Verizon Thunderbolt 4G/LTE

 

  Went to the SBS 2011 partner event in Southfield, MI this past Tuesday and was pleasantly surprised my Verizon Thunderbolt changed its network icon from 3g to 4g

  Turned on the Thunderbolts Hotspot, connected my tablet pc and the first test results were:

  12m down and 15m up is faster then my office AT&T DSL.

  As this is very new, we did have mixed results as Joe connected to my hotspot and was getting like 3m/3m and another Thunderbolt user was getting 9m/9m.  The up/down usually were very close on all the tests.  We seemed to get disconnected a few times at the start of the meeting around 11 but, it seemed to be fine after that.

  It has been announced that Grand Rapids, MI has been pushed up for 4G/LTE coverage for this year, maybe as early as this summer

Before forwarding email or reposting on Facebook

  Before forwarding email or reposting on Facebook, take a couple of minutes and check out www.snopes.com “the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.”

  At www.snopes.com one can enter some info such as “facebook cartoon” and produce a result that indicates that the claim “will help end child abuse” is actually “False”.  www.snopes.com continues with some background info on the subject.

Facebook Vanity/Shortcut url

  Did you know you can have/use a vanity/shortcut url name for your personal and/or Fan Page?

  Using http://www.facebook.com/username, you can create a vanity/shortcut name like my personal Facebook page of www.facebook.com/RichardKenyon and my business Facebook page of www.facebook.com/hltechsolutions.

I would love your vote please nominate me for Top 150 SMB influencer's

How's Life?

  ;)

Folks in SMB are asking to be nominated as one of the top 150 influencer’s in SMB via a survey put on by SMB PC Magazine.  Such as Eric Ligman (I did vote for him) via facebook, http://www.facebook.com/EricLigman, post today of “Would love your vote for me in the SMB Top 150”

  I would also love your vote to be one of the top 150 SMB influencer's, please nominate me via the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SHP9NTH, you can only vote once.

  The survey is two questions long (see snippet below)

1. How did you hear/learn about the survey
2. Enter up to 10 names that influence you

Please enter Richard Kenyon of HL tech solutions in the “other” box for #1
Please enter Richard Kenyon of HL tech solutions and nine other influencer’s for #2
After you click done you then can hit “exit this survey” in the upper right hand corner or just close the window

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SHP9NTH

  Among the 10 I voted for include:
West Michigan Small Business Technology User Group
West Michigan Network Technology User Group
My Self ;)
Eric

Thank you for your support,
Richard Kenyon
HL tech solutions

iPad available this Saturday

Just watched this weeks ABC’s Modern Family Episode 19 “Game Changer” via Hulu which was a funny 20 min commercial on the iPad  ;)

Hulu - Modern Family: Game Changer - Watch the full episode now
http://goo.gl/KVrt

ABC’s even has a new Player for watching all their shows for free
Introducing the ABC Player for iPad - ABC.com
http://goo.gl/OnTR

Windows XP Mode now accessible to more PCs

Today, 03/18/10, Microsoft releases the update to Windows XP Mode that no longer requires hardware virtualization technology to run :)

Windows XP Mode now accessible to more PCs
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2010/03/18/windows-xp-mode-now-accessible-to-more-pcs.aspx

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

Michigan colleges getting into iPhone, Android smartphone app game | - MLive.com

The article in today’s paper had “NO” mention of ‘Windows Mobile’ version or Microsoft of any kind.

From the web:
Michigan colleges getting into iPhone, Android smartphone app game - MLive.com
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/03/michigan_colleges_getting_into.html

On today’s (Sunday March 14, 2010) front page of the Grand Rapids Press the article is:
NEXT BIG THING IN COLLEGES?
App-titude test
Local schools score first on techware for smart phones
Plus, students are being trained to stay ahead on mobile apps.

Snippets:
”designing apps, a field that experts say will grow even more dramatically if tablet computers became as popular as techies expect”
“The Internet changed everything. Mobile will be the Internet on steroids. And the mobile revolution hasn’t even begun yet.“
“Thousands of apps are available via iTunes, and a smaller number on Google’s Marketplace, though Englesma said that will surge as the Android system — used on Google’s new phone, among others — grows in use.”
“He expects Google to rival Apple devices in popularity and number of apps, saying Google’s phone is easier to design software for, and the company is less restrictive about what products can be sold in its online Marketplace”