I'm calling out Tony Lewis, Verizon Wireless’ newly-appointed VP of Open Development, for saying this sentence:

“The only way this is going to work is if it’s a true partnership between carriers, devices and applications. Any independent part can work, but not individually.

Tony Tony Tony, what do you sit in front of every day? What do you use use to tell your boss about sales figures, revenues, ARPU, etc.? I bet you it is a computer made in Asia by a company who could care less about who is supplying the information being fed through the ethernet port. I bet you Microsoft never called a carrier or hardware vendor at any point during the development cycle of Excel either. I can also guarantee you there isn't some guy who works at Verizon who makes sure that all the personal hooked up to your customers DSL or FIOS modems are certified.

See where I'm getting at Tony?

We (the mobile geeks who roam the world untethered) love that your company has announced that they've chosen to use LTE for their upcoming 4G network using the recently won 700 MHz C-Block, but you're going to botch this up if you think that the only way to make it work is to make sure everyone in the ecosystem has to hold hands and sing songs just to get some signal. All this speak about open really makes me sick because you're misinterpreting the word and wrangling it through a public relations dictionary so thick and heavy that if you ordered it off Amazon the UPS man would have to wheel it to your home on a dolly.

The SIM card, that tiny piece of plastic no one really cares about, has done more to innovate this industry than the people in your office building will ever do or even dream of.

So please Tony, cut the bullshit and let my people roam.

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In this video I show you how to set up Apple remote desktop to let you control your Windows PC’s over your local network. The download for Real VNC is: http://www.realvnc.com/ Check out my site at http://digitallifenowpodcast.com for my content.

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We’re still trying to get over the shock of the PS3 actually getting the game first, but it would seem that the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament III is chugging along nicely for that rumored May release date. Mark Rein recently stopped by the Epic forums to assure Xbox 360 owners that however painful it might be, the wait will be well worth it. He was shy on details, but pointed to Midway’s Gamers Day Event as the place where more information about the game would be revealed.

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We’re still trying to get over the shock of the PS3 actually getting the game first, but it would seem that the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament III is chugging along nicely for that rumored Might release date. Mark Rein recently stopped by the Epic forums to assure Xbox 360 owners that however painful it may be, the wait will be well worth it. He was shy on details, but pointed to Midway’s Gamers Day Event as the place where more information about the game would be revealed.

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When the trailer for GRID was released, some of us immediately became excited over what appeared to be a Gran Turismo-like game, with Burnout influences. Much like Codemaster’s hit game DiRT before it, GRID shows that the guys know a thing or two about hitting us with that much-needed eye candy that we’ve come to associate with racing games. Seeing those highly detailed cars flipping over and spinning out left me feeling all giddy inside. Racing is all about winning, but it has always been the crashes that drew the most excitement (in games, anyway).

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It’s really just a bizarre twist of fate that I happened to have a chance to play both Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV and Volition’s Saint’s Row 2 during the same week. Volition’s near-launch Xbox 360 open-world driving/shooting/crime-spree simulator was a solid title, but garnered more than a few comparisons to Rockstar’s now classic series. Some went as far as to call it a “good Grand Theft Auto ripoff,” and for good reason — it kind of was.

But when Saint’s Row 2 ships to stores on August 26, gamers are going to find that those comparisons, in many ways, are no longer apt. Put it this way — if Rockstar’s this-gen iteration of GTA is a $200-a-head Las Vegas illusionist performance featuring Pamela Anderson, then Volition’s sequel is a balls-to-the-wall, over-the-top Coney Island sideshow starring a limbless, glass-eating female midget named Senorita Cobrita. To be clear, one approach isn’t necessarily “better” than the other, and it’s evidently Volition’s intentions for Saint’s Row 2 to be the most ridiculous gangster/crime fantasies in videogames. A faithful adaptation of violent street and gang life this isn’t.

As for the phrase “balls-to-the-wall,” it gets thrown around a lot, but in Saint’s Row 2 they’re taking it literally. Morbid curiosity forces you to hit the jump.

Via Destructoid

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Hamza gave us a proper introduction to Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X yesterday, via his fleshed out post underneath the trailer, so I’m not going to bore you with details that you already know. However, I am going to follow it up with a couple of purdy pictures of jets, and all of us can marvel at them and pretend that we never saw the trailer and everything from this point on is entirely new.

Since we at Destructoid are firm believers in not letting beautiful assets and press releases go to waste (and we all tent at the mere mention of air combat), without further ado, we invite you to click on the gallery and read that release. Pretty please?

Via Destructoid

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Hamza gave us a proper introduction to Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X yesterday, via his fleshed out post underneath the trailer, so I’m not going to bore you with details that you already know. However, I’m going to follow it up with a couple of purdy pictures of jets, and all of us can marvel at them and pretend that we never saw the trailer and everything from this point on is entirely new.

Since we at Destructoid are firm believers in not letting beautiful assets and press releases go to waste (and we all tent at the mere mention of air combat), without further ado, we invite you to click on the gallery and read that release. Pretty please?

Via Destructoid

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Ahh, Motorola. They've (by which I mean the senior leadership, or lack thereof) failed Motorola and its fans in so many ways, its hard to keep track. But, not impossible.

The flagrant failure of ousted CEO-tard Zander to keep Motorola from circling the drain is obvious at this point. Zander wasn't able to pull himself away from extravagant corporate expenditures and travels on his fleet of private jets long enough to lead the company that RAZR-pioneer Frost helped revive. Brown needs to do some serious damage control if he's anticipating to bring Motorola from the depths of business-splitting oblivion.

So, what's Moto's next move? Fire 2,600 additional employees, of course. The planned employee layoff will bring the grand-total of Motorola-issued pink-slips to 10,000 since 2007. That's not even mentioning all those high-level execs that jumped ship with their golden parachutes. The job cuts come as Motorola plans to close a factory in Singapore and a WiMAX development lab in Florida. We're not sure when Moto will be lopping off all those heads, but we're sure the employees aren't eager to find out.

[Via: WSJ]

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Ahh, Motorola. They've (by which I mean the senior leadership, or lack thereof) failed Motorola and its fans in so many ways, its hard to keep track. But, not impossible.

The flagrant failure of ousted CEO-tard Zander to keep Motorola from circling the drain is obvious at this point. Zander wasn't able to pull himself away from extravagant corporate expenditures and travels on his fleet of private jets long enough to lead the company that RAZR-pioneer Frost helped revive. Brown needs to do some serious damage control if he's expecting to bring Motorola from the depths of business-splitting oblivion.

So, what's Moto's next move? Fire 2,600 additional employees, of course. The planned employee layoff will bring the grand-total of Motorola-issued pink-slips to 10,000 since 2007. That's not even mentioning all those high-level execs that jumped ship with their golden parachutes. The job cuts come as Motorola plans to shut a factory in Singapore and a WiMAX development lab in Florida. We're not sure when Moto will be lopping off all those heads, but we're sure the employees aren't eager to find out.

[Via: WSJ]

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