Things are looking pretty rosy for Canon these days, though there may be some difficulty on the horizon. Today, the camera maker published a rather strong Q3 earnings report, just a few months after posting relatively ho-hum Q2 results. According to the company, operating profit grew by 17.4 percent to
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During its quarterly earnings call, Sirius finally gave the world some info about its upcoming Sirius XM Satellite 2.0 service. For those of you who can’t get enough Underground Garage and Howard Stern, version 2.0 will pack more programing and you’ll be able to pause and rewind broadcasts. Starting next year, the company will offer personalized music stations, similar to Pandora, and on-demand listening, in case you missed a particularly juvenile funny Opie & Anthony bit. The first two pieces of hardware will be landing before the end of the year, but don’t expect to find a Sirius XM 2.0 option at your car dealership for a while — vehicles won’t be getting the upgraded hardware until 2013.
Sirius XM 2.0 launching later this year, bringing on-demand Howard Stern to your car in 2013 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Don’t mind that ruckus over in the corner — that’s just millions of Windows Phone 7 users jumping around in boundless celebration. After hearing that the so-called NoDo update would be splashing down on WP7 phones in early February, it seems as if the coders at Microsoft took a few extra weeks to get things just right. Today, the company updated their Windows Phone update history to describe the new features that are rolling out in staggered fashion to phones around the globe, and the standout addition is the copy and paste functionality that AT&T’s HD7S will ship with later in the year. You’ll also see your apps and games load faster, your marketplace searches refined and your WiFi performance improved. There’s also a host of Outlook, messaging, Facebook, audio and camera improvements, though it remains unclear if said video camera now retains your shooting preferences even after you exit the app. Hang tight if you haven’t seen your update notification just yet, and be sure to let us know how the new build is treating you down in comments below.
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 ‘NoDo’ update starts rolling out, brings copy / paste and other fun additions originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Last year, Lymbix released this so-so software that checked over your typed email messages for signs of “unintended tone.” Scumbag. You know, short and explicit phrases that could easily tick somebody off. Jerk. Now, however, they’ve got a revised version that plays nice with Microsoft’s Outlook, and rather than flooding one’s screen with idiotic pop-ups that further enhance one’s anger, there’s a subtle bar that spans 1 to 5 in order to show a user just how hot and bothered the message that they’re about to send really is. Cheapskate. Speaking of, it’s actually a free download for now, so if you’ve been sending the wrong message time and time again, you might want to stop making a fool of yourself and hit the source link. Don’t even bother thanking us, punk. Ugh.
ToneCheck’s revised email plug-in scans your messages for aggressive, brash overtones originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
An IRS employee was convicted for 18 months of probation for “wiretapping” his boss by using an Outlook rule to forward emails from the supervisor inbox to his own email address. The whole thing started because the employee’s driver license had been suspended for drunk driving. He was worried that this could jeopardize his job. Being curious (and anxious) about what his supervisor would say, he has apparently redirected emails using a simple Outlook rule (an automated way to process/sort emails). The supervisor stumbled into it by accident.
The weird thing is that many do not think of this as “wiretapping” (which is usually associated with phones), so this sets an interesting precedent. The defendant argued that this was not an “interception”, given that he was getting “a copy” of the emails. However, the rule was implemented on the mail server – which makes it an “intercept”, while implementing the rule on the supervisor’s computer would have made it a “copy”. That’s why the court declared this to be an “intercept”, which falls under the wiretap law.
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IRS employee convicted for wiretapping his boss with Outlook
Here’s an interesting question for you: if you set up a rule in Microsoft Outlook to forward messages from one account to another, and you do it without the knowledge of the owner of the account you’re forwarding from, are you intercepting or merely copying mail? It may seem like a moot point, but for David Szymuszkiewicz, a former IRS worker, it’s an important distinction. David was afraid of being fired after his license was suspended for drunk driving (he needed to drive to the homes of delinquent taxpayers), so he secretly set up this rule on his boss’s machine to see what the world was saying about him. The rule was discovered and, wouldn’t you know it, he was in trouble. The only question now: whether to charge him under the Wiretap Act for intercepting messages or the Stored Communications Act for merely copying of them.
So, what was your answer to the question above? You might be tempted to say he was simply making a copy, and indeed that was Szymuszkiewicz’s argument, but any Exchange admin will tell you that Outlook rules are executed on the server, not at the client, meaning those e-mails were indeed being intercepted. Szymuszkiewicz was convicted of wiretapping but seems to have avoided a harsh sentence, with 18 months probation being handed down. A light punishment for wiretapping, but a heavy one for diddling menus in Outlook.
IRS employee uses Outlook rules to intercept boss’s e-mails, convicted of wiretapping originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
There are plenty of free, paid, web-based, desktop-bound, cross-platform, or uni-platform alternatives, but there can only be one Office. Microsoft’s flagship desktop suite of productivity applications just got a major new update. Office 2011 for Mac replaces Microsoft’s Mac-specific Entourage email app with the industry standard Outlook, brings in some interface tweaks from Office 2010 over in PC land, and integrates with those Office Web Apps you’ve been hearing so much about. The entire “Home & Business” bundle goes for $279, and if you’re not so into Outlook, you can get the Word / PowerPoint / Excel “Home & Student” version for $149.
Office 2011 for Mac is available today.docx originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
There are plenty of free, paid, web-based, desktop-bound, cross-platform, or uni-platform alternatives, but there can only be one Office. Microsoft’s flagship desktop suite of productivity applications just got a major new update. Office 2011 for Mac replaces Microsoft’s Mac-specific Entourage email app with the industry standard Outlook, brings in some interface tweaks from Office 2010 over in PC land, and integrates with those Office Web Apps you’ve been hearing so much about. The entire “Home & Business” bundle goes for $279, and if you’re not so into Outlook, you can get the Word / PowerPoint / Excel “Home & Student” version for $149.
Office 2011 for Mac is available today.docx originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
It’s official, Office 2011 for Mac is out, and from what we’re hearing on main street, this is getting people excited. Why? Usually because the previous email experience with Entourage was horrible. Entourage was slow, was getting clogged for no reason and crashed. Mac Mail isn’t much better with Exchange unfortunately: sometime it would not sync, which is a pity for a cloud-based email system. Outlook for Mac represents a new hope.
Outlook and the other Office apps also look more like the original PC version, so users should find their marks more easily than in previous generations of Office for Mac. That said, we didn’t think that Word or Excel were *that* problematic before. We haven’t tested it yet, but if you’re an Outlook user who wants to jump on the Mac boat, it’s time to take another look. Ironically, this might help a bunch of PC users to “switch” to Mac. However, Office is simply too important for Microsoft to be used as a political tool. Good choice.
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Office for Mac 2011 is out