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It was 2:13 p.m on Wednesday, December 4, 2013; all the iPhones and Android phones were ringing simultaneously. It was a test of Emergency Alert from Monterey Park’s Emergency Operation Center.
Emergency Alert
TEST From Monterey Park EOC.
THIS IS ONLY A TEST.
Amazon Prime Air, as seen on 60 Minutes.
We’re excited to share Prime Air — something the team has been working on in our next generation R&D lab.
The goal of this new delivery system is to get packages into customers’ hands in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles.
Putting Prime Air into commercial use will take some number of years as we advance the technology and wait for the necessary FAA rules and regulations.
In 60 Minutes interview, Jeff Bezos expect Amazon Prime Air to get clearance from FAA as early as 2015.
I very am excited with this service, especially if it is available where I live or work.
This reminds me of Tacocopter
Mozilla Firefox 26.0 Beta 8 is now available.
I deleted and reinstall Google Voice plugin to make it work again.
p.s.
New build of Adobe Flash Player 12 Beta is also available (2013-11-26)
The scammers keep trying to fool anyone by blindly sending messages to unsuspecting victims. I’ve been getting a lot of reports from acquaintances that they received similar scam email in the past few days.
First off, I always keep an eye for this type of scam emails. Second, I don’t use WhatsApp.
If you’re an iCloud user, forward this message as attachment to spam@icloud.com.
I also use a service called SpamCop at SpamCop.net. If you feel compelled to use their service, please donate if you can.
As reported earlier, customers in the United States are now getting an email from Apple announcing its Black Friday Sale. Yet Apple does not specify the sale prices of its products. Many assumes this year’s Apple Black Friday Sale would mirror the previous year’s Black Friday Sale.
In the United States, Black Friday Sale follows a little holiday known as Thanksgiving Day.
According to a few Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 users, Android KitKat now detects unauthorized Tethering on T-Mobile USA network.
A colleague of ours noticed that after upgrading to Android KitKat on a Nexus 4, Tethering & portable hotspot no longer works. Devices connected to the Wi-Fi hotspot are redirected to T-Mobile login page.
When an iPhone is connected to the Wi-Fi Hotspot from a Nexus 4 running Android KitKat, options to “Auto-join” and “Auto-login” appears.
The iPhone then tries to connect to a T-Mobile login page, but the page never loads.
We then use a Nexus 5 which came with Android KitKat pre-installed to create a wi-Fi hotspot. The result was the same, it forces connected devices to log in.
Another colleague of ours still has a Nexus 4 running Android Jelly Bean 4.3. The Nexus 4 is connected to T-Mobile USA network and without tethering plan. Devices connected the Wi-Fi hotspot created by the Android Jelly Bean-running Nexus 4 were not asked to log in.
We then inserted a working AT&T micro-SIM card into the Nexus 4 with Android KitKat. We had no issues using tethering through this phone.
At this point, it seems that Google has added codes in Android KitKat that detect unauthorized tethering. So far, it only affects Nexus phones (4 and 5) on T-Mobile USA network. We purchased the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 from Google Play SIM-free and unlocked.
Is it possible that Google has added this “feature” to appease T-Mobile?
After all, Google has partnered up with T-Mobile (and Sprint) to sell Nexus 5.
We recommend users to wait from upgrading to Android KitKat on their Nexus 4.
An eight-person jury in Marshall, Texas found the online retailer Newegg to infringe on a patent owned by TQP Development, a non-practicing patent holder.
They also found the patent was not invalid, apparently rejecting arguments by famed cryptographer Whitfield Diffie, who took the stand on Friday to argue against the patent.
The jury ordered Newegg to pay $2.3 million, a bit less than half of the $5.1 million TQP’s damage expert had suggested.
Newegg said they will appeal the verdict.
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Disclaimer
I recently was hired on a project that involves Newegg as the client. I cannot discuss, let alone reveal the details of the project at this moment. I can safely say that the project is unrelated with Newegg patent lawsuit. I am also a Newegg customer.
