RT WaPo: Siri "appears to unleash data consumption behaviors that have no precedent." Cellular is doomed. http://t.co/Xq6nHjDG # RT @SteveCase: U.S. Chief Technology Officer To Step Down Today http://t.co/pmCCPrZt Thanks @AneeshChopra for your service to our country! # @howardgr /wave! # Great job by @gigastacey explaining what's accurate and wrong in the WaPo piece on [...] […]

All of new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins' fresh ideas will apparently still be revealed to the company's board in a couple of weeks, but he's already dropped some gems in interviews with the Wall Street Journal and Reuters (update: and Bloomberg). First item on the agenda? Getting current users upgraded to the latest and greatest BlackBerry hardware. Citing internal statistics that indicate 80- to 90- percent of the company's customer base aren't running BlackBerry 7 hardware yet, it will work closely with US carriers to promote upgrades until the new BB10 devices hit later this year. There's no word on what the carrier deals include, but he hinted at device or preloaded app bundles. He also promised an LTE version of the PlayBook would arrive this spring, with LTE connected handsets also planned for the BlackBerry 10 lineup. Is that enough to turn around RIM's fortunes in the US, where he acknowledged the company is "a turnaround candidate"? We'll find out, but as obvious as the need to placate the already BBM-addicted may be, execution of the plan is everything.

Shocker! New RIM CEO targets existing BlackBerry users for upgrades originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

MasterCard is all over the map when it comes to mobile payments. The credit company will partner with anyone, anywhere, anytime if it means getting new customers and making a buck on the deal. Its latest offering is called QkR, an Australian effort with support from the Hoyts chain of movie theaters and Commonwealth Bank. The initial trial run will be at La Premiere cinemas, where customers will be able to order and pay for food and beverages right from their seat with the QkR app. To initiate the transaction a you scan the QR code or tap the NFC tag attached to the arm rest, and a staff member delivers the trough of popcorn […]

This is exactly right. Which is why apps that truly bring value to mobile purchases will be crucial to getting the space off the ground. […]

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Poland's prime minister vows Warsaw won't fully ratify ACTA if in-depth legal studies prove it threatens Internet freedoms totaltele.com
FTC to scrutinize mobile payment technology networkworld.com
The intelligent spectrum harvest cable360.net
TW Cable's New Wideband Gambit lightreading.computer
How Siri is ruining your cellphone service washingtonpost.com
European smartphone uptake outpaces US fiercewireless.com
U.S. Justice Department May Be Investigating Verizon Wireless over Cable Spectrum Deal tmcnet.com
New RIM CEO vows to 'stop the bleeding,' slams Android OEMs fiercewireless.com
More dark fiber for Indianapolis cable360.net
802.11ac does more for 802.11n than it does to change the face of wireless networking networkworld.com
Mobile operators are losing their grip on the tablet market fiercewireless.com
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The outgoing exec says “What we have accomplished has been amazing,” but given the (apparently lost) potential of webOS I’d say what they could have accomplished would have been amazing. […]

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The Wi-Fi Alliance and ZigBee Alliance got together this week in a public demonstration of interoperability between Wi-Fi devices and ZigBee-enabled smart energy meters at DistribuTECH in San Antonio. They were promoting the new Smart Energy Profile 2.0, designed for energy meters. The multi-vendor demonstration established Wi-Fi device connectivity to both Wi-Fi and ZigBee meters, [...] […]

Seriously, we can't caveat this one enough -- there is no way of knowing if this is in fact the Galaxy S III or, if it is, when it might come to market -- but, it looks like Samsungs "next big smartphone" just made a cameo on the company's support pages. Listed as the GT-i9300, the mystery device reared its head over at the Global Download Center of the United Arab Emerites site. If Sammy is to keep with its naming scheme i93XX would be a flagship device -- the i90XX line was the Galaxy S, i91XX represents the S2 series, while the i9250 and i9220 are the Nexus and Note respectively. As we warned before though, this could be some mid-range device and Samsung could be changing its naming conventions. Or, perhaps, its yet another variation of an existing model. Still, we'll take this as a good sign that Seoul squad has something interesting brewing.

Did the Galaxy S III just pop up on Samsung's support site? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for […]

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Just wake up from a very restful week-long slumber? First of all, we're envious of your good fortune. Second, Research in Motion made a few changes to its leadership chart. Third, you must be really hungry right about now. So grab a sandwich, come back in an hour and join Myriam, Brad, Sean Cooper and our very special guest Kevin Michaluk (yes, Mr. CrackBerry Kevin himself) as we discuss the northern news, as well as anything else that happened this week.

Be sure to send questions or comments you have for us or Kevin via Twitter (we're @engadgetmobile), or make your voice heard in our Ustream chat room during the show!

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