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BlackBerry’s Storm Presses Into the Touch-Phone Fray

in Personal Technology on November 19, 2008 at 6:32 pm PT

Walt reviews the hotly anticipated BlackBerry Storm, the first BlackBerry model without a physical keyboard. Typing and navigation require tapping on glass, just as users do on the iPhone. Verizon will be selling the Storm for $250 with a two-year contract, though a $50 mail-in rebate can bring the price down close to the $199 that Apple charges for the base model of the iPhone.

Weekend Update, 9/26/08

in News on September 26, 2008 at 3:08 pm PT

As part of AllThingsD’s ongoing efforts to make your world more laden with information about All Things Digital, we’ve decided to introduce a new “Weekend Update” feature. This is our first installment: Microsoft abandoned its non-sequitur Seinfeld advertising strategy this week for a non-partisan one–in which the spots themselves are watermarked “made on a mac.” Meanwhile, Google did some advertising of its own–launching a new site solely to allay fears about its intended advertising partnership with Yahoo (quoting BoomTown out of context for good effect.) That won’t help advance its case with the American Antitrust Institute, though–the Institute believes the deal “could end up as a black hole that swallows up Yahoo.”