brijmin on Tech

HTC and T-Mobile are proud to launch a system upgrade for the myTouch 3G Slide. This update will bring the following enhancements to the device.

The Android Market engineering team has been hard at work on improving the Android Market experience for users and developers. Today, I’m pleased to announce a significant update to the Android Market client. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be rolling out a new Android Market client to all devices running Android 1.6 or higher.

Google will today announce the ability to disable Gmail’s conversation view e-mail threading feature. Conversation view has been one of its most hotly debated features since the service launched in 2004.

“Under the table” pools may be the catalyst of the next technology revolution in government. During last February’s economic collapse in Greece, the normally technophobic Greek government used Google Maps and Google Earth to find people who had craftily evaded taxes by failing to declare a pool.

With a proliferation of logins and forms to fill – and with the information you need to accomplish tasks scattered across many websites – interacting with the web is more complicated than it needs to be.

[[HOAX]]  A Great Idea!!! Not so much… When doing your Christmas cards, address one to : A Recovering American Soldier c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center 6900 Georgia Avenue NW; Washington, D.C. 20307. If we pass this on, think of how many cards these wonderful special people would get.

You can ignore that e-mail that looks like it comes from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about creating a profile for an H1N1 vaccination program. It’s a malware scam, according to security provider AppRiver.

In rather shocking news, The Pirate Bay (TPB) has shut down its torrent tracker. The search engine remains, but instead of dishing up torrents it will instead serve as a magnet-link repository.

Technorati released the first installment of its 2009 State of the Blogosphere report.

Checkout woot.com daily, but today is a woot-off day. I could not pass up a couple of them.