Last week we asked you to share your favorite frequent flyer program , then we rounded up the most popular programs to crown a favorite. Now we’re back with the results.
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Best Frequent Flyer Program: Southwest Rapid Rewards [Hive Five Followup]
The upcoming Tesla Model S has a big ‘ol slab of batteries that make up the floor of the thing, shown above, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that sort of technology just won’t do in the long run.
I’m in the middle of putting together a PC right now, and I just can’t believe the amount of stress people seem to put on flashy, brightly-lit components.
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NZXT’s H2 Case Is The Strong, Silent Type
We suspect that some other laptop manufacturer will be coming out of the woodwork in around 4.98 seconds here to refute Gigabyte’s claim, but as of now, the 15.6-inch P2532 above is the planet’s thinnest laptop with a second-generation ( Sandy Bridge ) Core i7 CPU.
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Gigabyte’s 15.6-inch P2532: world’s thinnest second-gen Core i7 laptop (video)
HTC’s HD7 was certainly one of the most handsome devices to be launched back at Windows Phone 7’s retail introduction late last year — and really, when you take the HD2’s heritage as your starting point, it’s hard to go wrong. Of course, in the last year and a half, mobile display technology has advanced by leaps and bounds — and the original HD7 was using nothing more than a standard, old-school TFT LCD with less-than-perfect contrast and viewing angle specs. Well, that’s where the HD7S comes into play: the “S” in the name presumably stands for Super LCD , the newer type of display that HTC’s been using on recent 4.3-inch models like the Thunderbolt
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HTC HD7S hands-on
The recent exoplanet spotting by NASA’s Kepler probe revealed there might be more than a million Earth-like planets in our galaxy. Now a new estimate says as many as 1 out of every 37 sun-like stars has an Earth-like world
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There might be two billion Earth-like planets just in our galaxy [Exoplanets]
We’re still waiting for someone to one-up Google Maps Navigation , but until that fateful day shines down upon us, it looks as if we’ll have to once again point our attention to El Goog. Google Maps has just been updated to version 5.2, with three main additions to focus on
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Google Maps routes itself to v5.2, gets hotpot tweets, Latitude ‘pings’ and better search results
We don’t see it in the FCC database yet but Notion Ink’s charming Rohan Shravan just penned a post on the company’s blog with news that Adam has official clearance from the US government. That’s right, after several delays the tiny startup will finally condense its occasionally vapory molecules into a solid slab of shipping tablet starting “around Wednesday” after the hardware receives its FCC tattoo.
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Notion Ink Adam clears FCC, begins shipping ‘around Wednesday’
Uruguay has announced that all fixed phone lines in the country will include free minimal ADSL service, for the one time price of the modem, $30 USD. The connection, is 256k async dsl with a 1gb per month traffic cap. The awesome thing is there is no monthly fee at all, it’s just part of your phone service! Uruguay already distributed over 300,000 laptops to all elementary school students in public schools, about %90 of the kids go to public schools. This means Uruguay’s well on it’s way towards having universal internet access in every home for free. It’s pretty cool that there’s now basically free internet with every phone line. I know we told a few friends and they sure were happy. Currently about %30 of uruguayan homes have minimal broadband, and their hope is to have it %60 within 2 years. Expanding the number of people who have the slowest possible broadband is a good thing, but it’s pretty useless if you’re trying to run a business. In our office we have had to order a bunch of phone lines, each with the puny 4M down 512k up ADSL. Currently there is no option for faster internet, regardless of how much you pay. We pay about $150 USD per month per connection/phone combo as it is. The first thing they’re doing is raising the upper connection limit to 10Meg down, unknown up. It’s a nice step forward, will let us hold off on getting more and more phonelines installed. We’ve got a bonded router, letting us treat two connections as one, but it’s hard to bond more than 2 connections. So when we do video chat with a client, we’ve got to pick a third uplink. It’s a pain. Getting 10M will help this situation some. Antel improving their routing and doing more peering agreements, getting more bandwidth directly to Europe or the US instead of just laying fiber to Brazil and Argentina would also help a lot. The most hopeful thing they announced was they’re going to start laying a fiber optic network directly to homes and businesses. It’s not clear if they’ll be offering 40Mbps or 100Mbps, and no uruguayan i’ve talked to actually believes it’ll work well, but it’s finally a proposal for real broadband. It makes running a medium size development shop and coworking space in Uruguay really viable.
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Internet for All – Uruguay Offers Universal Free Broadband
It’s been a few years since we checked in with Elcomsoft’s Wireless Security Auditor WiFi cracking software .
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ElcomSoft turns your laptop into a one-touch WiFi cracking system