Archive for July 6th, 2010

Best Buy Connect wireless service is official, offers contract-free plans

We’ll admit that we never took Best Buy as the kind of company to sell its own wireless service, but you know what Best Buy does sell? Laptops with unlocked WWAN modems, and to that end, the retailer’s Best Buy Connect offering seems to be a pretty attractive one. Monthly plan pricing is about what you’d expect from anyone else, and you’ll be able to choose between two-year, one-year, and contract-free packages for the same price — the only difference is how much subsidy they’ll throw in for you upfront. On a two-year deal, you’ll get $275 off the compatible laptop of your choice, which compares favorably against all of its competitors — AT&T at $150, Verizon at $200, and Sprint at $250 — while you’ll pay $60 for 5GB of data, $40 for 500MB, or $30 for 250MB (only available without a contract). Sure, you might not attract the glitz, glamor, and curious stares that a high-fashion name brand like Verizon might… but seriously, who are we kidding? Data is data, and if this works well, it sounds like a square deal. Hit up the source link for all the details.

[Thanks, Christian]

Best Buy Connect wireless service is official, offers contract-free plans originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Twidroid Android Twitter app bought by TweetUp, renamed to Twidroyd

Today TweetUp announced that is has purchased the Android Twitter application Twidroid. The company will rename it Twidroyd to avoid confusion with Lucas Film’ trademark “droid.” Twidroyd will now come packaged on Android handsets from 5 manufacturers.

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First Look at the Improved and Redesigned Firefox 4 [Beta Beat]

Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla today released the first beta build of Firefox 4, complete with a new look, new features, and support for more HTML5 specs. Here’s a quick screenshot tour of how it’s shaping up: More »










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Lenovo’s Liu Chuanzhi: ‘we are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China’

We’re guessing that Lenovo chairman Liu Chaunzhi didn’t intend spark a slew of sensational headlines when he spoke briefly with the Financial Times this week, but he did make a few statements that are hard to ignore (yet easily misinterpreted). The standout is that he reportedly said Lenovo is “lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China,” and that if “Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.” Of course, what’s easily lost following the “bad temper” bit is that Chaunzhi is actually sort of praising Apple (albeit in a roundabout way), and he even later goes on to describe Jobs as “a genius,” and the exception to his rule that a manager “needs to be the string on which he puts one pearl after another” — he says Jobs is instead “a big pearl.” For its part, while Apple hasn’t commented on Chaunzhi’s comments directly, it did point out that it’s opening a new store in Shanghai this Saturday, and that it’s on track to have 25 stores in the country by the end of next year.

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Press Release: BLUETOOTH SIG OPENS QUALIFICATION PROGRAM FOR BLUETOOTH CORE SPECIFICATION VERSION 4.0

Hallmark Low Energy Feature Opens Doors to New Applications in Health Care, Fitness, Security and Home Entertainment

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