Travis Burrell

Travis (AKA t-readyroc) earned his BA in Biology from Saint Mary’s College, MD back in 1998 where he started tinkering with computers. He worked in chemical instrumentation for a few years and then moved into IT full-time in 2003. He’s currently the distance education coordinator and webmaster for the University of Maryland.

Travis has been with GeekExtreme since early 2004. His continued dedication to reporting the geekiest of geek news is probably why we’re still here. We really couldn’t do this without him.

Android rootkit demonstrated

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on August 2, 2010
At Defcon. As the researchers demonstrated in their talk, this gives the attacker access to the Android phone’s SQLite database, allowing them to view, for example, a victim’s texts or contacts. It’s also possible to remotely read the device’s current GPS coordinates and to make outgoing calls without this being shown on the display.
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AppBrain – the actual state of the Android Market

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on July 22, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Disclosure: I use AppBrain.  I find it very useful to browse apps online & then easily sync/install on my Captivate.  Looks like they’ve been pretty hard at work filtering out the crap, though, & have some interesting things to say on the state of the Android Market.  Apparently, out of the total [...]
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What will we see at MWC next month? 6.6?

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on January 14, 2010
Microsoft’s Mobile World Congress is just about four weeks away now, & WMPowerUser is heavily speculating (along with many others) that Windows Mobile 7 will be announced at the annual conference.  That’s announced, mind you; I don’t see any devices showing up with it on board until Q4.  Though WMPU has quite a compelling list [...]
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Nexus One Day – reviews published

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on January 5, 2010
Image via CrunchBase Today’s the day that Google is expected to officially announce its Nexus One Android phone, custom built by HTC.  The details & rumors have been swirling for over two months now, & Google is expected to make some waves today, just two days before CES kicks off.  According to the link above, [...]
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Thunderbird 3 released

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on December 9, 2009
After a few betas & as many release candidates, Mozilla has finally released Thunderbird 3.  It packs all kinds of new features like tabbed emails & a schpankity new search function. I knew it was a bit of a crap-shoot with my twenty-some add-ons, but I was genuinely surprised to see that Lightning no longer [...]
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xPhone: I think I’ve found my next phone

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on December 9, 2009
[editors note:  Personally, any phone that has cutting edge Text to Toast and a coffee warmer is on my christmas list.  Screw the iPhone, I'm an xPhone fanboy now!] Mein gott!  It even does VHS! Via Giz
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Pulling an SD: Brink Delayed

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on December 1, 2009
Anyone who anticipated the release of ET:QW will know that this bit of news from developers Splash Damage is par for the course.  Fall it is, then! Like many titles as of late, Splash Damage apparently needs additional time to polish this title prior to release. Oh, & I guess in an attempt to make [...]
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. DirectX compare-o

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on November 25, 2009
The ExpReview crew have run the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat benchmark on a rig in both DirectX modes to point out that differences do indeed exist.  The shadows look a bit more realistic, and the tessellation in DX11 brings a bit more details to some of the textures.  There’s a slight performance hit for the [...]
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