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Richard Wiseman found a cow that may have a vase on its face. Or … maybe … it has two faces on its face. Is your mind blown yet?

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Richard Wiseman found a cow that may have a vase on its face. Or … maybe … it has two faces on its face. Is your mind blown yet?

Via Dimitrios Diamantaras

Over the last couple days RIM has been battling BlackBerry delays/outages in several countries, a post on the company blog yesterday they stated it was “caused by a core switch failure within RIM’s infrastructure. Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested. As a result, a large backlog of data was generated, and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible”… Unfortunately the same outage has happened here for us Canadians. Users are reporting since last night that their emails, texts and BBM messages are not going through… certainly frustrating and RIM has yet to comment.

Update: RIM has finally stated their is an issue. A note posted on their site says “BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays this morning. We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we apologize to our customers for any inconvenience. We will provide a further update as soon as more information is available.”

Update – 11:32am: Some Canadian users are now reporting the service has been restored.

Update #2 – 3:00pm: RIM just held a conference call (link is here for details) but they have said that they have no ETA on a full restore. Very upsetting and not good for RIM.

Update #3 6:12pm: For real now, users are reporting that service in Canada is back, sporadically getting emails etc…

Are you experiencing delays/outages?
(Thanks to everyone who sent this in!)

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Sony’s not having a good morning. In addition to having to recall 1.6 million Bravia TVs, it’s also been forced to temporarily lock 93,000 customers out of their PSN and Sony Online Entertainment accounts. You won’t be surprised by the reason: an attempt by hackers to “test a massive set of sign-in IDs and passwords” against Sony’s network database. Some of the affected accounts showed “additional activity prior to being locked” and are being investigated. On the flip-side, Sony’s Chief Information Security Officer, Philip Reitinger, stressed that most of the hackers’ details resulted in failed logins and in any case credit card details are not at risk. Users are being told to expect an email if they’ve been affected, which will contain further instructions. Has Sony finally realized the value of timely communication?

Sony locks 93,000 PSN and SOE accounts due to ‘massive’ hack attempt originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Can’t say we didn’t see this catfight coming after Apple boldly rejected Samsung’s settlement offer in Australia, but man, the latter certainly isn’t afraid of striking back in its enemy’s front yard. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Sammy’s set up a pop-up store merely meters away from Apple’s Sydney store, all for just stealing the thunder from the iPhone 4S launch this Friday. The campaign? For the first ten customers each day up to Friday, the Korean giant’s offering its Galaxy S II for just $2 sans contract — no wonder the line’s already longer than Apple’s, according to the Herald. But of course, Samsung’s also effectively funding some of these folks for their iPhone 4S from next door, so it’s pretty much a win-win situation for both companies. See? There’s always a happy ending, and let’s hope that the upcoming Nexus Prime won’t add fuel to the ongoing patent dispute.

[Thanks, Kevin]

Samsung crashes iPhone 4S block party, lures Aussies with $2 Galaxy S IIs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion Tuesday said the problems that have plagued users of its BlackBerry smartphones worldwide for two days were caused by a core switch failure within the company’s infrastructure.

Taking some vitamin supplements later in life can’t be recommended for older women because they may do more harm than good, according to a new study.

This completes the round trip for all our Canadian carriers – SaskTel has now jumped on board and will release the new iPhone 4S. No details on when or what the prices will be, but certainly good news for the carriers and Saskatchewan.

Source: SaskTel

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The Saskatchewan Liberals have unveiled an election platform that includes eliminating the provincial debt, cutting the sales tax to three per cent, and creating a fund to pay for future projects.

Those of us who are still playing with Google Plus are eagerly awaiting its further integration into other Google services (in ways other than the red box in the top right corner). The updates are coming slowly but surely; Google Docs is now integrated with Hangouts, Google Maps can be shared as posts, and Plus posts are starting to appear in Google Web search.

But Google Plus is built around sharing, and one of Google’s best sharing services is missing: Google Reader. It’s the free RSS reader that lets anyone subscribe to any website’s feed, and it’s behind some of the most popular RSS client apps, like Feedly. But there’s no built in way to share articles from Google Reader with your circles on Plus. Fortunately, you can make one pretty easily. Here’s how.

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These are the steps to add Google Plus as a service on your Google Reader. Once you’ve set this up, all you have to do to share an article is the bit in the last step.

1. Go to Google Reader, click the gear icon, and choose ‘Reader settings‘

   

2. Click the ‘Send To’ tab

   

3. Scroll down all the way and click ‘Create a custom link’

   

4. Enter the following into the fields that appear:

   Name:

Google+
URL: https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/confirm?hl=en&url=${url}
Icon URL: https://ssl.gstatic.com/s2/oz/images/favicon.ico



5. Click ‘Save,’ and Google+ will appear checked, with the nice icon next to it:

   

Now, when you go back to Google Reader and click on any article, you’ll see Google+ in the ‘Send to’ drop-down menu at the bottom.

Clicking this will open a new window to add that article as a +snippet, which you can share with any circles or individuals you choose on Google Plus. That’s it!

Not all blog posts will turn into nice +snippets, but that’s up to the site from which you’re sharing. Until Google creates some simple integration of these services, this method will have to do. Once it’s set up, though, it’s easy to share your Google Reader articles with your Plus-buddies.

Are you new to Google Plus? Check out Dan Rowinski’s excellent introduction, How To Use Google Plus.

Thanks to How-To New for finding those share-to URLs.

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After popping up at IFA, and teasing us with the whole ‘pre-sale’ thing, the Archos 101 G9 is finally ready to empty your wallet. We’ve only seen it on the company’s store so far, where the base model’s available now bearing a $370 price tag, with no sign of the 250GB variant yet. For your cash you get Android 3.2, a 1.0GHz dual core processor, and even HDMI out for those times when the 10.1 inch screen just isn’t big enough. Still not sure if the Archos slab’s for you? Try checking out our hands-on to see if this slate with the French flair is worth your hard earned cash, and head on down to the source link if the answer is oui.

[Thanks to OneLove]

Archos 101 G9 tablet goes on sale, 8GB version now $370 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’ll take a lot to screw this up: Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, and a handful of other extremely cool heroes in uniform, all blowing things up together wonderfully. Watch this trailer in HD… now. More »