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Filed under: Software, Samsung, Sprint, Windows Mobile

Right behind its distant GSM cousin that never bothers to call — not even on your birthday — Sprint’s ACE smartphone from Samsung has at this time been gifted with a luxurious Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade. Sprint is really playing it up, too, touting that it’s bringing an “Enhanced Time-Saving Mobile Experience” to the phone — and to be fair, it’s also allowing the installation of unsigned apps and adding support for turn-by-turn navigation, so we suppose it’s a little more than just your run-of-the-mill 6.1 update.

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Tags: Ace Software, Apps, Cousin, Mobile Experience, Nbsp, Samsung, Samsung Mobile, Samsung Sprint, Smartphone, Software Samsung, Windows Upgrade

Filed under: Software, Apple, OS X

Make no mistake about it, the iPhone (and the App Store in particular) has made the lives of many home owners much, much easier. As it stands, there are already a few apps out there that interface with Crestron gear, but to date, there’s no official Crestron app to fiddle with. But give it 60 days or so and there will be — at least, that’s the good word over at the company’s booth today at CEDIA. Said application will be 100% free to download, and as you can see in the gallery over at Engadget HD, it elegantly enables wired home owners to control lighting, temperature and all sorts of other things via WiFi or 3G, at home or anywhere else in the world. Users can even program in settings for multiple houses, enabling them to turn the AC on in Orlando while blasting the heat in Jackson Hole. So let’s see, all you need at this time is an iPhone, a couple properties, a few dozen grand to blow on Crestron HA gear and a tiny bit of patience.

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Tags: 3g, All Sorts, Apple Os X, Apps, Cedia, Crestron, Demoed, Fiddle, Good Word, Hd, Home Automation, iphone, Jackson Hole, Many Home Owners, Os X, Patience, Software Apple, Tiny Bit, Wifi, World Users

Filed under: Software, Apple, OS X

Anyone getting used to the cross-app clipboard framework for the iPhone wrought by OpenClip, heads up: your party might be drawing to an end. The organization says that apps no longer have access to the common storage areas of other apps in the latest beta of firmware 2.1, which basically puts the kibosh on the very reason OpenClip is able to do what it does. They’re throwing around a couple ideas — one of which would involve creating a funky-looking contact in your address book to marshal Dat. between apps, while another would see Dat. get pushed to a server, a move that Apple would effectively be unable to stop. Then again, with unverified information still fresh that real copy / paste is coming in 2.1, maybe these guys want to hold off for just a bit to see what happens.

[Via AppleInsider]

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