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Engadget's back to school guide: Mobile phones {Engadget}

Aug 17th 2010 7:08PM Well, whatever the phone, no one wants to pay loads of money each month. I am happy with my $60 a month (including taxes) for my Blackberry curve through MetroPCS.

MagicJack announces software for completely free internet-to-phone calls, places femtocell on hold {Engadget}

Aug 16th 2010 3:30PM I have had a magicJack for years. At first I used it often. Initially, voice quality was terrible. I actually emailed Borislow and he wrote back and since then, voice quaility has been great. The problem is that I have a great plan on my cell phone and never actuallyuse my magicJack. I bought it because of my severe gadget addiction and my curiosity. I use Skype for international communication, but I sure wish there was a Skype app for my MetroPCS Blackberry. I had considered getting the TK6000. I would be VERY interested in a device which plugged directly in to my router and which had an RJ-12 plug for phone or fax. I would LOVE a WiFi based phone app for my BB.

If Borislow can provide that, it would be terrific.

Cricket hires goats to eat blackberries (video) {Engadget}

Aug 16th 2010 1:05PM What a wonderful combination of a low tech solution to a problem involving a hi tech solution

Editorial: Waiter, there's a Nazi theme in my Android Market (updated) {Engadget}

Aug 14th 2010 9:08AM There are several problems with the situation. One of which is that the creators of the Nazi themes intentionally added "Jewish" as a keyword to their profile of their app entry. Had they not done that, it would not have come up with a search on "Jewish". By doing that, it is clear they want to upset Jews and others.

Sam's Club soon offering free WiFi in all US locations {Engadget}

Aug 11th 2010 11:21AM Now if only I could get a WiFI based Skype app for my MetroPCS BB 8530 then life at Sam's Club or Cosco or whatever would be perfect.

RIM's Lazaridis: if goverments can't deal with the internet, 'they should shut it off' {Engadget}

Aug 10th 2010 10:02PM You guys don't get it. This is not about controlling terrorists in Saudi Arabia. Let's put it this way, if you use your Blackberry in the United States to tell your neighbor's wife that you want to meet her in a motel for an affair, the FBI does not care. Do that in Saudia Arabia, and the Religious Police will monitor you and take you out for a beating and the woman for a stoning.

RIM averts Saudi Arabia's BlackBerry messaging ban, negotiates surrender (update: 48-hour ultimatum) {Engadget}

Aug 8th 2010 12:52PM @wshwe This will also kill fredom of expression, and the expressions goingon Saudi Blackberrys are not political but rich kids flirting. This is all about Wahabi anxiety about adolescent and young adult sexuality and the feart of the Shi'ia

RIM averts Saudi Arabia's BlackBerry messaging ban, negotiates surrender (update: 48-hour ultimatum) {Engadget}

Aug 7th 2010 1:52PM @DeeeCoder Its a CANADIAN server.

Does a government have the right to open the hand written personal letters of its citizens? Suppose you keep a diary. Does the government have the right to break in to yoru home and look at what you wrote? The Internet is wonderful because it is borderless. I live in Florida, in the USA, and yet I communicate on Skype with a friend in Teheran. Our governments are in conflict yet I can talk to her somewhat freely. (Her internet acces sis also monitored). I have another friend in Baghdad with whom I chat. The Internet should be breaking down walls. Saudi Arabia is run by a family, a group of brothers. Do the citizens of a country have rights beyond the demands of the people who own, err....um... rule them? Should a people provide their own government? The problem with that idea is that in a place like Egypt, if there were free elections, the Muslim Brotherhood might win and then they would immediately stop any sort of free elections. Sort of like the Nazis. Men with guns and power will always try to run things and control things for ordinary folk. People with money will always be buying and selling and controlling the people with the guns. RIM folded because they couldn't fight a government. We here are lovers of technology and gadgets. If we argue silly things, then governments will use technology to control us. Maybe RIchard Stallman is a prophet. Maybe Richard Stallman should be as revered in Saudi Arabia as Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahab (the founder of Wahabi Islam). Maybe Muslims should go back to the teachings of my name sake Al-Kindi and the other great medevial Islamic philosophers who were not afraid of knowledge and progress.

RIM averts Saudi Arabia's BlackBerry messaging ban, negotiates surrender (update: 48-hour ultimatum) {Engadget}

Aug 7th 2010 12:42PM This really is a sad day for data freedom. I hope that the young people in Saudi Arabia are adequately upset so that when the old guard dies out, they progress.

BlackBerry messaging shut down in Saudi Arabia, users feel early withdrawal pains (update: it's back) {Engadget}

Aug 6th 2010 5:28PM @TareG Can a Muslim in America or, for that matter, anyone in America, view pornography, the engadget site, or sites criticizing any and all religions on their Blackberry? YES

Can a Jew, Christian, or a Shi'ia do that in Saudia Arabia on their Blackberry? Hmmmmmm.........

Tareg, you are like a man who when caught stealing from his boss, uses the excuse, "Well, everyone else does it."

You know, once the Sufis were the predominant creative force in the Muslim world. Sufis would never ban the Blackberry.