HERE ARE THE "LATEST QUICK TECH NEWS
HEADLINES"™ FROM BROADCASTMATE!
NEW WIRELESS ADT®
HOME SECURITY SYSTEMS BECOMING MORE COMMON...ADT
Home Security System Dealer Reports indicate a booming business
even during this economic recession. People apparently
feel more secure with an alarm system in the most cost effective
way. The ADT system works simply with a new or existing
system, with the incorporation of a battery backed up cell based
telephone transceiver. This protects the operation of the
system if phone lines or power is down. Actually telephone
lines are not necessary at all which opens up a new range of
customer locations. They have 5 interconnected monitoring
centers throughout the country for fast response to criminal,
fire, or medical alerts. BroadcastMate 6/29/09
BROADBAND SATELLITE SERVICES MARKET SET
TO EXCEED $6.4 BILLION BY 2015...This is according to
Global Industry Analysts, Inc. of San Jose, CA. They say
high speed networking is witnessing phenomenal growth over the
past few years. Terrestrial existing bandwidth is continuing to
grow to drive demand requiring possibly higher rates. This
is good news for the Broadband Satellite services market.
Next generation satellite systems are expected to provide total
capacities in the gigabits per second range and eventually in
the terabits range. Satellite broadband will not replace
the existing terrestrial systems that use fiber optics, but will
make new services available in new places and in new dominate
roles. Globally the number of subscribers for Satellite
Broadband is expected to surpass 3 million by 2010.
BroadcastMate 6/29/09
IPHONE VIDEO FORMAT CONVERTER IS NOW
AVAILABLE FROM DIGIARTY SOFTWARE INC...On June 25, 2009
Digiarty™ released their brand new software named WinX Free
iPhone Video Converter™. It converts at least 12 popular video
formats to iPhone®, iPod®, Apple-TV®, iPod Touch®, etc.
BroadcastMate 6/29/09
NOW YOU CAN BOOK FLIGHTS ON SOUTHWEST
AIRLINES (and others) WITH MICROSOFT® OUTLOOK...NEW TRIPWARE™
TRAVEL SOFTWARE AVAILABLE NOW!...Southwest Airlines in
the U.S.'s #1 airline carrier. With their Tripware you can
book on 8 out of the ten top U.S. airlines. The software
should give business travelers a marked advantage over online
booking. With Tripware, you can plan, manage, and book your
flights in as little as 3 minutes. Check them out at
http://tripware.com/travel-center. BroadcastMate
6/29/09
AMAZON.COM SOFTWARE STORE INTRODUCES THE
NEW WINDOWS 7 UPGRADES FOR FALL DELIVERY FOR 50% OFF STARTING
TODAY June 26, 2009, Seattle...RELEASE DAY DELIVERY...
Amazon starting today through July 11,
2009 is new offering Microsoft's® Windows 7™ operating system
Home Premium addition Upgrade and Professional Upgrade packages
for about 50% off for delivery on release day of October 22nd.
This is 50% off the suggested pricing. Amazom customers' can pre
order now with the convenience of receiving the product when it
is physically released on next October 22. All these
orders are scheduled to be sent out to be received on the
official release date of October 22nd. For in-depth
information on Windows 7 visit Amazon at
http://amazon.com/windows7.
BroadcastMate June 26, 2009.
TEL3®
OF MIAMI FL HAS JUST ANNOUNCED A NEW INTERNATIONAL LONG DISTANCE
TELEPHONE SERVICE APPLICATION FOR iPhones®...Miami, FL
June 26, 2009. 3TEL® in the long distance telephone calling
service for over 15 years today announced a free iPhone®
application called TEL3Dialer™.
Their is a free trial download version application and no
commitment for the trial period. BroadcastMate 6/26/09
GLOBALSIGN Ltd IMPLEMENTS HIGHEST
ASSURANCE SSL TECHNOLOGY FOR VIRGIN ATLANTIC...London,
UK June 23, 2009. GlobalSign Ltd a long established Certificate
Authority and specialists in SSL certificates announced that
Virgin Atlantic as the most recent brand to migrate to its EV
Extended Validation SSL technology. EV SSL differs greatly
from standard SSL certificates in that it makes the browser
address bar glow green. providing visitors with an easily
recognizable visual reassurance of SSL. Browsers that work
with this new technology to date are IE7 and IE8, Firefox,
Opera, Google Chrome and Safari. BroadcastMate 6/25/09
U.S. WIRELESS INDUSTRY IS #1 IN CUSTOMER
SATISFACTION...CTIA WASHINGTON, D.C....The
wireless Association President and CEO Steve Largent had this to
say. "The U.S. wireless industry is the worlds leader in overall
satisfaction, value, competition and innovation." A 2008
American Customer Satisfaction Index Survey reports found that a
record 69% of wireless users were satisfied in the first quarter
of 2009. Customers were able to choose from 630 handsets,
and 29 WiFi handsets manufactured by 33 companies.
Meanwhile it was obvious that the wireless industry is becoming
much for competitive. BroadcastMate 6/24/09
FREE HARDWARE FROM VERIZON® New
York June 22, 2009...Verizon is offering something new in Fios™
Broadband bundles. Qualifying new voice or broadband
customers bundles you can get a free A) netbook or B) a Flip
Ultra™ camcorder. Existing customers who add either up to
3 Mbps or up to 7.1Mbps with a one year contract will receive a
Mini Netbook for about $99 or a free Flip Ultra. The
offers are good through August 15, 2009 according to Verizon.
BroadcastMate 6/23/09
HP® ANNOUNCES WORLDS FIRST WEB-CONNECTED
HOME PRINTER...San Francisco, June 22, 2009. It is being
combined with HP's Touchsmart™ technology for a quick and easy
touch screen access to popular digital content. Designed
specifically for households for a new web based printing
platform. This will allow people to connect instantly with
informative and personal content. This will also allow people to
get contact on demand and print out daily news, maps, coupons,
movie tickets, recipes and more with touch screen convenience.
Free apps include USA TODAY user customized news. The HP
Touhcsmart Web™ has a 4.33 inch screen. The versatile
printer prints, scans, and faxes. BroadcastMate 6/23/09
INTEL®
SURVEY SAYS 9 OUT OF 10 US ADULTS ANNOYED
BY SOME MOBILE BEHAVIORS...Apparently
peoples etiquette is not what it should be! It is becoming
more of an annoyance as we see the introduction of Netbooks and
laptops and texting on mobile phones. Leading the list is
annoyance factors are: 72% complain when folks are texting while
driving, 63% complain of people talking loudly, 55% complain of
people discussing private matters in public. The survey was
taken by Harris interactive April 8-10, 2009.
BroadcastMate 6/23/09
ADVANCED SAFER SSL SEALS FOR A SAFER
INTERNET...Amsterdam,
Netherlands, June 22, 2009...SSL vendors like VeriSigb®,
GeoTrust®, Comodo® and others supply SSL seals to websites which
are displayed on their websites. The question has been do
these current seals really work? Are they properly
installed?. To quote Paul van Brouwershaven the developer
of Netwoking4all®..."To overcome this shortcoming we developed a
technologically advanced dynamic Site Seal that can be embedded
in any website that uses SSL, regardless of the certificate
type." The seal displays the domain name and also
provides several checks to confirm the availability of a SSL
connection, and if there are any potential security issues.
To date no other seal offers these checks. There are three
levels of seals. Look for them soon. BroadcastMate 6/22/09
COREL® INTRODUCES NEW NETBOOK-READY
OFFICE SUITE...June 17, 2009 Corel announced its news
COREL® Home office suite specifically for consumer and
home-based business use. It has low memory requirements and a
"small footprint". Corel® Home Office includes Corel®
Write for word processing, Corel® Calculate for spreadsheets and
Corel® Show for presentations. Deliverability into a
Notebook or netbook is through a USB stick to make it easily to
use in the field. It has file compatibility and document sharing
abilities with Microsoft® Office with extensive file support and
the ability to create PDF files. It has 13 language
support. Finally it an be customized by its users manually
or users can use the auto configuration options.
BroadcastMate 6/22/09
RIM INTRODUCES THE BLACKBERRY TOUR
SMARTPHONE...This new 3G World Phone keeps our connected
with high-speed CDMA Networks in North America and the UMTS/HSPA
Networks abroad. On June 16th, 2009 RIM introduced the
news Blackberry®Tour 3G smartphone. President and Co-CEO Mark
Lazaridis of Research In Motion had this to say, "Blackberry
continues to be the top selling smartphone brand in North
America and we are proud to add this powerful new 3G world
phone..." Key features are: 3.2 MP camera, full HTML web
browser, Advanced media player, 256MB Flash memory, built in GPS
and the preloaded DataViz® Documents to Go®, which allows users
to edit Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint on the handset,
support for Blackberry APP World®, and a 1400 mAhr battery for 5
hours of talk time.. BroadcastMate 6/19/09
STILL HAVING TROUBLE TUNING IN YOUR DIGITAL
SIGNALS? Broadcastmate took some of the FCC
recommendations on how to get them tuned in. Follow this
link to our HDTV information page.
High definition digital television information.
iPhone®
DEVELOPMENT FOR THE REST OF US USERS AND CONSUMERS...On
June 12, 2009 at Apples Worldwide Developer Conference in San
Francisco Apple announced the iPhone Classroom that will allow
regular people to develop their own iPhone applications. It is
call "Codeless iPhone Development." The iPhone App
Classroom provides a comprehensive system of 25 detailed and
easy-to-follow techniques that makes it possible for non
developers to capitalize on the iPhone Development market.
Here is a link to the Classroom App information:
http://iphone.appclassroom.com. BroadcastMate 6/19/09
VIDEO CAMERAS IN 3 NEW MOBILE PHONES?...June
8 2008 Apple® announces the
new the new iPhone®
3G S.
It has a 3.0 megapixel camera for video recording.
SEE IT HERE!
Currently the Samsung®
A777 offers a 1.3 megapixel
camera with a one hour 15 fps video recording capability.
The Samsung A777 features a built in MP3 player, pc
synchronization and GPS navigation. Another device is the
LG® enV3 VX9200 offered for Verizon
Wireless. This phone has a 3.0 megapixel camera with a
recording device. This phone also features HTML Web
browsing, a full qwerty keyboard and GPS navigation.
Expect to hear more about these phones in the coming week or
two. BroadcastMATE 6/8/09
ADVANCED EASY TO USE WIRELESS POWER
CHARGERS...Green Plug®
and WiPower®
have developed power chargers that dynamically adjust by simply
placing them in any position on top of the charging pad.
Users can the quickly charge up their cellphones, MP3 players,
digital cameras and other devices. for more info visit their
site
http://www.greenplug.us. BroadcastMate 6/9/09
APPLE JUNE 8 2009 Apple® RELEASES THE NEW
SAFARI 4® WEB BROWSER...Its available for both MAC® and
Windows® pc's. It comes with their "Nitro"™ engine that runs
JavaScript® up to 4.5 times faster from their previous Safari
web browser. It has full history and cover flow, and works
with HTML 5. It also has advanced CSS features.
BroadcastMATE 6/8/09
BING®...GET USED TO THE SOUND OF THAT
NAME...IT IS A NEWS SEARCH EXPERIENCE FROM MICROSOFT®...It
helps users make better decisions with its "Decision Engine"
approach. It will asset users four ways. 1) Making better
purchases, 2) Planning a trip, 3) Researching a health decision,
or 4) Finding a local business. It will be available
worldwide as of June 3, 2009. The new service is located a
http://www.bing.com. It
apparently replaces live.com the former MSN search engine.
BroadcastMATE 6/3/09
WEATHER CHANNEL INTERACTIVE HAS
RECENTLY ANNOUNCED A PREMIUM VERSION OF ITS POPULAR WEATHER
APPLICATION FOR iPhone® AND iPod® TOUCH FOR THE APPLES APP STORE...(May
26, 2009) It will be called the Weather Channel Max® and offer
radar imagery on a map using proprietary TruPoint® technology
developed by the Weather Channel®. It includes * A Severe
Weather Center with both local and national alerts and tropical
storm updates. * A video center allows customer to choose from a
large library of local, regional and international video clips
produced specifically for mobile. *A Boat and Beach Forecast
with marine forecasts and local tide information.
BroadcastMATE 6/3/09
VERIZON EXPANDS ITS HIGH SPEED INTERNET
(HSI)...By July 2009 Verizon expects 9.7 million
households to be subscribed. The service offers up to 7.1
Mbps Verizon® claims there will be no bandwidth use caps.
The parts of states that this is or will be available in are:
New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, D.C.,
California, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, North
Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington state.
Released May 20, 2009.
LOOKING FOR JOB, PUT YOUR FACE INTO IT
WITH A VIDEO RESUME!...Thanks to
nextjob.us it is free.
Nextjob.us has a platform to add your voice and or face to
resumes'. At this writing there is no charge to register and
upload a multimedia resume. Nextjob.us has a wide spectrum of
jobs and employers including Managers, Testers, DBA's, HR,
Developers and more. BroadcastMATE 05/20/09~
SPRINT TO OFFER ITS NEW PALM PRE®
STARTING JUNE 6, 2009...The new Palm Pre by Sprint has
crossover features in a cellphone for business as well as
personal entertainment. It operates with the new Palm webOS™
mobile platform. The new Palm Pre will be available nationwide
on June 6 at Sprint® stores, Best Buy®, Radio Shack®, and
selected Wal-Mart® stores. BroadcastMATE
5/19/09~