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I announce the 2010 24hr Podcast Charity, "The Coalition to Salute Americas Heroes" (CSAH). The geek here is fighting something nasty, so a little shorter show than normal, but it is still jammed packed with info. I have a huge number of announcements tonight that surround everything going on.. Thanks for your support and all the great emails coming in.
Personally, I think they are all pretty bad, but our friends over at Consumer Reports have released their annual report on wireless carriers. AT&T is at the bottom again this year, dropping another six points from its low-ranking standings from last year. Wireless users were surveyed for all major companies, including U.S. Cellular, Sprint, Verizon, TMobile, and AT&T. U.S. Cellular
German security firm G Data put out an interesting press release last month regarding the expected successor to the Zeus trojan, which infected millions of PCs and captured bank account details. The new trojan, Ares, has a similar modular design, allowing it to be easily configured for a range of target activities. Malware is big business and a software development kit for Ares
Freecom announced the Mobile Drive CLS concept back in July as a new way of storing and organising the vast amounts of data that all of us now seem to collect through our daily digital lives. The CLS stands for Collect, Label and Store and fundamentally it's about using 2.5" portable drives to store data according to type or use.
I became eligible for a new phone from Verizon on November 10th. On Black Friday, November 26th, I finally made my decision. I had been thinking of holding out for Verizon to get a Windows Phone 7 device, but I just couldn't take my Windows Mobile 6.1 phone any longer. Plus Dell had a great deal on the Motorola Droid
Yes, I shoveled this morning. Then I got out my iPhone and took a 360 Panorama view of the neighborhood. I used the new 360 Panorama application by Occipital for the iphone. All I had to do was spin around and capture the image. The program just came out this week. It's for iPhone 3GS, 4 and iPod Touch 4g.
Thank you for all of the words of support and prayers for my cousins children that are still missing. I covered a metric ton of content tonight and introduce you to a new website we launched today for the 2011 CES content. See link below. Cannot believe it is only 30 days away before I head out to Vegas for
Stories about Zediva have been kicking around the internet for the past few days. It's an interesting story and an even more interesting concept. The company's founder explained that concept to Rotten Tomatoes as this: "We don’t rent digital copies of a movie," he said. "Our users rent a physical DVD, along with a DVD player, from us for a
PEER 1 and bluegfx have announced a partnership that brings the GPU to the cloud, giving bluegfx's customers access to high-powered graphics on pay-per-process basis. Using NVIDIA's Fermi-based Tesla GPU's and RealityServer hosted in PEER 1's global data centres, bluegfx's customers in the games, design, architectural, film, broadcast and education industries will benefit from high performance 3D web services. It
GetGlue is a social sharing service that is available through the web, Iphone, Ipad and Android. It allows you to share not only what your watching or listening too, but also what your reading, thinking about, eating. The first thing you do when you join GetGlue is you have the opportunity to rate various categories including movies, music, actor, artist, books. Based on how you rate things Glue offers you suggestions of things that you might like. Getting suggestion from Getglue is especially useful when you first join and you don't have many followers. As you get more followers the suggestions get better and more accurate. Also when you rate and review things you can win actual physical badges.
There's no doubt that ebook readers are very much du jour, and Sony are keen to be part of that trend with the recent additions of the Touch and Pocket Editions to the Sony Reader line-up. Reviewed here is the Pocket Edition (PRS-350), which is the smaller of the two models, with a 5" touch screen. Overall, it's about 14.5 cm tall, 10.5
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, things have been a little crazy with trying to help the family back in Michigan with the missing kids (see below article). In amidst the chaos put out two pieces of media for you over the weekend. My presentation from Blogword and the Saturday Morning Tech show which has yet to be posted. I
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