Dell No Longer Offers The Venue Pro On Contract, Only Unlocked

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When you bought a Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone in the past from Dell, you had the opportunity of choosing the phone with a two-year contract on T-Mobile, AT&T or get the phone unlocked. Things have changed a little bit recently.

If you head over to Dell by following the source link you'll see that there is no carrier mention anymore. You can only purchase unlocked phones (of course, with the mention that you can choose the device with either AT&T or T-Mobile band support). This could mean several things! First of all, it can mean that Dell has exited the Windows Phone game as we were afraid it will when we saw it missing the Mango partner list. This would force carriers to no longer offer the phone in their line-up, which is plausible.

It could also mean that they are actively preparing the Venue Pros for Mango, installing the updates for whenever Microsoft makes the announcement after schooling us in seasons (it will be here this autumn). We might see the carrier references pop back on the page. Which one of the theories are you inclined to believe?

Source: Dell
Via: WPCentral

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Contract Talks May Delay Soap's Move to the Web

Prospect Park, a production company that plans to shift the soap operas “All My Children” and “One Life To Live” to the Web from television, has run into a contractual roadblock.

It is likely to interrupt production of “All My Children” for several months, a person briefed on the production said Monday.

“All My Children” was expected to end its run on ABC on Sept. 23 and start up on an unspecified Web site a few days later. But the person briefed on the production, who insisted on anonymity because of Prospect Park’s choice not to comment, said that “All My Children” could be placed on hiatus until the first quarter of 2012.

“One Life To Live” is scheduled to end its run on ABC in January 2012, so it is less likely that the negotiations would interrupt that show.

Shifting the soap operas to the Web from TV will require changes to production budgets, and those changes will require negotiations with the guilds and unions that represent the production staffs on the shows.

Prospect Park seemed to acknowledge this in a statement on Monday. It read in part, “We are in the process of working out the essential terms of our proposed collective bargaining agreements with the appropriate guilds and unions, which we must do prior to firming up deals with above- and below-the-line talent. We will provide updates as needed.”

ABC announced in April that it was canceling the two soap operas, much to the chagrin of fans. Prospect Park announced a deal three weeks ago to resuscitate the shows by licensing them from ABC and streaming them on the Internet.

The production company emphasized that the arrangement would not affect the quality of the shows.

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