In other news....EAS not dead!!

It looks like Google is extending EAS support for Gmail / GCalendar until July.  For those of you staring blankly at the screen - Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is what has powered my iOS contacts, calendar, and mail until last month when Google decided to kill support.

EAS was simple, fast, and strong.  Integrating iOS with the "new and improved" Google way is complicated to setup, slow to sync, and breaks in spotty data coverage situations.

Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows Phone does not currently support CardDAV and CalDAV - the new way Google syncs contacts and calendar data.  Microsoft complained and Google has agreed long enough to allow Microsoft to get their act together.

My take is this.  Keep EAS.  DAV may be the open-source, free as in beer way of the future but it's currently broken.  I can either wait for my iPad to sync calendar data through CalDAV, a process that can take several minutes, or just use a 3rd party calendar app that does not support push.  Neither is great.  EAS  pushed email, events, and people to my device effortlessly.

Hopefully, Google will see the error of their ways and bring EAS back permanently.

More info can be found here and here.

RIM changes its name to BlackBerry, launches BlackBerry 10

I hope they make it.  I really do.  Competition is a good thing, and any feature or process BB brings to the table that is a hit will invariably make it into iOS and Android sooner or later.

Read the full article here.

Hacked DirecTiVos have issue with Season Passes

Be careful out there people! If you hacked your DirecTiVo, you may find that your Season Passes no longer work. (And just before the new TV season!)

Apparently, DTV has changed some of the series ID numbers for some of your TV shows. This confuses the poor dear, and it throws up its hands, sits in the corner, and pouts.

The fix is simple, but time-consuming. Recreate your season passes, but keep the old ones around for awhile, in case DTV changes again.

Hey other people have bad ideas too!

Take this Intel ad.

Ok, I get the veiled reference to racism. There are BLACK men kneeling in front of a WHITE man! Holy crap!

But, honestly, there are many other ads that are much more racist than this.

My first reaction was, "The 90's called, they want their technology ads back!"

Discuss.