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AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile are teaming up to create a new "Payment Network" utilizing Near-Field-Communication (NFC) chips. These chips soon to be embedded in future generations of phones, allow for secure and encrypted short-range wireless communication with different devices, including Point-Of-Sale (POS) machines. The idea is to forgo the need to carry credit cards with you all the time, and

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You read that title right... A company called Xi3 has come up with a new form factor for PC's, splitting up the traditional motherboard into three seperate components. The claim it makes for a extremely modular system, where each component is completely replaceable in case of failure. Additionally it uses 95% less electricity, clocking in at the highest consumption, of 35watts, compaired to

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See, as much as I love Google and many of its creations. I am no fan of their phone OS. Apparently a programmer discovered a flaw in the Android OS and exploited it, to make a point. He designed an application and disguised it as an "update" for the popular game "Angry Birds". The application once installed, hen downloaded and installed three additional applications into the user's phone without

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I've taken a few days before writing this because I wanted to see the full specs regarding the iPad, and I wanted the idea to sink into my mind before I shot from the hip. I have also recently read some disturbing posts from wanna-be technical individuals who frankly should get fired for their stuck-on-stupid approach in their articles. (See PCWorld) The iPad I think will undoubtedly

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PC World posted today that Apple and AT&T are looking to release a new iPhone 3GS with 8GB of memory to combat the new release of the Droid phone from Motorola running the new Android 2.0 operating system. This new phone would of course allow Apple to stop producing the current $99 iPhone 3G. This newer model will of course have all the same snazzy features of the 3GS, the faster CPU, the Voice

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It's been some time since I posted on my blog, been kinda busy. But I hope to get back on track again. Okay, so I am going to go back little ways and try to summarize a few things that happened recently.Viper Alarms came out with a new gadget...you know me and new toys...LOVE EM! Well this one is a "add on" for an existing alarm system that offers Remote Start as well as Door Lock access...from

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The Apple vs Palm Pre war continues. Palm manufacture now wants to appeal to the USB Implementers Forum to force Apple to allow them to sync with iTunes for their customers. Okay, now this one, I have to say I side with Apple. How can Palm be so arrogant and stupid to believe they have a "right" to sync with iTunes made by Apple? Apple made iTunes, they make their iPods and iPhones compatable

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Okay, here's the deal. The Obama administration decided to convene a summit to discuss distracted driving, specifically from cell phone usage. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will announce his decision to gather senior transportation officials, safety advocates, law enforcement representatives, members of Congress and academics who study distracted driving at a news conference Tuesday. The

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Well, looks like we are loosing the name Radio Shack. Although it is not known for sure yet, according to recent Trademark filings, it seems that they are going to try a rebranding of their name. Circuit City tried to do something something similar in their last days around, changing their final stores open to "The City", which obviously didn't work. Although the name change won't affect their

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Well, yesterday the FCC sent Apple, AT&T and Google an official letter requesting a reason why Apple pulled Google's Voice app off their store. Apparently enough people complained about it that it made the FCC notice. Now they have to explain in detail not only the reason for Google's Voice app removal, but their entire process behind authorizing any app for their store. Apple & AT&T both must be

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Skype's proprietary encryption technology is purportedly the bane of electronic spies at the NSA and GCHQ. But Skype owner, eBay, has quietly revealed it could rip out and replace the code at its core. Apparently the original Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, who now own Joltid, sold Skype to eBay. Yet when they sold it, they held on to what they claimed was their intellectual

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Google has done it again, or rather, they are about to do it again. Revolutionize the way we communicate...and for free! Google Wave, the next generation of collaborative communication. You have to see this new web-based application. It combines all the features of E-Mail, Instant Messaging, Status Updates, Photo & Document Sharing, Collaborative Whiteboards and more all into one place! They have

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Well, this article was a little disturbing. I know we have all seen movies about comets or asteroids hitting Earth. But did anyone know that just this month, a comet hit Jupiter? We should count ourselves lucky that Jupiter and other planetary bodies have a large gravitational pull to literally defend us from these would be attackers. After reading the article though, I am not sure if I am

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Well...son of a gun. Here I just upgraded to the iPhone 3GS...and this news breaks out. CSR has unveiled a new GPS architecture that it says will let portable devices be constantly location-aware without draining their batteries. It does this by using an "aware" state, which "keeps the necessary information to do a very fast calculation from the satellite [and is] alive all the time but in a very

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Well, it's done. Yahoo is now officially out of the Search Engine business. The monster company, the one company that was worth billions after it's first day of public release, is now gone. Gobbled up by the Mega-Corp that is known as Microsoft. Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz, was quoted in saying that Yahoo "...is not a search company...", could have fooled me. I mean, isn't that where they started?

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Okay now, seriously? Apple claims that JailBreaking an iPhone can cause a crash of AT&T cellular towers, and that it constitutes a "catastrophic" threat to national security. Really? National Security? Now I know Apple is full of itself. AT&T is doing well enough on it's own screwing up cellular bandwidth by not having a robust enough network to properly manage all the iPhone traffic. They just

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I hate it when so-called technical individuals claim certain ideals or opinions that make no sense, and end up making others in the same field look unprofessional or otherwise incompetent.This article is about a Harvard Computer Science Instructor, who is apparently blaming programmers for features that a monkey could understand. His analogies are completely off the wall ridiculous, having

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I found an article on E-Mail Etiquette, and I have to say I agree with every single item on the list. Although I have to add one additional...10. Don't write your E-Mail message in your subject line and leave the body of the E-Mail blank.Although, I have to admit I am guilty of number 9 myself...apparently I am not a very trusting person. Click Here To View The Article

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It's amazing how our world and society continue to evolve, but the few that are in "power" that still hold things back. A co-worker E-Mailed me this "story" from an unknown source...but it totally holds true to my current job.----------------The End of Voice MailA few weeks ago, I attended the Advisor Summits here in Phoenix.Among the sessions I attended was a presentation on Lotus'Sametime --

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Ok, I am finnaly done creating the Server end of my Client/Server application. Or at least I am done for now, until I find some more features to incorporate into it. Migrating the code over to VS2005 was a bit of an annoyance. Even though the initial migration done by Visual Studio claimed that there was no error in the conversion, when I went to run the application, there were over 150 code "

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For anyone who wants to inflict a migrane in a relatively short amount of time...consider programming Multi-Threaded applications. I found that while designing, implementing and debugging Multi-Threaded applications, you have to have the ability to think multi-dimensionally. I found that when speaking to many programmers in the field, that not many of them actually have a grasp on

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Well, after battling it out in my own head, as well as a meeting I called for with my fellow programmers at work, and finally my posts to online message boards, I ended up with a solution to my Menu Permission dilemma. My intension was to have the Server.exe take care of the initial menu security settings and then allow the client to make "manual updates" to it. My problem was that in order for

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If I had more time to properly develop this application that I am working on, I know I would be able to come up with a better structure then I currently devised. But because I am pressed for time, this is the only way that I can think of to perform what I need to do.I have an SQL database that has a table which holds a map of the menu structure of me Client.exe. The reason I do this is pretty

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Well, apparently I have been working so much on this project that I am missing some of the most obvious things that would make you laugh. I spent nearly 3 days trying to understand why I was unable to programmatically create a stored procedure (SP) in an SQL database. Well, let me rephrase that, in the "proper" SQL database. I ended up creating the SP in the "master" database. I figured that

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In my dealing with VB.Net 2003, I came across an insteresting problem, and I am thinking that it's a bug. I placed a ListBox on a form, and initialized it via the properties page to have SelectionMode = None. Now, I had some previous code for this ListBox already written before I made this change. One of the lines of code I had was Listbox.SelectedItem = -1, I did this in order to insure that no

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This entry should be short and sweet. I started working with RichTextboxes a few days ago. I never had a need for them before, but I thought it could add a little professional flair to part of my application. Boy I had no idea the work behind getting the editing portion of a RichTextbox working. You have to manually code all of the text styling options yourself. First I have to create all the

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It's amazing how end-users lack the ability to look ahead. Is it that complicated a skill? I know mostly every software developer out there has to know what I am talking about. End-users are all about the here and now, and could care less about the proper way of accomplishing things. Unfortunately, many times some of these end-users are also the ones who have final say on product development. As

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Well I have to say, I cant stand the fact that VB.Net does not allow the inheriting of Intrinsic Data Types. The fact that Microsoft decided to remove the ability to use "Fixed Length" string is extremely annoying, and it would not be so bad if one was able to inherit from the String class and just add in the functionality needed. But in Microsofts infinite wisdom they disallow the inheritance of

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Hello and welcome to those who read this Blog. My name is Ben Santiago and I am a Computer Programmer now for roughly 9 years. I started working as one of the first Computer Programmers for Texaco at Corporate Headquarters straight out of High School, programming in Visual Basic 4.0 at the time. Since then I've worked in several different companies and have learned a great deal of languages, so

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