all over to find a copy to buy when it came out, but never located one. So, I forgot about it, until I saw it for $12.99 on the shelf in the Educational section of Best Buy this weekend. Now I just have to install it on my laptop (it has very low hardware requirements), so I can, ahem, keep busy during boring meetings and classes. :-)
On a side note, there's a Worms-clone (which is in turn a descendant of Scorch) for Pocket PC called Snails, which I picked up a couple of weeks ago. Great Scorch-like fun on my Pocket PC while I'm waiting somewhere, stuck in traffic, etc.
Jenova_Six
Of course it has a search function. Tap Start, Find. Search all of your contacts, notes, appointments, and filenames. Guess you missed that one.
As far as getting information out, how about beaming (IR OBject Exchange compatible, you can send to a Palm, a phone, or just about anything else that supports the standard), emailing (either wireless or via sync), or just looking at the info on the screen? I don't understand where you want your information to go when it goes "out".
Jenova_Six
T-Mobile Sidekick
:-) It's got a tiny camera attachment that can hang on your keychain, and when plugged into the accesory port, takes 120x90 pixel color pictures that you can email on the spot. Plus, it's got a cool scroll wheel that can supposedly) display 65,536 different colors. I don't know if it's that many, but it's definitely cool.
GSM Phone + GPRS data access. Custom hardware and OS by Danger, Inc.. Web Browser, AIM, Email, SMS, PIM, Camera attachment, and games. Built-in thumbboard behind a very cool flip-up screen. Hi-res grayscale screen. Polyphonic ringtones provided by the Beatnik Audio Engine.
Unlimited GRPS Data browsing, unlimited email, 1000 SMS messages, 200 anytime minutes and 1000 weekend minutes per month, for $39.99. The device costs $99 after rebates from CompUSA ($249 - $50 T-Mobile rebate - $100 CompUSA rebate).
I have had one of these since they launched about a month ago, and I absolutely love it. The web brower can render just about any site (obvious exceptions being Flash, audio, and javascript. All browsing happens through compression proxies, which re-arrange the pages (and do a great job of it), and compress and decolorize images, to speed up browsing. No horizontal scrolling. All emails and PIM data (contacts, calendar, to-dos, etc.), and photos are constantly synched with the Danger/T-Mobile backend servers, so all of your data is accessible via a custom website at T-Mobile. You can even use this page as a webmail account, if you want. This way, if you run over the Sidekick with the car, you get a replacement, sign in with your username and password, and within minutes, all of your emails, contacts, and photos are synchronized back to the new device, and you're in business.
The geek coolness factor of this little gadget is off the charts - I have single-handledly disrupted staff meetings, classes, and and other events but just having it visible, nevermind using it. Once I flip open the screen (kind of like the flip phones in The Matrix), it's all over.
The best feature, though, has to be the unlimited GPRS data. Granted, web access is through compression proxies, and so far, no one has found a way to use it as a GPRS modem for a laptop or PDA, but the fact that I can pay $10 more per month than I was paying before, for the same number of voice minutes (200 anytime, 1000 weekend), and get unlimited GPRS data, well, that just sealed the deal.
I love my Sidekick! Email me on it at jabancroft@SPAMBLOCK.tmail.com (remove the SPAMBLOCK)!
Jenova_Six
I saw one of these a few weeks ago at Best Buy - it was an impressive, expensive little unit. The thing that caught my attention was the display - beautiful. Full color LCD... Mmm...
WRT labelling and CDDB, I thought I saw at BB that it comes with a snapshot of the Gracenote CDDB on the hard drive. I couldn't find anything official at the Sony site (redirects to Crutchfield for all car audio), but a quick Google search turned up this page, which confirms that it does have a snapshot of the CDDB, to eliminate any labelling issues. Yes, new stuff won't be included (unless they include a mechanism to download updates - you can download your own photos to display, so it's at least feasible), and yes, it's Gracenote, and they're the bad guys, but at least it's there.
Now, if they'd just drop the price...
Jenova_Six
Sony has plenty of dirty tricks up their collective sleeve, as well.
For example, at this same show (CeBit), they were running a large screen demo of one of their Clie handhelds, showing how it could play fullscreen video, etc. They even had a little camera set up and pointed at a real Clie, giving the indication that what was on the big screen was being taken directly from the screen on the handheld.
Turns out, the big screen image didn't have anything to do with a real Clie screen. It was all faked.
Jenova_Six
Smartphone 2002 (for new phones being built by Sendo and Samsung), and Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition (for Pocket PCs with wireless capabilities, like the Jornada 928 you linked) are two seperate OSes, with completely different target hardware.
Smartphone 2002, with a UI and navigation designed for use on a phone with a small screen and keypad, is written specifically for phones, and is different-than-but-related-to Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition.
Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition will be the same as the currently available Pocket PC 2002, with the addition of phone software to manage the wireless bits included in future Pocket PCs (like the Jornada 928).
What I would like to know is whether or not the Phone bits will be made available for people who already have a Pocket PC 2002, and a wireless phone card?
Jenova_Six
The Jornada 720 is NOT a Pocket PC device. It's a Handheld PC, running Windows CE 3.0 and the Handheld PC 2000 GUI/app suite. Of course it's huge - it's a clamshell device with built in keyboard, PCMCIA slot, and half-VGA screen. Entirely different class of machine than Pocket PC, and some might argue that the Handheld PC isn't even a PDA.
I have a Palm V, an iPaq 3650, and a Jornada 568. Yes, the svelte little Palm V is smaller than either, but the Jornada and the iPaq are not any bigger than the Palm III series, or the Handspring Visors. Besides, the Palm can't do a fraction of what the Pocket PCs can, and it's painful to look at that lo-res little monochrome screen. It's like going back to 640x480x256 colors on a 14" monitor, after getting used to 1600x1200x32-bit color on a nice big 21" monitor.
I guess it's to be expected, though. The anti-Pocket PC FUD is all over Slashdot, just because it's an MS product...
Jenova_Six
Interesting. Doesn't seem to maintain continuity with other WinCE/Palm Sized PC/Handheld PC codenames, though:
Pegasus, Alder, Birch, Mercury, Gryphon, Orion, Jupiter, Wyvern, Venus, Hermes, Cedar, Rapier, Galileo, and Merlin (courtesy Chris DeHerrera's excellent site cewindows.net).
Jenova_Six
There is another program out there for syncing content to PDAs - Mazingo. It's focused on Pocket PCs for now.
It supports rich media, meaning you can get video, sound, or any other file type when you synchronize. It also has a lot of the same types of channels as AvantGo, though they're admittedly fewer in number. Good quality, though, which is something that can sometimes be hard to find anymore on AvantGo.
Jenova_Six
I won't argue which is better, Palm or Pocket PC, because I think they're both useful, and both have their strengths and weaknesses. But you're spreading FUD about Pocket PC, as most of your comments just aren't true.
Jenova_Six
Europe is supposed to switch over to the Euro on January 1, which is less than a week away. I would imagine, if this RFID is going to be a standard thing, that the details would already have been worked out, and put into production.
If it's not a standard, then there will be a whole lot of non-RFID currency floating around, because I'm sure that they've already printed and distributed a large portion, if it's to go into use next week.
A bit late in the game to make any changes in the design, I would say.
Jenova_Six
On a Windows box, you run a program to rip your CDs into MP3s. If you want to burn a CD, you use a program to convert them to WAVs, then you burn the WAVs to CDs.
.wav).
Or you use MusicMatch Jukebox, which rips, does CDDB lookups, catalogs, organizes, plays, converts, and burns to data (mp3) or audio CD, all in one convenient interface. Or any one of at least a half dozen other Windows programs that can do what iTunes does.
Hell, even Easy CD Creator 4 can burn an audio CD from mp3s (automatic conversion to
iTunes is pretty, though. I'll give you that.
Jenova_Six
No, their networking stuff is not part of the division being closed, and will keep on going.
Jenova_Six
Also note they are closing their Online Services Division, as well.
Actually, they killed Intel Online Services and Intel Internet Media Services months ago.
Jenova_Six
And if you want to make it really accurate, change it to "Intel kills Consumer Products Division", since that's what the group is called.
Oh wait - did I just mention Slashdot and accuracy in the same sentence? Sorry...
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