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First class flight tracking with Flight Update

PowerPage Podcast Episode 101 (iTunes, direct AAC) was posted last night and my submission for our "What's on your Mac?" segment is an iPhone application that came in incredibly handy while traveling to Macworld Expo earlier this month: Flight Update (iTunes, $5). If you travel on commercial...

Tags: Flight, Flight Update, Digital Music, Digital Media, Aerospace & Defense, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-16

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Garmin Nuvi 1690

Garmin made a pretty big splash last year when it debuted the Nuvi 880, its first-ever Internet-connected portable navigation device PND featuring MSN Direct data service. With MSN Direct scheduled to go offline in the very near future, Garmin had to create something to fill this void, so it partnered...

Tags: Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., data service, portable navigation device, suction-cup, cradle

Product reviews 2009-11-24

Golden Eagle FlightPrep 5.1.1 (Windows)

Golden Eagle FlightPrep was developed take advantage of the latest Internet online flight planning capability. Many new features, such as weather overlay, always current TFR's, richer flight planning charts, and a direct online flight planning gateway to FlightPrep, make Golden Eagle FlightPrep the flight planner of choice for pilots facing...

Tags: Flight, Microsoft Windows, FlightPrep, Golden Eagle Flight Planner, Internet, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-11-23

Climb! 2.8.1 (Mac)

Pilots worldwide have chosen Climb! for its speed of operation, simplicity of design, and ease of data entry. No matter what you're flying, Climb! has the tools to make quick work of data entry and update. And now there's a new way to enter data "on the fly"... Mobile flight...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Data Entry, Apple iPod Touch, 2ndSegment Software, SegmentView, Flight Data, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-13

WorldMate Live for BlackBerry 3.0 (Mobile)

Keep a personal travel assistant in your pocket. WorldMate Live will manage your full itinerary, including travel arrangements and business meetings, making all details immediately accessible on your mobile device, and ensure a smooth trip by pushing alerts regarding imminent events like flight delays. WorldMate Live is a free application...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, MobiMate, WorldMate Live, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-24

Zoho's Next Big Thing

Zoho has announced the availability of Zoho Discussions. Of itself you might think this is a smallish me-too announcement given that it can be construed as support forums-reinvented for the new millennium with some bells and whistles thrown in. That would be a gross underestimate of...

Tags: Zoho, Smb/Sme, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-22

I don't want an MP3 player/camera/ebook reader/gaming device. Do you?

Disagree with your update[i]In fact, Apple almost seemed to be repositioning the iPod Touch as a rival to a full-fledged PC[/i]Nope, Apple is repositioning the iPod Touch as a rival to the 8 year old HP iPAQ running PocketPC.Apps? Check.Browser? Check.Exchange support? Check.Multi-media support? Check.RE: I don't want an MP3...

Tags: E-mail, Digital music, Digital media, Corporate communications, camera, MP3

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Sonim XP3 Quest (unlocked)

Photo gallery:Sonim XP3 QuestThe Sonim XP3 Quest is the update to the Sonim XP1 that we reviewed last year. If you thought the XP1 was strong--and believe us when we say that it was--the XP3 goes a step further by being completely waterproof like the G'zOne handsets. If that isn't...

Tags: Cellular phones, display, keypad button, battery cover, Sonim XP3 Quest, XP3, Sonim XP1

Product reviews 2009-08-31

Liveblog: Sony announces $399 7" Wi-Fi 3G e-book Reader; will it kill the Kindle?

Goodnight KindleWitch cheaper competition Amazon is finished. I'm surprised that it was Sony who stepped up.The game is getting interestingThough I am pretty sure it's a few years or decades too early to be declaring anything a "Kindle killer" or a "Sony killer". Basically the market is still very...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Wi-Fi, Amazon.com Inc., Sony Corp., game

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Private Pilot PocketTest (Mobile)

The original PDA test-prep study tool for FAA Written Exams in Aviation. "I got 100% on the FAA Private Pilot written exam after only four weeks of study. I attribute this to your program..." --Jim, in New York, NY As seen inmagazine "Now with my Palm in my pocket, I'm...

Tags: Software, FAA, Mobile, PocketTest, Questions, PDAs, Tools & Techniques, Handhelds, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-08

iPhone 3GS users complain of poor battery life

The LA Times dubbed it iDrain, iPhone 3GS users are calling it a royal pain. Despite Apple's claims that the iPhone 3GS comes with "longer battery life" users are complaining that its new vunder-handset actually has less battery life than with the previous model. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, iPhone 3GS, Engineering, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-07

PocketPRP Gold - Personal Resource Planner for Windows Mobile (Mobile)

Personal Resource PlanningOne hand ! One phone ! One applicationPocketPRP takes away stress from traveling, saves you from hassles of reporting, organizes data, manages plans there by increasing efficiency & keeps you updated on the go. A complete personal resource planner. PRP City Info More than just Weather update, PRP...

Tags: Itinerary, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, 3GR Technologies, Reports, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-07-06

A Personal Assistant Premium 3.5 (Mobile)

A Personal Assistant Premium enables you to monitor banking, credit card transactions, and investment accounts, track cell minutes, see itineraries, manage air miles, view your Netflix queue, and online shopping accounts. Accounts update automatically so you have no need to manually input any data. You can manage accounts such as...

Tags: Mobile, Pageonce, Personal Assistant Premium, Summary Screen, Banking, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

Software downloads 2009-06-26

What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?

What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?I'd eat a Klondik Bar! nt.RE: What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?"I?ve given up all hope of publishing anything meaningful on ZDNet"Really? I didn't know you'd started.Easy one.Run Vista unpatched... on a scrap machine.Feel Your PainYou could...

Tags: Smart phones, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G S, iPile, Apple iPhone 3G, Give Up

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Flight Update 3.0 (Mobile)

Fight Update add flights months into the future with the airline and flight number and the app will retrieve all flight details, provide meal information for the flight, and allows viewing of seating charts for the aircraft. Flight Update combines status information with an additional service that allows us to...

Tags: Flight, Mobile, Silverware Software, Aerospace & Defense, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-05-29

News to know: HP, Vista SP2; Pre; Oracle licensing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: HP's second quarter on target; Big units take revenue lumps; Headcount cuts ahead Mary Jo Foley: Where is Vista SP2? ...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Performance, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Server, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities

Updated: Here's how Google's outage unfolded on Thursday...  We're getting various reports via that Google services are down or at least sucking some serious wind. The service appears to be back as of noon-ish EDT in New York City. Google cites a "traffic jam" in Asia for...

Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Outage, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-14

News to know: Cisco; Kindle DX; MySpace; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Cisco's third quarter: Better than expected; Sales down; Economic recovery 'eventual' Andrew Nusca: Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, Amazon Kindle, MySpace, Notebooks, Strategy, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-07

10 seriously annoying default configurations

Guest post: Into every life, a little stupidity must fall. And sometimes, you just have to vent about it. Rick Vanover shares a few of the default configurations he finds especially frustrating and idiotic…. What are yours? For more posts like this see TechRepublic's 10 Things blog. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Installation, VMware Inc., Rick Vanover, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Microsoft's next-generation Zunes: The end of the line?

Microsoft's next-generation Zunes: The end of the line?I had a ZuneLove my my iPod better. Wasn't at all impressed with it. The Service in the music store was shoddy. If you buy music from their store, you have to immediately burn it to disc, and rip it back off, because...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Digital music, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, software

Discussion threads 2009-04-10