Bin Laden’s data almost as valuable as the man.
Of course Bin Laden’s death brings closure for many, the real capture was the data. Can you imagine what’s on Bin Laden’s hard drives?
via politico.com
Intelligo works when the power doesn’t
Here is an incredibly valuable yet essentially “free” benefit of the Intelligo product: continued connectivity during power outages.
Today there was an outage which affected much of the east side of Honolulu. While I don’t have the details as to specifically which regions were affected, the only region that really matters, MINE, was affected. Our extensive battery backup configuration allowed us to safely power down all electronic equipment.
But what then? Intelligo to the rescue.
In a few minutes, my laptop + Intelligo was on, doing just fine, and I continued my work. Because I essentially “live in the cloud” all of my other services were up and running. The laptop is running of its own internal battery of course, and I’ve connected Intelligo to the laptop via USB to supply it with fresh power.
If my laptop batteries drain too low, I can merely plug my laptop into the battery backup and within about a 1/2 hour I will be fully charged again. I don’t know how many times I can recharge my laptop from my battery backup, and I hope I won’t have to find out. But I’ll report the continued findings here.
Thanks Intelligo! Not only was I productive enough to keep working, but I apparently also found enough time to write this post!
Are you a jerky driver? iPhone App tells you so
In the interesting-but-useless category of apps, this iPhone app measures your braking, acceleration, and cornering and gives you a score of smoothness. If I had this app back when I was 17 and driving my just-purchased ’69 Dodge Charger R/T, I probably would be using this app to see how crazy I could drive and compare my score against my other crazy friends. Now if State Farm, the company that released this app, used the scoring as a way to adjust my insurance rates (up or down), that’s another story. Until then, I stand on my interesting-but-useless categorization.
via news.cnet.com
Best Android Apps – April 2011
Nearly all of the apps I use on my Sprint EVO 4G phone are covered in this article and there’s a bunch of apps that I’ve never tried. Got Android? Lookin’ for apps? This is a great and current list of ones to at least try. Make sure you read the comments in the Marketplace to see if there are any problems with your specific model. Actual mileage may vary. Have fun!
via gizmodo.com
Raid in Bin Laden was accidentally live-tweeted
A word of wisdom for all who are into live tweeting various events (like me): watch what you live tweet! Here’s the story of an IT guy living in that region that inadvertently live-tweeted the raid on Bin Laden.
Sony Playstation Network user’s credit cards getting charged by hackers
It’s looking more and more like the hackers did get access to credit card information. If you are a Playstation Network subscriber, change your credit card number or risk getting ripped off
“I logged into my bank account just to check everything was OK and I found out there was some just over $2,000 in charges which I didn’t personally accrue,” he said.
via abc.net.au
Google Talk & Video Coming to an Android near you
Google had to do this in order to compete with Apple’s facetime. And of course they have one-upped the iPhone: you can do video chat on 3G and 4G networks as opposed to iPhone which only does it if connected to wifi. The only bad news is that it is being released first for the Nexus S and then later for the rest of us. Finally we can make use of that front facing camera. Can’t wait!
Android has more free apps than iPhone
The structural superiority of the Android market-based approach continues to gain steam. Apple’s iPhone is a fantastic phone, but it just can’t compete singlehandedly against an entire industry of hardware manufacturers, carriers, and developers. While I give credit to iPhone as a better hardware platform and better software integration, this advantage will continue to shrink to the point where it becomes irrelevant. Google’s continued exclusive software advances on the mobile platform will help Android phones overcome any hardware disintegration deficiencies. Pardon my wonky geekout
According to Distimo, Google’s Android Market currently offers 134,342 free applications for download, while Apple’s App Store for iPhone offers 121,845 free applications.
via techcrunch.com
Google releases Android Docs app. Eat your heart out, iphone’ers!
Android users have yet another reason to stick their tongues out at iphone users: a seriously functional google docs app for android phone.
If you “qualify” head on over to the android store and install your copy.
From Google:
“Increasingly, people are using mobile phones to access information — from email to web browsing to editing documents. Part of getting work done on the go is being able to easily access, edit and share content, which is why we’re happy to announce the new Google Docs app for Android.”
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-new-google-docs-app-for.html
Google Mobile releases key findings from research on smartphones
In case you’ve been living under a rock, the world has shifted, again, to mobile phones. Personally? I watch videos on my phone more than I watch them on TV. I probably use the mobile browser at least as much as I use my desktop. And one thing is for darn sure, when I’m out and about, my mobile phone is my brain extension. Google’s research will confirm what many of us already know: mobile is huge
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