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There's an app for that.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-your-android-phone-into-a-real-star-trek-tricorder/

And was taken down

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/cbs-demands-removal-of-moonblinks-android-tricorder-app-2011097/

I could just say, LMGTFY, but how about a direct link instead.

Just a rumor for now but since you can't replace the default system browser I could see Apple allowing it. Over time they are generally more permissive.

Yes, it couldn't possibly be adversaries, and people want to do harm to the United States, in an environment where people like you firmly believe that everything must be a "false flag" operation designed to somehow take away your rights.

...

Or, it could be this:

Capability of the People’s Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation
http://www.uscc.gov/researchpapers/2009/NorthropGrumman_PRC_Cyber_Paper_FINAL_Approved%20Report_16Oct2009.pdf

Occupying the Information High Ground: Chinese Capabilities for Computer Network Operations and Cyber Espionage
http://www.uscc.gov/RFP/2012/USCC%20Report_Chinese_CapabilitiesforComputer_NetworkOperationsandCyberEspionage.pdf

How China Steals Our Secrets
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/opinion/how-china-steals-our-secrets.html

China's Cyber Thievery Is National Policy—And Must Be Challenged
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203718504577178832338032176-lMyQjAxMTAyMDAwOTEwNDkyWj.html

FBI Traces Trail of Spy Ring to China
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203961204577266892884130620-lMyQjAxMTAyMDAwNzEwNDcyWj.html

NSA: China is Destroying U.S. Economy Via Security Hacks
http://www.dailytech.com/NSA+China+is+Destroying+US+Economy+Via+Security+Hacks/article24328.htm

Chinese Espionage Campaign Targets U.S. Space Technology
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-18/chinese-espionage-campaign-targets-u-dot-s-dot-space-technology

Report: Hackers Seized Control of Computers in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/jet-propulsion-lab-hacked/
http://oig.nasa.gov/congressional/FINAL_written_statement_for_%20IT_%20hearing_February_26_edit_v2.pdf

Chinese hackers took control of NASA satellite for 11 minutes
http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/chinese-hackers-took-control-of-nasa-satellite-for-11-minutes-20111119/

Chinese hackers suspected of interfering with US satellites
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/27/chinese-hacking-us-satellites-suspected

Former cybersecurity czar: Every major U.S. company has been hacked by China
http://www.itworld.com/security/262616/former-cybersecurity-czar-every-major-us-company-has-been-hacked-china

China Attacked Internet Security Company RSA, Cyber Commander Tells SASC
http://defense.aol.com/2012/03/27/china-attacked-internet-security-company-rsa-cyber-commander-te/

Chinese Counterfeit Parts Keep Flowing

Likewise, if I were dumb enough to enter my data to fraudulent site, then it would be my responsibility to fix the issue, and rightfully so.

Does that apply if you are unaware of the fraud? For instance DNS hijack, MITM attack, both of which ensuring the first instance of you knowing of compromise is when you check your statement or the bank freezes your account? What about if your card is skimmed? It's happened to me, and I only ever use ATMs on bank buildings and am meticulous about shielding my PIN.

A lot of this isn't relevant to the story, but your statement is overly vague.

Like this one from 2008? Or 2007?

I would want this oversized NES to put the oversized NES controller in

You're lucky you never tried to buy anything there with $2 bills or pick up anything you ordered from bestbuy.com or you could have been posting from the prison library.

For one, the Nexus can't be sold with a network lock. It's sold as a "reference" device, and is unlocked to any network.
For two, it is not allowed to have any manufacturer-specific branding, and is sold with a stock unmodified Android.

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/pure-google-verizon-sneaks-two-bloatware-apps-onto-the-galaxy-nexus-20111117/galaxy-nexus-crapware-2/

Wait until 2.39:1 becomes standard. Eventually we'll be carrying around laptops that look like ironing boards. Won't that be convenient.

Speaking of which, I actually want one those 2.39:1 HDTVs that came out in 2010.

Philips

Vizio

Please respect this, once and for all, when posting stuff like this: "Hacking" is NOT "Cracking"!
http://www.geek.com/forums/topic/hacking-and-cracking

Are you on Hack-cocaine?

Please respect this, once and for all, when posting stuff like this: "Hacking" is NOT "Cracking"! http://www.geek.com/forums/topic/hacking-and-cracking

The third is when the customer is dumb enough to buy an Ubisoft game

Apple supposedly purchase the trademark in 2009 from Proview, but it appears that they may have bought it from their Taiwanese counterparts, which the Chinese portion is using to its advantage. China being China, they are choosing to side with the Chinese-based business.

That's funny. Apple being Apple, it did the same thing with the iPhone trademark. Apple started using that trademark before they could secure all the rights to it from Cisco (who had secured the iPhone trademark three years before Apple for the much less successful "internet phone" Cisco was planning to sell).

If China awards the company anything remotely close to $1 billion, then I hope Apple pulls out of China. Wishful thinking as it is, it would be interesting to watch. I also hope all such companies fail, but that's pretty obvious.

I wouldn't worry. Apple didn't pull out of California when it found out it had to pay Cisco for the trademark.

So I doubt they'd pull out of China for the same reason.

And like McIntosh Laboratory, Cisco's iPhone, and the way the Mighty Mouse turned into the Magic Mouse. It's hard to feel sorry for Apple when they keep making the same class of mistake.

Apple supposedly purchase the trademark in 2009 from Proview, but it appears that they may have bought it from their Taiwanese counterparts, which the Chinese portion is using to its advantage. China being China, they are choosing to side with the Chinese-based business.

If China awards the company anything remotely close to $1 billion, then I hope Apple pulls out of China. Wishful thinking as it is, it would be interesting to watch. I also hope all such companies fail, but that's pretty obvious.

Comedian Louis C.K. confronts piracy head on with digital experiment

we could look at palm pilots since the 90s and say that adding a phone to a PDA was eventually going to happen

It did happen.

I found this article more resourceful. And for your information they are being auctioned for thousands of GB pounds at ebay.

In EU stores, the Samsung tablets are advertised by the floor sales people as "The Samsung iPad, it's better because it has flash" - part of the Samsung sales training. Seen it in multiple places in a couple of countries.

I'd never heard of this, and I would love to see evidence. Assuming it is true, which I can believe, that's a big problem and they deserve to have their butts in hot water.

Their frigging lawyers could not tell apart a iPad and a Galaxy Tab. http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/judge-holds-up-ipad-2-and-galaxy-tab-in-court-samsung-lawyers-cant-tell-the-difference-20111014/

Yeah, yeah. This one, honestly, I don't care about. Tell you what, let me go put a Samsung, Sony, Westinghouse, Vizio, Sanyo, and LG HDTV next to one another, stand you and a distance, and see if you can tell me which is which. I maintain that screen and black bezel (with or without rounded corners) is not copyright/trademark/patentable. Can you differentiate between a Dell, IBM, or HP keyboard? Most likely not. Depending on the model, all are liable to be black, have lettered/numberd keys, be rectangular, etc. A standardized shape isn't something you should be able to sue over. Almost any TV, laptop, tablet, and smartphone released in the last 5-10 years has had that same shape. Congratulations, Apple, on being the first company to nail a commercially successful, full featured, comsumer-friendly smartphone and tablet. I applaud you for it. Seriously, no sarcasm. Thank you for revolutionizing the landscape. Now, kindly keep up instead of maintaining a weakening course. Spend less time suing and more time developing. In a tangentially related comment, I would like to request that no one use the word "innovate" in these comments ever again. I'm tired of it ^_~

To add:

In EU stores, the Samsung tablets are advertised by the floor sales people as "The Samsung iPad, it's better because it has flash" - part of the Samsung sales training. Seen it in multiple places in a couple of countries.

Samsung is betting of the same marketing principles used by the following "well known" bands: Powasonic, Panascanic, Sunny, SQNY, Nokla & Adibas and let's not forget the "famous" aPad & ePad Android tablets. Their frigging lawyers could not tell apart a iPad and a Galaxy Tab. http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/judge-holds-up-ipad-2-and-galaxy-tab-in-court-samsung-lawyers-cant-tell-the-difference-20111014/

I liked what GameStation did last year :)

GameStation EULA collects 7,500 souls from unsuspecting customers
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/gamestation-eula-collects-7500-souls-from-unsuspecting-customers-20100416

It's just stupid comparison. Chrome automatically updates all old versions to their newest one while IE doesn't. This compares two exact versions, Chrome 15 and IE8. If you compare just browsers, IE is still easily number one at 50%, while Chrome has 25%.

Didn't Microsoft just release a statement saying they were going to be doing the same thing? So we'll have to wait for that to happen before the comparison could possibly be a valid judge of what browser is most used. My web logs still say IE, which does make me sad like bull. }:(

In fact, after a more thorough review, the only incorrect information published by Trevor Eckhart was information he published about Verizon Wireless. A spokesperson from Verizon clarified that the privacy policy information they published on their website was not in any way related to CarrierIQ. In fact, Verizon claims to not have any dealings at all with CarrierIQ on any of their handsets. Of course, the Verizon spokesperson failed to comment when Mr. Eckhart responded by pointing out that his research discovered three IP addresses in the CarrierIQ network that were pointed to by domains like vzw-collector.demo.carrieriq.com and hupload-vzw99.carrieriq.com.

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/carrieriq-plot-thickens-20111123/

Well.. most video game consoles do not come with screens. You're comparing different things. We can have a controller accessory which can dock with a smartphone/pda/random handheld and wirelessly transmit to any display device.

http://gadgetlike.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/game-grip.jpg

http://www.geek.com/gearlog/images/GPod_iPhoneController.jpg

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/frontsquare/eb2b_icontrol_pad.jpg

Don't be so sure. From here:
When CarrierIQ was dubbed one of the Fierce 15, they were working with seven of the top ten major OEM’s, as well as Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Sprint. Currently, Trevor has found CarrierIQ in a number of Sprint phones, including HTC and Samsung Android devices. CarrierIQ is confirmed to be found on the iPhone or on feature phones, but Trevor has found RIM’s Blackberry handsets and several Nokia devices with CarrierIQ on board as well. CarrierIQ can be seen on your Android handset by installing an app from the Market called AnyCut. From here you will notice IQRD and IQAgent, which are both parts of the CarrierIQ system on the device.

I'm going to go with everyone else here and wonder where you got that information. As one of the AC's pointed out, the best I can find directly saying it is the following sentence:

Currently, Trevor has found CarrierIQ in a number of Sprint phones, including HTC and Samsung Android devices. CarrierIQ is confirmed to be found on the iPhone or on feature phones, but Trevor has found RIM’s Blackberry handsets and several Nokia devices with CarrierIQ on board as well.

That grammar is screwed up and makes the most sense by adding in a "not" to read "CarrierIQ is not confirmed to be found on the iPhone or on feature phones".

At http://www.carrieriq.com/company/careers.htm, under the Senior Software Engineer position, it does give this as well for Job Requirements:

1+ years of application development experience on at least one other mobile platform (iPhone, Windows Mobile, BREW, Symbian, and so on.)

That's the best that I can find supporting that it is on the iPhone.

Personally, I wouldn't doubt for a second that something like this is on the iPhone (I would almost be more surprised if there wasn't, actually), but I'm not really seeing any strong evidence.

From what I have read, and baring in mind the amount of information is limited, but IOS is indeed capable of carrying the carrieriq software and there are versions of the iphone out there with it already installed OR at least that is the suggestion from this particular site:

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-much-of-your-phone-is-yours-20111115/

I dont have an iphone, so i dont care either way personally.

CarrierIQ is confirmed to be found on the iPhone

Not directly in the article but in the links within the article.

Here's the direct link: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-much-of-your-phone-is-yours-20111115/

Hell, don't deal with this particular outfit, period. I mean, how could people forget them basically turning passwords off for four hours in June?!

Wow, that must be pretty embarrassing . . . being in YOUR field and having never heard of Safecast, the first community network for monitoring radiation. That area could be measured for free with the help of "experts." Perhaps an "expert" such as yourself should recommend people contacting a groups like that instead of sticking your nose up and saying their concerns are not worth being addressed?

But I understand your need to mystify measuring radiation. I mean, if measuring radiation becomes so easy that it just becomes another phone app, then how are you going to pay off that student debt of yours?

Googled for "ratiation detectors for Japan". Found this interesting link, among other things.

I was going to echo the general attitude that the fears are probably misguided, but somewhere in the Church literature (I'm "Mormon") I was reading several months back, I noted that we had sent a bunch of radiation detectors to the Touhoku area.

So they apparently are either taking the risk seriously, or they are wanting to provide our members with a way to check and avoid unnecessary worries.

But you might check with your nearest church or community group with which you have some sort of affiliation. Or, in fact, do not assume that the "government" would not send somebody by to check your gutter. Go ahead and check with your nearest yakusho (cho-yakusho -- town/subdivision -- or ku-yakusho -- ward, not the LDS kind, but the division of the large city kind). If your wife is Japanese, she should be able to find out pretty easily, if you can convince her that it's okay to ask. If not, look up the phone number of the place you go to get your gaijin registration taken care of.

The Palm pilot wasn't a phone, so didn't "compete in the same market" (as you define that) as the iPhone. Therefore, by your logic, it can't be prior art.

While I'm not sure what point the parent is trying to make, this seems like a good place to mention the Handspring Visor, with the VisorPhone Springboard.

http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/pda/visorphone/

If any commercial 7" tablet fits your needs, check some brands/models out there and create a custom version of Android + your app. If it doesn't (probably not rugged enough, or the touch screen not bulletproof....) get them, strip them and modify them. If you are planning to sell more than 100k units and you have enough $, get serious, contact a factory and ask for some redesign for you. In both cases, you can use a stripped android + your app. OR you can start with something like this: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/get-your-own-open-source-touchscreen-device-for-69-2011023/

There are plenty of ruggedized, industrial PCs out there. This guy needs to spend a few minutes Googling this stuff. Forget Android: just run stock Debian or BSD on the thing and forget about it. Or even Windows Embedded, if you happen to swing that way (as Seinfeld said, "But there's nothing wrong with that!")

I think he actually said "not that there's anything wrong with that".

I believe you're right. But it's been years since I saw it, and I didn't consider it an important enough quote to Google. I attributed it, I figured that was enough.

If any commercial 7" tablet fits your needs, check some brands/models out there and create a custom version of Android + your app. If it doesn't (probably not rugged enough, or the touch screen not bulletproof....) get them, strip them and modify them. If you are planning to sell more than 100k units and you have enough $, get serious, contact a factory and ask for some redesign for you. In both cases, you can use a stripped android + your app. OR you can start with something like this: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/get-your-own-open-source-touchscreen-device-for-69-2011023/

There are plenty of ruggedized, industrial PCs out there. This guy needs to spend a few minutes Googling this stuff. Forget Android: just run stock Debian or BSD on the thing and forget about it. Or even Windows Embedded, if you happen to swing that way (as Seinfeld said, "But there's nothing wrong with that!")

I think he actually said "not that there's anything wrong with that".

If any commercial 7" tablet fits your needs, check some brands/models out there and create a custom version of Android + your app. If it doesn't (probably not rugged enough, or the touch screen not bulletproof....) get them, strip them and modify them. If you are planning to sell more than 100k units and you have enough $, get serious, contact a factory and ask for some redesign for you. In both cases, you can use a stripped android + your app. OR you can start with something like this: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/get-your-own-open-source-touchscreen-device-for-69-2011023/

There are plenty of ruggedized, industrial PCs out there. This guy needs to spend a few minutes Googling this stuff. Forget Android: just run stock Debian or BSD on the thing and forget about it. Or even Windows Embedded, if you happen to swing that way (as Seinfeld said, "But there's nothing wrong with that!")

If any commercial 7" tablet fits your needs, check some brands/models out there and create a custom version of Android + your app. If it doesn't (probably not rugged enough, or the touch screen not bulletproof....) get them, strip them and modify them. If you are planning to sell more than 100k units and you have enough $, get serious, contact a factory and ask for some redesign for you. In both cases, you can use a stripped android + your app. OR you can start with something like this: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/get-your-own-open-source-touchscreen-device-for-69-2011023/

"It makes me wonder: if that employee's GPS told them to drive over a bridge, but they saw no actual bridge there, would they try it anyway because that is what the computer says?"

There are plenty of morons who would do just that. (and have!)

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/gps-unit-drives-british-man-off-cliff-20090327/

http://gothamist.com/2011/05/22/gps_drives_jersey_man_off_road_and.php

I can program it without paying a fee.

You can program the iPad without paying a fee. There's a fee if you want to publish to the store, however.

To get the best tools for developing for iOS, it's true that you want a Mac with Xcode, but it's not your only option anymore.

It's open source.

Could you point me to the Honeycomb source? Last I heard, it's never going to be available.

It's Linux.

Why is this valuable? The kernel that runs the Thrive is Linux, but that's almost completely irrelevant. For underlying OS code, I'm going to prefer that which does the job best. That might be Linux, or it might be something else. "It's Linux," smacks of the same kind of kool-aid drinking of which Apple users are so often accused.

I can run Python apps.

Certainly a nifty feature. However why should "all the people who ask the question" care about that? How many of them are going to care? Almost every one of them will just use apps from the Market.

I'm not hating on the Thrive, which looks like a very decent tablet. I'm just sick of the FUD, and I'm really tired of hearing about how open Android is, when it really doesn't follow FOSS principles at all. Most Android phones have to be hacked just like iPhones in order to replace the ROM. On those which don't, you lose all claim to a warranty (absent consumer protections to the contrary, which you'd have to fight in court in order to keep.)

Android is open in the same way that TiVo is open. You might be able to see the source (not so on 3.1, apparently) but you likely won't be able to modify it and run it on your device.

Original link seems slashdotted for me. Here's an alternate:
http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/smk-just-made-micro-usb-ports-a-lot-stronger-20110919/

Well guess what? I'm sure there will be a checkbox to make your system boot into the Win7 UI every time.

Apparently not, at least in the preview release, although there is a registry hack. Unfortunately, it apparently disables some of the other advanced features of Win8 that aren't related to the metro UI at the same time. See: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/how-to-get-a-windows-7-start-menu-in-windows-8-20110914

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/t-mobile-ceo-10-percent-of-customers-leave-for-iphone-20110125/

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/32gb-ipad-2-costs-336-60-to-manufacture-20110314/

(Estimates the component (326) + manufacturing (10) = 336 as the cost of an ipad 2 to apple.)

One more thing, and this I can attest to personally because I have my laptop by my bed most of the time. LCD tablets screw up your sleep cycle and so do laptops. Kindle does not because it's like paper.

SpaceX announced a supple run to the ISS with their Dragon capsule in November. Wonder if the cargo is going to change now to make up for the progress mishap: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/spacex-dragon-spacecraft-heading-to-the-iss-on-november-30-20110816/

227kg, 250MW thorium engine in order to power a typical road car. Within that system 1 gram of thorium produces the equivalent of 7,500 gallons of gasoline. So if you fit the Thorium engine with 8 grams of Thorium, 8 grams of thorium could replace gasoline in cars

a 499.4 lbs. thorium engine generates 250MWs or 33,512.06434325 HP, we should be able to pull a freight train with this "car" engine!

Responding to an AC I know but in this case I believe Zurich has a case. Sony's was warned at least three months prior to the incident that led to their outage that their system was at severe risk.

Let's see if my car analogy works.
It would be like me leaving my car parked in a public parking lot with the windows slightly down and the keys in it. I let it sit there for months and several concerned individuals drop by to tell me there are undesirable elements in the hood and they have been stealing cars. I ignore these naysayers and go happily on my way until one day the car isn't there anymore. Then I go to my insurance company and ask them to pay me for a new car. They will say I was negligent and therefore they are not liable for my replacement costs.

To launch a successful event of any kind can take months of planning and orgaization. You really need to be thinking at least a year in advance.

You need to stay ahead of the game.

Your campus event on the 17th comes too late.

School isn't out quite yet, but Microsoft already has an ace up its sleeve when it comes to this fall 's back-to-school shopping season. The company announced that anyone buying a Windows 7 PC worth $699 or more will automatically get an Xbox 360 Arcade system for free, no rebates involved. That's right --- completely free.

All you need to do is buy a new computer and provide your .edu e-mail address. If you're shopping at a brick and mortar Microsoft Store or Best Buy, just flash your student ID, and you'll walk out with your new computer and an XBox 360. The promo will run between May 22nd and September 3rd in the United States, and Canadian and French shoppers will get in on the fun later in the summer.

Microsoft back-to-school deal gives away XBox 360s free with new PCs [May 19]

Every single day? Really? I doubt that very much. First of all Sunday, in many parts of the world have closed shops on that day and other parts of the world close down shops on Fridays early.

Take your silly argument somewhere else.

Go read the facts: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/google-activates-500000-android-devices-every-day-20110629/

The tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/Arubin/status/85660213478309888

This is nothing to do with a platform war. Stop trying to make it into one.
The simple facts are that Apple has only a few device models, and an import ban hurts them in their biggest
market, but wouldn't make a dent in memory providers. What Apple doesn't sell, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony-Ericcson, and Samsung will sell. Do you think America is going to stop buying smartphones and tablets?

"But a good browser would never run something as insecure as ActiveX."
Don't worry, FireFox supports WebGL, which is worse than ActiveX could ever dream to be.

Here's a current security flaw that may never be fixed without a re-write of WebGL

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/webgl-flaws-puts-chrome-and-firefox-users-at-serious-risk-2011059/

I'm sure there's many more to come as WebGL has been torn apart by many other security professionals for various other design failures.

Scaled to 10 GHz? (the comments are fun to read)

It's hard to take a claim like that seriously since that famous prediction. Oh well. At least they redeemed themselves with the Core architecture. In my little book anyway.

Netflix is going to offer "family" plans. But they have said that people paying for current higher plans can watch multiple streams simultaneously. http://www.geek.com/articles/news/netflix-to-introduce-family-plans-for-multi-user-streaming-20110421/