Tag: January

DirecTV Launching New 3dHD Channel

  DIrecTV will soon be making an announcement regarding a whole new way to watch broadcast TV, in 3D.  The current lineup of Satellite Receievers the company makes available to its customers will support the new channel with a simple firmware upgrade.  The downside to this whole 3D push is that the channel will require you to purchase a new 3D capable TV.  There aren’t any details at this time, but we should head something more from CES on January 7th.

[via DViCE]

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Microsoft Office Barred From Sale After January 11th, 2010

  Who would have thought that after all the years of Microsoft Office that it would be banned from sale due to patent infringement.  After a ruling back in May for the same issue, Microsoft appealed and this time lost.  The infringement i for Word’s handling of .xml, .docx, and .docm files of which infringed upon i4i’s patented XML handling algorithms.

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Verizon Employees Getting WebOS Training, Palm Pre and Pixi Imminent

  We all knew this would happen once the exclusivity deal with Sprint came to an end.  Verizon appears to be picking up the WebOS devices very soon.  According to the image above, Verizon employees can watch the 20 minute online training session for WebOS from the 15th of December up until the 4th of January 2010.  This all makes sense when you know Palm cannot possibly survive with just Sprint as their carrier.  Hopefully the appearance of the Pre and Pixi on Verizon will give Palm a boost and make WebOS grasp sustainability.

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