Verizon Announces its latest Android 4.0 Update List

If you own a phone, there is a good chance that it is an Android phone, there is another good chance that it is a Android 3 based phone, and you would love to get your hands on Ice Cream Sandwich, well here is a short list of phones that Verizon is saying will get ICS soon enough.

No release dates announced. If you want to get the full list and more details go here.

The New iPad

Updated March 29th

So there you have it, another “successful launch of the “New iPad” Still on the fence about it, or need more information on it before you go and buy it? Want to know how it stacks up against others like the Transformer Pad Infinity? Want more info? Go here.

Original Post

Tomorrow is the day that all rumors about the iPad HD are put aside, no more guessing, no more rumors, its all going to be revealed! Check out a snippit from the source Blog.

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but I believe that Apple will soon announce a 7″ version of the iPad, don’t know what they will call it, probably something like iPad Mini or something to that affect. The success of the PlayBook has spurred many companies to go with a 16:9 aspect ratio device, and Apple wasn’t going to be left behind!

Did I mentoin that there will be an LTE version of the new iPad HD? Go here for all the latest rumors!

BlackBerry Fusion

Haven’t spoken about this in a while and I thought I would update everyone… Note that Fusion still doesn’t support Universal Devices, like iPhone and Android. Although it is on its way!

BlackBerry Mobile Fusion features

BlackBerry® Device Service: provides management features for BlackBerry PlayBook tablets

Universal Device Service (expected in 2012): provides management features for devices that use the iOS and Android operating systems

BlackBerry Mobile Fusion Studio: a web app that provides a single place for management of mobile devices, users, configurations, policies and more

I have included the links to the most popular documentation below.

Administration Guide

Feature and Technical Overview

Installation and Configuration Guide

Release Notes

Also check out the many software packages BlackBerry offers

Choose from a variety of BlackBerry® software and service options that give your employees broader access to the information they need, while offering greater IT control. Your organization will also be able to connect your BlackBerry smartphones to third-party and custom enterprise applications.

Go here to read about them.

February Sysinternals Updates

There have been a couple updates over at the Microsoft Sysinternals site. As I have stated before, this is a key site to get to know if you are any kind of technician. It can definitely help with malware and trying to find those rouge applications. Process Explorer and Autoruns are amazing. Check it out.

What’s New (Febuary 16, 2012)

• DebugView v4.78 This update to DebugView, a utility for capturing and logging user-mode and kernel-mode debug output messages, can now capture output generated by Metro applications on Windows 8.
• LiveKd v5.1 LiveKd, a utility for leveraging kernel debuggers to analyze live physical systems or Hyper-V virtual machines, now supports newer Intel processors that implement the XSAVE instruction.

What’s New (January 12, 2012)

• CoreInfo v3.03 Coreinfo, a command-line utility that dumps information about a system’s CPU topology and capabilities, now reports the presence of TSC (timestamp counter) Invariant support.
• Process Explorer v15.12 This update to Process Explorer makes the search dialog asynchronous and reports the types of found items. It also fixes several bugs, including showing a small font when run after an older version, a bug in the restart-process functionality, working set columns not showing data, and again shows information about service processes when run from an unprivileged user account.

If you are looking for more information, go here, for download links and more content.

Veeam Backup and Replication Patch 3

If you are running Veeam in your environment it would be in your best interest to keep it up to date.

Here is the latest update.

Release notes

KB ID : 1442

These are the issues resolved by the Patch 3 for Veeam Backup version 6.0.0.153. All patches are cumulative so each below fix is contained in this patch.

Issue 1
Application-aware processing fails for SQL server where Veeam configuration database is located.

Issue 2
Cannot specify “0″ in re-IP rule.

Issue 3
Hot add operation can sometimes cause a very long backup source/target proxy Virtual Machine stun. This stun can be so long that it can cause all jobs using this backup proxy to fail due to timeout with:
“Error: Client error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time“.

Issue 4
CBT fails on virtual disks other than Hard Disk 1 with the “Soap fault. A specified parameter was not correct” error when the hot add processing mode is used.

Issue 5
Backup console UI freezes periodically (upon automatic refresh event) when there is a large number of managed objects exist

For more information and the download link head on over here.

BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Release Date

Hey all, PlayBook OS release date is just days away!

I, like many people are waiting for the official release of OS 2.0. Right now I am running the developer release of OS 2.0 and I know its missing a bunch of things, the video below shows you some features, for those running the developer release, there are quite a few new things here to see, for those running OS 1.7, you will be shocked at how much better your PlayBook experience will be. Start hitting that update button on February 21st!

Go here to read more and watch a video of the new features, like facebook and twitter integration directly in the contact list!

New BlackBerry 10 OS and Phone Images

CrackBerry Kevin got a special email from his rumors mailbox… now I am pretty sure this is all legit, it looks like RIM marketing has released a pdf file full of awesome pictures.

POW! Following up the first-look image of a BlackBerry 10 phone we posted two weeks ago, today the good ol’ CrackBerry tip line received a pretty *interesting* email, to which was attached a 14-page .pdf file full of Cracktasticgoodness. The document was clearly prepared by one of RIM’s external ad agency partners as a BB10 briefing document, providing background information on BlackBerry 10 and outlining some of the OS features and ideas for how to position BlackBerry 10 in future advertising campaigns. BlackBerry 10 Phones may be months away still, but judging by the document it appears the behind-the-scenes work to begin marketing the next-generation of BlackBerry phones is already well under way.

Go here to see the pics and get more information.

The Ultimate UltraBook? Sony?

Maybe? But vendors are releasing them so fast my head is spinning…

Maybe Sony has the answer…

Meet the Sony Vaio Z2.

• 13.1″ 1080p screen
• Second Batter Slice that doubles run-time capacity
• external dock option
  • add a dedicated GPU that can power the 13.1″ screen
  • optical drive (blue-ray)
  • addition connectivity

Want more statistics and the full scoop? Head on over here.

Facebook Native App on PlayBook

PlayBook OS 2 is soon to be released. Want the scoop on what’s new for the PlayBook and how it interacts with social apps?

When we took our first official tour of the native messaging on BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2 a month ago at CES 2012, one of the services that was missing from the social messaging integration was Facebook. We *knew* Facebook would soon be joining Twitter and LinkedIn, but it’s good to see Facebook is now there too for when the highly-anticipated PlayBook software update drops later this month. You can hit up the video above to get a quick look of the Facebook addition within the Manage Accounts option screen and integrated into the native messaging client itself.

Go here to check out the full story.

VMware vDS Best Practices

So you have 20 hosts, 50 different port groups, network configurations all over the place. Wouldn’t it be nice to pull that all together? Into one distributed switch? Whether you are new to virtual networking, or would like to take a peek at VMware best practices then you need the vDS Best Practices guide…

VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) is a key virtual network platform that is scalable and extensible. It also provides advanced networking features and operational simplicity that helps build a flexible network for the cloud. The advanced networking features such as NIOC, LBT, NetFlow, and Port mirror are available on VDS and not on a virtual standard switch (VSS). This paper walks through the design process of incorporating VDS and its advanced features in different customer deployments.

Go here to read more and to download the PDF.