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Ohana, I will be visiting my sister tomorrow and will not be having a meet-up. First time to get to see her in a couple of years. Headed back to Honolulu on Saturday and will be home for a while. I have a great on the road show tonight. UK Listeners please pay attention for the UK specific contest. Subscribe
Today, through both Cnet and Engadget, we got a look ahead at Ford's vision of the future of the automobile. The "V2V" monicker refers to "vehicle to vehicle" and it's a new way for cars to communicate with each other while driving down the road. A video, produced by Ford, has surfaced that gives a nice walk-through of the technology
Everyone is talking about the mobile revolution, but today Google announced the next step in it. All of Google Sites properties are now receiving automatic mobile rendering. The new update is compatible with iOS 3.0+ and Android 2.2+ devices. According to Google's announcement: By going to General settings under More actions > Manage site and clicking on Automatically adjust site
If you were to draw a Venn diagram of the whole of science, I'd like to think that us geeks fit in there as a subset. Many of us come from a scientific background and appreciate science, scientific method and the benefits it brings to humanity. This isn't to say that we don't value art, but rather we have critical
Recently my wife volunteered me to fix her friend's old laptop. The friend is a teacher and had recently begun taking her notebook PC to school with her, but couldn't connect t the school's wireless network. Within a couple of minutes of booting up the PC the problem jumped out at me - the old Toshiba Satellite lacked a wireless
I received my Google Music Beta invite late Monday afternoon. After downloading the Music Manager I started to up load my music. My music is stored on an external drive to upload it into the music player I simply hit Other and then added the folder. It took between 15 and 16 hours to upload 1,836 songs. Any song that
I’ve had my Nook Color Android-powered e-reader for a few weeks, long enough to really get a feel for not only the e-reader experience but a bit of a tablet experience as well.
G Data have kindly supplied a copy of their AntiVirus 2012 to give away to Geek News Central's loyal UK members. I reviewed the next product up in the range, InternetSecurity 2012, a couple of weeks ago and was quietly impressed. AntiVirus 2012 comes with antivirus (obviously) plus phishing, spyware and rootkit protection for a year on the PC and
Over the past year, Deloitte have publish a short series on digital leadership and are wrapping it up with the final edition "Innovating for a Digital Future". Each publication looks at the different challenges facing leaders in the digital era particularly in the technology, media and telecoms industries. This last one examines the challenges around innovation and how it's possible to
Finally, is this the light bulb for me? Many of you have seen me complain about the quality of energy-efficient lighting. My biggest complaint is that the lighting creates weird, sharp shadows, or that the color is completely off. Since I'm a crafter, color balance is pretty important to what I do. Philips has announced the release of its AmbientLED
The music festival season is underway in the UK, with Glastonbury Festival starting tomorrow. To celebrate, Orange have invented a t-shirt that recharges mobile phones using a piezoelectric material to convert sound waves into electricity. Over a weekend of music, the t-shirt will produce enough juice to charge a smartphone. The t-shirts were developed by Orange in conjunction with GotWind,
In Washington D.C. this week was a quick turn around at home.. One thing that I have found the farther east I go the crappier the internet is in hotels just a observation but everytime i'm east the internet sucks in the hotels. Subscribe Today: Audio | Video | iTunes | Zune Download the Show File Follow @geeknews on Twitter
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