It’s time to start looking beyond the Droid Bionic as specifications and pictures for the next Motorola handset have landed online.

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Uncle Sam’s been making his way into the cloud, spurred on in part by the inherent billion dollar cost efficiencies, and Amazon’s looking to help with the move. The Seattle-based company recently announced the launch of its new AWS GovCloud, a federal government-only region that offers a remote server solution for organizations bound by high-level data constraints. The service makes use of FISMA, FIPS 140-2 compliant end points, SAS-70, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS Level 1 security controls, providing a secure host environment that adheres to stringent “regulatory and compliance requirements,” and restricts physical access to the US-only. NASA’s JPL and the US Recovery and Accountability Transparency Board are just two of the 100-plus government agencies already employing AWS’ remote servers, with more destined to join Washington’s velvet-roped cloud. Jump past the break for Amazon’s official PR spiel.

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You might have noticed a few changes this morning. Starting today, content from our HD and Mobile sites will appear right here in the main flow, respectively highlighted in red and magenta. It’ll help you stay better informed about what’s going on in this great, wide world of tech, but we’ve made these posts mini-sized — like our Alt section — so you can cruise right over them if you’re not into home entertainment or cellphones. And, if you really, really want to ban those posts from sight, just use this link: www.engadget.com/classic

We’ll also be running the occasional mini-post for classic Engadget content, shorter entries highlighting bits of news that just don’t need the full expository treatment. And don’t worry, because hd.engadget.com and mobile.engadget.com still work just like they did before, as will all our myriad RSS feeds. So, to summarize: new nuggets of short-form coverage will be popping up from time to time, while HD and Mobile content is now mixed-in and multi-colored. Same great flavor, just more (more, more).

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With its hefty price tag and software quickly approaching its sell-by date, the upcoming Bold 9900 from RIM isn’t bold, it’s brash.

RIM announced the Bold 9900’s pending release Wednesday morning, and it’s one of five new smartphones RIM will debut before year’s end. On paper, the Bold 9900 looks like a strong smartphone contender. It runs the new BlackBerry 7 operating system, RIM’s latest software update to the mobile platform.

It’s also a hybrid device, so those who don’t want to lose a QWERTY keyboard to a new touchscreen can have both. And it runs on T-Mobile’s 4G network, which has decent enough data upload and download speeds.

But then you see the price tag, and it starts to fall apart.

The Bold costs a whopping $350 off the shelf, and that’s after a two-year service contract with T-Mobile. Even industry-leading Apple and Google aren’t charging that much for handsets. The priciest iPhone with 32 gigs of storage costs $300 with a Verizon contract, while most Android phones we’ve seen on contract will run you $200 to $250, max.

Fortunately, there is a $50 mail-in rebate for the Bold 9900. Just don’t forget to fill it out.

The Bold 9900 comes at a time when Canada’s Research in Motion has taken a beating. The PlayBook tablet flopped like a carp on a dock, which led Verizon to question whether to offer a 4G version. Sprint offers a Wi-Fi version of the PlayBook but decided last week to cut its losses and scrap a 4G version.

The Bold carries more caveats than its price. RIM is developing a new smartphone operating system powered by QNX, the operating system in the PlayBook. While the phone-based version of QNX isn’t ready for prime time, RIM honcho Mike Lazaridis says we’ll see phones running QNX next year. Trouble is, it won’t roll back to older BlackBerry devices, so if you buy a Bold 9900, Torch 9810 or anything else RIM released this year, you’re out of luck when the new OS arrives.

RIM needs to push out a winning product, and soon. So far, the Bold, Torch and three other devices RIM promises this year leave us yawning — and we’re not alone. With a dwindling market share, an ongoing soap opera of internal corporate struggles, and two major competitors making major mobile moves (Google-Motorola Mobile marriage, anyone?), all eyes are now on RIM to see what — if anything — the company has up its sleeve.

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 launches on T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network Aug. 31.

This article was written on August 22, 2006 by CyberNet.

When I use Linux I normally choose to use KDE because I like the Start Menu structure a little better. What makes me even happier is that the KDE developers are pondering a redesign of the Start Menu and it should look something like the image to the right.

I like how they make use of tabs which seems to be the hot thing in software lately. The only thing that I wouldn’t like about them is if you have to click in order to switch between them. I would want the ability to hover over one of the options and have it do the switch immediately.

They did mention testing this new menu in openSUSE 10.2 which is currently in the alpha stage. However, I am not sure if it has already been placed in Alpha 3 which was released on August 11. I guess we will find out shortly because I am downloading it!

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