Tuesday Tech Talk #37

Hello folks and welcome to another edition of Tuesday Tech Talk. This week is going to be much more opinion and commentary driven so lets dive right in.

What I don’t like about a netbook

I was at Best Buy and looked at different varieties of netbooks. What a netbook is, is basically a mini laptop confined to browsing the web hence the net part of the name. My opinion after looking at these netbooks (besides the fact they all run Windows) is they remind me of a Sony PSP system. Yes you can play games on a PSP, but if I want the really great graphics, I’m going to pony up the $300 for the PS3. Likewise I’m going to pony up the money for a full service laptop like I use already (MacBook). Which brings me to my next point, I think Apple has the iPad priced right. It is in the same price range as a netbook and it is much lighter and can be held more like a book in addition to placing it on a table or against your thigh if your in a reclined position. Now if Apple can figure out this whole ability to run multiple apps at the same time, then I think they can really eat into the netbook market share.

Wait, did someone say multitasking on the iPhone OS?

Well my-oh-my, what do we have here? Could it be we may see 3rd party apps running in the background in the near future?

The problem with TiVo

I shared the following on my Facebook page so I thought I would share it here as well in relation to TiVo posting yet another loss recently.

TiVo continues to have financial struggles. But the article is right, cable, DirecTV and DISH all have their own DVR's at cheaper prices and they integrate better with your programming. Trust me, over the 5 years I have been in Tupelo I have used the DISH DVR, the Comcast DVR and now the DirecTV DVR.

Google Reader Play

Google has a new way to view blogs sort of. Could play nice on an iPad me thinks.

Cisco unveils the one router to rule them all

Cisco announced a new router meant for service providers, the CRS-3. Cisco claims the CRS-3 has the ability to deliver up digital copies of all movies ever made in about 4 minutes and moreover, it can deliver up video calls to every person in China in the same time frame.

This Week’s iPhone/iPod touch apps

Foursquare - I have started to use this app a lot more lately. It’s a location based social networking site and the more places you visit, the more points you build up. Visit a certain place a number of times and you become mayor of that place. You can then see how you stack up against your friends for the week in points, more places visited...more points.

Well that will do it for this weeks edition of Triple T. See you all next week!