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NHK World TV iPod App

Like millions of others, I’ve been glued to news sources to get as much current information as I can about the ongoing disasters in Japan following the massive earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear plant disasters. This has to be the biggest natural disaster that has occurred in my lifetime. In pre-Internet days, we had to rely on newspapers and television

GNC-2011-03-07 #653 Not the Charlie Sheen Show!

I spend a few moments talking about the technical portions of the Charlie Sheen show on Ustream. Considering the train wreck that happened on their inaugural show on Saturday makes me proud of all the new media creators that produce their own shows, and do so with 50x the professionalism of what I observed Saturday night. I have a new

Apple removes Ping Feature Podcasters Need from Itunes!

Since Apple introduced Podcast in the iTunes application in June of 2005, there has been a feature where a podcaster could ping Apple to let them know that a new episode  had been published.  This guaranteed that time sensitive content was able to get listed and be available to subscribers with a few hours of its posting. Sometime earlier this

GNC-2010-11-15 #627 Back Scatter Mania!

Need a bigger green screen, had fun experimenting with it will introduce it once I get back to Hawaii. Lot's of tech tonight and I keep the show to just an hour. Some big announcements coming later this week just waiting on some deliverables from some vendors. The following Sponsors support GNC your support of them is appreciated! GoDaddy services

Apple Ping: Apple’s Social Network that’s Not Very Social

I took the time to download iTunes 10 over the weekend. With it, the new service - Ping. A social network within a walled garden of iTunes. But not really that much of a social network The service is simple to activate. Apple - just like Google did with Buzz - placed an icon on the sidebar of iTunes. You

GNC-2010-08-26 #605 Hotel Broadband SUCKS!

Hotels in Large part do not care about their guest and over the past couple of years bandwidth has continued to decline at every place I stay it is quite discouraging. Start complaining loudly where ever you stay and hopefully we can reverse the trend. Headed for Honolulu on Saturday ready for a few days at home. Click here to

$0.99 Streaming TV Shows in iTunes?

A recent report (which, much like every other report about Apple, means a completely unsupported rumor) regarding the much-talked-about new version Apple TV, claims that lower priced streaming TV shows are on the way to iTunes. According to sources, Apple is in negotiations with TV producers to allow it to rent shows for $0.99 as opposed to the $1.99 they