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In a patent app made public this month, RIM's lab geeks describe setting up a proxy server right on the phone that would intercept the browser's web requests and bundle, compress, and send them to a gateway on the other end (BIS, we presume) that would know how to deal with the packet.
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The Consumer Electronics Show may be, to quote Stephen Colbert, a "high school science fair on crank, " but it's nirvana for gadget geeks.
For the hardware geeks out there, here's the reference design, which seems to indicate some future models "could" support removable memory for loading in and getting data off of PMCs.
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But nowadays Amstrad dominates the market not just in home computers and laptops but in mobile phones, while Clive Sinclair's latest tablet had geeks queueing outside Spectrum stores in London, New York and Tokyo.
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This marks a crucial development in the Internet's history: Far from being a place where geeks go to hang out with other geeks, the Internet is now as vital a part of the average college student's world as Spring Break.
Many geeks who scoffed at Best Buy's cease-and-desist letter on Facebook surmised that the company was really miffed about a recent Newegg commercial which might have hit too close to home.
This part of the S-1 is for finance geeks and accountants (hey, I get excited about it).
Geeks will be more intrigued by Dell's new 0.9-inch-thick laptop weighing just a bit less than four pounds and available in black, white or red.
Then there's the dream factory of aviation geeks: Skunk Works.
By contrast, Semel, a former movie mogul, has often seemed out of place in an industry of geeks-turned-CEOs like Apple's Steve Jobs, Dell's Michael Dell and Amazon.com 's Jeff Bezos.
Apart from a stated preference and dedication to Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, savvy geeks on the cusp of the next best thing won't necessarily want what the 900 has to offer, especially in light of that other spotlight-stealing flagship, the One X.
By contrast, Semel, a former movie mogul, has often seemed out of place in an industry of geeks-turned-CEOs like Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Steve Jobs, Dell's (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) Michael Dell and Amazon.com 's (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) Jeff Bezos.
One sensed Ebert's enjoyment at being a role model for movie geeks who wanted to get their own aesthetic values aired on the Web.
Up until now ESRI's software has been a tool for geo-geeks, many of whom have gone in for some training in GIS. Its maps are far less sleek and responsive than the simpler Google and Yahoo maps.
Economists and political geeks are now poring over the small print from George Osborne's fourth Budget.
Hack-happy geeks take note, Puzzlebox encourages your creative tinkering, so it's made the software open source, opening the door to any number of applications.
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Back in January, gadget geeks around the world drooled all over themselves at the debut of Apple 's iPhone.
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Back in January, gadget geeks around the world drooled all over themselves at the debut of Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPhone.
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Gadget geeks often pick up cool phones that haven't yet debuted in the U.S. and bring them back, intending to switch the SIM cards and use them at home.
But there's no doubting the need for accessible technical assistance beyond those extraordinary tomes you see geeks carting out of computer shops.
Where would the U.S. space program be today if run not by NASA bureaucrats but by Silicon Valley geeks and financiers--by crazy entrepreneurs?
Farming for geeks is about to get easier, thanks to a new software development platform pioneered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and coming soon to a corn-field near you.
Mostly, though, we're reminded that Seth Rogen's association with Judd Apatow goes all the way back to the cult NBC series "Freaks and Geeks" when he was 16.
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