Do you regularly need to correct the time on your PC? The answer is probably “Yes!”

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How to Synchronise Your Windows PC to a Time Server

We had a quick chat with Bell Canada’s Julie Smithers, and apparently the user gripes, moaning, and all around sadness seem to have helped Twitter and Bell strike up a new conversation about your beloved. Bell and Twitter have agreed that incoming Twitter SMSes will be free on Bell — provided you have a Bell SMS bundle — and that outgoing will be charged just like any other text would be. So if your plan includes 30 sent messages — like the $3 SMS bundle — and you go over, you’ll get dinged just like you would sending normal text messages. So let the merriment begin Canada, go forth, sign up for unlimited texting, and tweet like we know you’ve been itching to since November last year.

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AP – Nisha Taylor was just about to put her beloved T-Mobile Sidekick in her bag. She thought the cell phone would be safer there than in her pocket. In the few seconds it took for the 18-year-old to unwind the string loop that held the Sidekick to her wrist, someone else eyed the device and made off with it.

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This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff / companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got a Kodak Zi6 pocket HD camcorder. Read the rules below (no skimming — we’re omniscient and can tell when you’ve skimmed) and get commenting!

Special thanks to Kodak for providing the gear!

The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for “fixing” the world economy, that’d be sweet too.
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
• Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one Kodak Zi6. Approximate retail value is $179.
• If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
• Entries can be submitted until Friday, February 27th, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

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Engadget’s recession antidote: win a Kodak Zi6 pocket HD camcorder! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Last we checked, Mobile World Congress ended a few days ago, but evidently ASUS doesn’t mind a bit. Out of nowhere, the company has just introduced its newest Windows Mobile 6.1 (boo…) smartphone, the P835. Without a doubt, the two standout features here are the 3.5-inch WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen and support for HSUPA 7.2Mbps downloads. The handset comes loaded with Opera Mobile for web surfing, a trackball, the company’s new and improved Glide user interface, a battery good for six to seven hours of talking, a 528MHz Qualcomm 7201A processor, 4GB of internal storage, a microSDHC card slot, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, USB 2.0 connectivity, aGPS and quad-band GSM compatibility. You’ll also find a 5 megapixel AutoFocus camera and video recording, and beautifully enough, the phone can double as a WiFi access point to share its blazing fast connection over WiFi with up to ten devices. As ASUS always does, we’re left high and dry when it comes to pricing and availability. Full release is after the break.

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ASUS gets official with P835 WVGA smartphone originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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