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Like a sighting of Big Foot, the rumors about the iPhone appearing on Verizon have surfaced again with one big difference: the source is the venerable Wall Street Journal. Gary Baker …
A new smarter, more deadly virus called Stuxnet has targeted power plants in Iran. The virus is particularly powerful and has already launched itself against power plants in India and Russia. According to some reports, power systems have been held hostage for ransom and in one case may be responsible for a death. Agencies that oversee US power grids claim that no successful penetrations have happened here although other reports indicate that our systems featuring Siemens software are vulnerable. Full Story Gary Baker …
No more Open Office, the free alternative to Microsoft office developed by enthusiastic coders using Sun Microsystems development tools. The volunteers that develop and promote the free office software severed ties with Oracle on Tuesday and formed an independent group called The Document Foundation and may call the office suite, LibreOffice. Full Story Ed Rudel …
Welcome to the Blackberry Playbook a smaller, business focused contender in the ever widening battle of the tablet/slate computers. Interestingly RIM is running the tablet on its own hybrid OS and included two cameras, bluetooth and WiFi connectivity…no 3G. Release date is set for early 2011. …
No I-phone for Verizon, anytime soon. Apple wants a 4G network. Does this mean Sprint is a contender for Christmas, 2010? Full Story
Ed Rudel …
FCC has opened up unused TV signals (the white noise between channels) for Internet broadband use. The Super Wi-Fi” technology may start to appear within a year. Full Story Ed Rudel …
Microsoft’s premier browser commands one in three visits to the Internet but in recent years has steadily lost ground to feisty competitors like Mozilla’s Firefox or Google’s lightning fast Chrome (both of which have Apple flavors while IE doesn’t!) September 15 Microsoft announced the launch of its newest Internet Explorer 9. Catch Ina Fried’s commentary on CNet about the launch and the new feature sets in the upgraded IE 9 Beta. …
It’s the Onion Capacitor – when combined with today’s slow charging Lithium Ion batteries, are capable of powering a Laptop for days at a time and cell phone for Weeks. A Capacitor can be charged in seconds and then, in turn, charge the slow Lithium-Ion batteries used to power most portable electronics.
Scientist have finally invented a super capacitor – No, not the FLUX capacitor from the 80s movie, “Back to the Future”.
It’s the Onion Capacitor – when combined with today’s slow charging Lithium Ion batteries, are capable of powering a Laptop for days at a time and cell phone for Weeks. A Capacitor can be charged in seconds and then, in turn, charge the slow Lithium-Ion batteries used to power most portable electronics. Read the entire article. Ed Rudel …
Amazon is heating up the ereader market with the introduction of the newest Kindle that now contains 3G connectivity and not just WiFi. Wonder which carrier will benefit the most from this and what this means for future functions on the Kindle? Full Kindle Review …
For good or for bad the Internet has had an incredible impact on things that we thought we would never see the end of like Yellow Pages! Find out who the victims and victors are in this interesting article from PC World. (Ed Rudel) …