My dad has a Motorola T605 cell phone with Verizon. Most of the time, if he received a call when the phone was on the holder and connected to Bluetooth, it wouldn’t work. Dialing out was no problem. The phone would remain on, but no audio could be heard. If he attempted to re-dial, you couldn’t hear any audio either. So, while voice activation might be working, you couldn’t hear the robot chick on the phone prompting you. Basically, when receiving an incoming call while connected to the hands free Bluetooth, the phone would mute once you answered.
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Motorola T605 Bluetooth Hands Free Mute Problem
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Adobe PC & Mobile Biz Units Merge; Where’s David Mendels Going?
Via Bobby from the Flash Mobile Group. Sounds more like management transition & shuffling if you read the press release.
…the Mobile and Devices Business Unit will be folded under Adobe’s Experience and Technology group.
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How to Fix the Flash CS3 Components
*** Update: This is NOT fixed in Flash CS4, nor in the 10.0.2 update. I guess Adobe is in denial that stage.invalidate() is broken, or they just don’t have the dough to throw at QA to get 3 lines of code + an updated set of SWC’s. *sigh* ***
…and end the drawNow madness.
I knew something was SERIOUSLY wrong when I read in the official docs (Part 3) from Adobe that if your code doesn’t work correctly, try using “drawNow”, and failing that, “validateNow”. What do you mean “try”? What… the… hell…
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Post Microsoft MIX 2008 Thoughts
If you are in a hurry, here are some links with excerpts about the section.
Contents
- Introduction – What and Why MIX?
- Conference Grounds – Where was MIX and how did it go down
- DoubleClick – Syndication ready Silverlight
- Have we seen this before? – “Dude, Flash did that years ago.”
- Silverlight Adaptive Streaming – Curious about how the buffering works.
- Silverlight on Mobile – Same problems as Flash Lite has.
- Silverlight for Flash Developers – I do Flash; can I do Silverlight?
- AOL’s Silverlight Email App – Enterprise Silverlight
- Bloggers Mingling – A-list bloggers, and who I met
- Conclusions – What I took away from MIX.
- History Repeating – Some of the .NET crew is doing what the Java crew already did.
- Force Fed Silverlight – Silverlight is an alternative, not a choice.