Wednesday’s Interactive News

Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:

• How To Watch The U.S. Presidential Debates Online
• Startup Brands: 7 Keys For Brand Strategy Success
• 10 Common Facebook Questions Answered!
• The Perfect Landing Page Recipe
• Target to Put QR Codes on Toys This Holiday Season to Battle Amazon

And your geek link of the day:

• The Matrix? MegaDroid Simulates Network Of 300,000 Android Smartphones

Testing how a smartphone app will work in the real world prior to release isn’t always a surefire bet, as the recent Apple Maps fiasco has shown.

But now Android smartphone app makers, phone companies, and other groups ranging from academia to the military have a powerful new potential tool: The MegaDroid, an Android smartphone simulator created by Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California.

The software is capable of simulating up to 300,000 different Android smartphones all running simultaneously, and even generates fake GPS data as if the phones were actually being toted around a city’s streets by users.

This allows prospective app makers, researchers and military personnel to test everything from new apps to malware infections to what would happen if all 300,000 smartphones suddenly turned on and began texting on the same cell towers at the same time.