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Driving whilst distracted is becoming enough of a problem for our various government agencies to start looking into ways to proactively prevent it, rather than just pass laws against it, but Sprint is being more proactive than most. It’s announced an app called Drive First, developed by Location Labs, which won’t be available until sometime in the third quarter. The app runs on Android and basically puts your phone into lock-down mode “when driving is detected,” automatically sending incoming calls to voicemail, auto-replying to texts that you’re unavailable, and preventing you from using much of any applications outside mainstream navigation fare. As always with these apps we’re not sure just how they’ll differentiate between driving and, say, sitting on a train, and we’re guessing they’ll be just as effective at locking out those riding shotgun, but for parents worrying about whether Junior is texting when he should be driving home from band practice it could be a good solution. That solution, however, will cost those ‘rents $2 per month — and certainly won’t earn them any love from their angsty teen.

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Sprint announces Drive First app to stop distracted driving, expects you to pay $2/month for it originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on October 06, 2006 by CyberNet.

Thanks to the anonymous commenter on our last post for finding out that Microsoft activated the download page and links for Windows Vista RC2 (which is build 5744). I just started downloading it and it is maxing out my 5Mbps connection…so the speeds are pretty impressive (at least until the whole world finds out that they can download it).

It looks like for the time being Microsoft only placed the 32-bit file on the download page. I suspect that they do this because the 64-bit is a larger file to download so they wait until people start to finish their 32-bit downloads before posting this version. It is probably actually smart for them to do this because I know several people that download both versions. Heck, they normally don’t even get around to installing either of them but they want the “bragging rights” to say that they have them both. You know who you are.

Looks like I will have something to keep me busy this weekend because the download should complete in 1.5 hours. For those people that haven’t experienced the joys of upgrading Vista I highly recommend that you just do a clean install. The upgrade process (for upgrading from XP or an older Vista version) typically runs 2-3 hours. That is opposed to doing a clean install which only takes about 20 minutes.

Direct Download Link: 32-bit Vista RC2
Filename: vista_5744.16384.061003-1945_x86fre_client-LRMCFRE_EN_DVD.iso
Build Number: 5744
Build Date: October 3, 2006 
MD5 hash: 83cee5f1642d094670147c5350c57762
SHA1 hash: 067CA4F94D001DE6276F08F76EF0780592B64BFD

Direct Download Link: 64-bit Vista RC2
Filename: vista_5744.16384.061003-1945_x64fre_client-lrmcxfre_en_dvd.iso
Build Number: 5744
Build Date: October 3, 2006 
MD5 hash: 23b213d7342b2e957b3db1d98c0ee3e6
SHA1 hash: 5D8C4BCEE51F6912801800E534F6DB5A22F654AE

Your previous Vista product key from Beta 2 or beyond will still work with this version. If you don’t have a product key you can try to see if this “trick” will still work for you. No one has said that it doesn’t work so your chances are probably still pretty good.

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If Amazon were to venture beyond the web in favor of a more tangible medium to peddle its wares, it might consider something like Telepresence Tech’s new telepresence kiosk for the job. We got a surprise demo of the system at a Samsung event today and came away intrigued. The technology renders 2D images that float and rotate in space, giving retailers a way to let customers see their products as if they were actually there, and at a fraction of the cost — about $1.50 per hour — of paying meatbags to man a traditional brick-and-mortar store. A separate touchscreen lets shoppers scroll through available items, speak face to virtual face with customer service, and make purchases. Check the gallery to see more of what our retail future looks like.

TelePresence Tech kiosk to bring virtual shopping to a mall near you, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As if the world needed one more association to keep up with, CTIA Wireless 2011 is delivering just that. The Femto Forum, which has done an excellent job remaining undercover of late, has just published an “industry-wide agreed set of API specifications” that will enable “advanced mobile applications based on femtocell technology.” Truth be told, the first apps based on the specifications have already been built, and their currently available to the femtocell community. The specifications are for network-based APIs, which will purportedly “allow operators to drive the development of femtocell-powered open access, enterprise and consumer applications,” and it’ll also provide awareness information in order to allow developers the opportunity to incorporate enhanced presence, context and location-sensitive features into new and existing apps. Granted, we’d care a lot more about those location-based apps if we could drag our 3G MicroCell to Panama to use it to make free calls whilst on vacation, but hey — maybe that’s the next logical step. Not that we’re much for passing along hints or anything.

Femto Forum publishes API specification for femtocell apps, places focus on ‘awareness information’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on August 07, 2006 by CyberNet.

Tracking Down Great Software For You!

BlueOrganizer is a Firefox extension that will let you bookmark items that you find on sites like Amazon, Buy.com, eBay, and more. It will read the information that is presented on the page and store images of the item along with several other details.

This free extension is great because you can have your information stored online if you decide to register otherwise it will just store it on your hard drive. If you really get into using the extension you can add your whole movie or CD collection and then publish it as an RSS feed. Then the next time your friends say “what movies do you have” you can point them to your feed and let them find out for themselves.

You will find the automated tagging system extremely useful when you are searching for an item that you have already bookmarked. One thing that you might overlook is the ability to add your own tags which makes it easy to organize your bookmarks the way you want.

BlueOrganizer isn’t going to be for everyone but is really geared towards the people who want to really organize their collections. Hopefully you will be one of the people that uses the full potential that the extension has to offer.

If you want to see BlueOrganizer in action then checkout this screencast demo which walks you through all of the great features. If that still isn’t enough for you then read through their tutorial which shows you more of the great features.

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