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This is the era of the touch user interface with smartphones and tablets present in large percentages of households in the US and Europe. Microsoft has taken touch to the heart of Windows 8 which is great if the device has a touch screen but an exercise in frustration if it doesn't. However, all is not lost, as a mouse
DirecTV, the US-based satellite TV provider has been busy upgrading its offerings recently. The company has a very nice Android app that allows customers to view and schedule programming from anywhere, and has released its new Genie DVR that brings added storage and tuners to everyone. Now the company is expanding its service to offer more than 30 live TV
Podcasting has long been a multistep process for the majority of podcasters. There have been a few pieces of software written over the years that attempt to bring all of the podcasting tasks into single pieces of software, with varying results. Most podcasters have a physical mixer to plug their mic(s) into, an application that records audio and can spit
Last week at Techonomy 13 I was able to sit down with Dmitry Grishin Chairman and CEO of Mail.Ru Group one of the worlds largest Internet companies to talk about the launch of his new company MY.com in the United States Today. Dmirty demonstrated two their new apps that they are launching today. The first myMail an innovative email application, that is very
I spend a lot of time talking about Techonomy 13. Pay attention to the special links below from my commentary. I also get you caught up on the latest tech news including a update on our crowd funding effort. Special thanks to Ford for inviting me out to the conference. Subscribe Today: Audio | Video (HD) | Mobile Video |
Libratone has been named an International CES Innovations 2014 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for their Loop wireless speaker. It is an effective speaker that is in a unique, circular, shape. Loop is a wireless speaker that delivers 360 degree stereo sound with the convenience of wireless Airplay and DLNA streaming. It does not require a Wi-Fi router. Instead, it
While in Tucson for Techonomy 13, I had the chance to test drive the 2014 Ford Mustang.. Jeffrey Powers and I traded off in driving and he has video put together.. Thought I would share his video and you will likely see me in a cameo appearance in a segment here.. I love to drive fast and I think you
For the past week I have been reviewing the Sennheiser MKE 600 - Shotgun Microphone. Having several shotgun microphones already in my arsenal, it was nice to see how it compared. I decided to use it with my Cannon 60D as the size of the MKE-600 Shotgun microphone is smaller 20mm in diameter, and 10 inches long versus my other shotgun
Netatmo has received not one, but two, awards this November. One award is for their Weather Station, and the other is for their new Thermostat. Netatmo was created in 2011, and they are obviously doing quite well. Netatmo won Popular Science's Best of What's New Award for their Personal Weather Station. Winners of this award will be featured in Popular
Windows Phone fans anxiously await the next versions of the Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices from Nokia. For some fortunate customers, like the Xbox One, a few lucky people are getting the handset just a bit early. The latest in the line of Nokia phones falls into a category that has been dubbed a 'phablet', which loosely translates to an oversized smartpahone -- one that
Google has created a real identity mess. Between my original YouTube account and my main Gmail account, I have somehow ended up with two separate Google identities with no easily apparent way of straightening things out. Of course I had a YouTube account long before YouTube was purchased by Google. Once Google owned YouTube, they seemed to merge my previously-existing
I am now at an age where I can say: It's all the rage for the kiddies. Personally, I can't get into it. Snapchat is this instant message service that allows you to send a picture or video (up to 10 seconds) to another with captions. When they view the picture or video, it is deleted from the server. You
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