Source: WeAreVidiots.com

For you frequent flyers out there who use Android,  American Airlines released a new free Android application on the Android market.

The American Airlines Android app allows customers to:

• Enter log in and password only once – allowing the application to proactively push flight detail notifications automatically
• Check in for flights
• Receive gate seat and flight status information
• view terminal maps
• Set a parking reminder
• Monitor the standby list
• Track elite status progress
• Access Mobile Boarding Pass – the application saves the boarding pass, so it’s always easy to find
• Use GPS to locate the nearest airport served by American
• Create Flight Status Notifications
• Enroll in the American Airlines AAdvantage® program
• Access AAdvantage account information
• Access contact information
• And even play Sudoku

The application is simply designed and easy to navigate.  Best of all it doesn’t feel like a straight port from the iPhone/iPad applications.  American Airlines is taking mobile very seriously.

Monte Ford, Senior Vice President – Technology and Chief Information Officer said:

“We believe the right mobile technology can and will dramatically improve our customers’ and employees’ experience with American. As a result, our mobile technology strategy is aggressive and a key consideration in every technology initiative at the company today. It is our intention to lead the airline industry related to mobile computing.”

Rick Elieson, Managing Director for American Airlines Interactive Marketing also had some interesting comments in regards to Android specifically:

“With the popularity of American’s first app for iPhone, many customers have asked for an American app for Android. In fact, one in four smartphone owners are now using an Android device”

“Not only does this meet the needs of many of our customers while they’re on the move, it also paves the way for innovation on other devices that use the Android platform.”

Check out a video demo provided by Streamly.TV

Click here to view the embedded video.

Or the American Airlines Demo.

You can download the American Airlines application from the Android market or go to www.aa.com/app

Source [PR Newswire.com]

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*Update 2* – 11:35am EST Many reports of BIS being back up rolling in across all the carriers in question. Issue seems to be resolved. Give it a little time to hit all users across the many regions in question.

*Update* – 11:20am EST – It looks like users (including myself) are now able to send emails, but still not receive. Hopefully full email capabilities will be back up soon.

It’s been quite a while since we had an outage across multiple carriers and regions in North America, but it looks like BIS email is down for most carriers across the US and parts of Canada. No one is receiving email, but it appears that browser, BlackBerry Messenger, voice and SMS are still working however. It looks like the outage started in the wee hours of the morning today, but there is no word on when they’ll be up and running. Keep it here and we’ll report anything as it pops up. Jump into the forums for more discussion.

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Eight days ago MobileSyrup treated us to an image of the Desire HD with a Telus Logo on the boot screen. Now Engadget has dug up the FCC filing HTC put in for this device. Adding these two bits together and we have some potentially great news for Telus users.

Expect this device to be loaded with Telus’ 3G frequencies, meaning users that can’t do without this device can use it on AT&T, Bell and Rogers.

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Since it has already been rumored that Telus would receive the HTC Desire HD, this recent FCC approval only supports that theory even more.

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Next time you’re in New York City you should stop by the American Museum of Natural History and visit a good friend and favorite zombie snack: your brain. Millions of years of evolution have helped shape our gray matter into the thought processing plant it is today.

In a new exhibit called Brain:The Inside Story, the AMNH combines new findings about how our brains work with research on evolutionary history and the diversity of life to give visitors a deeper understanding of their brain.

The exhibit starts off small with a preserved brain on display then plunges you into the high speed communications network that is the nervous system. Spanish Artist Daniel Canogar has built a 35 foot walkway of cables and lights, made from 1,500 pounds of recycled material, to represent the brain’s electrical system.

This is just the beginning of the journey. With multimedia presentations, interactive exhibits and giant representations of the cells that make up the brain you will get a real sense of how your noggin gets so much done throughout your day.

Here’s a rundown of some of the exhibits:

Introductory Theater: To learn some basics about the brain and how it functions, visitors follow a Julliard dance student during an audition. A video projection shows how her activities simultaneously correlate with activity in her brain through the illumination of a large three-dimensional brain model in the theater.

Your Sensing Brain: Explore the senses through interactive exhibits and learn how your brain gets and process information. You’ll also learn how your brain can be fooled by sensory illusions.

Your Emotional Brain: This section explores how emotions are processed in the brain. You can explore how our emotion processing evolved over millions of years.

Your Thinking Brain: This section asks visitors to think about thinking, as intelligence is portrayed in all of its complexity as a sum of different types of intelligence, including spatial, general, mathematical, and emotional. With interactive exhibits to test and tease those special parts of the brain, you’ll have a lot to think about.

Your Changing Brain: Examine how the brain has evolved over millions of years to help us claw our way to the top of the food chain.

If you’re planning on visiting New York for the holidays you should block out some time to visit the American Museum of Natural History and get reacquainted with a good friend who’s always been there for you: Your Brain!

What: BRAIN: THE INSIDE STORY
Where: The American Museum of Natural History
When: Until August 14th 2011
Cost: Free With Admission

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You’ve got to hand it to librarians: they have got their stuff together. Some of the most tech-saavy people I engage with on Twitter are librarians and they know that learning and literacy are so much more than books. GeekDad readers are well aware that libraries are places that not only foster learning, but have long harbored all kinds of geeky habits and interests. So, it will be no surprise that the American Library Association is building on previous success and will have over 1800 locations and tens of thousands of people playing board games and role-playing games this Saturday, November 13.

National Gaming Day at your library promises games of all types. Libraries will offer a variety of activities throughout the day, including modern board games, traditional games (such as chess and checkers) and two national video game tournaments that will pit players at dozens of libraries against each other for bragging rights to the ultimate Rock Band and Super Smash Bros. Brawl crowns.

The success of the national day has now crossed borders with libraries all over the world signing up to be a part of the event which is not just about playing games, but focusing on how games bring people together and libraries as a social and community hub. Some libraries in France, Portugal, Canada and Argentina will also be participating.

To find out whether your local library will be rolling dice this weekend, check out the registered locations.

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Intel announced today that the company will invest between $6 billion and $8 billion on future generations of manufacturing technology in its American facilities.

The action will fund deployment of Intel’s next-generation 22- nanometer (nm) manufacturing process across several existing U.S. factories, along with the construction of a new development fabrication plant in Oregon. The Oregon factory should be ready in 2013 and will primarily produce chips for research and development as Intel advances its designs.

Washington County’s new development fab will be called D1X and is scheduled for research and development startup in 2013. Upgrades are also planned for the D1C and D1D fabs on the Hillsboro campus. The projects will support 6,000 to 8,000 construction jobs and result in 800 to 1,000 new permanent high-tech jobs.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Intel will spend $6-8 billion in manufacturing to support future technology advancements in Arizona and Oregon.
• The investment supports the creation of 6,000-8,000 construction jobs and 800-1,000 permanent high-tech jobs, and also allows Intel to maintain its current manufacturing employment base at these U.S. sites.
• The investment will fund a new development fab in Oregon, as well as upgrades to four existing fabs to manufacture the next-generation 22-nanometer (nm) process technology.
• Intel’s next-generation, 22nm microprocessors will enable sleeker device designs, higher performance and longer battery life at lower costs.

Intel’s announcement indicated a new development fab will be built in Oregon (above), along with upgrading four other U.S. fabs (Fab 12 and Fab 32 in Arizona and D1C and D1D in Oregon).

Oregon Live reports that Intel will remake its advanced Ronler Acres campus for the new Fab. The new Hillsboro plant — Intel’s first new plant since 2007 — is scheduled to start production in 2013, reports the NY Times.

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski said, “This is probably the largest private investment during this last two or three years in this country.”

Intel has approximately 15,000 employees in Oregon, making it the largest private employer in the state (pdf). Intel’s operations in Oregon stretch across six campuses in Washington County west of Portland. It is the company’s largest and most comprehensive site in the world, a global center of semiconductor research and manufacturing and the anchor of Oregon’s economy.

Intel’s upcoming 32-nanometer “Sandy Bridge” Core architecture got much of the attention at the company’s developer show last month. Sandy Bridge chips, built using 32 nm architect, will be out early in 2011. Ivy Bridge is the codename given to the 22 nm die shrink of Sandy Bridge.

During his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum, Sept. 13, CEO Paul Otellini said that the company’s Ivy Bridge” processor, a 22-nm chip, is on schedule and will be delivered in the second half of 2011. The chips are already in sample production, he said.

“Last year at IDF, I showed you the first working wafer with SRAM devices on it,” Otellini said during his talk. “This year, I’m happy to report that our first microprocessor designed for 22 nanometers is moving through our fabs as we speak here today.”

Intel is also building its first production facility in China, reports Bloomberg. Intel is vying with Samsung Electronics to be the industry’s biggest spender on production, budgeted $5.2 billion for plants and equipment in 2010. The company’s microprocessors run more than 80 percent of the world’s personal computers. Rival Samsung is the biggest maker of memory chips.

Moving to 22-nanometer could also help the company produce chips with lower power consumption to better compete in smartphones—where designs from ARM currently dominate. Intel launched the Atom platform two years ago. Now executives are looking to aggressively expand the reach of the Atom chips, into tablets, handheld devices and phones.

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Has a recent science breakthrough gotten you excited? Has some new development changed the way you work or live? How about telling the folks at the American Museum of Natural History all about it in a two-minute video.

The American Museum of Natural History in New York is having a video contest. The winner will win a weekend trip for two to New York City to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History on October 10, 2010.

Contestants are being asked to make a 2 minute video explaining how a recent scientific breakthrough has impacted them. the deadline is September 19th so if you’re looking for a weekend project this might just fit the bill.

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• The Rose Center Anniversary Video Contest ends on Sunday, September 19 at 11:59 PM. Videos will not be accepted after this deadline.
• All submissions titles must start with “Rose Center Anniversary Video Contest”
• All videos must start with the Rose Center Anniversary slide (Download here — Warning: This is a very large file.)
• Videos may be no longer than 2 minutes
• Submissions must be uploaded via the contest page. Videos uploaded directly to YouTube will not be considered.
• You must be 18 years of age or older to submit a video. If you are under 18 please have a parent or guardian submit the video on your behalf.

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The Urban Advantage Middle School Science Initiative has been helping more than 300 teacher in over 150 Middle Schools bring science to life through hands on inquiry for six years. In honor of their sixth anniversary the American Museum of Natural History is hosting the biggest Middle School Science Expo in New York City. More than 700 public middle school students will be showing off their best research projects. These students come from all five boroughs and the projects cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Analyzing the effects of colored lights on the growth of sunflowers
• Investigating how the consumption of popular “energy bars” affects heart rates
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• Studying the connection between volcanic activity and climate change
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Hailed as a national model, this pioneering education program has helped thousands of 7th and 8th graders pursue investigations at eight science-rich New York City institutions and complete their science exit projects, a requirement by the NYC Department of Education for advancement into high school.

The expo is free with Museum Admission and should be a blast for all the science fair geeks out there. The expo will be open from 1PM to 4 PM on Saturday June 12th in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. For more information about The Urban Advantage Middle School Science Initiative check out their website.


What:
The Urban Advantage Middle School Science Initiative Science Expo

When:
Saturday, June 12th 1 P.M. – 4 P.M.

Where:
Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
The American Museum of Natural History
79 Street And Central Park West
New York, NY 10024

Cost:
Free with Museum admission

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Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks are in your backyard? Has your dog ever found a bone that you want identified? OK the bone is probably from your neighbors garbage, but it might be something interesting. On May 22nd The Museum Of Natural History is holding its annual Identification Day. Visitors are asked to bring their rocks, feathers, shells insects and other other artifacts to the museum where scientists will identify them for you. It’s like an Antique Road Show for nature!

This years Identification Day is being held in conjunction with International Biodiversity Day. In addition to identifying artifacts there will be three presentations by museum scientists to highlight the importance of biodiversity. Entomologist Louis Sorkin will discuss and display the many insects and arachnids housed at the museum. Ornithologist Paul Sweet will talk about the continuing effort to collect specimens to help our understanding of avian biodiversity. Documenting biodiversity of fish will be the subject of ichthyologist Radford Arrindell’s presentation.

The presentations and Identification is free with museum admission. So get those bones, rocks and that lump you found under your bed last week and head to the museum to find out what they are.

WHEN:
Saturday, May 22, 12:30–3:30 pm
WHERE:
Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
American Museum of Natural History
ADMISSION:
Free with Museum admission
URL:
Identification Day at AMNH

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With winter over and the spring constellations moving into place the American Museum of Natural History presents Celestial Highlights: Beasts of the Spring Sky with Ted Williams. Join Ted Williams, under the stars of the Zeiss Mark IX Star Projector at the Hayden Planetarium. Ted will take you on a tour of the changing spring sky and show you how to locate Leo, Ursa Major and other spring constellations.

With warm nights coming it’s time to do a little star gazing with the kids. So head over to the Hayden Planetarium and take Ted’s tour to be ready for those “What’s that star called?” questions. Better yet bring the kids so they can tell you.

What:
Beasts of the Spring Sky with Ted Williams

Where:
Hayden Planetarium Space Theater
American Museum of Natural History
Enter at 81st Street/Rose Center

When:
Tuesday, April 27 6:30 P.M.

Admission:
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