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1966 – The Johnniac Open Shop System (JOSS) was taken down by the RAND Corporation. It was set up to relive bottlenecks in programming batches, but more and newer work pretty much took the JOSS to the limit and ultimately became a bottleneck. Therefore, the system was taken offline indefinitely.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Digital Computers discontinues the Rainbow
• CRUX Linux 0.5.3 Released
• Starbucks announces they will switch from T-Mobile to AT&T at their stores.

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Jeffrey was wondering about the battery life of Android and Nexus phones as compared to iPhones.

I can’t compare anything to an iPhone, but I can report on my Android after about six weeks of use.

The battery life specs, according to the User Manual (PDF here), are

Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery: Capacity: 1150 mAh

Talk time:Up to 350 minutes for WCDMA
Up to 406 minutes for GSM

Standby time:Up to 402 hours for WCDMA
Up to 319 hours for GSM

(Approximations based on the phone manufacturer’s lab tests.)

I have found the “talk time” spec to be reasonably accurate.

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Wow. I have never had this happen, but during the show, I think I fell alseep! I was thinking about it, and decided to send it out anyway. Hilarity ensues and hopefully I didn’t say anything weird….

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Windows Mobile Glitch
Kindle DX on my Birthday
Cool iPhone pro camera rig
Seagate BlackArmor USB 3.0
Microsoft HP introduce touchscreen
FCC Please Expand Broadband Access
HPSA7.0 for T-Mobile, AT&T
HP Touchscreen on Mini Netbook
Google Chrome Surpasses Safari
Flixster Buys Rotten Tomatoes
Cinema Surpasses DVD
Lenovo Lightens ThinkPad
Google Nexus One
EMC Acquires Archer

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By default, the phone is limited to installing applications from the Android Market. It seems to be similar to a Linux package repo (or “repository”):

• The phone maintains a database of installed programs.
• When I tap to go to the marketplace, it compares that database with the market place database and tells me which files are already installed.

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A G1. I’ve spent the last couple of days messing with it. Santa did good.

I like it and figured others, who may have seen one but not actually messed with one, might like to know a little more about it.

This model has both a hardware keyboard and a touch screen with a software keyboard; it is 3G and wireless capable.

Setting up the phone requires setting up a Google account and automatically turns on Gmail. I have no desire to use Gmail, but I figured, “Hey! I can use a throwaway account!” and went with the flow. I quickly got four welcome messages from the “Gmail team.” (They will probably be the last Gmail messages I get.) It also includes access to Google Docs, but regular readers will know I also have no interest in that.

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This morning, Jeffrey wrote an excellent post on the iPhone and Apple.

I have to confess that I don’t always read his posts, mostly because I never miss his podcast and there’s often overlap between what he writes about and what he says, but I read this one all the way through, then went back to a couple of parts of it.

I do not have an iPhone and have no interest in one. I have several friends who have them and I agree that they are really neat gadgets, but I do not see that the increased functionality is worth either the price of the device or the cost of signing up with Southwestern Be–er, Cingula–er, AT&T. I’ve been with my current provider for almost a decade because they give me good value for the money (as well as excellent tech support and customer service the few times I’ve had to call them).

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The new location is cool – Setup a temporary desk while figuring out office – SuperChirp – Heading back to Vegas for the HP

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Twitter Attacks Fakes – Are you Authentic?
Bing Leaps Yahoo
Ballmer: Taxes could Move Jobs – If Taxes rise, Employees might not be in the US.
XBOX 360 with HULU? – They’re looking at new opportunities.
China Security Software – Where Big Brother can watch.
Homeland Security Gets Black Hat
-Full List of Names
Cyberspace Review Lacking – Security Experts want more
Bank Trojan Netted $112k – What came from YOUR wallet?
WINEHQ 1.1.23
40 Years of UNIX

Leo Blowing up at Arrington

II
Keynote: iPhone 3.0 – Tomtom coming. More on Keynote
-Windows Gets Stuff, too
-Old iPhone 1.0 May Loose Out
Pre Breaks Sales – Is it enough to save Sprint?
-Pre Issue
T-Mobile Data Hacked – How it affects users.

CTC – Scarpar
QOTC – Would you Pay $1 a Twitter?

III
Yahoo Microsoft Partnership? – AOL is out.
Online Ad Revenues Drop – Should we be concerned?

Extras:
The Worst Yahoo Answers
7 Years of Mozilla
Best Science Websites
Death Star BBQ
USB Powered Microwave
Best PC Cases

You Tubin:
Leo and Arrington – Warning: Strong Language present.
-Apologies and explaination

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Shorter show because still at the old Place. I’ll tell you why – TVazine videos doing well – Weekend in Grand Rapids – Summer of Geekazine Contest going on. Win an Epson Artisan 700.

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Android II – T-Mobile announcement
Apple Sued – Actus has Electronic Tokens
Kindle buys E-INK
Google’s new Search Appliance
News from E3
-PSPgo
-Wii Pacemaker
- Everyone wants to be a Wii – Natal

JOTW – Three lead programmers of Google decide to jump ship and apply at Yahoo. They tell Yahoo they have the ability to recapture the #1 search engine spot for Yahoo. Yahoo calls one of the programmers in and after 20 minutes, he walks out of the office all distraught. The other programmer turn to him and ask “What did they say?”. The programmer turns to them and replies – “They said they already got one”.

II
Shoe Google – Google taking on e-books
Bing – Microsoft Hits a Home Run
-Why Bing will Fail – What is a Discover Engine?

CTC – Scarpar
QOTC – Do you like Bing?

III
Twitter Spam – We’ve only just begun.
Win Tickets to Playboy Mansion

Extras:
NeatDesk – Paper trail to go away?
OCZ SSD – Up to a Terrabyte in size
QWERTY Handlebar grip
Iomega E-Go – 1 gig in 15 seconds
CarGo

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Linux on your end table: The New York Times reports that T-Mobile plans to roll out Android-based home phones next year, as well as other devices, including a tablet computer. Read the full story here.

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If I needed coffee and the internet, I would always avoid Starbucks. Paying $10 for internet just didn’t make sense to me. I always went to Caribou coffee shops because the internet was free. I would get online for an hour, and then if I needed to use it another hour, I would ask for a “Code” in which I inputted and poof, another hour free.

My coffee habits might just be changing soon.

Starbucks will be switching from T-Mobile to AT&T this spring. With this AT&T has changed the prices and connections of the WiFi. AT&T will allow customers to access the internet for free for 2 hours. After that, you will have to pay $4 for an additional 2 hours. This is for the hardcore coffee drinker…. (more on 5min podcast)

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