Monday, January 31, 2011

How to transfer your contacts from Iphone 3G to MY touch 4G

So I just received my new MY touch 4G and I must say it’s an Iphone killer. Then task of transferring my 243 contacts arises. Called T-Mobile to find out if I can use their MobileLife backup service to do it and I was told that is not compatible with the My-Touch 4G quite yet.
So I googled a few ideas and none seemed to work but at 4:00 in the morning after trying the whole night I had an idea. See, I synced my Iphone contacts to my windows address book (WAB) and uploaded it to my network drive. I then went back to my My Touch and attempted to import my contacts from the file (WAB) I had just created but the message on the phone indicated that the file it was looking for is in Vcards. I googled a wab converter and came upon a software called SysTools.vCard.Export.v4.0.

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Friday, January 7, 2011

The man who reinvented the keyboard -- twice

By Mark Milian, CNN
January 5, 2011 7:07 a.m. EST | Filed under: Innovation


San Francisco (CNN) -- Cliff Kushler wants to talk to dolphins.
But in the meantime, he'll settle for helping humans communicate better.
In the 1990s, Kushler invented a cell phone technology called T9, which helped launch the text messaging phenomenon. And before that, he developed a once dominant language input gizmo for the disabled.
Now Kushler, 58, is rethinking the keyboard again with Swype.

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MOTOROLA XOOM - Android Smart Tablet - Overview - Motorola Mobility, Inc. USA

Checkout the New Motorola Xoom



Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Why iPhone, Android Won't "Replace" BlackBerry on Wall St. Anytime Soon

Wall St. bank JPMorgan is security testing iPhones and Android devices. But it's not time to say Bye-Bye, BlackBerry just yet.




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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Computer containing 7,000 CUNY students' personal information stolen weeks ago.

CUNY is flunking security.

" Red-faced officials at City College of New York, one of the colleges of The City University of New York, sent warning letters to 7,000 students telling them a computer containing personal information - including their names and Social Security numbers - had been stolen a few weeks ago.

The desktop computer was password-protected, but students and parents are still worried about the possibility of identity theft, "ABC Eyewitness News" reported Monday night. "



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Friday, August 6, 2010

Cloud Computing: It's No Y2K Bonanza for IT Consulting Industry

" Consulting, systems integration and outsourcing vendors must prepare themselves for life in the cloud, too, says Forrester Research. For traditional IT service providers, cloud is bad news in the short term, but is it really good news in the long term? "

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Microsoft Exchange or Google Apps? Govt agency goes Google.

Source: Google

James Ferreira, CIO for the New Mexico State Attorney General's office, had a choice to make to support his growing organization: upgrade to a more costly enterprise license for Microsoft Exchange or find a business grade alternative at a better price. Google Apps Premier Edition emerged as the clear winner.

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