Although I know 300MB of data is not nearly enough for some of you, Verizon’s giving owners the selection to add a $ 20 plan that affords savings to those who use smartphones and feature phones but don’t necessarily use tons of data. It’s a promotional program, though, so you’ll only have from these days through September 30th to get in on it.

In related news, 15 new markets wake up to 4G LTE this morning while 10 a lot more cities have gotten expansion love. If you have a telephone capable of 4G I’d say away from the strategy above – you’ll likely eat by means of that in a few days. Check below for the new 4G cities and be certain to get in touch with Verizon or take a look at your account online if you’re interested in that data program.

Tucson, Ariz. Fayetteville/Springdale/Rogers, Ark. Bakersfield and Salinas/Monterey/Seaside, Calif. Fort Collins, Colo. Frederick, Md. Worcester, Mass. Omaha, Neb./Council Bluffs, Iowa Albany, Ithaca and Syracuse, N.Y. Altoona and Johnstown, Pa. Memphis, Tenn. and Provo, Utah. The firm is also expanding its 4G LTE network on Thursday in Washington, D.C. Tampa, Fla. Atlanta, Ga. Baltimore, Md. Boston, Mass. Lansing, Mich. New York, N.Y. Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio and Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah.

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Lightning in Dublin knocked out Amazon and Microsoft Data Centers, reports Data Center Expertise. Amazon said that lightning struck a transformer near its data center, causing an explosion and fire that knocked out utility service and left it unable to start its generators. Microsoft said that the Dublin data center’s utility power was similarly struck by lightning with power restored at 03:10 AM PST Monday and the information center “has returned to normal operating conditions.”

Dublin has become a important cloud computing gateway to Europe and beyond for U.S. organizations. Microsoft built 1 of the world’s most efficient information centers in Dublin, a enormous facility that hosts the company’s cloud services for Europe and operates entirely without having chillers. At 550,000 square feet, it is also 1 of the world’s largest data centers.

Microsoft’s video offers “a deeper look at how Microsoft utilizes secure, dependable, scalable and effective very best practices to deliver over 200 cloud services to much more than a billion clients and 20 million businesses in over 70 countries.”

According to the Ten Largest Data Centers list, the Lakeside Technologies Center, a 1.1 million square foot multi-tenant information center in Chicago is the globe’s largest.

Originally developed to residence the printing presses for the Sears Catalog, the creating was converted to telecom use in 1999, and these days it is the nerve center for Chicago’s commodity markets, housing information centers for monetary firms attracted by the peering and connectivity providers among the 70 tenants.

3 electric power feeds offer the developing with a lot more than 100 megawatts of power.

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Tired of hearing that same old alarm clock, or those annoying beeps and sounds that came with your phone? If you’re an informational type of person, you may enjoy having your alarm sound like someone reading you the latest news, weather, or sport scores. With Smarter Alarm from XDA forum membber edawerd will do that for you.

The alarm works by you setting up the feeds to read. The feeds that Smarter Alarm can read are as follows;

• Current and forecast weather
• Stock prices of major indexes and your personal portfolio
• The day’s headline news. Customize using your favorite topics like business, tech, entertainment, and your own custom search terms
• Sports scores of your favorite teams (currently NBA only)
• Your Facebook friends who have birthdays today
• Your Facebook events in the next 24 hours

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Smarter Alarm – Alarm reads information rather than beeping

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Elixir offers you a lot of important system information right on your home screen in the form of various widgets.  With just a quick glance at your phone you can easily see battery charge, cpu usage, memory usage, internal and external storage, wifi, mobile network, location services (gps), bluetooth and much more. Each widget is fully customizable to your liking and even includes toggle widgets and an app launcher.

The latest version was updated just 4 days ago and the changelog suggested many additions and bug fixes. If you tried this before but it just wasn’t working, maybe it will work for you now. Either way this looks to be a pretty useful application. You can pick this application up below if would like to give it a go.

Click or scan the QRCode below to find out more information about the Elixir application. 
Summary and Downloads:

Application: Elixir
Developer: Tamás Barta
Cost: FREE

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The Transportation Security Administration has created a free MyTSA mobile web app that answers basic security questions like: What kind of liquids can be brought onto the plane, and what will set off the metal detector?

You can find MyTSA on your smart phone at the www.tsa.gov/mobile website or look for it on the USA.gov Apps gallery.

Today is also National Opt-Out Day — when some air travelers say they’ll opt out of the new full-body scanners at airports.

The protest began online about two weeks ago, could be a headache leading to long delays at airport checkpoints.

The inventor of the full body scanner, Dr. Steven Smith, says he doesn’t know what the fuss is all about. He is especially surprised by the fears there’s too much radiation.

He says travelers should not fear the machine despite fears over the radiation it emits.

“It gives the about the equivalent of radiation to about an hour anywhere on the Earth’s surface or about two minutes on an airline flight,” Smith said.

TSA uses two types of imaging technology, millimeter wave and backscatter. Currently, there are 385 imaging technology units at 68 airports. The puffer machine detects explosives and illegal drugs at airports.

Alaska Airlines has Free WiFi and Google is also sponsoring free Gogo Inflight Internet on United Airlines and US Airways. HasWifi lets you search by flight number, letting you know which flights provide WiFi service.

The week of Thanksgiving is typically Amtrak’s busiest travel period of the year. AmtrakConnect Wi-Fi is available on all Acela Express trains on the East Coast, in all ClubAcela lounges and inside many stations.

Train builder Talgo plans to deliver wireless broadband and live passenger information system on all Talgo trains servicing the West Coast from Vancouver, Canada through Seattle, Portland and Eugene, Oregon on the Amtrak Cascades service. When delivered in 2012, Oregon-owned Talgo trains will join five older Talgo-America train sets; Washington state owns three, and Amtrak owns two (pdf).

Amtrak passenger Wi-Fi service began on the Amtrak Acela fleet on the 1st March 2010 with earlier service in Utah and New Mexico.

The US Department of Transportation has National Traffic and Road Closure Information with Local and State Transit Links.

Traffic Conditions Information is available at:

• AccuTraffic – Traffic Information for States
• Beat the Traffic Information for Various US Cities
• Iteris Real-Time Traffic Information – Maps and Times – for Various US Cities
• MSN Traffic Reports
• SmarTraveler – Traffic Information for Various Major US Cities
• Smart-Traveler Information for Various US Cities
• Total Traffic Network – Traffic Information for US Cities
• Traffic.com – Traffic Information for US Cities
• TrafficGauge – Traffic Information for Various Major US Cities
• TrafficLand.com – Traffic Cameras for US and other Cities
• TravelForecast.com – United States Road and Traffic Conditions

INRIX TRAFFIC is a free, ad-free app that delivers traffic information. It delivers real-time traffic flow on every major roadway in 126 cities across North America and 100 cities across five countries in Europe.

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If you are a little agitated with Samsung and T-Mobile because of the delayed OTA update for the Samsung Vibrant, you might rest a little easier as Samsung has stated on their Facebook page that more details regarding the OTA update will be coming next week.

T-Mobile and Samsung are hearing your questions regarding timing for the Vibrant software upgrade. We are continuing to work diligently to provide you with improvements in an effort to provide you with a high quality experience. We plan to have more information to share next week regarding timing on when these updates will be delivered to customers over-the-air. Thank you for your patience.

Hopefully soon after, they’ll be pushing out an OTA update to address some of the issues we’ve been having including a GPS fix. Samsung recently stated that an update for the Vibrant was available on their Kies program, but T-Mobile quickly urged people to wait for an official OTA update from them. It’s good to know that both T-Mobile and Samsung are aware of the deep frustration this issue is causing customers. Other than the GPS issue, what are some other issues you are experiencing with your Vibrant?

Via: Samsung’s Facebook, Hartford Smartphones Examiner

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Well we’re now on part four of the Android Development series but in case you haven’t been following along, here’s what you’ve missed:

• Android Development 101 – Hello World
• Android Development 101 – Part 2: Graphical Elements
• Android Development 101 – Part 3: Introduction to Databases
• Android Development 101 – Part 4: Advanced DB/GUI Code and DDMS

Now that you’re up to speed, what exactly does part five in this series cover? I’ll get Greg explain that:

“In this tutorial we are going to cover completing the Information Tracker using DroidDraw to design the layout of this project. This will give you insight into an alternative to the stock layout manager in the eclipse environment and how DroidDraw functions. DroidDraw can be your best friend when designing Android applications or your worse enemy if you don’t know the layout of the application and how it works. This will show you the basics to this program and how to incorporate it into your development process.  This is significantly easier than the previous post but will teach skills on other programs to help development such as DroidDraw.”

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Android Development 101 – Part 5:DroidDraw & Information Tracker

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If you’ve had your phone very long at all, you probably have a pretty good idea of where you have good coverage, and where you don’t. Still, sometimes it would be nice to really have a break down of what towers you were connecting to and what kind of signal you were pulling from each one.

Enter Antennas. This app will show you what towers are in your area, which one(s) you’re connected to, and what kind of signal you’re receiving from each tower. If you’re on a 2G network, it is possible to receive info on multiple towers at once, as your signal spans across them all. For CDMA or networks that are exclusively 3G, you’re only going to get information on the one tower you are actively communicating with.

If this sounds useful, grab it from the market via the QR code below, and be sure and let us know what you think! I may be getting this one myself…

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Antennas App Gives Detailed Information About Your Coverage

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Even though BlackBerry is renowned around the world for it’s in built security it is limited to what, exactly you can secure. Most security functions to the end user do not go beyond encrypting the SDCard and making sure a singular password is set to block all access to the device. So what happens if you just want to block certain aspects of your BlackBerry smartphone? Say your messages or your media content. You’re out of luck in that area unless you look towards a third party application such as iLock from MMMOOO. While the application is not new, it has been recently updated with some more features which make the app more secure then ever before.

• Lock/Hidden the file and folder, the newly rocking function in iLock
• Enable add an app Manually if it was not in pre-refreshed list
• Uses a new & texture icon, looks nice in different style themes
• Fixed some little bugs, more stable & smooth

Version 1.1 is now available for purchase, only costing $3.99 but in case you are wanting to give it a spin before spending your hard earned cash you can check out the free 7 day trial that is available.

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CrackBerry.com‘s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. Updated iLock For BlackBerry Keeps Your Information From Prying Eyes

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In Canada, many retailers have already started their ordering processes for the BlackBerry Pearl 3G. With pre orders being taken, shipments in transit and some folks even being able to score the devices in a small percentage of stores. Across the pond in the UK though, Vodafone is just revving up for their release of the sexy new BlackBerry Pearl 3G. Luckily, we’ve got some information to share with you all that comes to us from an attendee of the event, big thanks to chirag for sending this stuff in too us. Read on for more details on what to expect when the BlackBerry Pearl 3G goes on sale for Vodafone UK.

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CrackBerry.com‘s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. BlackBerry Pearl 3G Information Live From The Vodafone UK Launch Party

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