I got my Cannon digital camera 4 years ago I thought it was a dream come true and will make me stop wanting another cam, now there’s all these DSLRs coming out that’s making all these beautiful, colorful and lively pictures. What would I want next?

Some people had forgotten about the blue tooth, stepped in to the shower or bath tub and are shocked when they see the beloved blue tooth lying there with its little beacon of blue LED sending an SOS message.

My first blue tooth jumped into a sink of sudsy dishwater and as soon as I felt it fall I was yelling, “Oh God”. I grabbed it as it little light blinked helpless in my hand. I used the blow dryer thinking that would help. I ran to the computer and did a quick search for “blue tooth rescue “but I was not very successful with the suggestion to put it in a container of uncooked rice and leave it there for several hours. Its little blue light was getting weaker.

I tried to recharge it thinking since it had a very irregular blink rate, that maybe defibrillator would convert it back to a normal rhythm but after a few minutes its little blue light indicated it was dying. Once again I cried “Oh God , No!”. I lived 100 miles from a Walmart 0r any place where I could get a replacement.

Finally its little blue light went out.

At least it was baptized before it died.

“ARRIS today announced that it will demonstrate two DOCSIS ‘firsts’ at NCTA 2011, in Chicago,” the company said.

“The demonstration will show real file transfer throughput of 4.5 Gbps of DOCSIS downstream traffic being transmitted over 128 DOCSIS downstream channels into a single Fiber Node,” it announced.

The company can achieve this speed by using up more channels than the current DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) implementations do. This means that there are fewer analog TV channels left, but providers will probably find it a worthwhile trade-off.

“In the demo, an ARRIS C4 CMTS will be configured using four newly-released 32 Downstream Cable Access Modules (32D CAMs) to source the 128 DOCSIS downstream channels into the Fiber Node,” it explained.

“The demo will also show a proof-of-concept implementation of a 5-200 MHz high-split DOCSIS upstream system with 575 Mbps of DOCSIS upstream bandwidth being transmitted over 24 DOCSIS Upstream channels out of a single Fiber Node,” it added.

As users get more and more used to viewing online video, in HD, playing games or getting their movies in minutes rather than hours, ISPs struggle to keep up.

Bandwidth gets increasingly expensive as it nears the users, the biggest investments these companies make in infrastructure are for the so-called “last mile,” the portion that gets the data to the actual user.

Especially in areas where subscribers are spread out geographically, ISPs are always looking for ways to maximize the use of their existing infrastructure, be it telephone lines or TV cable, rather than upgrading it to fast but expensive fiber-to-home connections for example.

Players can storm the battlefield armed with powerful weapons and items only available in the Physical Warfare Pack including the Type 88 light machine gun with bipod for superior firepower and total zone control, the SKS sniper rifle flash suppressor that provides increased stealth abilities for Recon soldiers, and the lethal armour-piercing flechette ammo for the DAO-12 semi-automatic shotgun that is sure to tear through anything in its path. Also included is day one access to the highly versatile DAO-12 semi-automatic shotgun itself.

While it’s possible this content could be released as a for-pay content pack for the game, the idea of being forced to pay early through select retailers for weapons that don’t need to be unlocked and will represent a clear advantage on the first day of release isn’t sitting well with anyone. Gaming forums, Twitter, and my own inbox have been filled with people complaining about this promotion, especially given many were hoping to buy via Steam or other digital distribution services.

We’ll see if EA decides to reverse this decision, as the company has flip-flopped on this sort of promotion in the past. Retailer-specific content is one of the more customer-hostile trends in modern gaming, and as it stands now, this promotion will create a group of players with a clear advantage over everyone else. Let’s hope EA sees the light.

The promise was revealed in a Microsoft job posting on Monday. Engadget notes that the timeline shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that iOS and Android both push out major releases months apart. Microsoft’s job posting states the following:

There has never been a more thrilling time for the Windows Phone team! Windows Phone 7 launched and is building momentum in the market. Do you want to be part of driving the next big business for the company? If you believe Windows Phone is a critical area of investment for Microsoft and if you have a passion for creating compelling mobile user experiences then come join the Windows Phone Customer Experience Engineering team (CXE) and help shape the future of mobile. We are passionate about delivering world-class products to our users and partners. We aren’t just building a me-too iPhone or Android competitor; we’re changing the way customers use and experience their device. The Application Platform team is building the new development framework for Windows Phone applications, responsible for defining the application model and delivering the application manager, execution framework, integration with the OS, notifications, data services, integration with cloud services and delivering the ecosystem for supporting mobile application developers.

This Senior Program Manager position will be the CXE Feature PM that drives all development work on the Application Platform for update releases between major yearly releases. You will work closely with the Application Platform team who is working on major yearly releases and with the best technologies/teams across the company (e.g. Silverlight, XNA, .NET Compact Framework). We believe leveraging our partners, combined with building phone specific technologies within our own engineering team, results in leveraging the best technology from Microsoft for our developers.

Microsoft is currently on track to release Windows Phone Mango in the fall. The software giant unveiled a number of new Windows Phone Mango features last month. Mango will include over 500 new features ranging from multitasking through to some major Bing search improvements.

It’s unfortunate that Steam has removed Crysis II from their service. This was not an EA decision or the result of any action by EA,” reads the official statement from the company. “Steam has imposed a set of business terms for developers hoping to sell content on that service – many of which are not imposed by other online game services. Unfortunately, Crytek has an agreement with another download service which violates the new rules from Steam and resulted in its expulsion of Crysis II from Steam.”

The statement goes on to point out that Crysis 2 is still available online from a number of digital distribution outlets, which would certainly add weight to the theory that it’s simply been booted out by Valve – if EA wanted to make it an Origin exclusive they wouldn’t have stopped at the Steam store.