In this episode, Mark and Paul hold down the fort while the rest of us either travel or play. Unfortunately for Research In Motion, their email forwarding decided to move from work to play mode, well not forwarding, which affected all the Blackberry users in the Americas so that was a topic of discussion along with Android phones becoming more real and AMPS networks moving into oblivion. Below are some more links discussed in this weeks episode. Just as a reminder you can see all of the links that we, and other listeners, tag consider for tHAWT on delicious.

RIM reports critical Blackberry Outage

Update on the RIM Blackberry Outage  

Android Comes to Life in Barcelona and here is a more close up view

Samsung and LG Announce Google-phone to be available in US by EOY

AMPS Analog Cellular to Fade Away on Monday  

Google’s Wireless Auction Play  

New Sprint Director Perhaps to Call for Changes (WSJ may require subscription)

Comcast Won’t bid for Yahoo or Sprint

Best Buy Sued for $54 over Missing Laptop

Best Buy + Data Loss = Lawsuit (blog)

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