Gizmogs

By Andrew Liszewski

In a cool use of search data, Google’s philanthropic arm is tracking queries on illness and correlating it with geolocation data to trend flu activity in the US. The idea here is to try to predict flu trends faster than the CDC normally does based on their methodology. Google in turn works with the CDC to make this data available and useful.

You can find out how this all works by visiting Google’s Flu Trends site.

BTW, you can even download the raw data and toy with it yourself if you’d like.

Apple’s iPhone was the top-selling handset in the United States in the third quarter, according to new data from NPD Group.

Read the original here:
iPhone 3G - the top selling handset in the US market in the 3rd Quarter

I am feeling safe and secure. Why shouldn’t I be? I am carrying my data in two of the most safest data storage drives on the market; manufactured by ATP  ELECTRONICS.

Transcend announced the launch of its 2.5-inch portable hard drive ‘StoreJet 25C’ with 500GB capacity, which supports USB 2.0 interface and plug and play. This drive will easily fit inside your pocket and guess what, it won’t need any adapter for power as it can do with the little power it will get from USB cable that you connect to it for data transfer! Sweet. Carry two of these and you have 1TB (well not actually but nearer to it) data holding capacity with you anywhere.

Combining the best features of the earlier iD and LX models, the T-Mobile Sidekick is a great way to chat on popular instant messaging services, connect with friends on MySpace, and easily record and share photos and videos. This new model for 2008 sports a slightly smaller, thinner and lighter design than previous Sidekicks, and it offers a high-resolution 2.6-inch slide-out display and changeable custom covers. The new Sidekick also features an integrated Spanish user interface--the first for a Sidekick device. Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, MicroSD memory expansion (512 MB card included), digital audio player, Bluetooth stereo music streaming, Spanish language support, two interchangeable shells (black and green) and up to 5 hours of talk time.

With the development in technology, computers have become a part of life. Almost every individual uses computer in a way or two. Some people use computers to play games whereas some people use computers for storing data, creating new applications. In every computer, a hard drive is required for maintaining data. Different computers use different hard drives and the capacity of a computer to store data depends on the capacity of the hard drive.

Steve Jobs is mad. He’s mad at Canada. Not at the Canadians in particular. but to Canadian telcos who are described to have the most horrid data plans, it makes the whole thing disgusting. Tris from Maple Leaf 2.0 has A LOT to say about this.

Enhanced Multi-Net Mobility Solution Delivers Secure, Interoperable, Mobile Broadband to Users on the Move

SCHAUMBURG, IL – 18 June 2008 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced that its Multi-Net Mobility™ solution can now be configured and managed remotely over a wireless data network and now allows wireless devices to access a virtual private network and back-office applications from “hot spots” outside a vehicle.

In case you were trying to access any of the Thoughts Media sites (Pocket PC Thoughts, Digital Media Thoughts, Zune Thoughts, Smartphone Thoughts) or Mobility Site this weekend, you most likely noticed that you couldn’t. Evidently there was an explosion at The Planet’s Houston data center.

If you plan on tossing your old iPhone for the new 3G version next month, you may want to think twice before you do. Just like any other computer platform, you can pull data out of the memory using tools that are readily available. To most people this isn’t a big deal, but to the paranoid this is life or death.

The current traffic report system used by Microsoft on maps.live.com can’t tell you much about traffic on city streets. They only have highways (just like Yahoo or Google, to be fair) and therefore the system isn’t of much help for something other than “should I hit that road now?” or “how bad is it going to be”?.