Interesting, no native email or calendar app unless you are paired with a blackberry phone. Not a usb MSC device. No Android market compatibility yet either.
RIM: PlayBook email client 'very very soon,' 3G model this summer
ENGADGET | APRIL 14, 2011
http://pulsene.ws/1jyT3
Lately, anything goes when a RIM CEO gets in front of the media. Fortunately, it was the other CEO, Jim Balsillie, talking to ... read more
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/cesium-fallout-from-fukushima-already-rivals-chernobyl/
Two very interesting simulations shown in the link above. Seems very little is reaching us; and that much of Japan is recording very concentrated swaths. I wonder how many people in Japan have access to this data?
%http://www.woweather.com/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=us&VAR=niluhemis137&HH=0&LOOP=1
North Korean defectors learn basics of freedom http://usat.me/45342886
Who knows what is really happening inside the DPRK?
From The New York Times:
GREEN: Q. and A. on the Nuclear Crisis in Japan
New York Times reporters are answering questions from readers about the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan.
http://nyti.ms/iivZv6
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/world/asia/17nuclear.xml
"If the American analysis is accurate and emergency crews at the plant have been unable to keep the spent fuel at that inoperative reactor properly cooled -it needs to remain covered with water at all times -radiation levels could make it difficult not only to fix the problem at reactor No. 4, but to keep servicing any of the other problem reactors at the plant. In the worst case, experts say, workers could be forced to vacate the plant altogether, and the fuel rods in reactors and spent fuel pools would be left to meltdown, leading to much larger releases of radioactive materials."
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From The New York Times:
Radioactive Releases in Japan Could Last Months, Experts Say
Experts in Japan and the United States said that the releases from nuclear plants could go on for weeks or months. Officials are also reporting a new explosion.
http://nyti.ms/h20pz5
(the article says the engineers don't know whether sufficient water is entering the chamber to prevent a meltdown. And until the cooling systems are fixed, the interim cooling method must periodically vent contaminated steam to the atmosphere. It appears that measured levels of contaminants are increasing. But, no regular monitoring of contaminants is being publicly reported.)
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html
"The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis."
http://realestalker.blogspot.com/
"What's most betwixting and bewildering to common folks like Your Mama is not that Mister K. shelled out thirty-five million bigguns for the estate but that he proceeded to immediately raze Mister Ramo's 8,705 square foot contemporary to make way for his own behemoth Beverly Hills Barbie Dream House. That's right, chickadoodles, Mister K. bought a $35,000,000 tear down. That, children, is how people with money to burn and cash to flush down the toilet do it."
As a real estate voyeur myself, I love this site!!!
Yay, our Cameron Hughes wine just arrived by FedEx! The box was labelled "Do not deliver to an intoxicated person"!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/17/facebook-home-address_n_809901.html
"In other words, a Facebook app can now access your address and phone number, though that application or website can only obtain this information if you explicitly grant it permission to do so (see screenshot below). Facebook quietly announced this controversial new policy in a blog post published Friday at 9:00PM."
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http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wiredbusinessblog/~3/ktSBUu7Zo7Q/
"The Google search engine was implicitly built on the premise that the view of the New York Times' critic should prevail. An analysis of the link structure of the web would reveal the Times as a popular destination. But others argue that in the real world, people are influenced by their friends and contacts, and Google's historic approach is lacking. The best product endorsements, the most useful suggestions of what to read, the most clever tips on how to perform a task, come from people we know."
Hmm. 2 comments.
If I'm a (closet) egomaniac, then only experts opinions matter. And my friends opinions don't. Unless they are aggregated from a large enough pool that they then average out to the same opinion as the experts opinion.
If I want to buy music, or see a movie, I would want friend recommendations. But if I want to buy a vacuum cleaner, i'll go to consumer reports; no question.
I guess I can turn in my Generation X card, cuz I don't get it.
http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-merge-lives-officially-coming-multiple-carriers-spring
Oh...wow...if HTC starts making high end phones with keyboards, this could make me regret the Inspire. 3.8" screen is not going to cut it tho...
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"The study estimated the total cost of bringing broadband at speeds of at least 4 MB/s to the 7 million unserved homes, which house approximately 14 million people, at $23.5 billion."
The population of the US in 2010 was 308 million. So are we really going to spend $3000 per household to bring the last 2% online?
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