BIS 3.0 coming to North American BlackBerry users next weekend?

It seems almost too good to be true, but it looks like the era of usable Gmail integration on BlackBerry might finally be upon us. CrackBerry is citing information that BIS 3.0 will be rolled out to North American customers in the wee hours of Sunday, March 28, when most of us are in a peaceful slumber (a good thing, considering that data services will be mostly down during the four-hour window). Out of the gate, 3.0 will offer Gmail label creation and deletion when using the plug-in along with support for OpenDocument file types and WMA audio, but the real meat should come shortly thereafter as two-way synchronization of read status and sent messages “will be added throughout the Spring 2010 by region.” Technically, Spring starts today, so this could show up the moment BIS 3.0 goes live — but given that we’ve waited literally years for this to happen, we’re not getting our hopes up prematurely

Engadget Podcast 188 - 03.20.2010

Three mobile phone platforms struggle for dominance in the real world (the Real World) and in the Engadget Podcast (the Fake World). Hosts: Josh Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller Ultra-special Guest: Chris Ziegler Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Castor - Green Hill Zone Hear the podcast 00:01:57 - Windows Phone 7 Series: the complete guide 00:04:15 - Microsoft on copy and paste in Windows Phone 7 Series: ‘people don’t do that’ 00:04:20 - Windows Phone 7 Series multitasking: the real deal 00:04:50 - Windows Phone 7 Series emulator unlocked, shows a few surprises 00:09:45 - Word, Excel and OneNote for Windows Phone 7 Series revealed 00:13:45 - Microsoft takes a note from Palm in new Windows Phone 7 Series ad 00:37:00 - Palm posts $22m Q3 loss, says it liked its chances against Droid had Verizon launch been sooner 00:39:20 - Palm shares take 25 percent plunge after downer earnings announcement 00:43:20 - Palm: this is your survival guide 01:05:55 - The Engadget Show tapes tomorrow, with Nicholas Negroponte and PlayStation Move! 01:06:52 - Nexus One hits for AT&T and Rogers 3G bands 01:09:00 - Make it four: Google’s Nexus One coming to Sprint 01:12:50 - HP Slate priced at €400 for June launch, Atom CPU confirmed? Subscribe to the podcast [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes (enhanced AAC).

MSI Wind12 U230 unboxed and benchmarked, trounces netbooks of yesteryear

It’s no Pine Trail when it comes to power consumption, but AMD’s Congo platform is no slouch, either. TestFreaks recently received the Congo-powered MSI Wind12-U230 for review, and discovered that its dual-core Athlon X2 L335 CPU and speedy Seagate drive made neat work of last year’s Atom netbooks, including the formerly formidable HP Mini 311. After shooting the requisite unboxing video and posing the slender machine for a few close-ups, TestFreak s praised the large, comfortable keyboard and touchpad, while scoffing at only four hours of net browsing as the entirety of its battery life

Spike Jonze’s free web film features robot love, vodka, long wait times

We wanted to tell you what Spike Jonze’s new web film I’m Here is all about, we really did, and not just because it reportedly has robots in it — though that was certainly a major factor in the decision. But after we crossed the virtual street to the virtual box office, we were informed that there were no seats left in the virtual theater.

ASUS’ Express Gate 2.0 instant-on OS demoed on video

ASUS’ original ExpressGate instant-on OS may be getting a little long in the tooth, but it looks like it’s finally due for a serious replacement.

LHC breaks its own energy record, still less powerful than Lady Gaga

The Large Hadron Collider is no stranger to setting energy records: back at the end of November it broke the 0.98 TeV record by hitting the 1.18 TeV mark. Well, the problem beleaguered collider’s just handily surpassed itself — this time with a truly stunning 3.5 TeV — with beams of protons on record as having circulated at 3.5 trillion electron volt. Now, we’re not scientists or anything, but that sure is a lot of volts! CERN’s moving on later this week and will begin colliding the beams so they can check out the tiniest particles within atoms in the hopes of finding out more about how matter’s made up

Niko, the N900-powered Lego robot, looks poised to take over Twitter (video)

While we’ve seen no shortage of smartphone - powered robots in the past, the Nokia camp has been sadly under-represented. But, there’s a new one coming to balance things out, a machine called Niko that has Lego Mindstorm NXT 2.0 components for a body and an N900 for a brain. The bot has been under construction for a few weeks but it has just made its YouTube debut with the short video posted after the break, showing it roving around and taking a photo whenever it bumps into something

Updated Archos 13 laptop to roll out next month

This one looks to have largely gotten lost among the hubbub of CeBIT earlier this month, but it seems like Archos quietly announced a followup to its Archos 13 laptop, which is now set to debut sometime next month.

BlackBerry push framework now available to all developers

It’s been a year or so since RIM announced that push APIs had become available to its Alliance Program members, and now it looks like the rest of us are finally able to get in on the action (at least those of us who are BlackBerry devs). Starting today, access comes in two packages: either BlackBerry Push Essentials (the free version) or BlackBerry Push Plus with a number of tiers that reflect different options and price points

WiMAX-enabled HTC Supersonic rumored to debut on Sprint at CTIA

There’s hardly anything here that we didn’t already know , but an unveiling date of “next week” sure catches our eye.

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