Presidential BlackBerry

Despite warnings from his advisors, President Obama apparently keeps all of his schedules and plans on his BlackBerry. This has made his BlackBerry a kind of "Holy Grail" for hackers. Hacking into the president's phone is not as easy as it sounds however. President Obama's BlackBerry runs a special super-encrypting software that makes it almost un-hackable. Mitnick, the world's best x-hacker, says that it's a long shot, but it is possible to hack Obama's BlackBerry. 

Technologyreview.com

Here's a link to a cool tech review website I found- http://www.technologyreview.com/

PowerMeter

Another cool new release by Google just came out- PowerMeter. PowerMeter is an online dashboard that is designed to download data from smart meters and display current electricity use and show how much power your refrigerator, big-screen television and other appliances are using at any point in time. The handy thing about PowerMeter is that it gives the user more control over their household electricity, and thus allows them better control over how much they're spending.

Ford's Future Electrical Cars

Ford has announced that they will release the first ever fully electrical van in 2010. The car will be called the Transit Connect. It is going to be a small van and it will be able to get 100 miles on a fully charged battery. Ford said that the car is intended for business owners and not families. Ford's "electrical" plans also involve the creation of a small, battery-powered car, advanced hybrid cars, and plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2011 and 2012.

If you want to read more about Ford's electrical cars for the future then go to- http://www.mpgomatic.com/2009/01/22/ford-electric-cars/

TechReport Podcasts

Here are the links to two podcast I have made about new technology. The first one is about a month old. The second one is as old as this post.

http://skateboardguy106.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-01-14T16_49_55-08_00
http://skateboardguy106.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-02-04T21_00_48-08_00

Google Latitude

Another cool new release from Google just came out today- Google Latitude. Google Latitude is a very handy program that you can install into your phone or computer. What the program does is it allows you to see where your friends or family are (as long as they also have the program installed) where ever they go. The program uses GPS to track the phones belonging to the people you want to find. Of course the people on the other end of the phone have to give their consent to let you to see where they are, which is why the program is meant mainly for friends and family.

To see more about Google Latitude go to- 

http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html

Google Oceans

Google has made some amazing breakthroughs in cyber technology through the years, and now Google is doing it again. Google has just come out with new computer software that virtually lets you explore the any part of the ocean you want. The program has many features- it has an accurate layout of the ocean floor that you can move around on, it has links that you can click on to see information about something that happened at certain locations, and it even has a touring feature that you can use to follow the path of sharks and other marine animals. This program has many more features that you can check out at- http://earth.google.com/ocean/