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Lease your next smart phone?

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:58:00 -0500

Lease your next smart phone?: An interesting thought, interesting enough that Mobile Device Lease...

AppReview: FingerPrint

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:44:00 -0500

AppReview: FingerPrint: Ok this app isn’t for your mobile device, nope it’s an app for...

Apple's plan to revolutionize the text book stinks

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:38:46 -0500

Apple's plan to revolutionize the text book stinks: Or at lest that’s what Business Insider...

"The facts are that in the $25 billion gaming industry, female gamers represent 42% of consumers."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:22:22 -0500

“The facts are that in the $25 billion gaming industry, female gamers represent 42% of...

"Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online..."

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:48:03 -0500

“Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop...

Sprint Says No More WiMAX Phones, Betting The Farm On LTE

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:19:00 -0500

Sprint Says No More WiMAX Phones, Betting The Farm On LTE : Wow Android Life might have just won the...

Roku to Launch Cordless Streaming Stick for TVs Ok interesrting,...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:04:41 -0500

Roku to Launch Cordless Streaming Stick for TVs

Ok interesrting, the idea is you just plug this “stick” into the back of your TV, and boom you have ROKU without the little box.

Neat idea, except… why bother? Why not just put the Roku service inside the TV. Just about everything being sold today is a connected TV, right? So just include Roku as a menu option…

Oh yeah right… unless the TV manufacturers buy the rights from Roku to do that, Roku doesn’t make any money. They make money by selling hardware.

Hmm can you smell Roku powered TV’s in our future? Well it would make more sense to me than a Stick.

Disclosure, I own and love my Roku box, it’s the best $75 I ever spent.

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Roku 2 XS 1080p Streaming Player

No Warrant Needed for GPS Monitoring, Judge Rules Ahh Panic, the...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:38:52 -0500

No Warrant Needed for GPS Monitoring, Judge Rules

Ahh Panic, the government can track your every move! wait wait wait settle down a little. Yes this is scary, no doubt about it, but lets think about it for a second.

The government, has never needed a warrant to tail you? To follow you around all day and record you activities in a notebook, from a public place, has never required a warrant to my knowledge. In fact anyone can do it, not just the government.

The same law that allows me to take photos of people, objects and events in a public place, allows anyone, the government included to do the same thing.

Now if you didn’t click through to the article, let me summarize. The police attached a GPS tracker to a car via a magnet, no damage was done, they didn’t invade use cell phone gps or carrier tracking, they just attched a tracking bug to a car.

This let the cops tail the suspect with out going through the cost to taxpayers or the environment of driving around following the guy for several days.

This is a good thing, it’s greener, and police could be solving crimes, writing tickets, or whatever it is they are normally paid to do while the little GPS tracker did it’s thing.

Normally I am one of the first to shoult invasion of privacy, especially when the government is involved, but in this case they aren’t invading anyone’s privacy, they just track a cars location as it used public roadways. They did it in an economical, and environmentally friendly fashion.

Oh and they caught someone stealing taxpayer dollars from the City of St. Louis.

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Low cost, real time GPS tracker with advanced features

Netflix To Debut Original Series “Lilyhammer” Next Month

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:16:11 -0500

Netflix To Debut Original Series “Lilyhammer” Next Month: The first of the Netflix produced original...

"Pages turn faster. The main shelf menu is completely smooth and crisp to the touch...."

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:27:15 -0500

“Pages turn faster. The main shelf menu is completely smooth and crisp to the touch....

The Super Bowl Will Stream Online in 2012

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:09:00 -0500

The Super Bowl Will Stream Online in 2012: Those of us cord cutters normally keep a digital antenna...

Many of us in who love technology and science mourned the last...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:58:31 -0500

Many of us in who love technology and science mourned the last Space shuttle mission. We claimed that this was worst possible budget cut that we as Americans could make. The long term benefits of NASA, and space travel have already given us boggle the mind, and who knows what future benefits we just tossed aside so that government subsidies of corn could continue….

But what is this, I had completely forgotten about the semi-secret X-37B robotic space plane project that is apparently still being funded.

In fact it just set an endurance record. Today marks the X-37B’ 270th day of flight.

It is now approaching the end of it’s 9 month mission.

Sure it’s no space shuttle, in fact the shuttle could carry two X-37B’s in it’s cargo bay, but it’s something and that gives me hope that our space travel days aren’t yet over.

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(via Secretive Air Force Space Plane Nears Orbital Record | Classified X-37B Air Force Spacecraft | Military & Defense Space & Spy Planes | Space.com)

(via iTwin turns any PC into a personal cloud server | Desktop |...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:09:07 -0500

(via iTwin turns any PC into a personal cloud server | Desktop | Gear)

iTwin, billed as the ultimate USB drive but it’s not a drive at all. It’s a way of connecting two computers over the internet.

Plug one half of the iTwin into your home computer, plug the other half in at work, boom the two computers are connected. Share files, remotely edit documents, etc.

It’s billed as a connecting cable, without the cable.

Oh and don’t worry, the two halves generate and share an encryption key, so everything is secure.

Personally I’m a fan of Logmein’s free service for this sort of thing, but this is a neat idea, and at $100 for the set, it seems like a good price.

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It’s SkiFree for iPhone & iPad!!!! Hat tip to our...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:00:52 -0500

It’s SkiFree for iPhone & iPad!!!!

Hat tip to our friend Pauley for the link.

(via Hit the Slopes, Ski Dude! » 148Apps » iPhone and iPod Touch Application Reviews and News)

"giving more families access to broadband will create $32 billion in annual economic value or $100..."

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:14:43 -0500

“giving more families access to broadband will create $32 billion in annual economic value or...

Man Has Smartphone Dock Installed In His Prosthetic Arm Some...

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:44:53 -0400

Man Has Smartphone Dock Installed In His Prosthetic Arm

Some friday fun. A British man born with only one arm was having issues using his smart phone with just one hand. So he had a prosthetics company build a dock for his smart phone into his prosthetic arm for his phone.

Personally I think he ought to be able to control his arm/hand in some way with the phone. But, it’s a start. :)

Via: laughingsquid

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"On the iPhone, Sprint said the device “resulted in Sprint’s best ever day of sales in retail, web..."

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:27:43 -0400

“On the iPhone, Sprint said the device “resulted in Sprint’s best ever day of sales in retail,...

Groupon And LivingSocial 'Absolutely' Inflate Regular Prices

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:10:55 -0400

Groupon And LivingSocial 'Absolutely' Inflate Regular Prices: You have probably heard tales of woe...

Sprint To Sell The iPhone 4S With Unlocked MicroSIM Slot

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:33:00 -0400

Sprint To Sell The iPhone 4S With Unlocked MicroSIM Slot: Man, Sprint is just firing on...

(via iPhone 4S Geekbench Benchmarks ~68% Faster than iPhone...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:15:02 -0400

(via iPhone 4S Geekbench Benchmarks ~68% Faster than iPhone 4 )

Itnteresting that the iPad 2 is just crushing everything out there, including the iPhone 4S. But the iPad 2 isn’t getting The iOS 5 Siri support.

Also fun to see all the high end Android phones getting slaughtered as well.

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Apple iPad 2 MC769LL/A Tablet (16GB, WiFi, Black)