Today's formal unveiling of the Motorola Droid smartphone on Verizon's network was an anticlimax, given most of the details had been leaked days earlier. Nevertheless, it's the boldest, most open iPhone challenger yet.
RIM and Verizon jointly announced today that the BlackBerry Storm2 device will be available online and at Verizon Wireless stores on Wednesday at $180 after a rebate.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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