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This one comes as no surprise, but T-Mobile has announced today that the availability of tethering and WiFi hotspot capabilities for “select smartphones” in its lineup in time for the holidays — and as is often the case with Big Magenta, they’re offering the service at a much more aggressive price point than its larger competitors: $14.99 a month on top of your $30 unlimited data plan buys you unlimited tethering on T-Mobile’s glorious HSPA+ network (and in its non-HSPA+ areas as well, of course). We still don’t know whether this’ll start to roll out on November 3rd as was rumored, but that’d be a nice way to get into the holiday spirit, wouldn’t it? Don’t get us wrong — we’d prefer if they offered it for free as part of your $30 package, but in our post-apocalyptic world of streaming video and incessant browsing on the go, that just wasn’t gonna happen.

Separately, T-Mobile is also announcing an alternative to that $30 smartphone data: a new 200MB plan clocking in at $10 on a new two-year deal or $15 a month without a contract extension. As you might imagine, tethering isn’t available with this one — we suspect it’s just an answer to the new fad adopted by AT&T and Verizon of offering a tiny-bucket data plan alongside your regular gluttonous-bucket package.

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With its brand-new Google TV Blu-ray Players and much-loved universal remotes, you might think Logitech would let its well-established business in keyboard and mice coast a little bit. Instead, they’re coming out with a new wireless keyboard with a new wireless charger: the Sun.

Actually, that’s not quite true. The Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 may have solar in its name, but let’s face it: how much typing on a full-sized keyboard do most of us do in bright sunlight? Thankfully, “solar” here are a shorthand for “powered by any light source whatsoever,” including the bare-incandescent bulb in your dank basement office.

Disclosure: I have a Logitech DiNovo wireless keyboard that I love, although I’m indifferent towards its plug-in charging cradle, which always seems to get unplugged when someone else in my house needs an outlet. I also have a solar-powered calculator from elementary school that I’ve loved since before puberty. So even though I have neither seen or used this keyboard, I am predisposed to be enthusiastic about it, in the hope that those solar cells across the top can keep the keyboard charged at least as well as my old solar-powered calculator.

Logitech says that the keyboard “can operate for up to three months in total darkness,” and they’re not shipping it with a separate plug-in charger, so they seem pretty confident. They’re also shipping a desktop app that helps “measure ambient light in the room, gives at-a-glance information about battery levels, and even alerts you when you need more power.”

So that covers the wireless charging. For wireless connection to your computer, the K750 doesn’t use Bluetooth, but 2.4 gHz wireless, meaning that you’ll need a plug-in USB receiver. I knew it! I knew you’d have to plug something in! Oh, well. For better connectivity, I guess I’ll take it.

Below, I’ve got the Logitech promotional video, which tauts its super-thin frame, $80 price and one of the better tech catchphrases I’ve heard in a while: “If you’ve got light, you’ve got power.”

H/T: Navneet Alang.

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We didn’t exactly think that the oStylus capacitive pen was a runaway hit at $75 plus shipping, but at half that? Now we’re talking. Founder Andrew Goss just pinged us to say that the company’s first capacitive pen is now selling for half of the original MSRP, or $37.50 for those terrible with numbers. The only difference is the shedding of a limited run engraving; these pens are still handmade in-studio, so the build quality will match that of the one we reviewed. We still maintain that this unit is best in the hands of doodlers, and capacitive input devices as a whole still have aways to go, but this ain’t a bad price if you’re looking to experiment.

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After three years of development, 8,000 private beta testers, and $20 million in, Blekko is finally ready for primetime–well, public beta primetime. The service is a search engine, which raises the inevitable question–“another search engine? Really?” What sets the site apart is its aggressive approach toward “search spam.”

Blekko relies on a technology called “slashtags,” refining results thusly, “search query /slashtag,” a clever way of essentially searching inside categories within your search query on the fly.

Let’s take a vanity search, for example (because I assume you’re all searching my name anyway, right? Search “brian heater /tech” and you’ll get very different search results when you search “brian heater /comics.”

Techcrunch claims that Blekko’s own decision not to overhype itself may be what saves the company from becoming another crushing disappointment like, say, Cuil (remember them?). For better or worse, however, the tech industry seems to be doing all the hyping the new company could ask for.

According to Blekko itself, 11.5 percent of its beta users have continued to use the site on a weekly basis. Not too shabby for a beta search engine.

This article was written on May 12, 2006 by CyberNet.

It looks like Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 will allow users to create posts for their blogs. You will be able to upload your post directly for Microsoft Word and you will also be able to upload your photos. At this point you should not expect these features to be flawless because they just started to work on them. Here are some known issues that have been found so far:

Did I mention that this was beta software and we were running hot? For complete transparency I need to admit a couple things. I had to make a few hand tweaks to my post due to bugs (I’m sure our developer would blame it on user error). I had to upload and hand code the pictures because I had problems with my FTP site. And, I had to hand change the items with the CODE tag since we didn’t map the Word code style correctly. You too can help find a report bugs with this feature once beta 2 is available.

I hope to see this and other new features in the Beta 2 release of Microsoft Office 2007. Hopefully they have been working on other features besides those that only benefit bloggers.

News Source: Joe Friend Blog

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