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Blackberry Outages: Headaches for Everyone

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:41:16 +0000

For the second time just weeks, Blackberry’s across North America are falling silent as the data stops flowing. Once again, the ‘Net is abuzz with reports of an outage of Blackberry Internet Services (BIS), the consumer data gatekeeper for Blackberry users. So far, it seems that the outage is affecting all data services except for [...]

Google Maps Navigation

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:48:42 +0000

Having the power of Google and “the cloud” on your dash or the palm of your hand when traveling to provide turn-by-turn guidance is coming to an Android smartphone near you! Recently Google announced the reality of such convenience on their blog. So, you too really can “get their from here.”

3G Speed Tests: How Fast is Your Carrier?

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:06 +0000

According to Wired.com’s recent speed test challenge, the carrier with “the most bars” is not the carrier with the most speed. In fact, results pegged AT&T Wireless‘ 3G network speed as the slowest while Verizon Wireless‘ testers found them to have the fastest 3g data transfers. See the test method here and the results here.

WordPress for BlackBerry

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:34:27 +0000

Automattic released a beta version of it's mobile app for BlackBerry mobile phones.

Michael Jackson’s Death Inspires Spammers

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:45:32 +0000

With the reported deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson this week, it was only a matter of time before malware latent spam started making the rounds.

Sprint’s Palm Pre Hotter than Expected?

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:51:06 +0000

Sprint launched its long awaited Palm Pre this weekend. While the lines were not as long as AT&T/Apple’s legendary iPhone release a couple of years ago, they were reportedly very respectable. The Pre has been long hyped as the iPhone killer with its slick touch screen, mature features and sexy look. However, soon after many [...]

Google Secrets Exposed: A Data Center Tour

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:35:58 +0000

Take a peek inside a Google data center to see how the big boys do it (personal transport device included).

Google Apps and cPanel 11/WHM 11

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:17:44 +0000

After several weeks of trial and error, Wright PC Consulting has finally made a transition to Google Apps for mail and other services. This transition has no direct affect on current or future clients. As a Google Market Place vendor, we have helped others smoothly migrate to the Google Apps platform before. However, while the transition [...]

BlackBerry Storm vs iPhone Showdown

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:59:03 +0000

I ran across this Storm vs iPhone comparison and thought that it was worth sharing:

Marine One Blue Prints Leaked via P2P

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:03:18 +0000

Details of the US Presidential helicopter(s) collectively known as Marine One when the Command and Chief is on board have possibly been leaked.